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.

Famine is fixable. So is climate change. It needs an open, fair world or no one will have an incentive to help

PNASNews @PNASNews  As temperatures rise, which regions will experience the most severe effects of #drought, #flood, and stifling #heat? Explore these #interactive global maps for insightful projections: https://ow.ly/gBtM50QTvOi #wetbulb #ParisAgrement #IPCC #ImpactAttribution #ClimateChange https://pic.twitter.com/ZwjvzK7nwM Replying to @PNASNews Suggest you work out the economic value to local people and to the global economy of greening all
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OnSemi and others who are part of ( “machine vision” OR “machine learning” )

https://www.onsemi.com I was just looking for a datasheet for the AR0522. I was on Digikey looking to buy it, and their “datasheet” is only a summary. I wanted something that shows pins, interfaces and register level programming. I am looking at education on the Internet at all levels. One area where advances seem to be
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Colonizing Titan, Colonizing Deserts, Giving AIs to tens of millions to do trillions

Desting: Let Me Explain Why It Would Be Preferable To Colonize Titan Instead Of Mars at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_InuOf8u7e4 The deserts on Earth are a lot closer; would benefit humans and related DNA species immediately. And, planet Earth in the long run. People are planting billions of trees, but still not in a sustainable manner. You want
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Sensors and processors capable of learning, remembering and sharing globally – “eyes for AIs”, moles of pixels

Lucy, I was just going over the potential impact of having memory and algorithms integrated directly with different kinds of sensors, where the whole is responsive to the needs of global society and all individuals – both human and true AIs. I expect picoMeter capabilities, it is just a matter of time. As the many
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A “ripple” that arrives too late or too soon, can have an impact the exact opposite of what is hoped.

Liset M de la Prida @LMPrida Our latest paper with @acnavasolive & @adrubio1999 is out in @CommsBio A machine learning toolbox for the analysis of ripples across species https://nature.com/articles/s42003-024-05871-w In collaboration w @perpl_lab & @SAbbaspoor we found that AI algorithm trained in 🐁 could be applied to https://pic.twitter.com/MRVTgUOSkN Replying to @LMPrida @acnavasolive and 4 others
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Unless “the global” is permanently remembered and applied by each.

Nicoletta I Petridou @petridou_ni Finally ⁦@APSphysics⁩! Join us at invited session G06 tomorrow at 11:30am room L100FG to discuss how cells “learn” to perform functions from the collective properties of the tissue they are embedded in! https://pic.twitter.com/PxRfOE1PdGhttps://pic.twitter.com/PxRfOE1PdG Replying to @petridou_ni and @APSphysics 5 Billion humans with some access to the Internet and APS serves only
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With little effort to nurture and sustain – it will likely wither and be quickly forgotten.

Joshua Weitz @joshuasweitz Official release is one day away. Quantitative Biosciences: Dynamics Across Cells, Organisms, and Populations is available in paperback and Kindle including computational companions in Python, R, and MATLAB: https://bit.ly/qbios_book_amazon Joshua Weitz @joshuasweitz Another update… after nearly 10 years in development, delighted to share news that ‘Quantitative Biosciences: Dynamics across Cells, Organisms, and
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Methods and insights implied by rough sketches and symbols

Ricard Solé @ricard_sole How do we model ageing? What can models say about evolution, death and new biomediccal approaches to life extension? That was my last blackboard lectures within my @upfbioeng course on Modelling Complex Diseases, with a final perspective linking evolution and disease. https://pic.twitter.com/U7VAwZXUOW Replying to @ricard_sole and @upfbioeng Do you want to be
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Change decades of uncoordinated efforts to global open lossless permanent accessible results

MA Oviedo-Garcia @maoviedogarcia More than 2 million research papers have disappeared from the Internet despite having an active DOI https://nature.com/articles/d41586-024-00616-5 Replying to @maoviedogarcia I think it is much worse than that. Rules, regulations, results, data, events, background for papers. Trace any website, event, topic and it degrades quickly. Look at LLMs using 1 and 2
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