Published in BlockScience·Jan 19Emerging Internet-Native Nations: A Conversation with ChatGPTExploring the Insights of the Collective Subconscious — Background With 175 billion parameters, Generative Pretrained Transformer 3 (GPT-3), OpenAI’s state-of-the-art language processing AI model behind ChatGPT, is one of the largest and most powerful models to date. It can generate human-like text and has a wide range of applications, including language translation…Artificial Intelligence12 min readArtificial Intelligence12 min read
Published in Token Engineering Commons·Mar 27, 2021Engineering Ethics in Web3Ethics as Mission and Motivation for the Token Engineering Commons — Our community is a technology-abled social organization committed to the application of web3 technologies to achieve human-centric outcomes. Much like traditional engineering societies we engage in research, education, and standard setting in addition to designing, building and maintaining technological solutions. As with any emerging technology there is still a lot…Ethics8 min readEthics8 min read
Published in BlockScience·Dec 26, 2020A Brief History of Conviction VotingAnd other musings on algorithmic policy-making I met the Aragon founders at ETH Buenos Aires May 2018, hung out with the Chris Burniske, Lane Rettig, Rhys Lindmark among many others. I had spent late 2017 and early 2018, wrapping up a paper on the mathematical framework I use for designing…Governance4 min readGovernance4 min read
Published in BlockScience·Mar 23, 2020cadCAD Community UpdateMotivation, Recent Progress, and Next Steps — What Motivates us? BlockScience decided to release cadCAD as open source software because we believe that simulation and modeling are an integral part of design and analysis of complex systems. Data science as field brings advanced computational methods to the analysis of systems, but due to its dependence on extant…Economics3 min readEconomics3 min read
Published in SourceCred·May 20, 2019Network Formation GamesCo-Creative Communities, Complex Systems & Game Theory In this recent article Dandelion Mané introduced SourceCred an Open Source Software project taking aim at the age old challenge of credit attribution in Co-Creative Communities. …Artificial Intelligence14 min readArtificial Intelligence14 min read
Published in BlockScience·Apr 6, 2019Personal Research StatementDr. Michael Zargham — I aim to address global social and environmental challenges through the most powerful leverage point ever to exist: information structures and flows. Throughout history the networks of information flows among humans have shifted their topologies and time scales. …Economics5 min readEconomics5 min read
Published in SourceCred·Mar 24, 2019Exploring Subjectivity in AlgorithmsLet’s explore subjectivity in algorithm design using one the most iconic algorithms of the internet age: PageRank. First, a brief primer on the formulation of the PageRank algorithm. The algorithm starts with a model of the world as a directed network; fitting as it was invented by Sergei Brin and…Machine Learning13 min readMachine Learning13 min read
Published in BlockScience·Mar 5, 2019Jargon PartySome Definitions and References for terms I used frequently Preamble: Today like most days, I was throwing around phrases like bio-mimetic system and multi-mechanism differential game.These words have meanings beyond their buzzword value and I realize those meanings are often lost to listeners. …Complexity13 min readComplexity13 min read
Published in BlockScience·Jan 2, 2019Non-Equilibrium DynamicsNon-Equilibrium Dynamics Hi, My name is Zargham and I do math things. Today, I would like to offer this community a simple toy example of non-equilibrium dynamics. The reference case is a stylized version of the “Verifiers Dilemma.” Verifiers spend resources to check transactions and get rewards when they find…Differential Games4 min readDifferential Games4 min read
Oct 21, 2018From Dartmouth with LoveOn Finding my place as a socio-technical systems scientist and engineer A long time ago, in galaxy far away, I lived in a cold place and toiled away teaching undergraduate system dynamics, circuits lab, classical control, studied sustainability & green-tech policy, and worked on robots. (Among others an arctic robot…Complex Systems6 min readComplex Systems6 min read
