The $380 Billion Leak - How Anthropic Accidentally Proved Its AI is Just a Giant Prompt Sandwich
Anthropic, the self-appointed high priest of AI safety and a fierce advocate for the “closed-source” moat, recently pulled back its own curtain in the most humiliating way possible. At 4:00 a.m. on the eve of April Fool’s Day, a mundane packaging error on an npm registry exposed the flagship Claude Code source code to the world—not through a sop...
How to Extract YouTube Playlist Transcripts Using Python for NotebookLM & LLMs
Introduction
Ever since I started using NotebookLM, it’s completely changed how I deal with information. I’ll admit it — I’m a bit lazy when it comes to digging through dense resources. Got a research paper? I’ll let two AI bots debate it. Found an intriguing book? I just upload the PDF and chat with it. Two-hour podcast on YouTube? I’ll skim th...
NCBI Conserved Domain Database (CDD) and Setup on Google Colab
Introduction
The NCBI Conserved Domain Database (CDD) is a collection of annotated multiple sequence alignments representing protein domain families. It is widely used in bioinformatics to identify functional and evolutionary relationships in proteins.
One of the most efficient ways to analyze conserved domains in proteins is through RPS-BLAST ...
A Short Intro to HMMER3, Biopython, and CD-HIT
The field of bioinformatics, a fascinating intersection of biology and information technology, has witnessed remarkable advancements in recent years. Central to these advancements are tools like HMMER3, Biopython, and CD-HIT, each playing a pivotal role in understanding and interpreting biological data. This blog post aims to demystify these too...