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Category: Assistive Technologies

OpenAI, Background roles responsibilities for language AIs – personality and training matter

Richard K Collins Assistive Technologies June 19, 2023

Michael Bukatin @ComputingByArts Jun 17 And it looks like the most interesting aspect, the “expert prompting”, is very similar to what has been published recently, https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.14688, https://twitter.com/An_Yang_/status/1669870140173996032 Quote Tweet anyang @An_Yang_ Jun 16 Replying to @arankomatsuzaki I must point out that there is a missing reference to our earlier paper ExpertPrompting: https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.14688, which has proposed to
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Please spend more time gathering and sharing lossless 3D measurements so people can learn statistics, models and visualization

Richard K Collins Assistive Technologies, Collaborative Model and Data June 18, 2023

BrainTruffle: A unified perspective on discretization at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWIdWYxz_AI You mostly ignored “how to capture real volumetric 3D flows at nanometer scale”. There are 3D capture methods that can “see” at cm scale, at mm scale, at microMeter scale. I traced groups who work at femtometer scale and smaller. If the raw data from these groups is
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Scienta Plus: SpaceX, quiet launches, no belching or crackles, global open collaborations

Richard K Collins Assistive Technologies, Atomic Fuels June 18, 2023

Scienta Plus: SpaceX’s Ingenious Idea to Protect Starship Raptors and OLM from Explosion, Vast Space Station at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L22gyQDDXho If you use arrays of hundreds (thousands?, millions?) of small 3D printed rockets and instrument them with fast controls, you can acoustically tune the whole exhaust down to the ground and have silent launches, The current rockets are
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The Action Lab: Superconductors are soft magnets, Webers, Magnetic Flux Quantum, Electrons, Electron Charge

Richard K Collins Assistive Technologies, Electromagnetic Gravitational Field June 17, 2023

The Action Lab: Does The Weight Increase When You Levitate a Superconductor on a Scale? at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uR35VTWmdYg Does the magnetic field transmit force?  Watts*Time = Joules = Volts*Coulombs Newtons*Meters = Joules = Volts*Coulombs Newtons = Joules/Meter = (Volts/Meter)*Coulombs Put the superconductor on a copper plate, and cool the plate with liquid nitrogen to cool the superconductor.
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The Action Lab – Water bridges from Volts and Amperes, Temperature from Watts Grams and Seconds

Richard K Collins Assistive Technologies, Collaborative Model and Data June 16, 2023

The Action Lab: How Does a Floating Water Bridge Work? at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2IBiwfvXsKU NEVER say “high voltage” or “low voltage” and vague things. When you talk about electrical things, say how many Volts, how many Amperes, how many Hertz. You can put voltage and current meters on the screen so people set the values and can begin
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Prasad Raju – Geophysical time series

Richard K Collins Assistive Technologies, Machine Vision, Schools, Universities, Learning and Working, Sun Moon Vector Tidal Signal, Visualizations Simulations June 15, 2023

Prasad Raju,   I suggest you use online resources to look at the data. There is a lot of seismometer and magnetometer data. There is meteorological data. If you just want sources of interesting signals, there is some good solar data (solar dynamics observatory), data from lots of astronomical and astrophysical surveys. Radio telescope data
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Global Open Collaborative Worksites – speed development, pre-competitive research, open design and fabrication

Richard K Collins 3D Scannning Replication, Assistive Technologies June 14, 2023

Temperature-dependent elastic moduli of lead telluride-based thermoelectric materials Edgar Lara-Curzio, Thank you for the paper. I am reading it now. I wonder if open systems will eventually replace commercial solutions? The problem with commercial is they are usally too small. I try to track all open collaboration methods on the Internet, and have for the
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Cadence – enabling global learning? Would tens or hundreds of millions work collaboratively for free to learn for free?

Richard K Collins Assistive Technologies, Collaborative Model and Data, Visualizations Simulations, WorkSites June 13, 2023

https://www.cadence.com/en_US/home/tools/system-analysis/computational-fluid-dynamics/pre-processing-meshing.html Is there an “intro to Cadence computational fluid dynamics” that tells the hardware requirements as a function of mesh size, time step size, precision? I wanted to teach basic properties of vertical flight through the atmosphere up to orbital velocities. I wanted to start with classical shapes, then add more complexity. Then let the
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BrainTruffle Fluid Dynamics

Richard K Collins Assistive Technologies, Visualizations Simulations June 12, 2023

BrainTruffle:  Fluid dynamics feels natural once you start with quantum mechanics at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXs_vkc8hpY BrainTruffle, You need to use real measurements, on real systems, to match your different simulation strategies to real things. You are guessing by eyeball. You can get massive amounts of data from a number of places, or your own experiments. A billion
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