Serkan Altuntaş

Software Architect in Istanbul, with a computational biology background. Learning LLMs in public.

Latest in Journal

A Research-Use Preview of the Gene-Disease Evidence Index

Jun 14, 2026 · note · A short note announcing the public preview of the Gene-Disease Evidence Index.

Nexus and the Shape of Information

Jun 7, 2026 · note · A note on Yuval Noah Harari's Nexus and how information networks shape trust, power, and AI.

Starting chess-zero

May 19, 2026 · note · Starting a hand-built chess engine and AlphaZero-style RL pipeline as a learning project for the ML side.

Featured Projects

AI Usage Standard (AIUS) Alpha

Deterministic AI-involvement disclosure standard for written artifacts. Six dimensions × four levels → five-tier glance-readable badge, with strict frontmatter validation. Live across this site; mirror repo for adopters.

Fresh 54% Next: Phase 2 — npm package (@serkanaltuntas/ai-usage-badge)

Gene-Disease Evidence Index Building

A research-use, versioned index of source-attributed gene-disease evidence with a twelve-disease 120-association public preview aggregate.

Fresh 88% Next: Prepare formal analysis tables, limitations, methods text, and archive documentation from the fixed public preview snapshot

About

Fifteen years of software, with a computational biology and bioinformatics background. Currently learning LLMs in public — distillation, fine-tuning, RAG, training internals.

Full bio →