Why this site is a notebook, not a portfolio

A portfolio is a museum: everything behind glass, everything finished, nothing allowed to be wrong. A lab notebook is the opposite — it is where being wrong happens in writing, dated and initialed, so that being right later actually means something.

I build a lot of things: an NMR quantum computer on a bench, neural network wavefunctions in a Jupyter notebook, pipelines that turn SMILES strings into candidate molecules, tooling that asks whether prediction markets know things before stock markets do. Very few of these are "done." Most are mid-experiment. A portfolio format would force me to pretend otherwise.

So this site works like my actual desk. The board on the front page is the wall above it: what exists, what is being questioned, and red string where two projects turned out to be the same problem wearing different clothes. Move the notes around if you like — the layout is yours, saved in your browser, which feels right for a notebook that visitors get to leaf through.

If you are a professor, recruiter, or fellow builder: the CV tab has the formal version. But the board is the true one.