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.
@EIAgov @WhiteHouse Next month, 23 Jul 2024 is the 26th Anniversary of the Internet Foundation. I am getting a bit tired, and writing this is just a sketch of a few issues – ones most important for the gov domain. The same things apply to all Internet groups and their sites, and methods. But the
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Claude failed my “first AI interview” and it was so bad, I stopped further effort. A bad knockoff. Closed minded builders. I check hopeful “AIs” in depth to see where they always fail. But this whole crop are all failing for the same reasons. I have been tracking “AI” and use of computers at global
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3Blue1Brown: The most unexpected answer to a counting puzzle at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HEfHFsfGXjs M2 = n21*M1, clacks21 = Int(pi*sqrt(n21))? But the wall is M_zero and that has to be infinite. So a linear three body problem ought to examine where the wall is not infinite in mass too. The world needs solutions, not problems and you ought
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Even if NOAA were perfect, many world satellite groups are not working together on the Internet. Everyone makes and maintains their own and Internet users see too many variations. If all the traffic signs in a country were different, it is chaos. All the weather and climate data signs and instructions on sites on the
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Deepak Marwal: galvanometer mirror & johanson noise in electric devices | Examples of brownian motion | thermal phy at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRYJqZ5ebVk At 0:10 it is “sedimentation” and “gradient with height” and at 0:16 it is “Johnson noise in electric devices”. Even if you have no equipment, you can simulate it and get help from your friends to
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The current “AIs” are using lossy, “learn it from bad examples on the web” methods. No verification, no records, no permanent copy of steps to refine and share. Just because there are some good worked out mathematical examples on the free Internet that some AIs are able to plagiarize, does not mean a generative index
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Bogdan A @parseb Agree. My only point being that: Nothing living thrives on information alone. Sustenance and goal directness is what life yearns for. Information is just a quantum hammer. (excuse the use) Replying to @parseb @ricard_sole and 3 others Bogdan, The information in a human memory, or in many computers or forms, is just
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Nischa: How 90 Days of Journaling Changed my Life at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rl6pTMQSVo4 Thanks! I have kept bound paper journals for over 50 years now. In recent decades I use computers and internet so separate topics and communities are easier to manage. “Write it down, so you can see it separate from yourself” motivates writing, drawing, painting,
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jietang @jietang We have released GLM-4-520 and have the open-sourced version GLM-4-9B with superior performance beyond Llama-3-8B. https://github.com/THUDM/GLM-4/blob/main/README_en.md https://pic.x.com/cmonog5nq5 Replying to @jietang I hope you will spend more time improving LongBench and make it specific to all STEMC-FGOT communities on the Internet (Science Technology Engineering Mathematics Computing Finance Governence Organizations TopicGroups). And face, seriously, a
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Geography Realm @Geographyrealm How to Map Watersheds Using ArcGIS Pro: A Step-by-Step Guide https://buff.ly/46Ovdvj Replying to @Geographyrealm To be honest, you should say “How we, a few people, used ArcGIS Pro to Map Watersheds” and not imply it is the only way or the best way, or that ArcGIS is the best way or the
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