Talks

My upcoming & recent presentations.

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

It’s Public Domain Day again, and it’s now been exactly a year since I first introduced the Unlicense.org initiative: an …
7 min read Technology

As discussed on the Unlicense.org mailing list, the notion of “licensing something under the Unlicense” is a not infrequent …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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

Contact

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