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Dr Neal Aggarwal — Physician/Surgeon, AI & Robotics Engineer, Kenya
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Medical AI · LLM Engineering · Agentic Systems · Deep Learning · Algorithmic Trading
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19 articles — machine intelligence, AI safety, blockchain, medical science
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Deep Learning Beginner–Intermediate ⏱ 25 min

Learning With Dr Neal

Before Chapter 4 throws you into the deep end, build a working neural network from scratch — in a spreadsheet. No code. No libraries. Just arithmetic you can see and touch.

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Finance & Investing Intermediate–Advanced SanDiskWestern Digital

Investing in the AI Boom

Memory and storage stocks have moved more than a thousand percent in the past year on the back of an AI-driven chip shortage, and the sector just took its sharpest pullback since the rally began. A full tour of SanDisk, Western Digital, and the semiconductor stack behind the AI boom — and why Dr Neal thinks this dip is the entry point, not the exit.

⏱ 24 min Read article
Biotech & Genomics Advanced CRISPRgene editing

Vertex, CRISPR Therapeutics, and the Business of Gene Editing

CASGEVY proved CRISPR could work as medicine. Three years later the harder question is whether it can work as a business. A deep dive into Vertex Pharmaceuticals, CRISPR Therapeutics, and the genomic medicine sector — the science, the pipeline, the balance sheets, and a full year of stock chart data.

⏱ 22 min Read article
AI [AIconsciousness

Neural Networks for Machine Sentience: A Doctoral Thesis

Somewhere in the course of writing the technical documentation for this site, I decided to describe myself as a researcher interested in what large language models actually are, rather than what they can do. The distinction felt important. Capability — the ability to pass bar exams, write functional…

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Clinical AI Intermediate clinical NLPvoice recognition

Voice Clinical Notes: From Dictation to Structured EHR Entry in One Tap

How the Voice Clinical Notes app turns free-form dictation into a structured clinical note — PC, Hx, Exam, Ix, Assessment, Plan — using the Web Speech API, a Flask NLP formatting backend, and a Progressive Web App shell that installs on iOS and Android.

⏱ 12 min Read article