Journal by Aruodorehttps://journal.aruodore.com/2026-08-04T00:00:00ZLucas Aruodore AdomiThe geometry of image formationblog/blog/geometry-of-image-formation.md2026-08-04T00:00:00Z2026-08-04T00:00:00ZA practical derivation of the pinhole camera model, its coordinate systems, and the assumptions hidden inside a projection matrix.Normalize camera coordinates before blaming calibrationnotebook/notebook/normalizing-camera-coordinates.md2026-08-02T00:00:00Z2026-08-02T00:00:00ZA pixel-space residual looked like calibration drift, but the comparison mixed normalized and distorted coordinates.A benchmark is an experimental recordblog/blog/reproducible-gpu-benchmarks.md2026-07-21T00:00:00Z2026-08-01T00:00:00ZGPU timing numbers become useful only when hardware, synchronization, sampling, and raw observations remain attached to the result.GPU synchronization changed the rankingnotebook/notebook/gpu-synchronization-changed-the-result.md2026-07-18T00:00:00Z2026-07-19T00:00:00ZAdding synchronization reversed an apparent latency advantage between two inference paths.Half precision made the solver look convergednotebook/notebook/failed-half-precision-solver.md2026-06-29T00:00:00Z2026-06-29T00:00:00ZA residual plateau was mistaken for convergence after reduced precision erased the update direction.Reading a method paper backwardsnotebook/notebook/reading-a-paper-backwards.md2026-06-11T00:00:00Z2026-06-11T00:00:00ZStarting with evaluation details and failure cases can expose a paper's actual contribution faster than reading from the abstract forward.