Not everything arrives fully formed.
Some ideas need room to breathe before they become articles, projects, or opinions worth defending.
Notebooks is the working space — fragments, observations, systems thinking, philosophy, architecture, social commentary, unfinished thoughts, and connections still being explored.
Less polished. More honest.
A place for thinking out loud.
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The Internet we thought we were building
A reflective look at the early internet — from VAX systems, Usenet, and Mosaic through to Netscape, AltaVista, and Amazon — and how a hopeful digital frontier gradually evolved into today’s algorithmic attention economy.
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Matrices, Tensors, TensorFlow, and the CUDA Stack — The Mathematics and Infrastructure Behind Modern AI
Modern AI Runs on Mathematics Modern AI looks magical from the outside. You type a prompt into ChatGPT, an image appears from a diffusion model, or a voice assistant responds naturally in real time. Underneath all of it is something surprisingly fundamental: massive amounts of matrix multiplication. Modern AI is built on layers that stack…
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NVIDIA GPU Architecture, CUDA, and PTX — How Modern GPU Computing Actually Works
When people talk about modern AI, high-performance computing, or accelerated graphics, the conversation almost always arrives at NVIDIA.But the real story is not just the hardware. It’s the layered software and execution model built around the GPU: Together, these form one of the most influential computing stacks of the last two decades. From Graphics Card…
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Violence facilitates change.
It moves things.Breaks things.Forces outcomes where none seemed possible. But let’s not dress it up. Violence doesn’t open doors. Violence breaks them down. Splinters the frame.Shatters whatever was holding things together. And it doesn’t just break structures. It breaks people. Communities that took generations to form.Families that don’t come back together.Lives that are never lived.…
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Good Days Are Built, Not Found
Some days don’t arrive as “good days”. They just… arrive. A bit flat.A bit heavy.Like you’re already behind before you’ve even started. And there’s this quiet expectation — that somewhere in the day, it should turn.That something will click and suddenly it becomes a good one. But more often than not… it doesn’t. It just…
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The Carry Forward Principle
I don’t think I realised how much energy I was wasting starting over every day. Not physically. Mentally. Every morning had this quiet reset baked into it: And before that, even earlier, there was another version of it: “The sun will come up tomorrow, and it won’t be nearly as bad as you think.” That…
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AI Assistants Compared — Architecture vs Marketecture
Executive Summary The current wave of “AI comparison charts” (ChatGPT vs Gemini vs Claude vs others) are not wrong—but they are not reliable. They conflate: This article reframes the comparison using: The Core Problem Most comparisons: 👉 Example flaw:“Perplexity = best for research”→ In reality, it is a retrieval + UX layer over models, not a…
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This Old Dog Is Still Learning Old Tricks
I’ve been working with UNIX/Linux for 30–40 years. You’d think by now I’d have seen every trap. Turns out — some of the oldest ones are still the sharpest. The Setup I’ve got a simple media pipeline: Except… the disk wasn’t mounted when I first built it. Linux didn’t complain.It just quietly wrote everything to…