Deep Dives & Weekend Projects

Deep Learning

Fri, 06 Mar 2026 23:07:26 -0500

Intro

This is an attempt to cover what I know about DL to some degree. Some stuff is very skippable, and I don’t really remember everything that I put in here, so there might be some repeating, but not much.

The Foundations of Deep Learning

To understand how machine learning models work, you have to completely discard the idea that it “understands” anything. A model does not read text or see images. At the absolute lowest level, a neural network is just a massively complex sequence of mathematical operations executed on silicon. To feed data into that silicon, we must first translate reality into a format that a GPU’s compute cores can process. That translation layer is the tensor.

AI Stack Part 1

Mon, 16 Feb 2026 01:16:08 -0500

Overview

I have been looking into self-hosting LLMs, and this is my attempt to put everything I’ve learned about the subject in one place (so I can stop forgetting things). Alongside that, I wanted to include information about the setup I use to self-host LLMs on my laptop and the steps I took to build and optimize it. While that will come in the future, as there are still some things I am changing, and this is long enough already, I removed some of those parts to put in the next section.

LazyCargo

Sun, 07 Dec 2025 22:25:58 -0500

Introduction

This is meant to be an outline of what I found while reversing the LazyCargo malware sample. This malware sample is one part of the five pipedream/INCONTROLLER malware framework components discovered by several cybersecurity firms and government agencies. The LazyCargo malware is a Windows dropper for another module in the framework. I don’t have access to any of the other components, so I wrote a payload to run the LazyCargo malware at the end of the analysis to verify my findings from the static analysis.

About

Sun, 07 Dec 2025 18:55:14 -0500

About Lukas May

Welcome to my cybersecurity blog! I’m a Junior at the Rochester Insitute of Technology (RIT) studying cybersecurity who loves diving deep into interesting technical problems and sharing what I learn along the way.

A big part of my focus is OT security–how we defend critical infrastructure like the electric grid, water treatment plants, or manufacturing systems. Through this site I aim to share my research and analysis of the cybersecurity and tech world.