Dan Smith

Dec 11, 2024 | mountaintimes.info | Dan Smith

By Dan SmithEditor’s note: Dan Smith is the president and CEO of the Vermont Community Foundation. People are tired of politics. Fear, mistrust and polarization have that effect. Trust is the connective tissue of civic structures, and the trend at every level is to trust leaders and each other less and less. As elections increase in intensity, we should reassess what needs to get done (policy) and how we choose to do it (civic design and approach to leadership).

Jul 30, 2024 | newsbreak.com | Dan Smith

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Jul 30, 2024 | 13abc.com | Dan Smith

You can’t see them, but they help bring other things you can’t see into sharp relief. This week, we’re getting the inside story on X-rays. * Like many great discoveries, it started by accident. In 1895, Dr. Wilhelm Röntgen was testing whether cathode rays or electron beams could pass through glass. Despite the cathode tube being covered in black paper, light still managed to get through and show up on a nearby fluorescent screen.

Jul 10, 2024 | medium.com | Dan Smith

I recently came up to speed on the environmental impact of our current generative AI / LLM innovation wave. Depending on your sources for tech news, this topic might be underrepresented for you, as it was for me. Here's what I learned and why you should care. The processing (compute) and energy costs associated with Large Language Models (LLMs) like GPT-4, Claude 3.5, or LLAMA are significant.

Jul 9, 2024 | newsbreak.com | Dan Smith

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