Founder of Sunna Assets, and creator of the `farady` Python module, which provides free Islamic Finance tools, under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike 4.0 license.

Director-level in a financial services firm in London, UK, focusing on professional training and skills consulting on:

• Python dev.
• Financial data analytics
• AI and ML
• Microsoft Analytics Suite and advanced Excel for finance professionals.

I tinker with local LLMs and SLMs in order to understand them more. My setup:

• MacBook Pro 64GB M1 Max
• ex-Windows/WSL > keeping an eye on Asahi Linux.
• Pycharm/Vim -> moving to VSCode.

I feel strongly about a few AI-isms. They include:

• AI will never be conscious - but it will be very dangerous, very soon. Therefore I support regulations and constraints on the frontier of research.
• AI and large language models (LLMs) should be developed exclusively to address articulable human-centric needs and benefits.
• At the frontier level, all AI and LLMs should be developed exclusively in an open-source and decentralized ethos.
• Although some economic displacement is inevitable, focused efforts must be made to ensure that humans who are passionate about their professions, and who strongly identify with their crafts, should remain secure in their roles.

Founding member of Dar Al-Arqam - a Mosque and non-profit for growth and development, London, UK.

Scholar of qira'at - distinguished ijazah holder since 2009.

Highly cited and downloaded paper on Qur'an translation and discourse analysis - from 2014 - which got me started in NLP.