Sina Habibian

30 Days of Silence: My Journey into Meditation

I recently did my third 10-day silent meditation retreat. This is a piece about my learnings on the path inwards.

The Tokenization of Real Estate

Security token platforms need to bootstrap two sides of a marketplace by onboarding high-quality assets and retail investors. To succeed, they need to navigate a set of challenges around data infrastructure, adverse selection, liquidity, and user acquisition.

Blockchain

Identity and Reputation in Web 3

Identity and reputation are important primitives in Web 3. They turn protocols from one-off games to iterated ones, and are a necessary building block for many blockchain applications like sampling, pricing strategies, governance, lending, security tokens, and airdrops.

Blockchain

Truebit: the marketplace for verifiable computation

Decentralized applications hold promise for the future. They operate in a transparent, tamperproof, unstoppable manner. They leverage incentives and solve coordination problems on a global scale.

Blockchain

Enter the Rabbit Hole: The Doge-Ethereum Art Project

Two years ago, a handful of anonymous crypto hodlers funded a bounty for the development of the Doge-Ethereum bridge.

The Hustle

Contrarian Beliefs Lead to Outsized Returns

It's easy to follow trends and chase the latest shiny object. In tech over the last few years, industry hype has followed anonymous messaging apps to blockchains to chatbots, with many others in the way. While these fields could have real merits, the truth

Data Science

How to Prevent Overfitting

Suppose that you are using a machine learning model to fit a feature set and predict outcomes. Training the model on your full data set is a bad idea as it could result in overfitting. This is because the model will adjust the parameters

Project

How I designed an algorithm that mixes playlists of bands coming to your town

This is a retrospective on funkavinci.com, a web project I worked on last summer. It was a series of weekly computer-generated playlists showcasing the best upcoming concerts in town.

Project

The Programmer's Guide to Booking a Concert

About two months ago, a friend and I decided to organize a concert in San Francisco. We had no prior experience promoting shows, but we both loved live music and felt up to the challenge.