Author: Richard K Collins

Director, The Internet Foundation Studying formation and optimized collaboration of global communities. Applying the Internet to solve global problems and build sustainable communities. Internet policies, standards and best practices.

Large computers hosting associated global communities of global projects

Richard K Collins All Sky Cameras, Collaborative Global Model of the Sun, Collaborative Model and Data, Internet Best Practices, Internet Covid Project, Non-Profit Groups Using the Internet, Schools, Universities, Learning and Working May 4, 2021

Bill, For the Internet Foundation, I am reviewing the role of large computers and computer arrays. What started me on this slightly ahead of schedule was the ExaScale group at E4S-Project.github.io | GitHub website for E4S Project and then today looking at the Dark Energy Survey that leads back to NCSA. My outline for a
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Visiting NSF NOIRLab for the first time – looking for pixels from telescopes

Richard K Collins All Sky Cameras, Collaborative Global Model of the Sun, Collaborative Model and Data, Internet Best Practices, Non-Profit Groups Using the Internet, Schools, Universities, Learning and Working May 4, 2021

Hello, For the Internet Foundation, I am looking at many data and model sharing efforts on the Internet. To judge difficulty of use, gather notes on practices, policies, methods, content, groups, and links between efforts. I am posting this note also to /?p=1230 so more people can see it. If you want me to change
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Please correct an error on Sciencing.com, Physics of Plasma Globes

Richard K Collins All Sky Cameras, Collaborative Model and Data, For profit groups using the Internet, Internet Best Practices, Schools, Universities, Learning and Working May 2, 2021

I happened on a nicely done study of the plasma ball. The filaments are re-created every cycle. They start as spherically symmetric (probably depending on the roughness of the sphere they use) and then extend outward at fast but finite speed. Each cycle, the tendrils (that is the most common name so far) follow the
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Note to Astronomical League

Richard K Collins All Sky Cameras, Collaborative Global Model of the Sun, Collaborative Model and Data, GravityNotes, Internet Best Practices, Non-Profit Groups Using the Internet, Schools, Universities, Learning and Working April 30, 2021

https://www.astroleague.org/ I found a few YouTube live all sky cameras. They are for weather, weather research, astronomical viewing planning, a tiny bit of actual teaching of human astronomical methods, some moon and sun projects, some cosmic ray and lightning, some comet, some other things. I just wondered if your members and groups are doing this,
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Cosmic ray shadow of the sun and moon, LIGO Array moon sun tracking

Richard K Collins All Sky Cameras, Collaborative Global Model of the Sun, Gravitational Engineering, GravityNotes, Schools, Universities, Learning and Working April 26, 2021

I was just going to say thanks for doing these. But: Have you heard of anyone trying to pick up the sun or moon presence in other networks? Was getting ready to point the older LIGO array of three detectors in the direction of the moon and sun to see if it could pick up “moon”
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Comment on Google Search for “temperature energy” with no count

Richard K Collins Collaborative Model and Data, For profit groups using the Internet, Internet Best Practices, Internet Covid Project, Non-Profit Groups Using the Internet, Schools, Universities, Learning and Working April 26, 2021

You forgot to put the count of the results when you put these buttons at the top for “temperature energy”. Contact me if you would be willing to share counts from Google searches for profiling the whole Internet. You are missing opportunities. Some high profile survey results for the Internet might help. Add “Comment or
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Add “donate and support buttons” to Wikis and online pages

Richard K Collins Collaborative Model and Data, For profit groups using the Internet, Internet Best Practices, Non-Profit Groups Using the Internet, Schools, Universities, Learning and Working April 26, 2021

Dear Thoughtful and Caring Wikipedia Workers, Designers, Helpers, Gatherers, Visualizers, Programmers, Database people, Donors, Online Communities connected to and using Wikis, or workers on any page on the Internet: I am visiting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calca,_Peru because my daughter sent me a photo from there. But it is a stub. I found a few things on the internet
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Comments on UCAR community registration and purpose, global climate change

Richard K Collins All Sky Cameras, Collaborative Global Model of the Sun, Collaborative Model and Data, Internet Best Practices, Schools, Universities, Learning and Working April 24, 2021

I was looking at https://climatedataguide.ucar.edu/climate-data/gpcp-daily-global-precipitation-climatology-project where it says “Become a Registered User”. Courteous, inviting. But click and it says, “Access denied, The page you requested requires that you login.” So it seems to login you have to register, and to register you have to be able to log in. Your cookie banners are not necessary
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Comment on Mars Helicopter Snaps color image – Metric, Documenting, Teaching, Sharing

Richard K Collins All Sky Cameras, Collaborative Global Model of the Sun, Collaborative Model and Data, Intelligent Algorithms, Internet Best Practices, Schools, Universities, Learning and Working April 24, 2021

You are very thoughtful. Yes, I agree about the usual human practices and methods. Every single one of the tens of thousands of groups I studied in detail on the Internet ended up failing or limiting themselves because of the greed of a few people, or policies that benefited only their group. It is particularly
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LIGO Detector locations and times for solar system correlation studies

Richard K Collins All Sky Cameras, Collaborative Global Model of the Sun, Gravitational Engineering, GravityNotes, Internet Best Practices, Schools, Universities, Learning and Working April 23, 2021

Jonah, Thanks, that first link seems to answer my immediate question about reference location and calculating time between sensors. Thanks for the pointer, I should have been able to easily find such a key piece of the puzzle. https://pycbc.org/pycbc/latest/html/detector.html My son, Ben, set up a Linux server with Python and ran some samples. I found
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