Author: Richard K Collins
The Internet Foundation
Internet policies, global issues, global open lossless data, global open collaboration
She Let the First Predator Bite Her — So the Rest Would See What Happens After | Sci Fi Stories https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tlhSPJ12l9s In our world now, it is much based on dominant and submissive, predator and prey, strong and weak, rich and poor. But there is a third category – “just human”, that we all ought
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This is personal, so make your own choices and decisions. When the prices of coffee kept going up, I bought cheaper and cheaper brands of coffee, so they got more and more bitter. That meant I put more sugar and half&Half which also doubled in price. My monthly cost for “coffee” kept going up and
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The Stupidity of GDP per Capita – Income inequality in the United States and elsewhere https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eiymTzsZfoA Dear Type Ashton, I set up a database of all economic, financial, and social data from all UN and US federal sources for USAID and the US State Department in the 1980s when I worked for Georgetown University Center
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Veritasium: The Closest We’ve Come to a Theory of Everything https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q10_srZ-pbs Learning a little every day does not compound over time when the little pieces are not themselves expressed in a consistent way. All it does is accumulate in a pile, which collapses under its own weight periodically. Why learning linux means teaching yourself. https://www.facebook.com/reel/4007359546184441 A
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The War Aliens Fought for 473 Years Ended by One Human in 5 Hours | HFY | Sci Fi Stories https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HqX9q3YzYsU My comment: The Russians can agree to disarm completely. Rather than sloppy war, they can schedule destruction of facilities with no one harmed. That lets everyone test their best systems, and completely destroy useless
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Can You See X-Rays In a Cloud Chamber? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPhwkIFoSNo Thanks! I have been wondering about this for 20+ years. Except I have not found a way to image the x-rays below 4 KeV, especially under 400 eV, over long periods at high frame rates. I supposed I should have devoted years to trying things like
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This is not true. Mostly all instruments and detectors are designed only to find things that classic learning algorithms can understand. There are so many more things beyond that I had to invent larger numbers that make 10^100 look like zero. Tell him to check how sensors and detectors are designed. Critical problem in imaging
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Richard wrote: In radio and audio there is often automatic gain control. I want to record the low frequency variations, which means that the baseline might be shifting. How to record this? A low frequency amplifier and ADC, and higher frequency amplifier and ADC in parallel? ChatGPT said: You’re absolutely right to be concerned about
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Commenting and replying at Extreme Cold Survival Exam—Aliens Froze, Human Built Shelter from Ice and Animal Skins / HF https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0IDEZcyhhJQ 12 people survived in her group. In a world of 8.2 billion humans, there are 683.3 Million sets of 12. It would be nice if there was a way to construct these stories via larger
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https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=122211917294137188&set=a.122100683582137188 John, Good reminder of ways and reasons for praying for workers, praying for all humans in the context of their essential contributions to society. “pride in what we do”, “A just return for our labor”, “an act of intercession”, “to ward off a threatened disaster”, “blessing of the fields”, “rural life”, “agriculture and fishing”,
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