Category: All knowledge

All groups can make lunar civilization, stop wasting money on useless “brag”

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

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

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

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

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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Many good things go unrecorded, and unshared

Zhigang Suo @zhigangsuo  Knowles Lecture and Caltech Solid Mechanics Symposium Friday, 31 May 2024, 9:00am, 135 Gates-Thomas I will begin with a lecture titled, Topology and chemistry determine mechanical properties of polymers Followed by young mechanicians at Caltech— https://mce.caltech.edu/events/knowles-lecture/knowles2024 Replying to @zhigangsuo It seems this is only open to people who happen to live nearby. I
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Collaborating openly at global scale with lossless methods might be sufficient

Google DeepMind @GoogleDeepMind “We have entered an age where a single human mind cannot comprehend the data that we are gathering about the universe.”   Our VP Research for Science @pushmeet joined @a16z to discuss how AI can help scientists and others with new insights. Listen now ↓ https://dpmd.ai/3wTVug5 https://pic.x.com/6rjcbep58a Replying to @GoogleDeepMind @pushmeet and @a16z
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