Andrew Côté @Andercot The Future is Here https://pic.x.com/gx1revli0i Replying to @Andercot Andrew, I tried talking to those three plants in front of that black building, but they were fairly ordinary. We talked about the future as you suggested. The one in the middle looks plain and small, but she has a wonderful, cynical outlook and
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https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-50273-5 When networks fail cumulatively for weeks, can geographic systems survive? This is something that can be tested in real world networks for countries, regions, cities, corporate networks, non-profit networks and support networks of all types. The Internet is so “hand-made, hand-maintained, hand-audited and verified” now, I can imagine whole countries, cities, critical systems failing
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Morning Brew: Why the Internet Is Running Out of Electricity at http://youtube.com/watch?v=xHuoWV3Jwik The Internet as a whole is grossly inefficient, sending megabytes where a few Kilobytes would do. Gigabytes where MegaBytes would do. Rarely do you get offered an index and selection from data “sharing”, it is “click here to download petabytes, see we’re sharing”. The
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Tony, I have been finishing up some projects. July 23, 2024 was the 26th Anniversary of the Internet Foundation. I did a quick read of this last paper, and your earlier ones. You are arguing theories, when I think you ought to be studying the technologies, instruments, sensors and data. I recommend “gravitational engineering” not
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What Jedi used to be at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1thKXY3Dl7o Now write your stories and share them. Give examples that people can relate to, where heroes are born no matter their starting point. No matter the odds. For the right reasons and the right outcomes. Filed as (What Jedi ought to be, can be) Richard Collins, The Internet
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Chan Zuckerberg Initiative @ChanZuckerberg Meet Antje Keppler. She is on a mission to bring young life scientists together + create more opportunities for research & career growth in microscopy and biomedical imaging. #STEMMentorship https://pic.x.com/hnrvtehh2q Replying to @ChanZuckerberg Working at global scale, she can affect millions, not just a few hundred I am 75 and still
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After Café: Strategies for Better Cross-Sectional Imaging – Edge Cleaving or FIB? at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qjifh7J4Wos Bangzhi Liu, Thank you for sharing these examples. It seems that human manual methods – cleaving with tweezers, pressing and heating, might have reached their limit. The results become more complex to evaluate, and corrections almost not possible at all. I
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Interstellar Expansion WITHOUT Faster Than Light Travel at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWlpNm1C5gw Intelligent systems are essentially immortal. The Milky Way is only about 106,000 light years. At 1 milliLightYear per year, that means a machine and human based expansion could cover it in 106 Million years. Most galaxies that reach the point they can store memories and learning
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@theatlaspro Geography of Agriculture, Geography of Mining, Geography of Education, Geography of Petroleum, Geography of Space Exploration, Geography of Electricity, Geography of the Internet, Geography of Railroads, Geography of Trash, Geography of Slums, Geography of Toxic Dumping, Geography of Plastics, Geography of Forestry, Geography of Genetically Modified Plants, Geography of Genetically Modified Animals, Geography of
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I try to talk out issues carefully. There are gaps and biases in ChatGPT. It has no real depth on many things. But it is more careful than many humans, if I flag where it is missing things. theinternetfoundation.net/?p=16164 Richard Collins, The Internet Foundation: I am trying to understand what “mRNA vaccines” might be. I
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