Even with perfect knowledge of all things, and global optimized systems possible, would anyone change? No. If it fails, and is needed, it can be recreated in the future. Nothing on earth cannot be restored, if sufficient time, ability, determination and effort is applied. If China overproduces and they can survive, they likely will continue
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USGS.gov can serve the whole world in all languages, part of a global knowledge network. I want to know how long and deep a fault area needs to be to generate a magnitude 9 earthquake. I know that the moment and power depend on the area, roughness, pressure, temperature, materials, and faults, depth and
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hardmaru @hardmaru Anyone started reading Yuval Harari’s new book? https://pic.x.com/mist8cfute Replying to @hardmaru and @harari_yuval Do not invest in “paper”, gather and connect real things in real time with all humans and AIs HardMaru, It is much better to gather and write your own living views of things now, since static paper books are obsolete
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Art Berman @aeberman12 Thriving luxury car manufacturers and struggling discount stores summarizes the current economic backdrop. The wealth divide is growing and the rich have never been richer than they are now. How is this “strong” economy? #economy #EconomyNews #EconomyMonetary #inflation https://pic.x.com/ywzoiakygl x.com/KobeissiLetter… Now, one can optimize global $1E12 industries more easily than selling 1E12 things for $1
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Zhigang Suo @zhigangsuo Jun 11 A beginning thermodynamics course is preoccupied with a fluid, modeled as a system of two independent variables. The number “two” is a choice of convenience, not a matter of principle. Here is a system of one independent variable. https://pic.x.com/0jobgnimo5 Replying to @zhigangsuo Kilo, Mega, Giga, Tera, Peta, milli, micro, nano, pico, femto,
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https://www.facebook.com/reel/982103566933564 Facebook – Memory storage devices. Other possibilities, and the future I used every one of those in many places. But before those were vacuum tube memories, relay memories, magnetic cores, bubble memories, washing machine sized disk drives, paper tape, magnetic wires, and many others. My first computer I made out of straight pins and
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https://www.facebook.com/reel/2167075623691552 Facebook – To move things and humans faster than light requires a science of collaboration at solar system scale Coordinating precise time for observations on the Earth, and in the solar system, is not impossible. But it requires a set of iterative solutions, not a one-shot rule. The key is to decide on the
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https://www.facebook.com/reel/509200281842798 Temple Grandin worked out many of these sorts of things for herds and groups of domesticated animals. But most any mall or architecture, any business these kinds of considerations do have relevance. On the Internet, it matters how you present things and what the experience is before you get there and as you leave
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Many entities, including machines and organizations, are now “independent organisms” but not intelligent and responsible If an AI performs an illegal act, who should be held accountable? I have to deal with every possible type of entity on the Internet, including intelligent systems made of computers, and many that are now hybrids of humans and
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Cécile Gal @CecileGal Paper out! https://nature.com/articles/s41598-024-59089-1 We show that presenting visual stimuli in random order of visibility impairs humans’ ability to recognise them. Unlike machines, where random presentation of samples helps learning (avoid overfitting), in humans randomness is detrimental. Replying to @CecileGal Training Human Perception. The chaotic and fragmented Internet, making it all accessible to
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