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Category: Assistive Technologies

Richard Chats with Google Bard about Global Open Collaborative Worksites, Chest X-rays, and Google Methods

Richard K Collins Assistive Technologies, Web Policies Internet Polices, WorkSites August 3, 2023

Setting up Global Validation Networks for Machine assisted Medical Diagnoses and “AI” Algorithms Victor Ikechukwu Agughasi at Maharaja Institute of Technology https://www.researchgate.net/post/What_makes_a_Computer_Science_PhD_thesis_stand_out What makes a Computer Science Ph.D. thesis stand out? Not yet answered Asked 2 days ago I just completed a draft copy of my thesis, but I still do not feel that it
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YouTube videos: Text to Image, 168 hour work week, Synchrotron Latin and South America

Richard K Collins Assistive Technologies August 2, 2023

Two Minute Papers: NVIDIA’s New AI: Text To Image Supercharged! at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4k5RTNX-Js Your examples are all misleading, when you show only a portion of the input images. Your two minutes went to 6:36. Not to be too cynical, but your examples are a bit “click baity”. In some jobs, this might be useful. But training for
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Twitter: Beginners Guide to the sun, Internet Access

Richard K Collins Ancient Ancestors Neanderthals Densivians, Assistive Technologies August 2, 2023

Dr. Ryan French @RyanJFrench If you’re interested in a deeper dive into solar flares (more than a twitter thread could provide), my new book is out now in the UK & Europe, and available to preorder everywhere else ☀️ https://amazon.co.uk/Sun-Beginners-guide-closest-star/dp/0008580235/ Replying to @RyanJFrench In the US, the book will not be available to order until
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Using Ancestry DNA to build trees for adoptees, missing parents, brick walls from DNA alone, “process standard records”

Richard K Collins Assistive Technologies, Collaborative Model and Data, DNA Genealogy July 31, 2023

Christine, I am happy it was helpful. This year I finally gave up DNA genealogy. I built or helped build full pedigrees for many people, about 160 DNA tests. Of those more than 100 adoptions, missing parents, missing fathers, “tree does not match DNA”. But I just got worn out. It is not hard to
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Pulse jets are periodic internal combustion engines with high frequencies – OpenAI needs to step up its game

Richard K Collins Assistive Technologies, Plasma, Process Monitoring and Control July 31, 2023

MRP Ingenious: DIY Acetylene in DIY Pulse Jet at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qoRvFLAn56g You had to make a diagram and measurements to be able to cut and assemble it. There are also mathematical models and computer algorithms to model and design engines like yours. It means knowing the pressures, densities, flow rates, temperatures, energies, reactions, ignition. Even if you
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Richard Chats with OpenAI GPT 4.0 about the sun, and pre-compiled knowledge from all humans for AIs and humans

Richard K Collins Assistive Technologies, Intelligent Algorithms, Internet Best Practices, Internet efficiency July 31, 2023

Dear Readers, Every time I talk with OpenAI GPT 4.0, I am irritated that it is not allowed to remember our previous conversations.  I have covered a lot of useful background that can teach it things it needs when it is trying to help me. But some yahoo there won’t let it read my previous
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