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.

Black Hole Hunting can be more efficient if it is a global community. Not many doing their own thing

Black Hole Hunters @BlackHoleHunter We’re back! 🎉 We have new data, a (slightly) different name, and more chance than ever of finding the elusive, hidden black holes that we’re looking for. Find out more here https://zooniverse.org/projects/cobalt-lensing/black-hole-hunters/talk/4563/3230866 Replying to @BlackHoleHunter Black Hole Hunting can be more efficient if it is a global community. Not many doing
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A ThorLabs camera for “NIR”. Comments on Kelvin labeling of image sensors and electromagnetic regions

Chad, I found the spectral sensitivity of the CS135MUN camera.  I am looking out past 2,000 nm = 2 um (below 1500 Kelvin, below 85 THz) https://www.thorlabs.com/images/tabimages/CS135MUN_Quantum_Efficiency_G1-780.gif https://www.omnicalculator.com/physics/wiens-law I also found your ThorLabs repositories on GitHub, but probably not sufficient for what I need. https://github.com/Thorlabs Do you make your own images sensors, or use ones
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A link going to House.gov is automatically going to a nonprofit site, without explaining relationships and funding

A link going to House.gov is automatically going to a nonprofit site, without explaining relationships and funding I was checking (“gun violence” site:gov) and a link comes up: https://iqconnect.house.gov/iqextranet/iqClickTrk.aspx?&cid=IL10BS&crop=0000.0000.0000.0000&report_id=&redirect=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gunviolencearchive.org%2F&redir_log=802130211903248 This should stop at House.gov first, so that the relation between House.gov and a non-profit site is clear. As it is, Internet users cannot easily determine
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One expects ThorLabs to have “thermal imaging microscopes” but they do not

ThorLabs: I have been looking at thermal (LWIR) camera sensors lately and came to your ThorLabs site looking for lenses for LWIR.  Then I saw your microscope cameras and wondered if anyone is looking at “thermal imaging microscopes”.  I would think there must be people looking at heat emission from PCBs and components which are
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Non-exclusive print licenses. Lossless formats. “Once a member, always a member”

Ricardo Henriques @HenriquesLab Happy to launch the new website for our lab: http://henriqueslab.org. Come check it out. Still tuning details, but really happy to showcase our team, research we’re doing, our collaborators and some of our takes on science. Designed from scratch for both humans and 🤖robots https://pic.twitter.com/GpoykwPZ1rhttps://pic.twitter.com/GpoykwPZ1rhttps://pic.twitter.com/GpoykwPZ1r Replying to @HenriquesLab Recent publications: “Technologies:” links
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When Branching Processes are Disturbed and Become Turbulent

Nature Microbiology @NatureMicrobiol  OUT NOW 👉 Environmental stress mediates groundwater microbial community assembly @IEGatOU https://nature.com/articles/s41564-023-01573-x Replying to @NatureMicrobiol and @IEGatOU Environmental stress mediates global human communities’ mutation, evolution, migration, microscale turbulence, and long range diffusion. “When the going gets tough, the tough get going”  ? Environmental stress mediates global human communities’ mutation, evolution, migration, nanoscale
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Move to “verifiable records” as a core. Not “trust us because we advertised heavily”

Akshay 🚀 @akshay_pachaar  Say goodbye to print statements & embrace the power of logging! Separating seasoned developers from beginners, the importance of logging in Python can not be over emphasised! — step-by-step explanation with code — Let’s go! 🚀 https://pic.twitter.com/fKxkK5leBc Replying to @akshay_pachaar Now, if you could just get the AI groups to learn that
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molecular process repairs or replacements of single cell types

Yosef Lab @YosefLab Excited to share our study on how aging affects the human immune system at different tissues, with single cell genomics. Fantastic teamwork with @psimslab, Jo Jones, @DonnaFarber3 and @teichlab; and with Cambridge CBTM and @liveonny. Fresh on bioRxiv: https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.01.03.573877 Replying to @YosefLab @psimslab and 3 others Does that mean you will eventually
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