LAB NOTEBOOK No. 01 · OPEN ARCHIVE · INDIA — UTC+5:30 DAY — · —% EST. 2026
Open notebook — 8 hours a day, committed in public

HARIOM LOHAR_

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01 — About

Field notes

Who does the work
Open to work
Portrait of Hariom Lohar — builder, India
fig. 00 — hariom, thinkingIndia · IST

Self-taught from India, rebuilding intelligence from scratch — one proof, one commit at a time.

I finished 12th grade and chose the longer road — no bootcamp, no shortcut. I build backends with Django and FastAPI, cross-platform apps with Flutter, and retrieval pipelines with LangChain and RAG. The rest of the day I rebuild intelligence from first principles: math from axioms, neural nets and backprop by hand in NumPy, now CNNs, Transformers and PyTorch. All in public.

Location
India · IST
Focus
AGI from first principles
Log
Day — of —
Open to
Freelance & collabs
    03 — Services

    Hire me for

    Part-time · remote · hand-off clean

    Currently accepting part-time freelance — ask for availability

    04 — Stack

    Capabilities

    What I ship · what I've mastered
    Build & shipAVAILABLE
      AI foundations✓ LEARNED
        Now learning
        04b — Credentials

        Proof over claims

        Harvard · verified
        ✓ Verified
        Harvard CS50P certificate — Introduction to Programming with Python, awarded to Hariom Lohar, 2026
        fig. CS50P — Harvard · 2026verify via QR
        Certificate · CS50P

        CS50's Introduction
        to Programming with Python

        Harvard University · CS50 · Awarded Cambridge, Massachusetts, 2026
        Instructor: David J. Malan — Gordon McKay Professor of the Practice of Computer Science
        Nine problem sets + one final project. No shortcuts — every submission graded.
        • Completed the full CS50P curriculum — functions, exceptions, libraries, regex, OOP, file I/O
        • Built the final project end-to-end; submitted via CS50's autograder + review
        • Verified certificate — scan the QR on the document or check the link below

        This is not a Harvard degree — it is Harvards CS50 certificate for CS50P. Verification lives at cs50.harvard.edu. If the link fails, the QR on the certificate itself resolves to the same record.

        05 — Mission

        The mission

        Currently working on

        Rebuilding AGI from first principles — one proof, one commit, one deep-work block at a time.

        • 01

          Derive before you import.

          Do not use what you cannot derive. Math from axioms first, then architectures by hand.

        • 02

          Eight hours, every day.

          One deep-work block a day, documented in AGI_Research so the log stays honest.

        • 03

          Build in public.

          Errors, proofs and small wins are all commits. The notebook stays open.

        Hand-drawn neural network — forward and backward pass, built in NumPy
        fig. 01 — a neural net, from scratchNumPy · no autograd
        GitHub — last 30 weeks— / yearloading live… · see live on GitHub ↗
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        05c — Newsletter

        Stay posted

        free · RSS → email

        Daily logs by email — free via Buttondown (or Substack) + RSS. No spam, unsubscribe anytime.

        Live on buttondown.com/hariomlohar · or RSS: /feed.xml in any reader. Zero backend, zero $.

        06 — Contact

        Contact file

        Let's talk

        Let's ship
        something that
        lasts.

        Open to part-time work — backends with Django & FastAPI, Flutter apps, and search over your data with RAG. I hand over clean code and clear docs. Open-source collaborators welcome.

        Currently available — ask about this month
        Send a note — free, no trackingreplies via email · usually <24h
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        07 — FAQ

        About Hariom Lohar

        hariomlohardev · India
        Who is Hariom Lohar? hariomlohardev

        Hariom Lohar is a Python / Django / FastAPI & Flutter developer from India and AGI researcher. Harvard CS50P certified (2026), he rebuilds intelligence from first principles in public — math from axioms → neural nets & backprop in NumPy → CNNs, Transformers & PyTorch — since 1 July 2026. GitHub: hariomlohardev.

        Where is Hariom Lohar GitHub? hariomlohardev on GitHub

        Hariom Lohar on GitHub is hariomlohardevgithub.com/hariomlohardev — with repos AGI_Research (daily lab notebook), spam_classifier live bench, practice_code and pkg_jupy.

        Is Hariom Lohar CS50P certified?

        Yes — CS50's Introduction to Programming with Python (CS50P), Harvard 2026. Nine problem sets + final project, awarded Cambridge, MA by Prof. David J. Malan. Verified at cs50.harvard.edu/certificates/544021b8-ab89-4eb2-a433-9c0b949e658f — also on this site at #credentials.

        What does Hariom Lohar build?

        Backends that stay up (Django, FastAPI, REST APIs), cross-platform mobile apps (Flutter/Dart), and AI features over your own data (LangChain, RAG, embeddings) plus automation & data pipelines. See services · selected builds · full archive.