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# Why This Site Exists

Why this personal knowledge base exists, what it covers, and the principles behind how it is built and maintained.

*Last updated: 2026-08-14.*  <!--ENHANCED-->
This site exists for three reasons:

## 1. A public engineering notebook

Working in computer vision and edge AI means constantly accumulating small experiments, hard-won configuration details, and notes on new tools. Publishing those notes keeps them organized and makes them useful to others facing the same problems.

## 2. A portfolio of real work

Papers, patents, books, and talks are collected here so that the technical work behind them — datasets, evaluation details, and implementation notes — is transparent and reproducible.

## 3. A place to share what works

Many pages document specific solutions: deployment on Jetson and Hailo devices, CUDA kernel tuning, optical flow methods, LLM orchestration, and model optimization. Sharing these reduces duplicated effort across the community.

## Principles

- Content is technical and practical, written from direct experience.
- Sources are cited where relevant, especially for published work.
- The site is continuously updated rather than frozen.