https://wassp.dev/ Recent content in Home on /dev/wassp Hugo en-us Sun, 29 Mar 2026 20:40:12 +0200 https://wassp.dev/posts/on-the-impossibility-of-learning-fairly-in-private/ Sun, 29 Mar 2026 20:40:12 +0200 https://wassp.dev/posts/on-the-impossibility-of-learning-fairly-in-private/ <p>Every distributed system faces a fundamental coordintation problem: how do you produce collective intelligence from local knowledge without destroying the locality that makes the knowledge valuable?</p> <p>It&rsquo;s the same problem markets solve with prices, organisms solve with nervous systems and countries solve with constitutions. The answer also seems to be always structurally the same: you need a communication protocol that compresses local state into messages, and the compression itself must be lossy in the right way - preserving what is useful for coordination while discarding what&rsquo;s private.</p> https://wassp.dev/about/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://wassp.dev/about/ <p>I build systems that control physical processes — the kind where bugs don&rsquo;t throw exceptions, they break hardware. My background spans mathematics, cybersecurity, linguistics, artificial intelligence, and DevOps, which is a polite way of saying I keep ending up at the intersection of formal systems and messy reality.</p> <p>I write here to clarify my own thinking. Publishing is useful not because anyone needs my opinions, but because the act of making an argument legible to others forces precision that private notes don&rsquo;t.</p>