# Artifacts

## Recent Speaking
- [[DevConnect] The Case for Cognitive Sovereignty (2025)](https://x.com/TinyCloudLabs/status/1992679015342059592?s=20)
- [[ETH Denver] Authentication, Authorization, and Capabilities (2023)](https://youtu.be/Y6gj55JGQco?si=fmxQ1Xx3Q9Wox-ZG) A great 7 min talk on Authentication, Authorization, and Capabilities and what is possible once you have these important primitives.
- [[OpenAI] Words to Bytes: Exploring Language Tokenizations (2021)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TsFLqbiim4M) An overview of my research exploring different tokenization strategies for language models and their impact on model performance. An exploration to see if multi-modal models can be created using byte-level tokenization.

## Select Articles and Blogs Posts
- [[SpruceID] Content Authenticity in the Age of AI (2023) ](https://blog.spruceid.com/content-authenticity-in-the-age-of-ai/)
- [[SpruceID] Add SIWE to MetaMask (2023) ](https://blog.spruceid.com/spruce-integrates-sign-in-with-ethereum-into-metamask-for-better-user-experience-and-safety/)
- [[OpenAI] Scholars Blog (2021) ](https://openai.com/blog/openai-scholars-2021-final-projects#sam)


## Hackathon Projects
- [Deterministic Encryption and Storage via Snap/IPFS (2022)](https://taikai.network/ethlisbon/hackathons/ethlisbon-2022/projects/cl9t0jjkb110515801z2fhzt9fdd/idea): A hackathon project that used your ethereum keys to encrypt/decrypt your data and store it on IPFS. A proof of concept for a decentralized, encrypted storage solution based on ethereum keys already used for financial transactions. Solo.
- [Time to Vote, Anon (2023)](https://ethglobal.com/showcase/time-to-vote-anon-gabpc): A hackathon project that used verifiable credentials, Ethereum attestation service, and a fully homomorphic EVM to allow users to register and vote anonymously on the blockchain. A proof of concept for a decentralized, anonymous voting solution based on ethereum keys already used for financial transactions. Solo.
- [Bigger Brother (2023)](https://ethglobal.com/showcase/bigger-brother-4srrb) A hackathon project that allows people to capture claims made by political figures with incentive mechanism that enforce the truthfulness of the claims. Built with [Rasha Hantash](https://github.com/rasha-hantash), [Nusha Rubin](https://github.com/noamrubin22), and [Eric Manganaro](https://github.com/superposition)
- [City 311 (2023)](https://x.com/davederiso/status/1713802155512176766) A public goods hackathon project that could act as a generic 311 service, taking requests from individuals, responding with relevant data or routing to the appropriate department or person. City 311 was built as a 311 service for a hackathon, but could be used for any type of service that requires routing and responding to requests. Built with [David Beiber](https://github.com/dbieber), [Andrew Siah](https://github.com/andrewsiah), [Iris M](https://github.com/floflo11), and [Alexandria Thylane](https://github.com/alexathylane)
- [Quadratic Networks (2023)](https://warpcast.com/yassinelanda.eth/0x5becf0a8) A hackathon project that allows communities to grow and shrink based on confirmation of new network members by the square root of the number of participants in the network (10 approvals to join a 100 network). Build onchain and membership gated by Zupass. Built with [JP Ren](https://warpcast.com/jpren.eth), [Brian Li](https://warpcast.com/bli), and [Jack Yeh](https://warpcast.com/jacky).

## Other Stuff
- [EIP-5573 (2022)](https://eips.ethereum.org/EIPS/eip-5573)
- [Add SIWE to MetaMask (2022)](https://github.com/MetaMask/metamask-extension/pull/14438)