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.
Since the Solar Photography group is using Facebook methods. When any of the group runs into things, it is also a Solar Photography group issue. Is “joining” the same as following? One day it might be useful for the group to use servers that support sharing and collaboration on solar images. I think about things
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Mark Riedl @mark_riedl HIVE MIND: I saw an interesting-looking paper on Twitter within the last few weeks that was trying to quantify generalization in LLMs. I didn’t grab it at the time, and now I cannot track it down. Any thoughts on what it might have been? Thanks! Replying to @mark_riedl ( quantify generalization in
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Flavio Donato @FlavioDonato82 How can memories persist in the brain when their properties and supporting biological substrates change over time and experiences? Our latest work newly published in @ScienceMagazine proposes that a balance between memory dynamics and persistence is achieved through the divergent recruitment of multiple memory traces established in parallel upon memory encoding. https://science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adk0997
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The Otorongo Lodge @OtorongoLodge Another dead Electrophorous varii. Not really sure what did this one in, I can only hypothesize that a bank collapsed on it and remained buried long enough to drown it 😬 https://pic.x.com/8owkk3gvjy Replying to @OtorongoLodge ( “Electrophorus varii” ) has 2,240 entries ( “Electrophorous varii” ) has 2 entries ( “Electrophorus
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Cin-Ty Lee @CinTyLeeEarth I used to be a big fan of interdisciplinary science, but not anymore, at least not in practice. We r seeing too much performative interdisciplinary science now and they are not producing much to get excited about. The reason why they often fail is that interactions are forced by Replying to @CinTyLeeEarth
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Bureaucracies have IQs: Business processes depending on humans memorizing and processing symbols will almost always fail During the really cold war, it was impossible to study nuclear reactions. So everyone studied and wrote about astrophysics and stellar models. Science fiction just uses “alien species”. Jonathan Swift used fictional worlds. Perhaps you all can write about
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Richard Collins, The Internet Foundation: Is the division between India and Bangladesh primarily religious, ethnic and language? Or it is just a jumble of historical periods of dominance by others and arbitrary geographic boundaries? Microsoft Bing CoPilot: The division between India and Bangladesh is a complex interplay of several factors, including religious, ethnic, linguistic, and
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@WorldBank Please put more effort into editing your data reports. Look at Population Total at https://data.worldbank.org/?locations=PK-IN-BD-CN-IR-AF Â The entries for China and India are in Billions. You need consistent units. Do not round to whole numbers, give background links. I used to respect WorldBank data, but your Internet people apparently are not trained in statistical
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Debra, I read your message again. Yes join the group on GedMatch and learn what it can do. But it is only about 2 Million Tests, so do not expect magic solutions. Ancestry DNA Painter https://support.ancestry.com/s/article/Chromosome-Painter?language=en_US DNA Painter Example on DNAPainter.com https://dnapainter.com/example Adding 23andMe Data to DNA Painter https://www.familysearch.org/to/rootstech/session/adding-23andme-data-to-dna-painter Ancestry Pro Tools matches of matches:
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Drexel Glasgow posted images 14 Aug 2024 on Facebook with title “With the Altair GPCAM 130M. Plenty newton rings” Kirtsunegari posted in StarGazersLounge some animated gifs showing what you likely see when you look at live data, and what the software has to guess at when trying to separate the “really on the sun” things
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