Essays, articles, and thoughts on topics I find interesting.
Shane Brubaker of Myriad Genetics on what neural data governance should learn from running genomic data in production, and why consent to record and consent to train have to be two separate questions.
Treading the fine line between copyright law, data rights, bio matter, ethics, and consent
Ian Burkhart on seven years inside a brain-computer interface trial, what it was like to lose the device, and the advocacy work that followed.
Why River chose invasive brain-computer interfaces over non-invasive ones.
Neural amplifiers need teraohm resistors to block electrode drift, yet thousands must fit on a millimeter-scale die. Working up from the silicon lattice to the MOSFET, I show how quantum tunneling through a gate oxide turns a device flaw into an enormous, tunable resistor in the footprint of a single transistor.
Provisioned primates develop food washing, dental flossing, and hostage negotiation. What does the human evidence show?