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.
Creating global, open, indexed, verified, audited knowledge – accessible to all humans. There are no things that humans do that an AI could not do – with enough time, care, effort and careful study of humans doing that job now. But if any groups, by whatever means, studies humans that closely – it is far
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Prizes for the worst inventions, Nobel Prize in Advertising and Influence, Bad Historical Innovations — Perhaps there needs to be a prize for the worst inventions. I was thinking about plastic and disposable products. “Oh, the convenience of plastic and paper products – use it once, and just throw it away!” Absolutely brilliant. And,
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I am not sure how long it sat outside my door after delivery. I do not think it went over 90 F today but the package did sit in the sun. It was completely liquid, like water. I put it in the freezer and it solidified. Then I broke off a piece and tried it.
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$1000 Golden Banana for Best AI Interface — None of the LLM “AIs” are saving conversations in globally open formats, so my conversation just now with Microsoft Bing Copilot about tornadoes and educating AIs to human standards is not well formatted. I want to show you how shallow is the skill of the people
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Richard Collins: On 11 Sept 2001, I was reading at the Foundation Center library which was a few blocks from the White House. That location closed a few years ago, and now the Foundation Center and Guidestar have merged to form Candid.Org. Can you search for when that Foundation Center location was closed and why?
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Stefan Milo: Stone age people made hundreds of these…why? at Q8X9l42ZgsU A three hole rope maker, and a one hole device – that has a lot of stress applied. That rope might be really really hard to tie knots in, but if you put the end of that rope through the hole (the same size
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Crémieux @cremieuxrecueil If existing desalination plants were set up to extract salt from the brine to sell it, they would cause a free fall in global salt prices. https://pic.x.com/y6vbo5yswy Replying to @cremieuxrecueil The cost of a basic commodity goes lower. And reduced dependence on mined lithium. It would not happen overnight. You have to run the
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Smart Biology @SmartBiology3D In most biology classrooms each student can have their own interpretation for how things work especially with systems and processes. Our animated lessons bring those to life exactly the way they happen so everyone is on the same page with understanding. http://smart-biology.com https://pic.x.com/iipz9uwmge So when you make mistakes, and give inefficient approaches
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Global Data: Black Hole Size in Perspective at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IkO9YbOOll4 Thank you for that. But suggest you add the big bang region as well. It is essentially an open black hole. Look at the volume per solar mass of each of these you listed. A region can be unconsolidated and still be “black” trapping light. My
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Can the Google AI search for a topic in all human languages and all domain specific languages (DSL)? So concepts or methods in one DSL can be found in different contexts or many different scales and situations? For instance, the models for neutron stars also work for gluon equation of state in accelerators and cosmic
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