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Dan Fritchman

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I had recent occasion to write down most of what I had been doing for the past few years, in the form of a PhD dissertation, An Integrated Circuit Design Framework for Human, Computer, and ML Designers. That includes lots of thoughts about our field, its future, and related hot takes. It has been lauded as "actually kinda good" and "not boring" and "how I (the reader) used to write before there was ChatGPT", even by non-nerds. If you are a non-nerd, I recommend the prologue and first chapter or two. (I suspect the quoted reviewers stopped there.) Only those with a shared special breed of nerdery of will care to read to the end.

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GenAlpha

LinkedIn says we're in stealth mode, because you guys seem to find that cool? But if you've read this long, you can be in on the secret, we're Generation Alpha (Transistor). If you wanna learn more just reach out.

FAQ

Of late I have been asked with increasing frequency whether I am in fact a cactus.
That would make this site (and especially all the work it describes) way more impressive. And the cactus is named Dan too (after someone I know). But no I look more like this.
Dan the cactus (RIP) fills in as an avatar on sites like this. If you see Dan on some other site, that's probably me.

Is this a personal web site? Or just like a GitHub README page?

It's both.

As of this writing https://dan.fritch.mn redirects to here.
For many years it had been a custom site, with custom styling and various build flows and languages and tools, and I got tired of it. GitHub's markdown styling and rendering works just great for stuff like this thanks.


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