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tACS and the Future of Mental Health

By Louis Case The most interesting thing about the brain, from an engineering standpoint, is that it runs on rhythm. Not metaphorically. Populations of neurons fire in coordinated oscillations, alpha waves around 10 Hz when you close your eyes and relax, gamma waves up near 40 Hz when you are

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Photovoltaic Cells and Intermittent Computing

By Louis Case Ask whether a solar cell can replace a computer chip and the answer is a flat no, for a reason worth stating plainly because it clears the ground for the more interesting question. A photovoltaic cell is a transducer. It turns light into a voltage, and the

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Artificial Intelligence and Self-Replicating Viruses

By Louis Case The worm learned to write itself Self-replicating code is old. The Morris worm crawled across the early internet in 1988 and gave us the word. What is new is the engine. In early 2024, researchers built a proof of concept they called, with deliberate echo, Morris