Iouri Khramtsov

Canadian housing crisis: what will it take to fix it?

What exactly is the scale of the housing crisis in Canada?

Sep 8, 2024 • Iouri Khramtsov

April 2022

My lazy Wordle strategy: same words every time

TL;DR: After the analysis in this post, I started using SLANT/PRICE/DOUGH/BALMY, but it may not be the best sequence for you.

Apr 22, 2022 • Iouri Khramtsov

REST API design: lessons learned from going down the wrong (and right) paths

Recently I had a chance to participate a sort of retrospective at work on how we organize and write REST API endpoints.

Apr 22, 2022 • Iouri Khramtsov

June 2021

Progress in neural electrodes

Suppose you want to collect some signals from neurons in the brain.

Jun 28, 2021 • Iouri Khramtsov

May 2021

Getting started with FPGAs and Verilog

I’ve been curious about FPGAs since I first heard about them over ten years ago, and over the past month I finally gave them a try for a couple personal…

May 26, 2021 • Iouri Khramtsov

March 2021

Human vision system - a simple description

So when we see something in front of us, like a pencil, how exactly does the brain understand that yep, that’s a pencil?

Mar 1, 2021 • Iouri Khramtsov

February 2021

Image stabilization - in humans

As I read more neuroscience, I run into more interesting neural circuits.

Feb 19, 2021 • Iouri Khramtsov

October 2020

Neuron circuits in the retina - more than just pixels

There’s also a YouTube version of this article.

Oct 31, 2020 • Iouri Khramtsov

September 2020

How neurons create electric spikes

And here’s the same content as the last blog post, but now in YouTube format.

Sep 15, 2020 • Iouri Khramtsov

February 2020

Multithreading without locks

Just because you’re sharing data structures between threads doesn’t mean you have to use locks.

Feb 10, 2020 • Iouri Khramtsov

The magic of ion channels in the neurons

A few weeks ago, for various reasons I decided to start reading a neuroscience textbook (Fundamental Neuroscience).

Feb 10, 2020 • Iouri Khramtsov

Newcomen atmospheric engine - an animation

A stylized animation of Newcomen engine that I made a while back.

Feb 8, 2020 • Iouri Khramtsov