Miscellaneous
Would a man wear his drake like this?

or like this?

Is the name a Harry Potter reference?
Not intentionally
Why mandrake then?
Initially a Final Fantasy enemy mandragora.
mandrakes are a real plant with a name we thought sounded a bit more memorable. There are a few myths about them which the Harry Potter ones are based on.
What’s the bacronym?
A recursive acronym:
Mandrake Analyses Nucleotides, Dimension Reduces, Animates K-neighbour Embeddings
(not really)