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      <title>What belongs in this notebook</title>
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      <description>Short engineering notes with enough context to be useful after the original problem has been forgotten.</description>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This notebook is a place for the details that are easy to lose between a working implementation and the next time the same problem appears.</p>
<p>I work on applied AI and backend systems. Some notes here are about those systems; others are about the quieter parts of shipping software: naming a value, reading a repository, handling an error or keeping a build understandable.</p>
<p>The format can stay small. A useful note might contain the question, a minimal example, the condition under which the answer works, and a link to the source. It does not need to become a comprehensive guide to the entire subject.</p>
<h2 id="separate-an-example-from-a-result">Separate an example from a result</h2>
<p>There is a difference between showing how a design could work and reporting what happened in a project. The project pages describe implementations that can be inspected in the linked repositories. General notes use examples to explain an idea.</p>
<p>When a project has no measured outcome yet, I want the page to say so. A confidence threshold is not an accuracy result, and an estimated saving is not a business impact measurement. Being clear about those distinctions makes the useful parts of the work easier to assess.</p>
<h2 id="leave-room-for-corrections">Leave room for corrections</h2>
<p>A short note is allowed to have a narrow scope. If I learn that an example misses an important condition, I can update the page and explain the correction. The aim is to leave a better reference than the fragment I would otherwise have to rediscover.</p>
<p>The <a href="/projects/">project case studies</a> are a good place to start if you want the application context. The rest of the notebook is available through the homepage and the <a href="/index.xml">RSS feed</a>.</p>
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