I wrote a short blog post about the idea of how two evolutionary cognitive abilities can help educators and students create more effective teaching-learning relationships. Read here: https://masoudmim.github.io/blog/2025/evolutionary-learning/

#Education #Teaching #Learning #HigherEducation #Pedagogy

I had been meaning to write this piece, which I would call my statistically supported argument
- for more funding for research
- against funding mainly successful researchers, and
- against trying to optimize research funding allocation

https://masoudmim.github.io/blog/2025/diversify-funding/

#ResearchFunding #SciencePolicy #StatisticalThinking #AcademicEquity #ScienceFunding

I decided to give it a try and write a simple RAG-based documentation-to-chatbot procedure as an example for reviewing the procedure and hopefully providing a quick and interesting way of learning RAG.

This post walks you through the development of a RAG system from developing a vector database to creating a simple application built on Ollama, Milvus, and Streamlit.

See the post here: https://masoudmim.github.io/blog/2025/rag-system/

#RAG #LLM #MachineLearning
#VectorDatabase #Milvus #Ollama #Streamlit

I trained a logistic regression model on the source data and then evaluated its performance on both the source and target domains to measure the performance degradation caused by the covariate shift.

For the case where we have similar data, we see very small drop in performance, ~0.1%, while the performance drops by ~1.4% for moderately different data (moderate shift) and ~4.4% for larger covariate shift.

The production performance slowly degrades because the feature relationships changed.

Wrote a post outlining the step-by-step process of implementing a PINN for a simple one-dimensional heat transfer problem. I hope this approach makes the topic more accessible to undergraduate students and provides a clearer understanding of how they work.

https://masoudmim.github.io/blog/2025/pinn-1dheat/

SVD and DMD are important concepts to understand when learning a data-driven approach to solving engineering problems.

I have attempted to create a detailed, hands-on post on how DMD can be implemented for a simple steady-state 2D fluid flow around a cylinder:
masoudmim.github.io/blog/2025/svd/

#SVD #DMD #datadriven

any app that can be easily installed on Android phones to run LLMs locally? No data tracking.

I'm currently using ChatterUI, which runs Llama models decently well and it is easy to install and run.
#llm #LocalLLMs