Imad Dabbura

AI Scientist

Understanding AI by building it from scratch — long-form posts, paper summaries, and open-source projects from first principles.

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Make ML Systems Ship Again

Hard-Learned Lessons in Shipping Software (AI/ML) Projects

Machine Learning

Software Engineering

Building GPT(2/3) from Scratch: Turning Theory into a Working Transformer

I Built My Own PyTorch (Tiny Version) — Here’s Everything I Learned

The Transformer Architecture: A Deep Dive

Inside LSTMs: Implementing and Optimizing Sequential Models from First Principles

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Make ML Systems Ship Again

A practitioner’s guide to finding and fixing the one bottleneck that governs your system’s performance.

ML Systems

Hard-Learned Lessons in Shipping Software (AI/ML) Projects

A Guide for Engineers and Product Managers

Machine Learning

Deep Learning

Software Engineering

From Forgetting to Fluency: How to Learn Smarter, Not Harder

Evidence-based tips from cognitive science to transform the way you absorb, retain, and apply knowledge in any field.

Problem Solving