Hampus Wessman

Building a New Computer

Hardware | 2022-01-26

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.

Order Statistics Computation

Computer Science | 2022-01-23

Explains what order statistics, selection algorithms, and percentiles are and various ways of computing them. Also benchmarks in Python and Rust.

Nonparametric Confidence Intervals

Mathematics | 2022-01-15

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

My Year in Books (2021)

Books | 2022-01-01

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.

Review: Principles of Mathematical Analysis

Books | 2021-01-26

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.