I’m building tools that find hidden connections across scientific fields — using 9 million patents and 357 million academic papers to surface the cross-domain analogies that nobody is looking for. This is where I write about the work, the ideas, and the data emerging from the frontier.
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Quiet Breakout: Alphabet Built America’s Mosquito Factory, Then Walked Out
Verily holds 48 US patents on industrial mosquito production. Alphabet killed the project in January 2023. A new cohort is now executing the blueprint.
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Kurzweil Scorecard: The Threshold Unit Ate the Action Potential
Two 1940s neuron models walked into the future. The simpler one won the production economy by orders of magnitude. The biologically faithful one survives in a research niche.
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The Frozen AI Problem: How Researchers Are Teaching LLMs to Keep Learning
The AI tools you use every day — Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini — are, in a meaningful sense, frozen in time. They learned everything they know during a multi-month training run, and then the learning stopped. New research published in 2025 and 2026 is attacking this problem from five different angles simultaneously. Here’s what’s actually working,…
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Kurzweil Scorecard: The Neurochip Died. Matrix Multiply Won.
Kurzweil predicted neurochips would carry us to superintelligence. Matrix multiply units carried us instead — and the compute is broadly on track for 2045 while the intelligence keeps slipping out of the framework.
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Kurzweil Scorecard: The Kindle Won. The Funeral Didn’t.
Kurzweil predicted three enabling technologies and the death of print. Three arrived. Print didn’t die.
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Kurzweil Scorecard: The Dishes Never Came. The Search Did.
Kurzweil pointed at the wrong telescope, the wrong observatory, the wrong funder — and the right capability.
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Convergence Watch: The Refrigerator Without Refrigerant Just Got a Volkswagen Patent and a Harvard Breakthrough
Volkswagen, Carrier, Harvard, and MIT just filed patents on the same target from four different physics: a cooling cycle with no HFC inside.
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Kurzweil Scorecard: The Skies Stayed Quiet. The Black Holes Spoke.
Kurzweil bet three cosmic footnotes against the next 20 years of physics. Black holes paid. Webb’s quasar lines and the Jafferis wormhole did not.