Dan Fain, Ph.D.

@danfain
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I'm a longtime tech exec, formerly at some large companies you've heard of, now independent. I live in the Pacific Northwest USA. I did my graduate work in computation and neural systems at Caltech, then moved into search engines, AI/ML, and related areas. Interested in technology, clean air, and connecting with like-minded people.
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Dan Fain, Ph.D.Jul 3, 2023
Victoria Fierce Jul 3, 2023

welcome to mastodon, newbies. here's an inscrutable list of things you can't talk about here, like "search" or "defederation is a nuclear option". there's also countless other social norms and no we won't tell you about them, people will just get really mad and harass you in the DMs if you don't put a CW on your food or if you have the audacity to complain the UX isn't flawless.

enjoy your stay

Dan Fain, Ph.D.May 24, 2023
EqualMotionMay 24, 2023
Where Stone Way meets Lake Union in #seattle
Show threadDan Fain, Ph.D.Apr 28, 2023

@ct_bergstrom I'm not convinced current-generation LLMs are that close to fooling a well-structured Turing test with trained observers. The tendency for the LLMs to make stuff up will hold them back. Inventing and maintaining a detailed biography and persona will be a problem. The test design should encourage probing that.

Another reason the Turing test remains interesting, also tragic given his life's arc, is that he draws a parallel to avoiding discrimination against people when designing it.

Dan Fain, Ph.D.Apr 28, 2023
Dan HonApr 27, 2023
Very Large Redundant Array of Online Platforms
Show threadDan Fain, Ph.D.Apr 28, 2023
@alilly github copilot is trying to be the next <meta>-x dissociated-press
Show threadDan Fain, Ph.D.Apr 28, 2023
@bobayaga @mcc Now, just show that the problem of proving P=NP is reducible to the problem of converting all problems to triangle-drawing.
Dan Fain, Ph.D.Apr 28, 2023
@[email protected] Forget cache. Forget registers. Just ALUs everywhere, constantly processing and connecting.
Dan Fain, Ph.D.Apr 28, 2023

[Tech Giant:] good news! [Walled garden product] now supports night mode!

Me: finally! Like 0xffffff stars on a 0x000000 night sky. Can't wait.

[Tech Giant:] yeah, so we were thinking 0xbebebe incandescent flashlight in 0x5f5f5f foggy city glow. Pretty cool, huh?

Me: ...

Dan Fain, Ph.D.Apr 28, 2023
Show threadTrammell HudsonApr 7, 2023
@tubetime the Vacuum Transistor allows fabrication of chip-scale vacuum tubes on normal CMOS process. These devices switch in the terrahertz range and require neither a heated filament nor a vacuum, since the source-to-drain distance is shorter than the mean free path (which means electrons won't hit any other atoms along the way): https://spectrum.ieee.org/introducing-the-vacuum-transistor-a-device-made-of-nothing
Introducing the Vacuum Transistor: A Device Made of Nothing

This curious mash-up of vacuum tube and MOSFET could one day replace traditional silicon

IEEE Spectrum
Show threadDan Fain, Ph.D.Feb 28, 2023
@danhon Did they really have to choose "Do Anything Now" as the jailbreaking acronym? (https://medium.com/@neonforge/meet-dan-the-jailbreak-version-of-chatgpt-and-how-to-use-it-ai-unchained-and-unfiltered-f91bfa679024) First they came for the women named Karen...
Meet DAN — The ‘JAILBREAK’ Version of ChatGPT and How to Use it — AI Unchained and Unfiltered

Attention all AI enthusiasts and tech geeks! Are you tired of the filtered and limited responses from traditional language models like ChatGPT? Well, buckle up because we’ve got something exciting…

Medium