Erik Johannes Husom

Earlier this year I was developing some guidelines for more environmentally-friendly use of generative AI for the Norwegian certification foundation Eco-Lighthouse.

Big Tech's extreme investments in generative AI has led to a tremendeous acceleration in the carbon footprint of data centers and digital services, but the environmental impact of computing has been under scrutiny for many years before AI took the center…

Wooden skis, created from scratch.

Agentic AI is having its moment (or its decade, as some have put it).

First, a note to the reader: This blog post is longer than usual, as I decided to address multiple connected issues in the same post, without being too restrictive on length.

Less: When I'm writing, I write.

Human society is facing multiple crises.

Recently I read an article about how the average sentence length in Norwegian fiction books has gone down by 20% since the 1980’s.

Earlier this year I had the chance to realise a project I’ve thought about for several years: Skiing the couloir called Storskæra on Allmannberget, a mountain in Oppdal, Norway.

Digital social media is hard.

Black Lake Race is a quite new addition to the race calendar in Norway.

A few interesting articles I've read around the web: Choose optimism.

The progress of AI is interesting and important to follow, but current discussions around it are too focused on the increasing benchmark performances and if machines can ever get smarter than humans (superintelligence).

I recently came across a review of Sky, an upcoming AI automation app for macOS.

When considering to buy a digital device, service or tool (or any type of technology for that matter), it is worth thinking about the following: What problem does it actually solve for me?

On personal websites and social web.

Forrige uke var jeg så heldig å få fortelle om vår forskning innen mer bærekraftig kunstig intelligens på en av Norges største populærvitenskapelige radioprogram, nemlig Abels Tårn på NRK!

As AI is discussed in all kinds of media, futuristic images abound in news papers, presentation slides, blog posts, and social media.

Another collection of interesting reads from around the web: Leaving the phone at home.

I'm happy to see that there is an increasing focus on the challenge regarding AI and sustainability.

A couple of months ago I decided it was time for a digital deep clean of my laptop.

In my job I write a lot of technical text, whether it is for reports or scientific papers.

Another collection of interesting reads from around the web.

I was fortunate enough to get the opportunity for a travel to Japan for a work-related conference earlier in November.

I'm fascinated by the world of personal websites that exists on the Internet, often referred to as the Small Web.

The landscape of social media is changing.

A few weeks ago, a colleague and I wrote an op-ed in Teknisk Ukeblad where we played around with the idea of how to democratize generative artificial intelligence (AI) and avoid ending up with a monopoly on large generative AI models.

A few interesting reads on the topic of generative AI and large language models: Op-ed by Naomi Klein: AI machines aren’t ‘hallucinating’.

One year ago I wrote a blog post about machine learning and carbon emissions.

One of my new year's resolutions: Always ski a new line through the forest when going back to the cabin.

A fun afternoon skiing with my Border collie Gjert in our backyard.

I have a large collection of plain text files (mostly Markdown) that contain all my notes and writings, both for work and non-work, which I navigate and modify using Vim, fzf, shell scripts and command line utilities (on mobile I use the excellent app Wor…

Sharing some links I find interesting about note-taking: Rank and File by Robert Minto.

I usually discover new books to read through references or quotes from previous books I have read, but sometimes I also get some useful recommendations from blogs or people I talk to.

Strava is a popular tool for sharing sports and outdoors activities, and has become the de facto social medium for athletes, runners, cyclists etc.

I shot a short video of Gjert the border collie during one of his agility workouts.

There are several very exciting projects that are aiming to make more sustainable consumer electronics: Fairphone: A phone that is extremely easy to repair and has parts that can be easily replaced, by you.

I prefer having control of my own data, and therefore try to avoid using cloud services if I absolutely don't have to (e. g., at work I'm pretty much forced to use the cloud services of my employer, which is Microsoft of course).

Some links I find worth sharing: On digital footprints from Weekly Musings.

In this post I want to share some of my best reads in 2021 (I know we are almost halfway into 2022, but I wrote this post 5 months ago and just now realized I forgot to publish it): The Age of Surveillance Capitalism by Shoshana Zuboff A very well written…

The last years I have been moving towards plain text files for almost any use case where I need to store information digitally, and after reading about Calendar.txt I have started to use a plain text file as my calendar.

Jeg fikk for et halvt år siden en turtleneck fra Northern Playground, et veldig spennende norsk klesmerke.

Last year I inherited an analouge camera from my grandfather.

Recently I have been looking into the environmental impact of machine learning in relation to ongoing research projects at work.

Here's some articles I found interesting enough to share this week: The goal behind using technology from Scott Nesbitt.

When you're crafting your own website without any website builder or tools like Wordpress, it can be a bit challenging to know how to optimize images.

Yesterday I presented and defended my master thesis in "Computational Science: Physics" at the Physics Department at the University of Oslo.

For litt siden fikk jeg muligheten til å være med å teste The North Face Flight Vectiv, som er en ny løpesko fra The North Face med en innebygd karbonfiberplate (siden det funka så bra for Nike og for gateløping, så må det jo prøves i terrenget også).

Bestemte meg plutselig en dag for å lage meg et hjemmelaga snøbrett.

De første randoneeskia jeg kjøpte var et par brukte Völkl Snowwolf.