Category: All Global Open Devices

The effort to impress a few can start global open networks

Brianna Bibel @biochem_bri  Updated updated metabolic pathways poster for peer review before I order them printed for my class. Thanks in advance! PDF: https://bit.ly/bbmetabolicmap JPEG: https://bit.ly/bbmetabolicmap_jpg https://pic.x.com/1grzqomght Replying to @biochem_bri Do not print them on paper. Make it a living tool on the Internet that all can use easily, connected to living resources for deep
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USB over ethernet cable

USB over UTP cable: Testing Voltage Drop and Transfer Speed at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6jk1r3Puzw Thank Ron Mattino: This makes sense, since more people use and rely on low loss ethernet. It is highly optimized. I wish you had tried 100 meters or 20 meters or 1 km. And computer to computer USB peer networking. Richard Collins, The Internet
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Machines are only as smart as their designers and handlers

Flowers @flowersslop  Except GPT-4 is around 21 million times bigger than this. Our brain is also magnitudes bigger, more complex, and still more efficient than GPT-4. But at the level of the neurons, both do nothing fundamentally different. And *something* emerges from all this. In both cases. Machines are only as smart as their designers and handlers,
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Facebook groups have to make up their own policies, because Facebook, in spite of its size does not improve

Since the Solar Photography group is using Facebook methods. When any of the group runs into things, it is also a Solar Photography group issue. Is “joining” the same as following? One day it might be useful for the group to use servers that support sharing and collaboration on solar images. I think about things
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Chatting with CoPilot about Bangladesh, Pakistan, Unique Humans, Genocide and Solar System Expansion

Richard Collins, The Internet Foundation: Is the division between India and Bangladesh primarily religious, ethnic and language? Or it is just a jumble of historical periods of dominance by others and arbitrary geographic boundaries? Microsoft Bing CoPilot: The division between India and Bangladesh is a complex interplay of several factors, including religious, ethnic, linguistic, and
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WorldBank.org grows but diminishes in ability, awareness and relevance? Same for UN.org

@WorldBank Please put more effort into editing your data reports. Look at Population Total at https://data.worldbank.org/?locations=PK-IN-BD-CN-IR-AF   The entries for China and India are in Billions. You need consistent units. Do not round to whole numbers, give background links. I used to respect WorldBank data, but your Internet people apparently are not trained in statistical
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