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Category: Symbolic Mathematics

Comment on HyperPhysics, Cosmic Ray and Muon Data

Richard K Collins All Sky Cameras, Collaborative Global Model of the Sun, Collaborative Model and Data, Global Climate Change, Gravitational Engineering, Internet Best Practices, Internet efficiency, Schools, Universities, Learning and Working, Solar System Colonization, Symbolic Mathematics, Visualizations Simulations, Web Policies Internet Polices January 27, 2022

Hello, My reason for writing: I am looking at http://phynp6.phy-astr.gsu.edu/~cosmic/index_muonTelescope_Pcorr.html It says “pressure corrected”.  But I don’t see any link or description of the algorithm. http://phynp6.phy-astr.gsu.edu/~cosmic/allFormatPot.dat seems to be broken (Google Chrome) http://phynp6.phy-astr.gsu.edu/~cosmic/dynamicDisplay/4-paddle show graph, but no data archive easily accessible http://phynp6.phy-astr.gsu.edu/~cosmic/dynamicDisplay/mkDetector shows graphs, but no data archive and no accessible community. And 2019.  Those
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Comment (Tweet) on SIAM book Mathematical Elasticity, Volume II, Theory of Plates

Richard K Collins Internet Best Practices, Internet efficiency, Schools, Universities, Learning and Working, Symbolic Mathematics, Visualizations Simulations January 22, 2022

Sadly, it is written on paper. Not a tool to use; but more reading, memorization and human effort. A tool, it could perform way beyond limited human abilities. It could last a thousand years, and change all future generations. Sadly; written on paper. A painting of a tool. 🙂 https://my.siam.org/Store/Product/viewproduct/?ProductId=41044181 Mathematical Elasticity, Volume II, Theory
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Content Sources, Local viewers and editors, Boxes and Layouts, Internet and Human Purpose

Richard K Collins Assistive Technologies, Distributed Health Care, HoverBoxes HoverCards, Internet Best Practices, Paralysis, Symbolic Mathematics, Visualizations Simulations, Web Policies Internet Polices December 17, 2021

Nate, Thanks for treating this seriously. Rather than “redesign our website” which often entails long discussions and personal likes and dislikes. Focus on “text”, “images”, “videos”, “tables”, “sharing with attachments and messages”, “schedules” and other content specific editors, viewers, tools and layouts. But put them into rectangular boxes you can move, resize, minimize, normal size,
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Pet peeves – Wikipedia, sites, videos, classes, universities, schools – talking about things that could easily be shared for real

Richard K Collins Global DNA Genealogy, Internet Best Practices, Internet efficiency, Open Algorithm Development, Schools, Universities, Learning and Working, Symbolic Mathematics, Web Policies Internet Polices December 17, 2021

Samuel, I hesitate to reply to many of your comments because in Videos 3-7, I cover a lot of issues and resolve them. I am not even sure what still remains to be done. All I can suggest is you keep a log of your specific people where they might need a deeper look. If
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Jimmy Wales thanked me for my donation to support the current Wikipedia. Here is what I wrote back

Richard K Collins HoverBoxes HoverCards, Internet Best Practices, Internet efficiency, Symbolic Mathematics, Visualizations Simulations, Web Policies Internet Polices October 20, 2021

Jimmy, I would like to make some specific recommendation for upgrading wikipedia to be more useful globally. But I doubt your organization is set up so that a “reply to a message from the founder” ever gets read and treated seriously. My time and skills are far more valuable than any money donation. But only
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Comment on Jordan Sullivan, Neutrinos and Antimatter Video

Richard K Collins Collaborative Global Model of the Sun, Gravitational Engineering, Internet efficiency, Schools, Universities, Learning and Working, Solar System Colonization, Symbolic Mathematics, Web Policies Internet Polices October 5, 2021

Neutrinos and antimatter at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YcpNhPBxwfo Jordan, You can combine a particle and its anti-particle into a stable form, if you provide angular momentum. The external charge and magnetic dipole moments are effectively zero, and the particle is effectively all binding energy which has no mass. The pair can store most any amount of energy, but
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Comment on video about the solar interior – another way, with the whole human species working together

Richard K Collins Collaborative Global Model of the Sun, Internet Best Practices, Internet efficiency, Open Algorithm Development, Schools, Universities, Learning and Working, Symbolic Mathematics October 2, 2021

What Does The Inside Of The Sun Look Like? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ayHXTnN4fk In the visualization from 3:00 to 4:00, I think there should be small particles coming from every point to every point in the detector. For instance something coming from the far upper right. to the far lower left. Not just radially outward from one point
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Comment on Downwind Faster Than the Wind by Veritasium, How Does it Work?

Richard K Collins Collaborative Model and Data, Internet Covid Project, Internet efficiency, Symbolic Mathematics, Web Policies Internet Polices September 23, 2021

Downwind Faster Than the Wind by Veritasium: How Does it Work? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CkhBskovitQ A good quantitative simulation does not need words, and the process of design is more efficient, not maintaining an inaccurate word model alongside the simulation. The words will always be ambiguous, but the model can be calibrated and fit to measurements from the
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Emoji languages – symbols and communication

Richard K Collins Intelligent Algorithms, Open Algorithm Development, Skinning the Internet, Symbolic Mathematics, Web Policies Internet Polices September 16, 2021

Emily, Humans and animals with eyes are pretty good at quickly identifying things seen in the past.  It is a basic survival skill.  “Identify the person”, “Identify the weapon”, “Identify the ripe fruit”. So when training populations for basic survival, you probably have to go back to “Identify and classify quickly” – if you value
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Comment on Chain Fountain videos

Richard K Collins All Sky Cameras, Open Algorithm Development, Schools, Universities, Learning and Working, Symbolic Mathematics August 21, 2021

Chain Fountain 2 – Drill powered spool https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcsb1xAv7XA When the beads are in a jar, they have a vertical component of velocity to go up and over the rim, so the beads trajectory follows gravity. Since stress travels through the beads much faster than the beads themselves, the force of the faster beads in the
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