Author: Richard K Collins
The Internet Foundation
Internet policies, global issues, global open lossless data, global open collaboration
Well, “many people” could be 100 Million and that is small compared to 8.2 Billion humans. But I think the ones who hold that opinion are countable in a few thousand at most, maybe 100,000. But it does not matter. The human species is large enough to have completely separated “team” taking independent viewpoints to
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I weighed an airplane… while it was flying! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hnvtstq3ztI Grok convinced me that the sound pressure level that you can measure with microphones is the better way to go. It is not the same as the pressure from air molecules moving. But the two pressures can combined. If you know the model of airplane you
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Yes. So instead of a light weight “tokenization” now and very little curation and verification now the raw data, and no index of the raw data. It puts effort into finding the nouns and processes, embedded data, index it and convert to tokens. It attempts to make sure if it is talking about Moscow, Russia
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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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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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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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