Talks

My upcoming & recent presentations.

My interview with The National, a leading English-language print newspaper in the United Arab Emirates.
March 18, 2024 The National
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My interview with AI Time Journal, touching on privacy and on-device AI, open publication instead of patents, building a dream team, fostering a culture of extreme ownership, and more.
December 1, 2023 AI Time Journal
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My interview for the Meet the Team blog series, published on the Aurora Labs blog.
March 23, 2023 Aurora Labs
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My interview for the Humans of NEAR blog series, published on the NEAR Protocol ecosystem blog.
February 16, 2021 NEAR Protocol
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I present and discuss my work on Sworn, the Clarity compiler for SmartWeave.
November 11, 2020 19:00 — 20:00 Airmeet
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I present my work on Clarc, the Clarity compiler for the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM).
October 30, 2020 16:30 — 17:30 Crowdcast
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My guest appearance on a special episode of the Cypherpunk Bitstream podcast regarding the coronavirus pandemic of 2020. (4h27m)
March 29, 2020 18:30 — 23:30 Cyberspace
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My guest appearance on a special episode of the Cypherpunk Bitstream podcast regarding the coronavirus pandemic of 2020. (2h58m)
March 16, 2020 21:00 — 23:59 Cyberspace
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How to build a neural network from scratch to recognize handwritten numbers with excellent accuracy.
March 6, 2019 19:00 — 21:00 Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine
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How to get started with Nerves by building a home security system running on a Raspberry Pi.
February 1, 2019 18:00 — 23:00 Lviv, Ukraine
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An examination of some force multipliers to reduce the cognitive load of polyglot programming.
April 20, 2018 18:00 — 22:00 Lviv, Ukraine
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My talk at the Hackers Congress Paralelní Polis 2017 (HCPP17) conference.
October 8, 2017 15:00 — 16:00 Prague, Czechia
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An introduction to the Nerves embedded framework based on a live-action wargame involving drones.
March 24, 2017 18:30 — 22:00 Lviv, Ukraine
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Essays

My scribblings on various topics.

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All History Technology

My response to Marc Andreessen’s Techno-Optimist Manifesto, wherein I highlight the city-state of Dubai as the epitome of techno-optimism and mankind’s first large-scale terraforming project.
16 min read Technology

It’s Public Domain Day again, and it’s now been exactly a year since I first introduced the Unlicense.org initiative: an easy-to-use template and process intended to help coders waive their copyright and dedicate all their code to the public domain with no strings attached. It seems a good time for a brief recap of the happenings on this front over the last 365 days.
7 min read Technology

As discussed on the Unlicense.org mailing list, the notion of “licensing something under the Unlicense” is a not infrequent misunderstanding that calls for better explanations as to the essential difference between licensed, license-free, and unlicensed code. I will attempt to break it back down to the fundamentals and work upwards from there.
5 min read Technology

Here follows a brief history of the little-known subarctic origins of the Molotov cocktail in the epic Russo-Finnish Winter War of 1939-40. It is a true tale of a people who stood up to the depredations of an evil empire, and, against all odds, prevailed. Along the way you’ll gain a pretty good idea of what exactly the Finnish word “sisu” means, despite English lacking an exact and equivalent translation.
34 min read History

I’ve previously written on the motivation that led us to formulate the Unlicense, a template for dedicating your software to the public domain. Today, I will elucidate the rationale for and the provenance of each of the four brief paragraphs (plus footer) that constitute the Unlicense.
11 min read Technology

Today is Public Domain Day, in honor of which I’m hereby relicensing (or more properly, unlicensing) all of my software into the public domain. As the public domain is these days unfortunately somewhat an obscure concept to many people, and disclaiming copyright interest in open-source software seems at present a relatively rare phenomenon, I will elaborate some on the rationale and implications.
9 min read Technology

This is a transcript of Prof. Joseph Peden’s 50-minute lecture “Inflation and the Fall of the Roman Empire” given at the Seminar on Money and Government in Houston, Texas on October 27, 1984. The original audio recording is available courtesy of the Mises Institute. I have commissioned this transcript in the hope that you may find it as interesting and educational as I did.
29 min read History

My Road to Lisp survey response, which lays out, in some detail, how I came to be a smug Lisp weenie.
14 min read Technology

Reviews

My book reviews.

Book summary of The Body Keeps the Score: Mind, Brain and Body in the Transformation of Trauma in Ukrainian.
Health

⭑⭑⭒⭒⭒ More a product of its environment than a root cause analysis that will stand the test of time.
Technology

⭑⭑⭒⭒⭒ An encomium to empire, deliberately and carefully selective with its facts.
History

⭑⭑⭑⭑⭑ A roller-coaster of a cyberpunk thriller, and a compelling vision of hackable wetware.
Fiction

⭑⭑⭑⭑⭑ Near-future hard science fiction at its finest, this is the ultimate marooned-on-an-island yarn.
Fiction

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