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.
MatthewBerman @MatthewBerman Reflection 70b just dropped and is beating every other model, including GPT4o and Claude 3.5. How did this happen? Here’s my conversation with Matt Shumer (@mattshumer_) and Sahil Chaudhary (@csahil28), the authors of Reflection 70b. https://pic.x.com/lfskkfycpd Replying to @MatthewBerman @mattshumer_ and @csahil28 “AI” is still an ad word, not a real effort to
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The Insane Math Of Knot Theory at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8DBhTXM_Br4 Magnetic ropes can be tied in nuclear knots, not orbits but closed paths. One can make permanent fuels with no mass, and when you snip at pre-weakens links, it gives up the energy cleanly, leaving no matter at all. With careful planning a macroscopic rope can be
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World Bank, UN, USA, .cn and the world can combine their information to map (Myanmar OR Burma) deeply @WorldBank I am looking at your Country Partnership Framework for countries which leads to pages like https://documents1.worldbank.org/curated/en/110961589818564510/pdf/Myanmar-Country-Partnership-Framework-for-the-Period-of-FY20-FY23.pdf On those pages the “Official PDF” download link is still coded as HTTP (not secure) and Chrome browser
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Haider. @slow_developer OpenAI Co-founder Andrej Karpathy predicts transformers may soon surpass the human brain in capabilities “Transformers have the potential to surpass the human brain in efficiency and memorization capabilities, despite current limitations in data availability and training. As AI https://pic.x.com/wc0gls0xy3 Replying to @slow_developer OpenAI is still selling a pull string toy – where an
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What Actually Caused the Baby Boom?… It Wasn’t (really) WWII at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ts1ZFHA4cCw I came from a large family and was born a few years after WW II. I would say that movies, advertising to “have the good life”, consumption, television had a lot to do with it. “Cheaper by the dozen” and washing machines, microwaves
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Turtles all the Way Down: What is Dark Energy? at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0lddIKoxYg My Comment: There are many processes, nuclear energy creation in stars foremost, that spread things out. Once gravitation and binding bring things together and nuclear fusion is possible, the nuclear energy created is much greater than gravitational energy. Our sun streams neutrinos, light, heat,
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Ideal Weapon: Can Hafnium Bombs Replace Nuclear Bombs? at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHPzQrJ8D7M Suggest you use NuDat3 at BNL to see all the isotopes that can be used. You also need all the magnetic moments, which I think they will be adding. Most of the radioactive isotopes can be used for their reactions. Not just stable ones if
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Veritasium: Why Democracy Is Mathematically Impossible at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qf7ws2DF-zk There are literally hundreds running for President now. I would rather they all “work for the good of the country” and everyone share their skills and ideas on the Internet openly, completely, and current. If they need to get a salary to survive to “work for the
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Rambling Note: I am sorry the corals might all die, but it is probably not going to kill all life on earth. Could the whole world be smart enough to afford to keep the corals? Not likely. Reading “400-year-old corals reveal “tragic” temperature rise on reef” at https://cosmosmagazine.com/earth/climate/great-barrier-reef-temperature-corals/ They say flat out, 1.5 C
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@CaseEngineer @CWRUalumni @cwru I was reading the History Computer Engineering and Science Programs at https://engineering.case.edu/computer-and-data-sciences/history-computer-science It is a bit incomplete. I think because it does not consider all the departments. Case Institute of Technology was my first university. My scholarship was based on chemistry, but within a few days of arriving in 1967
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