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.
@danpatricksmith
Dad of 3 awesome girls, and husband to an amazing woman. I'm enthusiastic about software development, AI/ML, gadgets, leadership, and economics.
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
... See moreIdeas I want to write about and STILL - Some Things I Learned Lately
“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
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.
It’s bad luck to bring bananas on a fishing boat
-I had no idea about this. Found out my brother in law almost brought some bananas on a fishing trip (on a boat going out to sea), and apparently this is terrible luck and he was chastised.
Does anybody else really like to listen to audio recordings of dead philosophers and writers? Charles Bukowski, Alan Watts, David Foster Wallace, Anthony Bourdain. Their words are incredible, but there's something else about listening to them read it.
Living philosophers and writers are also interesting, of course. There’s an undeniable ‘something’
... See moreWhat kind of society will we have in 20 years? Let's reflect on some of the biggest topics of conversation in 2004…
Election controversy
Climate change
Debates over governments role in healthcare and the health insurance system
Geopolitical crises and unrest
Concerns over the ballooning debt of large western countries (hahaha)
Social and political polari
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