In digital markets today, people want to buy and sell assets in exact quantities with instant speeds. This, however, poses a problem since if I want to buy X quantity of an asset, I need to find a seller with X quantity, willing to sell right now. Liquidity pools solve…

Pneumonia is a disease where an infection, caused by organisms such as bacteria, viruses, and fungi, inflame your air sacs in one or both lungs, causing them to fill with fluid, or pus, leading to coughing with phlegm or pus, fever, chills, and/or difficulty breathing. (Mayo Clinic) In 2017, Pneumonia…

Flexport hosted a webinar detailing the status quo of inland operations in the USA and Ocean Freight Markets, particularly from China. It was awesome — super informative and very receptive to questions. I highly recommend signing up for the upcoming on 6/16 going deeper into the Indian Subcontinent. You can…

In 2013, Sal Khan, the founder of Khan Academy, interviewed Elon Musk. Here are my notes and takeaways from the conversation: Something is always broken at the Tesla Factory — there’s so much complexity and so much going on that there is always room for improvement. Production can be…

What is Toucan? Toucan is a protocol that is trying to make DeFi work for the world, by turning carbon credits produced by any real-world entity, into on-chain tokens (aka. Carbon reference tokens) which can be used within DeFi applications or NFTs, brought into the metaverse, or used by companies to buy offsets…

The Internet Native way of Storing Data When I think about a rough (and somewhat oversimplified) evolution of how data has been stored historically: We started with shells/tulips/ropes and beads as systems of accounting. Next, the Medici family invented the double-entry system, which is essentially what large financial institutions use today (except their accounting system is digital). …

This summer, I was extremely fortunate to be able to join EMOTIV, a neurotech company based in San Francisco that builds commercial-grade EEGs, and software solutions, primarily for uses in Industry and Research. At EMOTIV, my responsibilities focused a lot on typical intern work — it wasn’t super-specialized or anything…

As one begins to develop a repertoire of algorithms in Machine Learning it is likely they come across a support vector machine (SVM for short). In this article, I’ll walk you through exactly what an SVM is and a high level understanding of how it works. What is an SVM? The way a support…

Simply put, Machine Learning is a fancy and possibly intimidating way of saying: quantify things and then have a computer find patterns through trial & error with a little bit of guidance from a programmer. Perhaps the easiest algorithm of Machine Learning to understand the architecture of code behind the…