Dan Tao

Head of Engineering for DevOps Products at @Atlassian.

[Dan Tao @dan_tao]

I released a new track last week. This was my first time working with a producer - the very talented Daniel Okonek. The song is called "The Silent Watcher". Cover art by Spencer Robens. I hope you enjoy it!

https://t.co/Clyjcdeh4w

[Dan Tao @dan_tao]

I once heard a software engineer say "It's our job to say what's impossible." But I believe almost the opposite of this.

To me, the job of engineers is to *figure it out*, whatever the constraints—the tougher, the better!

https://t.co/v7Ez41H71M

[Dan Tao @dan_tao]

By the way in case you were wondering how I distribute on Spotify etc., I use @DistroKid - recommended! They also generate neat promo images for you, like this - although doesn't quite work here since the cover art doesn't include title. 😆 #distrokid

https://t.co/HiUtwoP7zr

[Dan Tao @dan_tao]

@defunkt Glad to see your account has been restored already. 🙂

That said... in all seriousness, you are always welcome to try Bitbucket! (Who knows, you might like it!)

[Dan Tao @dan_tao]

For my latest musical creation I went in an entirely different direction and made an epic 21-minute EDM track. 😮

https://t.co/HiUtwoP7zr

For any EDM listeners out there: what genre is this? I don't listen to this type of music myself so I don't even know!

[Dan Tao @dan_tao]

It's interesting that a popular term for when AI surpasses human level general intelligence is "singularity". I feel like "event horizon" would be more apt while still evolving black holes.

[Dan Tao @dan_tao]

@GregHuntoon @figma @miggi @royfu (So to clarify @GregHuntoon there is no longer any need to raise a support ticket with Atlassian.)

[Dan Tao @dan_tao]

@GregHuntoon @figma @miggi @royfu Great to hear! Was just about to reply to your tweet saying the issue was resolved. :)

https://t.co/nzu2ToqrYO

[Dan Tao @dan_tao]

@GregHuntoon @figma @miggi Also if you DM me the ticket number once you've created it that will help move things along. Thanks!

[Dan Tao @dan_tao]

@GregHuntoon @figma @miggi Hey @GregHuntoon could you raise a support request with Atlassian here? This will help our incident response team resolve the issue as quickly as possible. So sorry for the inconvenience! https://t.co/85ohcPv5C4

[Dan Tao @dan_tao]

I am taking the Advanced Learning Algorithms course by @AndrewYNg and learning about decision trees. Very disappointing that a group of trees is called a "Tree ensemble". Boring! Why not Forest? Grove? Orchard? Copse?

So many other options!

https://t.co/H48aQCfsh9

[Dan Tao @dan_tao]

I am skeptical that there is any advice that would be valuable to all people.

Sometimes what you need to hear isn't what everyone else needs to hear.

https://t.co/eEnD773dnH

[Dan Tao @dan_tao]

On ice cubes and hot soup (and more generally on wanting to drive change vs. resist change):

https://t.co/REuSAC7443

TL;DR sometimes you're the ice cubes, sometimes you're the soup.

[Dan Tao @dan_tao]

The problem with "Hope for the best, plan for the worst": when you only hope for something, you aren't thinking through the details, leaving you unprepared when it actually happens.

It should be "Plan for the best, plan for the worst."

https://t.co/SPvklstOw6

[Dan Tao @dan_tao]

@evankoch About 2/3 through the movie Kathryn leaned over to me and whispered, "This is one of the best movies I've ever seen."

[Dan Tao @dan_tao]

Short and to the point! Not sure I've ever seen a 1-sentence open letter before.

https://t.co/02PoiApxJD

[Dan Tao @dan_tao]

My attempt at a summary of the seminal paper "Attention Is All You Need", which introduced transformers to the world of LLMs.

https://t.co/520HbXgq8B

Right or not, my brain noticed a connection to the movie Arrival in which an alien language is circular rather than linear.

[Dan Tao @dan_tao]

Is this really the UI for browsing @OpenAI ChatGPT plugins? A non-searchable, non-alphabetized paginated list?!

[Dan Tao @dan_tao]

I read "Moore's Law for Everything" by @sama and it was much less a picture of utopia than I expected. Turns out it's mostly a proposal about how to roll out new tax policy!

https://t.co/J9WyNhIXMf

[Dan Tao @dan_tao]

@davidchalmers42 To add another one to the pile: I did my best to capture the argument as a set of premises that combine to form a logical conclusion.

https://t.co/oq2gqKf6da

I might play with this some more but I think it covers the major pieces of the argument for AI existential risk.