As a followup to a previous blog entry, DARPA does it again. A practical neural interface is one of the critical path components for human beings to accelerate the journey toward the full Trans-Human experience. DARPA gets it, and is…

I did it! I graduated! After nearly a year of online courses, homework, assignments, and after work projects, culminating in a final Capstone project, I completed my Data Science Certification from John Hopkins University. And the experience was awesome. I…

SQL’s been around for a long time. It’s old school. Behemoth’s like IBM, Oracle, and Microsoft are deeply committed to RDMS systems that are essentially defined by a standard, well-accepted language for access. SQL emerged in the 70s, became ANSI…

If you’re a muggle, or have slept for most of the past 30 years, you may not know what the Turing Test is. If so, you should stop reading this blog immediately and find out. Try google. So today I…

Are you ready to take the next bold step in evolution? If brain implants today are as far away as laser eye surgery was a couple of decades ago, it could very well be that an implanted cognitive prosthesis is…

The puppet show these past few weeks — the U.S. government shutdown/debt-limit drama playing on all channels — seems to have more of us than ever buying into the Us v. Them meme. Us v. Them has been around for…

Yeah, just go ahead and mindtweet me. Telepath me that thought, would you? Not now, I’m telephathing! Wasn’t it Orson Scott Card’s sequel to Ender’s Game (Speaker for the Dead) that featured a matured Ender Wiggin with a technology-based telepathic…