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Erik Bernhardsson

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2026

Software companies buying software: a story of ecosystems and vendorsoriginal ↗
25 Feb 2026

2024

It's hard to write code for computers, but it's even harder to write code for humansoriginal ↗
27 Sept 2024
Predicting solar eclipses with Pythonoriginal ↗
7 Apr 2024

2023

Simple sabotage for softwareoriginal ↗
13 Dec 2023

2022

What I have been working on: Modaloriginal ↗
7 Dec 2022
We are still early with the cloud: why software development is overdue for a changeoriginal ↗
19 Oct 2022
σ-driven project management: when is the optimal time to give up?original ↗
5 Apr 2022

2021

Storm in the stratosphere: how the cloud will be reshuffledoriginal ↗
30 Nov 2021
What is the right level of specialization? For data teams and anyone else.original ↗
23 Jul 2021
Building a data team at a mid-stage startup: a short storyoriginal ↗
7 Jul 2021
Software infrastructure 2.0: a wishlistoriginal ↗
19 Apr 2021
What's Erik up to?original ↗
1 Apr 2021

2020

Giving more tools to software engineers: the reorganization of the factoryoriginal ↗
16 Dec 2020
Developer experience as a competitive advantageoriginal ↗
6 Oct 2020
Mortality statistics and Sweden's "dry tinder" effectoriginal ↗
23 Sept 2020
How to set compensation using commonsense principlesoriginal ↗
8 Jun 2020
Never attribute to stupidity that which is adequately explained by opportunity costoriginal ↗
10 Mar 2020
How to hire smarter than the market: a toy modeloriginal ↗
13 Jan 2020

2019

What can startups learn from Koch Industries?original ↗
19 Dec 2019
We're hiring at Betteroriginal ↗
9 Dec 2019
Buffet lines are terrible, but let's try to improve them using computer simulationsoriginal ↗
16 Oct 2019
Miscellaneous unsolicited (and possibly biased) career adviceoriginal ↗
26 Sept 2019
Modeling conversion rates using Weibull and gamma distributionsoriginal ↗
5 Aug 2019
Why software projects take longer than you think: a statistical modeloriginal ↗
15 Apr 2019
Headcount goals, feature factories, and when to hire those mythical 10x peopleoriginal ↗
21 Feb 2019
Data architecture vs backend architectureoriginal ↗
10 Jan 2019

2018

The hacker's guide to uncertainty estimatesoriginal ↗
8 Oct 2018
I don't want to learn your garbage query languageoriginal ↗
30 Aug 2018
Business secrets from terrible peopleoriginal ↗
16 Aug 2018
New approximate nearest neighbor benchmarksoriginal ↗
17 Jun 2018
Missing the point about microservices: it's about testing and deploying independentlyoriginal ↗
4 Jun 2018
Interviewing is a noisy prediction problemoriginal ↗
2 May 2018
Waiting time, load factor, and queueing theory: why you need to cut your systems a bit of slackoriginal ↗
27 Mar 2018
Lessons from content marketing myself (aka blogging) for five yearsoriginal ↗
7 Mar 2018
New benchmarks for approximate nearest neighborsoriginal ↗
15 Feb 2018
I'm looking for data engineersoriginal ↗
28 Jan 2018
Books I consumed in 2017original ↗
17 Jan 2018
Plotting author statistics for Git repos using Git of Theseusoriginal ↗
3 Jan 2018

