Dan Stein

1 week ago | hackernoon.com | Dan Stein

LLMs have changed fast and they have done so faster than most of us expected. We’re seeing them do things that felt impossible a few years ago. But behind all the hype, there are still big challenges, especially around the data that trains these models. We spoke with Sapien’s CEO Rowan Stone to get his take on what’s working, what still needs fixing, and how Sapien is approaching the problem from the ground up. The evolution of Large Language Models has been phenomenal in the last few years.

1 month ago | mdpi.com | Boniface Echefu |Maria Becker |Dan Stein |Asher Ornoy

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2 months ago | washingtonexaminer.com | Dan Stein

The Biden administration saw unprecedented numbers of illegal aliens enter our country. As a result, the public saw its security compromised, its communities inundated, its public resources overwhelmed, and billions of its tax dollars squandered. At the same time, the criminal cartels that ran massive human smuggling operations grew ever richer and more powerful as a result of former President Joe Biden’s border crisis.

2 months ago | onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Dan Stein |SAMRC Unit |Randolph Nesse

1 Introduction The notions of function and dysfunction are fundamental for neuroscience, psychology and psychiatry. However, they spur continuing controversy, with ongoing debate about how best to conceptualize and operationalize function and dysfunction, including a large body of work in philosophy of biology, medicine and psychiatry (Allen et al. 1998; Schwartz 2007; Griffiths and Matthewson 2018; Keeling et al. 2019).

Feb 5, 2025 | jamanetwork.com | Daniel Vigo |Dan Stein |Cape Town |Meredith G Harris

Effective Treatment for Mental and Substance Use Disorders in 21 Countries Key PointsQuestion  What proportion of common 12-month DSM-IV mental and substance use disorders receive a level and type of treatment consistent with guidelines? Findings  In this cross-sectional study including 56 927 respondents, the proportion of 12-month person-disorders across 21 countries receiving effective treatment was low.