NSF.gov has good stuff but it has not been curated and organized
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I spent time today working with GPT 4 to map the organizations on the Internet working with “3D printing and replications”. NSF came up as a funding organization, but I realized that NSF has people who are deliberately trying to catalyze growth in specific directions, for specific purposes.
I searched ( site:nsf.gov “3D”) to get 66,700 entry points. Many rich and central ideas, concepts, methods, and purposes.
But, as usual, when I review topics for the Internet Foundation, I say the same thing to myself. “NSF is interested and funding these things, but on NSF.gov and the tens of thousand sites that refer to or are funded by or influenced by NSF, even the groups and individuals working narrowly on “3D” are not working together in one global framework. There are roughly 20,000 universities and colleges, they are not central to “3D”, but they do have many references to “3D methods and often have funds from NSF. If you, NSF, would spend more time on requiring your people and projects to share the results, NOT in PDF which is essential paper for human eyeballs, but make the equations shareable symbolic equations, the tables and data shareable open formats, the algorithms in universal form (that is possible for most of the top 50 languages), the units and dimensions codified, the place names codified, the group names codified, the concept and applications and context codified. That would allow “real token” AIs to be build, not one that use arbitrary tokens, separated from the raw input training sets, not traceable or verifiable.
I have a lot of things here. Next month 23 Jul 2023 is the 25th Anniversary of the Internet Foundation. I have been writing continuously for the last two years to try to summarize policies and best practices for using the Internet as a whole on all global and systemic issues. The Googles and language AIs give one shot answers, most organizations deal with their part of some larger global issue, but almost no one gathers and organizes all that is known about a topic in a way that is comprehensive and immediately usable.
Searching NSF.gov for a particular topic or work or term is better than searching Facebook. NSF.gov shows 963,000 pages is not organizing what it knows, its priorities. You keep adding things, but the Internet and human minds are not able of sort out 25 B pages of stuff.
site:nsf.gov “covid” has 18,800 entry points. You have not consolidated and curated that.
RichardCollins@TheInternetFoundation.Org
