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
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.
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 moreIt’s not completely unbelievable that some as yet undiscovered physics anomaly could forever change society (anti-gravity, spacetime bending/warping, multiverse transitions).
What 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
... See more“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,
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A Martian day is more than 24 hours and is called a SOL
-Why is it called a SOL? How long is it?
"I was waiting for something extraordinary to happen, but as the years wasted on, nothing ever did unless I caused it.”
—Charles Bukowski
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 moreIf you optimize it so it runs on its own they’ll either take it away or give you more. This can be a good or bad thing.