Hi, my name is Nicolai Brand. Welcome to my webpage :-). Computer Science is my passion and I study it at home as well as at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology where I am taking a Master of Science (Siv.Ing) in Computer Science specializing on Algorithms and Computers.
You can contact me at “my_first_name dot brand at ntnu dot no”.
Recent blog posts
- 2025 Jun 24 The Facts
- 2025 Jun 18 LLMs and Joy of Programming
- 2024 Jul 1 On Writing
- 2024 Apr 20 Hello
Currently
I am working full-time this summer. Whenever I find the time I am experimenting with creating a compiler that lets you modify a typechecked AST of the source at compile-time. During that project I got side tracked and created a 64-bit RISC-V software emulator / VM. That got me side tracked once, more, and now I am looking into the question - what would a strict 8-bit machine look like? Strict, as in each instruction has to be encoded within 8 bits and each register must be 8 bits wide. That has some interesting consequenses and constraints, see lynx.lytix.dev
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University Courses
I wrote some words on some computer science courses I’ve taken at NTNU.