Alien Admiral Watches Human Child Play Starship Simulator… and Realizes It’s Deadly Serious at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6MnB5aFEhSA Richard Collins wrote: I spent the last 27 years of the Internet Foundation to make this kind of thing possible. There are 8.2 Billion humans and about 5.4 Billion Internet users. Good ideas are nice, and this story is well
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I sat in on an online presentation of a company that can print layers of atoms each one atom thick, so you have a layer of one element, then another, then another. It was last year sometime and I cannot remember exactly how thick they made it. But as I recall they were making materials
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https://x.com/compose/articles/edit/1884689325159276544 Are there tiers to Grok services and subscriptions? 15 web pages Yes, there are tiers to Grok services and subscriptions. Here’s a breakdown based on available information: Free Tier: Grok is now available for everyone with certain limitations. Free users can ask up to 10 questions every two hours and have access to three
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https://x.com/RichardKCollin2/status/1883619696320098712 It is not hard, but it needs focus – global open exact references I was chatting with OpenAI ChatGPT Plus about Bernoulli and related equations. I use simple problems to test basic skills in mathematics, units, referencing reasoning and arithmetic. OpenAI fails always on certain problems and it is because the whole reliance is
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Dear Reader, You might find this article I wrote today on X interesting. It was prompted by reading an email about high speed imaging at 1000s or millions or billions of frames per second. It covers data rates and methods for imaging high power density signals and ends with recommendation for large global projects. If
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Considering the form and operation of secure global open Internet where the operation is auditable and open for continuous improvement. Do NOT use inserted programming boxes, only publishable text =============== Digital vaults, secure storage, verifiable, traceable, audit-able, reliable, trustworthy, global: And open formats so it is lossless, useful, can be combined and verified. You can
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Did you try this? Fast accurate calculations are helpful, but the space of possible things to investigate and try is still large. For a variety of reasons, “small parts can be stronger”, “simple shapes take less time”, “many bonds can make a mess” – it makes sense to assemble and use molecular parts, rather than
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I was just talking with OpenAI ChatGPT about the productivity and usefulness of the whole academic sector and much of the “education” sector. I would say all “long horizon search” is not “re”-search now, but exploring and creating completely new fields overnight that classrooms and higher education factories simply cannot convey or enable. It
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How hard is it to get a robot to pick up its feet and balance its entire body and motions? You are using too many old static parts. Dragging masses, not making them alive and self aware, part of a whole, not just parts. Stop kicking robots. If you teach others that it is
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https://x.com/RichardKCollin2/status/1882723437590053099 The barriers to use any live or recorded raw data from observatories on the Internet are insurmountably high for everyone. A few 100 thousands insiders is not “everyone”, it is only a tiny fraction of the 8.2 Billion humans now. There are about 5.4 Billion humans using the Internet. About 2 Billions kids from
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