Posts on Hampus Wessman

AGI attracts sweeping predictions, yet many discussions overlook the constraints that shape real intelligence and new technologies alike: cost, energy, maintenance and the deep integration into human civilisation.

Technical debt is one of the most persistent and useful metaphors in software engineering and it is also one of the least clearly defined.

Unit testing and modularity once promised confident change and fearless refactoring.

My updated reading list of the 50 e-books that I recommend for getting comprehensive business administration knowledge.

I really like light-weight technical design docs for creating just enough up-front technical design when needed.

These are my top book recommendations on leading high-performance software development organisations.

Leadership seems to be a mystery to many people.

What to read to understand the latest AI developments?

During 2023, I read fewer books than usual, only 31 books.

During 2022, I read 101 books.

I no longer believe that a strict WFPB diet is the best choice for good health.

This is my own learning plan for getting similar knowledge to that of an MBA, without the high cost of actually getting a degree.

Transferring personal data to USA from EU is currently problematic under the GDPR.

There is a lot of confusion in the news and elsewhere about what food is healthy for us, but beyond the noise, public confusion, and fad diets there exists solid science by now.

Since my old computer was getting very old, I decided that it was finally time to build a new computer and allocate a generous budget this time.

Explains what order statistics, selection algorithms, and percentiles are and various ways of computing them.

Implementation guide for calculating nonparametric confidence intervals of the population mean based on the Dvoretzky–Kiefer–Wolfowitz inequality.

During 2021, I read 68 books.

Nassim Taleb’s “The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable” is a long but great description of the common pitfalls when reasoning about risks and probabilities in the real world.

Walter Rudin’s classic book, often called “baby Rudin”, is one of the most famous mathematics books.

What are floating-point numbers?

The technical design and building blocks of this blog.

A short guide to how the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) affects personal websites such as blogs.

During 2020, I read 74 books.

This is my new blog that I created during the past few days.