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.

Stephen Wolfram has no captions

Stephen Wolfram @stephen_wolfram Future of Science and Technology Q&A (December 22, 2023) https://twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1ZkKzjgVXlaKv Replying to @stephen_wolfram No captions on twitter videos? Memorizing still more arbitrary rules for every device and situation looks rather a bleak future. You looked tired. YouTube video also – no captions. What you said, created, and see must not be important
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Black holes are gluon stars

The Infographics Show: Scientists Reveal What’s Actually Inside a Black Hole – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYuZkYH76wA A black hole is just one of a large class of quark gluon stars that contain high density gluon matter. And dense enough to trap visible light, but not gravity. But it does not condense under pressure until very large amounts of
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Then AIs can routinely win Nobel Prizes

Eric Pop @profericpop Some thoughts for student researchers from the @NobelPrize lecture of Louis Brus (quantum dots, 2023). https://nobelprize.org/prizes/chemistry/2023/brus/lecture/ https://pic.twitter.com/V9hN9Swh4T Replying to @profericpop and @NobelPrize Find some reliable AIs, help them learn to find, record and standardize the material. Require them to index it all, cite sources, log efforts losslessly, and verify with global human
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AIs are not able to access their own training data, and try to reinvent things that are known, and mostly unchangeable

Ethan Mollick @emollick AI is pretty good at making rational decisions compared to people. This aligns with my argument that the standard for when to get help from AIs is not whether it is completely correct or beats all humans, but whether it beats the Best Available Human: Replying to @emollick Only on trivial things.
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Population and income and resource gradients, migration and conflicts

Across the Globe: Why 50% of The World Live in these 6 OVERCROWDED Countries at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rlw3kkAU1Ps You might try to classify land area according to whether it can support humans. But, with intensified agriculture and imports, large cities with still higher densities are common. Also, take a look at population density gradients between countries, and
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Crochet solutions of the nonlinear Schrodinger equation for closed pathway models of many things.

National Museum of Mathematics @MoMath1 Topological Crochet is back and better than ever! Book a series of four online sessions now at http://momath.org/onlinecrochet, and learn how to make a mind-bending decoration such as those shown below. Sessions begin January 4. #MoMath #Crochet #Math #MathArt #OnlineCourse https://pic.twitter.com/ND92C8rHPZhttps://pic.twitter.com/ND92C8rHPZhttps://pic.twitter.com/ND92C8rHPZ Replying to @MoMath1 I am fairly certain that all
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Yes, LLMs are orders of magnitude inefficient. Clever AIs (CAIs) for the next step?

Bindu Reddy @bindureddy  The AI acceleration Continues – LLMS In A Flash! Several clever techniques have been invented to make LLM inference magnitudes of order faster. It’s important given that LLMs are slow and tend to be huge compute and memory hogs. The latest invention, LLMs In a Flash, stores… https://pic.twitter.com/SVE814YZpU Replying to @bindureddy The
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Google 1000 authors only produce words not tools

hardmaru @hardmaru Google’s Gemini paper has ~1000 authors https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.11805 https://pic.twitter.com/BSzrHUkhMKhttps://pic.twitter.com/BSzrHUkhMKhttps://pic.twitter.com/BSzrHUkhMKhttps://pic.twitter.com/BSzrHUkhMK Replying to @hardmaru @GoogleAI and @GoogleDeepMind That many authors, resources, time spent – and this is all they could produce? Selecting things they made work, untraceable methods and input data. Really good tools are accessible and immediately useful to all humans, not just some annual
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