So an interesting article from GQ popped up on hacker news and I wanted to read it. But much to my chagrin this popped up: Now 49c really isn’t a lot of money and ads don’t bother me much but it’s really way too much effort for my incredibly lazy…

Note: Just thinking out loud here Abstract There exists a need, applications and implementations of trustless distributed systems courtesy of the blockchain. Recent developments have added turing completeness to what was initially merely a distributed ledger capable of recording monetary transaction. As this space continues to grow I forsee the need…

In the last part of this series we took a high level view of the human brain, starting abstractly with the mind and worked down to the individual units of our brains. We examined the brain down to the byte level, that is, the neurons and then started looking inside…

I’ve spent some time in the online nootropics community and I’ve found a disconcerting lack of understanding of the human brain. This bothered me enough to propel me to write this article. A child playing with fire can get burnt, but adults taking drugs may not realize they’re getting burnt till…

One of the reasons I came to the fine University of Waterloo in warm and sunny Ontario, Canada was because of its (over)hyped cooperative education program. For the uninitiated, cooperative education is where you spend a few terms in classes interspersed with terms working at companies where you pick up…