2017

Toxic meeting cultureoriginal ↗
29 Dec 2017
Learning from users faster using machine learningoriginal ↗
12 Dec 2017
Annoy 1.10 released, with Hamming distance and Windows supportoriginal ↗
26 Nov 2017
Why conversion matters: a toy modeloriginal ↗
30 Oct 2017
On the Equifax breach and how to really prevent identity theftoriginal ↗
26 Sept 2017
The number of letters in the word for each numberoriginal ↗
6 Sept 2017
The software engineering rule of 3original ↗
29 Aug 2017
Machine, Platform, Crowdoriginal ↗
19 Aug 2017
Google diversity memo, global warming, Pascal's wager, and other stufforiginal ↗
14 Aug 2017
Fun with trigonometry: the world's most twisted coastlineoriginal ↗
12 Jul 2017
Optimizing for iteration speedoriginal ↗
6 Jul 2017
Blogrolloriginal ↗
9 Jun 2017
Conversion rates – you are (most likely) computing them wrongoriginal ↗
23 May 2017
The mathematical principles of managementoriginal ↗
9 Apr 2017
The eigenvector of "Why we moved from language X to language Y"original ↗
15 Mar 2017
Why I went into the mortgage industryoriginal ↗
17 Feb 2017
Language pitchoriginal ↗
1 Feb 2017
Functional programming is the libertarianism of software engineeringoriginal ↗
10 Jan 2017

2016

The half-life of code & the ship of Theseusoriginal ↗
5 Dec 2016
Are data sets the new server rooms?original ↗
1 Nov 2016
Pareto efficencyoriginal ↗
25 Oct 2016
State driftoriginal ↗
8 Sept 2016
When machine learning mattersoriginal ↗
5 Aug 2016
Subway waiting mathoriginal ↗
9 Jul 2016
Approximate nearest newsoriginal ↗
2 Jun 2016
What is your motivation?original ↗
24 May 2016
Dollar cost averagingoriginal ↗
26 Apr 2016
Why organizations failoriginal ↗
18 Apr 2016
NYC subway mathoriginal ↗
4 Apr 2016
Exploding offers are bullshitoriginal ↗
16 Mar 2016
Meta-bloggingoriginal ↗
12 Mar 2016
Iterate or dieoriginal ↗
2 Mar 2016
My issue with GPU-accelerated deep learningoriginal ↗
3 Feb 2016
Some more font linksoriginal ↗
25 Jan 2016
Analyzing 50k fonts using deep neural networksoriginal ↗
21 Jan 2016
I believe in the 10x engineer, but...original ↗
8 Jan 2016
Books I read in 2015original ↗
1 Jan 2016

2015

More MCMC – Analyzing a small dataset with 1-5 ratingsoriginal ↗
5 Dec 2015
There is no magic trickoriginal ↗
28 Nov 2015
Installing TensorFlow on AWSoriginal ↗
12 Nov 2015
Looking for smart peopleoriginal ↗
4 Nov 2015
MCMC for marketing dataoriginal ↗
31 Oct 2015
Interview with a Data Scientist: Erik Bernhardssonoriginal ↗
28 Oct 2015
Nearest neighbors and vector models – epilogue – curse of dimensionalityoriginal ↗
20 Oct 2015
Nearest neighbors and vector models – part 2 – algorithms and data structuresoriginal ↗
1 Oct 2015
Nearest neighbor methods and vector models – part 1original ↗
24 Sept 2015
Presentations about Spotify music recommendationsoriginal ↗
22 Sept 2015
Antipodesoriginal ↗
8 Sept 2015
Software Engineers and Automationoriginal ↗
16 Aug 2015
coin2diceoriginal ↗
24 Jul 2015
Benchmark of Approximate Nearest Neighbor librariesoriginal ↗
4 Jul 2015
More Luigi alternativesoriginal ↗
2 Jul 2015
3D in D3original ↗
21 Jun 2015
The hardest challenge about becoming a manageroriginal ↗
5 Jun 2015
The lane next to you is more likely to be slower than yoursoriginal ↗
28 May 2015
Better precision and faster index building in Annoyoriginal ↗
26 May 2015
Annoy – now without Boost dependencies and with Python 3 Supportoriginal ↗
3 May 2015
Ping the worldoriginal ↗
26 Apr 2015
Black Box Machine Learning in the Cloudoriginal ↗
22 Apr 2015
It's called Berkson's paradox!original ↗
9 Apr 2015
Norvig's claim that programming competitions correlate negatively with being good on the joboriginal ↗
7 Apr 2015
Pinterest open sources Pinballoriginal ↗
14 Mar 2015
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