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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. AGI may well be achievable, but perhaps far more expensive, fragile and bounded than the grand narratives suggest. What follows is one plausible future built on that premise.
Technical debt is one of the most persistent and useful metaphors in software engineering and it is also one of the least clearly defined. This post sets out a clear, rigorous definition aligned with current research and practice.
Unit testing and modularity once promised confident change and fearless refactoring. Too often the reality was brittle tests, paralysed teams and slow progress. Module-First Development (MFD) seeks to restore that promise. It places modules with clear contracts at the centre and directs testing effort where it delivers the most value – at the boundaries of those contracts. MFD is a lightweight…
My updated reading list of the 50 e-books that I recommend for getting comprehensive business administration knowledge. This is a shorter and updated version of my popular earlier blog post on self-learning MBA-style knowledge.
I really like light-weight technical design docs for creating just enough up-front technical design when needed. Similar concepts exist for product discovery and planning too. This is a quick intro to these concepts!
These are my top book recommendations on leading high-performance software development organisations. As a bonus, I also link to related online resources and videos for shorter summaries of the key ideas.
Leadership seems to be a mystery to many people. That is unnecessary in my opinion. Here is my view of what leadership is and is not, without going too deep into the much bigger question of what good leadership looks like.
What to read to understand the latest AI developments? Here are my most-recommended research papers to understand LLMs!
During 2023, I read fewer books than usual, only 31 books . Instead, I read more AI research papers and news articles this year. Here are my favourite books!
During 2022, I read 101 books . I give some highlights from my year in books here by presenting my favourites.
I no longer believe that a strict WFPB diet is the best choice for good health. Here’s a short description of why.
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. This post summarises the situation at the moment.
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. This post looks at what is actually healthy!
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. Also benchmarks in Python and Rust.
Implementation guide for calculating nonparametric confidence intervals of the population mean based on the Dvoretzky–Kiefer–Wolfowitz inequality.
During 2021, I read 68 books . I give some highlights from my year in books here by presenting 20 favourites in a few different categories.
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. A must-read for all data scientists, statisticians, and decision makers.
Walter Rudin’s classic book, often called “baby Rudin”, is one of the most famous mathematics books. The third and final edition was published in 1976 and it remains both loved and hated by many mathematicians.
What are floating-point numbers? When is it a bad idea to compare them? How precise are they? Let’s explore this.
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 . I give some highlights from my year in books here by presenting my top 20 favourites.
This is my new blog that I created during the past few days.