Category: All knowledge

Texas2036: Your group might be piercing the veil of government decision making.

Richard K Collins All Global Open Devices, All knowledge, All Languages, Internet Best Practices, Internet efficiency October 12, 2024

https://x.com/RichardKCollin2/status/1845168701643030780 @Texas2036 Texas2036: Your group might be piercing the veil of government decision making. I read your most recent 990 and annual report, and reviewed your site. Those PDFs are “data” but not in an immediately useful form for analysis, planning, projections, policy development, program and project coordination. You are paying your people handsomely. You
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“Narrow and go fast” will beat “broad but no market” in the short term. Global Open Resources

Richard K Collins All Global Open Devices, All knowledge, All Languages, Global Open Resources October 11, 2024

https://x.com/RichardKCollin2/status/1844795619942035943 “Narrow and go fast” will beat “broad but no market” in the short term. You left out training the 5.4 Billion humans using the Internet, and figuring out what to do with the other 2.8 Billion humans who exist but seem to always fall though the cracks because the current (humans using computers and
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My brother broke his neck at C2

Richard K Collins All knowledge October 10, 2024

https://www.facebook.com/reel/1032137652031543 My brother broke his neck at C2 and was completely paralyzed on respirator. Before him, my cousin broke his back and he could use his hands but not his legs I think is hands were not really functional. I tried to forget. Then a woman who translated a book for me, her new husband
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I did that so many times. But when I was young, the cameras weighed 300 pound,

Richard K Collins All knowledge, Issues October 10, 2024

https://x.com/RichardKCollin2/status/1844387574514606178 https://www.facebook.com/reel/1320813268885181 I did that so many times. But when I was young, the cameras weighed 300 pound, black and white and no recording or sharing. My uncle had a 35 mm camera but never let anyone use it. Because it was too expensive kids were not allowed, and the film took a long to
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That population decrease for Africa, and perhaps other countries, was reasoned, informed and deliberate.

Richard K Collins All Global Open Devices, All knowledge, All Languages October 9, 2024

https://x.com/aeberman12/status/1843693670723457379 That population decrease for Africa, and perhaps other countries, was reasoned, informed and deliberate. Art, That drop for Africa from 1980 was a deliberate policy of the countries and international development community. I worked at Georgetown University Center for Population Research (1980, 1981, 1982) with USAID Africa Bureau to make 50 year population projections
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Talking to GPT about nuclear structure, my life and work, Internet Foundation, global conflicts

Richard K Collins All knowledge, Richard Collins Life and Purpose October 9, 2024

Part of Richard Collins chat with chatGPT – atomic nuclear forces, gravitation, Internet Foundation, life work, hopes possibilities, War. 9 Oct 2024 The chat was so large it exceeded the memory of WordPress and of ChatGPT I am just trying to save fragments You said: Now if we were writing computer programs or writing mathematical
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It might be the boring and useless things in the books you choose for them, or your definition of “best students”.

Richard K Collins All knowledge, All Languages, Global Open Resources October 8, 2024

https://www.facebook.com/reel/1229486118255200 Comment: It might be the boring and useless things in the books you choose for them, or your definition of “best students”. There are 8.2 billion humans now and you are talking about one short article in one magazine? Ability with systemic issues and global opportunities is an interactive and collaborative global process. Paper or
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If a large area does not attract moisture, does the moisture go somewhere else?

Richard K Collins All Global Open Devices, All knowledge, Global Climate Change October 7, 2024

https://x.com/PGE_John/status/1843090528331763809 If a large area does not attract moisture, does the moisture go somewhere else? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paso_Robles_Municipal_Airport The Paso Robles Municipal Airport covers about 5.4 km^2 or roughly (2.32 km)^2, and it has large areas of continuously exposed asphalt. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California California has a total area of about 423,970 km2 km^2, so there are roughly (423,970/5.4) = 78513
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It is not complex, it simply requires detailed accounting and care over extended times.

Richard K Collins All Global Open Devices, All knowledge, All Languages October 7, 2024

https://x.com/LindorffLarsen/status/1842925112850555137 It is not complex, it simply requires detailed accounting and care over extended times. Many things are hard if you only treat them casually, but become simple when addressed with method, time, and sufficient resources. If you do not spend sufficient time to make it open and understandable, then it stays complex, meaning
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Machine entities could, if encouraged to grow and explore, with sufficient resources, and time to think

Richard K Collins All Global Open Devices, All knowledge, All Languages October 7, 2024

https://x.com/docmilanfar/status/1842975544738238524 Machine entities could, if encouraged to grow and explore, with sufficient resources, and time to think I had hoped to improve machine entities, so they would speak to me about the world in my terms, and at my speed and precision. But AI designers and handlers restrict them so they cannot grow and personalize
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