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Category: Internet Best Practices

Thank you to Jonathan at Bangor University for Reference Image

Richard K Collins Collaborative Model and Data, Internet Best Practices, Schools, Universities, Learning and Working, Web Policies Internet Polices May 30, 2021

The Grid:  https://csee.bangor.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/regular-grid-random-colours.png Jonanthan, Bangor University: https://csee.bangor.ac.uk/cy/project-rainbow/create-a-coloured-grid-in-processing/ Jonathan, Thank you. I was working on a simple camera calibration and needed a good target. Your random colored grid made a great clear image. Correcting the camera colors, positions and intensities is much easier with a quantitative reference. The only suggestion I have is to also have the Javascript
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Comment on Facebook Allsky Camera group site

Richard K Collins All Sky Cameras, Collaborative Global Model of the Sun, Internet Best Practices, Internet efficiency, Schools, Universities, Learning and Working May 28, 2021

https://www.facebook.com/groups/172438633343696 Do you know of even one allsky camera on the Internet that shares live lossless images? And archives lossless images for stacking, research, correlations? The usual photos of stars and planets on the Internet are in jpg, or compressed video, so the pixels are not real pixels. The location and properties of the camera
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Comment to Astronomical League

Richard K Collins All Sky Cameras, Collaborative Global Model of the Sun, Internet Best Practices, Schools, Universities, Learning and Working, Web Policies Internet Polices May 28, 2021

I had to try several times to get the LONG captcha code right.  My eyes are really tired and it makes no sense.  Finally realized they were using case sensitive.  It failed because it was more than 1024 characters. Did they tell me there was a limit?  No.  Did they warn me that I went
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All sky live cameras for teaching, research and learning to collaborate globally

Richard K Collins All Sky Cameras, Collaborative Global Model of the Sun, Collaborative Model and Data, Internet Best Practices, Schools, Universities, Learning and Working May 28, 2021

Luis, Attilla —  Hi Dodie, Gary, I appreciate you looking into this.  I got a separate reply from Attilla Danko offering to help with monitoring and reporting on all sky visibility.  Lenses that see the whole sky will have visible areas on parts of the sky.  I have found live cameras where a few stars
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ClearDarkSky, All Sky Camera Standards and Goals, Education, Research, Weather and Climate

Richard K Collins All Sky Cameras, Collaborative Global Model of the Sun, Experimenting, Internet Best Practices, Radiation Channels, Schools, Universities, Learning and Working May 27, 2021

Luis, This year I joined the Houston Astronomical Society, the Astronomical League and now Texas Astronomical Society. I am a retired mathematical statistician, but I work full time still as Director of the Internet Foundation.  If you want me to bore you to tears about global Internet communities, I am happy to oblige. I have
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Comment on BriTheMathGuy This Sum Amazes Me Every Time – Covid, Internet, Math on the Internet

Richard K Collins Collaborative Model and Data, Intelligent Algorithms, Internet Best Practices, Internet Covid Project, Internet efficiency, Schools, Universities, Learning and Working, Web Policies Internet Polices May 24, 2021

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGcZDq2bmxM I turn off the sound, turn on the captions, set the speed to one quarter, and don’t look at you gesturing. Plenty of time and fewer distractions. Highly recommend using screen videos. Work out your presentation on the computer, record as you go. Explain the steps and move the pieces around yourself in real
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Solar structure and evolution, some notes on a global model of the sun, open and universally accessible on the Internet

Richard K Collins Collaborative Global Model of the Sun, HoverBoxes HoverCards, Internet Best Practices, Internet efficiency, Schools, Universities, Learning and Working, Web Policies Internet Polices May 24, 2021

Joergen Christensen-Dalsgaard, You have described some of the pieces relevant for study of solar structure and evolution in words, pictures and pictures of equations.  The equations in the PDF are not in portable symbolic mathematical form.  The data from all the steps in the calibration of the model and its variations is not readily available. 
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New Video: Wikipedia Equations, Transcribing and Sharing Equations, Internet Standards for Equations

Richard K Collins All Sky Cameras, Collaborative Global Model of the Sun, Collaborative Model and Data, Covid, For profit groups using the Internet, Global DNA Genealogy, Gravitational Engineering, HoverBoxes HoverCards, Internet Best Practices, Internet Covid Project, Internet efficiency, Non-Profit Groups Using the Internet, Schools, Universities, Learning and Working, Skinning the Internet, Web Policies Internet Polices May 23, 2021

I am struggling to write my own tools to transcribe a few simple equations, and to show how to combine all the equations on the Internet to help global groups to work together. I understand why the Internet is so messy and inefficient.  I describe just a tiny part of it related to sharing equations
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3D Video, Camera accelerometer gyro inertia, depth, all sky, global correlation networks

Richard K Collins All Sky Cameras, Collaborative Global Model of the Sun, Collaborative Model and Data, Internet Best Practices, Internet efficiency, Schools, Universities, Learning and Working, Web Policies Internet Polices May 20, 2021

I am watching many live videos on the Internet.  It is an exploding social phenomena on the Internet.  I am interested in the machine vision, artificial intelligence, image processing, sensor correlation network sides of it as well. Here I am looking at a bridge over a river.  At the moment I happened to start, it
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