Erikjohannes

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. Watch a video of some off-piste skiing further down. I have a great passion for skiing, particularly in backcountry a...

Agentic AI is having its moment (or its decade, as some have put it ). I have been researching LLM-powered agents for the last two years, but research (involving publicly funded projects and academic peer review) is slow, and cannot keep up with the break

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. With modern browsing habits and the amount of available online media, I suspect

Human society is facing multiple crises. Our main method for dealing with them is technology, and we do so ignoring that similar use of technology is what brought about the crises in the first place. We use technology in attempt to remove all boundaries t

Recently I read an article about how the average sentence length in Norwegian fiction books has gone down by 20% since the 1980's. The results were based on over 7000 fiction books from 1980 to 2020. The study itself did not conclude on the cause of this,

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. The couloir is very visible from the highway going through Oppdal, and I've t

Digital social media is hard. There is so much information, creative output, advertisement, and attention-seeking. The algorithm is there to help us figure it all out, by sorting, filtering, and prioritising the content in the feed of your chosen social m

Black Lake Race is a quite new addition to the race calendar in Norway. I had planned to participate in its first edition last year, but I couldn't go because of more pressing matters at home. The route, with its steep terrain and long off-trail sections,

A few interesting articles I've read around the web: Choose optimism . The life of a pessimist is easy but dreary. The life of an optimist is hard but exciting. Pessimism is easy because it costs nothing. Optimism is hard because it must be constantly rea