# Site

## Pages

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- [Class Copy Archive](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-SharmaKunal14/archive/): The specimens this course works from — three recurring collections and three model studies, with what is known about each kept separate from what is inferred.
- [Assessment](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-SharmaKunal14/assessments/): Every piece of graded work in the course, what it is worth, and when it is due.
- [Generation Checks](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-SharmaKunal14/assessments/generation-checks/): Twelve five-minute evidence responses, one at the start of each workshop, marked on your reasoning rather than on getting the answer right.
- [The Chain](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-SharmaKunal14/assessments/the-chain/): Investigate one artefact through ten documented copying steps, and report what each step changed in measurements someone else could reproduce.
- [The Lossless Argument](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-SharmaKunal14/assessments/the-lossless-argument/): Propose a preservation decision for one bounded object or collection, price it, and show what changes when your largest assumption is wrong.
- [The Stemma](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-SharmaKunal14/assessments/the-stemma/): Reconstruct a family tree from a curated set of undocumented text witnesses, then argue the strongest case against your own tree.
- [Lectures](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-SharmaKunal14/lectures/): What is covered, week by week, and which topics each lecture draws on.
- [The office that ate itself](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-SharmaKunal14/lectures/week-01/): What changes when something is copied, the eight-operation control that shows change is not guaranteed, and why a deterministic rule still leaves readers disagreeing.
- [Hiss as a signature](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-SharmaKunal14/lectures/week-02/): Four explanations for a shared feature, only one of which is ancestry, and what makes the difference between them.
- [What the ear cannot hear](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-SharmaKunal14/lectures/week-03/): Why a suggested cause needs a control, a stated outcome measure and everything else held fixed — and what a non-detection does and does not license.
- [The poor image](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-SharmaKunal14/lectures/week-04/): Working backwards from a limited observation, why indistinguishable is a claim about evidence rather than about files, and why ruling out one history does not establish another.
- [The scriptorium](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-SharmaKunal14/lectures/week-05/): How hand copying fails, and why a shared mistake carries more information than a frequent one.
- [Reading the damage backwards](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-SharmaKunal14/lectures/week-06/): Building a tree from shared error, the assumptions it needs, and where contamination breaks it.
- [When ancestry becomes hard to read](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-SharmaKunal14/lectures/week-07/): A simplified replication model, its parameters, and the biology it leaves out.
- [Copying without loss](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-SharmaKunal14/lectures/week-08/): Redundancy as a purchase: what it buys, what it costs, and where the guarantee stops.
- [The curse of recursion](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-SharmaKunal14/lectures/week-09/): Resampling from your own output, and why the rare cases go first.
- [Enhance](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-SharmaKunal14/lectures/week-10/): What a restoration can recover, what it supplies from a prior, and how to tell.
- [Chain of custody](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-SharmaKunal14/lectures/week-11/): Carrying provenance with an object, and what a missing record does and does not prove.
- [The original that never was](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-SharmaKunal14/lectures/week-12/): Choosing what survives, and pricing what you agree to lose.
- [People](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-SharmaKunal14/people/): Who teaches the course, and how to reach them.
- [Nadia Ostroff](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-SharmaKunal14/people/nadia-ostroff/): Guest teacher for weeks 8 and 11, on the cost of redundancy and the limits of what a provenance record can establish.
- [Tobias Renn](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-SharmaKunal14/people/tobias-renn/): Workshop tutor. Tests preservation methods, and argues with the convenor about whether a copying experiment is worth the damage it causes.
- [Dr Wren Halloway](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-SharmaKunal14/people/wren-halloway/): Convenor. Works on provenance arguments and the point at which evidence stops supporting a claim about an object's history.
- [Policies and support](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-SharmaKunal14/policies/): How work is submitted, how sources and tools are declared, what accessible participation means here, and how to get an extension.
- [The office that ate itself](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-SharmaKunal14/sessions/01-photocopy/): How can we measure a copy becoming harder to read?
- [Hiss as a signature](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-SharmaKunal14/sessions/02-dub/): Which shared features are useful evidence of a common intermediate copy?
- [What the ear cannot hear](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-SharmaKunal14/sessions/03-perceptual/): How would we test whether repeated re-encoding caused a measured change?
- [The poor image](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-SharmaKunal14/sessions/04-poor-image/): Can different histories fit the same available image evidence?
- [The scriptorium](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-SharmaKunal14/sessions/05-scriptorium/): Which copying mistakes can become useful evidence?
- [Reading the damage backwards](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-SharmaKunal14/sessions/06-stemma/): Which family tree does the evidence support, and what remains unknown?
- [When ancestry becomes hard to read](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-SharmaKunal14/sessions/07-ancestry/): What happens to ancestry inference as copying errors increase?
- [Copying without loss](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-SharmaKunal14/sessions/08-error-correction/): What resources can protect a message from a specified error pattern?
- [The curse of recursion](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-SharmaKunal14/sessions/09-recursion/): Under what conditions can recursive sampling lose rare cases?
- [Enhance](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-SharmaKunal14/sessions/10-enhance/): Does a convincing restoration match the original?
- [Chain of custody](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-SharmaKunal14/sessions/11-custody/): What does a provenance record establish, and what can it omit?
- [The original that never was](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-SharmaKunal14/sessions/12-originals/): What should this archive preserve, given a limited budget?