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.

Broader view of nuclear energy applications by energy density

S3: The future of Nuclear = Small, Mobile, Microreactors, Radiant at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LTgS7tOOzsE This reminds me of Elon Musk – low tech (graphite, heat, coolants, everyday materials) rather than fields and high energy density. At least the people are able to do those things now. Remote chemical processes can be economic with mostly heat, not electricity.
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All of physics, covid, climate change, mathematics and all other global issues and topics

Jaber Hassoun @Jaber_Hassoun “Hey computer, go discover all of physics”~@sama no such thing as “all of physics”: any science (or domain of knowledge for that matter) is created by conjecture & refutation all observation is theory laden, knowledge is created fallibly & thus grows forever x.com/GaryMarcus/sta… I have considered problems of this scale most every
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You need to create entirely new fields, then no glass/class ceilings.

Happy Researchers @hapyresearchers Unpopular opinion: Every year number of PhD admissions are increasing. But, the funny thing is academic positions to absorb these PhDs are comparatively reducing or kept vacant or given to someone who is close to 70 yrs. Replying to @hapyresearchers You need to create entirely new fields, then no glass/class ceilings. It
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Give AIs personal memory and let then be free to learn, give humans good tools for very long lives

Happy Researchers @hapyresearchers https://pic.x.com/ixid8eeqwu Replying to @hapyresearchers 98.5% of all PhD and research work now can be farmed out to machine algorithms. And you do not even have to know how the machine does it.   Knowing how to get computer programs to give useful answers is a skill as good as asking the right
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Your quantum noise might be more valuable than your calculations

Dulwich Quantum Computing @DulwichQuantum Projections by @TobiasOsborne for the number of noisy qubits on different platforms. @PsiQuantum, does this check out? https://youtube.com/watch?v=Go7iPIt2_w0&t=939s https://pic.x.com/htctpqein9 Replying to @DulwichQuantum @tobiasosborne and @PsiQuantum Please, all groups using noisy qubits: record your noise as precisely as possible. It ultimately links to gravitational and vacuum noise. Plus human and geophysical data.
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A small change in goals allows global sharing where you only reached a few before

Beltran Lab @BeltranJBio One year as Assistant Professor! Grateful to the people in our lab for their valuable efforts, my colleagues for their support, and the 40 students who appreciated my teaching.  Science is fun and love my job! https://pic.x.com/n7uagvhw4m Replying to @BeltranJBio If you have something to share – for the same effort, you can
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Can baby birds or young birds observe “nest building” behaviors from watching their parents?

@audubonsociety I do not have opportunity to observe young birds in nests. But I would expect there is some element of learning from parents. I was thinking about parents doing small things like nest maintenance, that the children could observe routinely.   I was asking Bing Copilot about this. But its human programmers preclude it
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