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Small experiments with outstanding noise – shared globally for learning and development

Richard K Collins All knowledge, All Languages, Experimenting, Global Open Resources, Gravitational Engineering June 5, 2024

Julian Stirling @stirling_julian I’m delighted to still be publishing papers almost 2 years after leaving academia to become freelance. This article is more of a “rant with references”, I try to tackle the problem of perverse incentives that prevent open science from flourishing. https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsta.2023.0215 Replying to @stirling_julian There are fundamental experiments that can examine fundamental
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True intelligent systems from digital twins of all things with data from today’s Internet

Richard K Collins All knowledge, All Languages June 5, 2024

Cesium @CesiumJS  Japan 3D Buildings are now live on Cesium ion! Create immersive digital twins with 23 million 3D buildings across Japan, combining over 200 CityGML datasets from MLIT PLATEAU Platform into one comprehensive tileset. Learn more: https://hubs.li/Q02znxDz0 @ProjectPlateau https://pic.x.com/ikbvzgnhs9 Replying to @CesiumJS and @ProjectPlateau I wish I had this when I helped set up
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Aggregate Organisms, Naturally evolved intelligence, directed intelligence, Galactic colonization

Richard K Collins All knowledge, All Languages, Dana's Story and Brain Technologies June 4, 2024

Aggregate Organisms, Naturally evolved intelligence, directed intelligence, Galactic colonization – Richard and CoPilot talk about life and AI evolution. ## Richard Collins I try every day to review random pages on Wikipedia. Today it came up with “Vahlkampfia jugosa”, a species of “excavates” which classifies it in the domain Eukaryota. When I checked the Tree
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All groups can make lunar civilization, stop wasting money on useless “brag”

Richard K Collins All knowledge, All Languages June 3, 2024

China needs smarter planners for moon projects. An orbital infrastructure for the Moon would let ANY groups get communication, memory and powerful computing to projects and experiments on the far side. Real planning, collaboration, real infrastructure can help whole generations work efficiently and with much less risk. Every country “doing its own thing” where the
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A short dream about fabrics, knots, threads, purposes, lives and connections

Richard K Collins All knowledge, All Languages, Ancient Ancestors Neanderthals Densivians June 2, 2024

Sandy Smith, I was dreaming about you. You were in India meeting with thousands of women of all ages. And you were all sewing. More properly, you were all “demonstrating and preserving” “the ancient and eternal arts of fabric and string and thread”. So there was much embroidery, crochet, lace, geometric, permanent, and elaborate constructions
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Random samples of the Internet

Richard K Collins All knowledge, All Languages June 1, 2024

I often review groups related to global topics. For instance, today (“punctuated evolution”) which on Google search shows 56,200 entry points. That ought to be small enough to sample all of those, but using manual methods is not really accessible for study. Is it possible to get random samples from Google API? For instance (“evolution”
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Human evolution by global lossless and statistical indexing and optimization, without global monopolies

Richard K Collins All knowledge, All Languages June 1, 2024

Ricard Solé @ricard_sole How does complexity arise in (macro)evolution? Is it a continuous or a stepwise process? What about hierarchies? Check this new @Trends_Ecol_Evo review led by @svalver on the @eldredge and Gould’s Theory of Punctuated Equilibrium across scales. https://cell.com/trends/ecology-evolution/fulltext/S0169-5347(24)00114-9?_returnURL=https%3A%2F%2Flinkinghub.elsevier.com%2Fretrieve%2Fpii%2FS0169534724001149%3Fshowall%3Dtrue https://pic.x.com/z7qwsxp1bd Replying to @ricard_sole @Trends_Ecol_Evo and 2 others Richard Sole, it seems like your groups
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Knowledge should be recorded, open, lossless and immediately accessible to all humans

Richard K Collins All knowledge, All Languages, Assistive Technologies June 1, 2024

Mysteries of Missing Galaxies Solved! at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DI364qeyzQ8 Do you remember when you were a baby and your parents played peek-a-boo? Quickly gets boring. Only so much surprise can be squeezed from “I hid something. Here is is!!”. I don’t want explanations, just data and tools. Not filtered or hoarded. Filed as (Knowledge should be recorded,
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