I admit that the title may seem strange at first. Why are Brain-Computer Interfaces among humanity’s most important innovations ever made? Just consider fusion energy, which could provide us with infinite energy. Wouldn’t an infinite amount of energy be more critical? But do we need an infinite amount of energy…

Spoken language is only the first step because anything can be tokenized — Large Language Models (LLMs), such as ChatGPT, have made a significant impact, although they have some very strong limitations. One of these limitations is that these models are prewired. This means they are trained on a big set of documents, so they have a very big knowledge, but they cannot…

I’m basically a tech writer, but sometimes I write short sci-fi novels. Usually, I write them in my native language. In 2018, I translated one of my novels. Non-native readers liked it, but native English readers find it hard to read. …

Anonymity in voting is one of the basic requirements, but on a public network like a blockchain, it’s not trivial to implement it. Fortunately, the technology of zero-knowledge proofs (ZKP) makes it possible, but unfortunately, ZKP is a very complex technology. …

I’ve started to deal with the technology of zero-knowledge proofs because I was curious if it was possible to create an anonymous, unhackable voting system on the blockchain. Paper-based voting (like the Elections) is a very expensive way of voting. …

A JavaScript tutorial — The technology of zero-knowledge proof and especially zk-SNARK is one of the most exciting ones in the field of crypto because of the following reasons: You can prove you have information without revealing it (for example, you can use it for anonymous voting). The proof is small and easy to…

A step-by-step guide to a brand-new website — I started my first blog in 2010. Using WordPress was obvious at that time. It was a good choice because it’s easy to use and has thousands of themes and plugins. WordPress is an amazing engine, but it has its downsides. It is resource-demanding, and there are many WordPress-related vulnerabilities…

Storing data on the blockchain is expensive, so if you need to store a large amount of data on it in the “blockchain style” (in an immutable, permissionless, and distributed way) you have to use an external storage solution. The most common choice is using IPFS, but there are some…

You probably heard about the scandal around Google’s AI, LaMDA. In a nutshell, one of the members of Google’s ethical team claimed that this chatbot is conscious, and it has basic human rights. But is LaMDA really conscious? As the famous GPT-3, LaMDA is also based on transformer architecture. A…