Dan Smith
@danpatricksmith
Dad of 3 awesome girls, and husband to an amazing woman. I'm enthusiastic about software development, AI/ML, gadgets, leadership, and economics.
Dan Smith
edgetechnology.substack.com
I’ve found that my musical tastes tend to center on virtuosic performances on unusual (or at least seemingly out of place in the genre) instruments. I think my reading preferences might follow a similar pattern where I prefer unusual styles often employed by many of the best writers. Examples to be listed below as I think of them.
Musical:
Organ solo
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“Advice? I don’t have advice. Stop aspiring and start writing. If you’re writing, you’re a writer. Write like you’re a goddamn death row inmate and the governor is out of the country and there’s no chance for a pardon. Write like you’re clinging to the edge of a cliff, white knuckles, on your last breath, and you’ve got just one last thing to say,
... See moreSuccess has far more to do with mindset than with mental capacity
Steve Jobs energy transference was so strong it was labelled a Reality Distortion Field. He could bend other people's perception of reality with one interaction. I don't think this is some mystical woo-woo energy. It's a combination of intensity, frame, belief, body language, optimism and vocal tonality.
Did We Actually Start the Fire? - Reasons the world might be about to change.
Supposedly, its all been burning since the world's been turning... but I’m becoming more worried how people are increasingly talking and acting like they have nothing to lose (maybe we do have less to lose now)
Did we actually start the fire? With Billy Joel [returning to w
... See moreA Martian day is more than 24 hours and is called a SOL
-Why is it called a SOL? How long is it?
Moss and Lichen like to grow in certain kinds of soil that grass doesn’t like to grow in
-Moss and Lichen are extremely useful to nature and bushcraft, but not as pleasant when you want a nice fresh lawn for your family and friends to hang out on.
GAN - Generative Adversarial Networks involve pitting a generative AI that creates against a generative AI that evaluates whether output is human or machine generated. This automated reinforcement learning is responsible for the rapid improvement of AI generated text and images recently, along with the much larger models of course.