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.
Richard Collins, The Internet Foundation: I try to look closely at every advertisement I see – print, video, logo, phrase, image. I saw a brief video that talked about the difference between democracy and constitutional representative government. It seemed part of some political statement or ideas, but I was in the middle of something else
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Results of Experimental Studies on Thorium Migration in Electric Thrusters – Doug Codron, Keith Goodfellow, Daniel Erwin https://www.researchgate.net/publication/268479296_Results_of_Experimental_Studies_on_Thorium_Migration_in_Electric_Thrusters My Comments: Thank you for sharing your research. I think it likely the conditions for “superconducting” thermionic/photonic emission are not hard to achieve. Adding nuclear and electromagnetic ionization sources is one practical way to start controlled avalanches.
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@DvirGur I had to go to Google Scholar and such sites to find your publications. The links on your site always fail. It recommends clearing the cookies, but that is not a good idea. “Too many redirects” generally means you guys need to look carefully at cookie fiddling and “keep it simple”. This link (below)
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Dvir Gur @DvirGur Have you ever wondered how animals like fish, and chameleons rapidly change their color to camouflage or communicate? Our recent work shows that Zebrafish quickly alter their structural colors by changing the spacing between their intracellular crystals using motor proteins Replying to @DvirGur Is there any chance the electric fish works the
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Fly with Magnar: Why are so many pilots wrong about Bernoulli’s Principle? at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uyRx25MSWng @woodpile66 Most folks here seem to say that low pressure exists because the flow speeds up, but that group does not account for why the flow sped up in the first place, or the mandatory physics. I offer that the wing
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Prof Van Buren: Intro to compressible flow [Aerodynamics #17] at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDSgUTgcMXg Bad handwriting, use a computer. There are about 5.4 Billion people using the Internet now. Step up your presentations to match, not down to a hypothetical or organization driven “captive class room”. Your visualization are decent, but lack substantially because your drawing skills are
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Art Berman @aeberman12 Natural gas combined cycle is cheaper than wind and solar with backup based on Lazard’s 2024 levelized cost of energy No way to get away from natural gas or coal for peak demand periods at present #energy #EnergyTransition #ClimateActionNow #renewables #NetZero #EnergyStorage https://pic.x.com/jhl16z3j1s Replying to @aeberman12 The energy stored in “chemical bonds”
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Roger Grosse @RogerGrosse Amortized variational inference is neither amortized nor variational nor inference. x.com/jpillowtime/st… Jonathan Pillow @jpillowtime Amortize means to “to pay off a debt with regular payments” But in amortized inference you pay a big up-front cost to train an inference network, then inference is cheap per datapoint. Isn’t that the opposite of amortization?
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All human languages, all domains, all places, all devices – global open resources for all humans Computer memory and processors changed the face of human navigation in cities, so too can it change the face of navigation through fragmented and Byzantine sets of rules for every discipline and topic. It is not only memory devices
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Richard Collins, The Internet Foundation: This is a bit of an odd question, but I mean it seriously. What would people think of “Olympic war games”? Rather than ad hoc wars and armed conflicts like Israal Palestine, or Ukraine Russia, or dozens of countries having armed conflicts. Suppose wars were supervised and controlled. Part of
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