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.

Views and “answers” are useless without curation and effort at global scale

Views and “answers” are useless without curation and effort at global scale That requires measuring and deep mapping in vivo. If you measure to that level, the data is worth more to global research communities, than any ten thousands analyses by individuals. Views and ideas are not captured and coordinated globally, so “what the people
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Global Internet mathematics – “independently verifiable” and “shareable in global open formats”

Global Internet mathematics – “independently verifiable” and “shareable in global open formats” The training data from the Internet they use has not been curated or verified. The bad examples will not lead to good mathematics. It can take decades of hard work to solve one moderately difficult problem in the real world and they sell
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Ilya Prigogine got his Nobel prize for trying to model systems far from equilibrium.

Ilya Prigogine got his Nobel prize for trying to model systems far from equilibrium. The essence is that the system is “computable” or “can be modeled” or “can be digitally twinned”. I am working on models of stars and those are “computable” and “shareable” in lossless open formats.   A beam of ions, a jet
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Magnet on a pivot

Do you have a magnet on a pivot? Like a large compass, or experiments with motors to turn the magnet using external fields or other magnets? Is it possible to drill a small hole in a magnet then put it on a fixed axis? I bought a magnetic stirrer and the plastic coated magnet wobbles
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Global Internet best practices – “independently verifiable” and “shareable in global open formats”

Global Internet best practices – “independently verifiable” and “shareable in global open formats” Because they are using unreliable, untraceable methods that no conscientious organization would trust. No open development also means, “no one will listen to suggestions” and “no one will take responsibility for even little things, if they break”. None of the commercial AIs
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Gravitational Energy Density, Fusion in the Sun and in the lab

Gravitational Energy Density, Fusion in the Sun and in the lab Richard said: Where inside the sun (at what radius) does fusion occur? It is not in the convection zone? What pressure is associated with regions where fusion occurs inside the sun? There are a few different reactions, what are they and which is dominant
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Hold systems and their makers and operators accountable, require AIs to be independently certified for jobs

Katie (Kathryn) Conrad @KatieConradKS  I think you’re approaching this from a different angle than your average SV guy trying to sell us on the idea that generative systems are the same in some fundamental way as human intelligences. I take your approach as holding systems accountable.  Replying to @KatieConradKS Hold systems and their makers and
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Approaching the speed of light with massive vehicles, by coordinated local changes in vacuum properties

We went through the equations together and laid out how vacuum properties can be modified to make practical devices. Then discussed some implications and pathways. Approaching the speed of light with massive vehicles, by coordinated local changes in vacuum properties Richard Collins said:  So approaching the speed of light with massive vehicles would entail pushing
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