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Comment on a Prayer for Afghanistan on Facebook

Richard K Collins Collaborative Model and Data, Covid, For profit groups using the Internet, Internet efficiency, Non-Profit Groups Using the Internet, Schools, Universities, Learning and Working August 18, 2021

Peggy Browder Collins, Cristine Phillipps Arnold, Melanie Smith Krenek⁠ ⁠ When my Mom was still living, she prayed constantly. She taught us to care about every person. When I was growing up, there were whole communities of people praying constantly. ⁠ Now Cristine’s prayers are organized and focused on specific issues. I can see her
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Comments to AllSky group on Facebook

Richard K Collins All Sky Cameras, Collaborative Global Model of the Sun, Internet efficiency, Non-Profit Groups Using the Internet, Open Algorithm Development, Schools, Universities, Learning and Working August 12, 2021

I bought this Arducam MIPI camera for the Raspberry Pi. It is 4672*3496 and the best that anyone seems to have gotten is 1 frame every 10 seconds. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07W6LTFZC. I think it needs a $200 computer, not a $100 one. And some assembler or C programming. But then look at the time lapses posted by
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Comment on how to copy trees and find Birth Parents using Ancestry DNA

Richard K Collins Global DNA Genealogy, Internet Best Practices, Internet efficiency, Non-Profit Groups Using the Internet July 29, 2021

I have used Family Tree Maker which syncs to Ancestry. You download the trees to FTM and merge them, and then upload to a new tree. The merging is tedious but better than “save to tree” bit by bit. It is the ONLY method I found that preserves the records as records so that all
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Comment to a private group on Facebook about DNA genealogy

Richard K Collins Internet efficiency, Non-Profit Groups Using the Internet, Web Policies Internet Polices July 28, 2021

This group has grown to over 100,000 members. I see some wonderful advice that should probably be in a globally accessible form. This is a “private” group, so nothing posted here is seen or indexed and available except to people who join. I have helped more than a hundred people with finding their birth parents,
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About optically connected processors for home use and many things

Richard K Collins Collaborative Global Model of the Sun, Electromagnetic Gravitational Field, For profit groups using the Internet, Gravitational Engineering, Intelligent Algorithms, Non-Profit Groups Using the Internet, Open Algorithm Development, Schools, Universities, Learning and Working, Solar System Colonization, Symbolic Mathematics July 20, 2021

Nora, Thanks, I will keep that in mind. If you cast tiny angular (square, triangular, for example) blocks of plastic on ends of an optical fiber, then polish the whole thing, that would give a fiber that would alighn properly with a corresponding hole and fiber (or fibers).  It is something that human hands could
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Note about why I built Sculptor.Org

Richard K Collins Collaborative Model and Data, For profit groups using the Internet, Internet Best Practices, Non-Profit Groups Using the Internet, Web Policies Internet Polices July 9, 2021

J, I talked to my sister, T, yesterday. She is one who has painted all her life. Maybe she will have time and space to do it again. For ten years, about 20 hours a week, back from about 1993 to 2003, I ran a website for sculptors. At the end it had 50,000 unique
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Comment on Pictor Open Source Radio Telescope – Recommendations

Richard K Collins All Sky Cameras, Collaborative Global Model of the Sun, Experimenting, Internet Best Practices, Non-Profit Groups Using the Internet, Schools, Universities, Learning and Working July 2, 2021

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=70plmWJDt2k Open Source: https://github.com/0xCoto/PICTOR Website: https://www.pictortelescope.com/ Please leave the settings and all form fields. Don’t clear them. Just leave them the same as the last observation.  I am having to re-enter them ever time I make a request.  I am making series of requests.  Many people might.  Tell them how many files they will receive, how many
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All sky cameras online should use lossless format and share with cities and schools and groups

Richard K Collins All Sky Cameras, Collaborative Global Model of the Sun, Internet Best Practices, Non-Profit Groups Using the Internet, Schools, Universities, Learning and Working July 2, 2021

https://www.facebook.com/groups/172438633343696 I tracked down your allsky camera images. When will people realize that jpg is a lossy format and that the pixels are not true representations of the intensities and colors of small regions. I call it “eye candy”, only suitable for eyeballs, or the truly desperate who have nothing else. Please ask him to
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Open Algorithms, Open Algorithm Groups, Open Algorithm Development

Richard K Collins Intelligent Algorithms, Non-Profit Groups Using the Internet, Open Algorithm Development, Web Policies Internet Polices June 30, 2021

https://www.facebook.com/TheNRAO/ I sent a private message. Guess you guys don’t check that very often. I was asking about raw data from radio telescopes that can be used by “open algorithm” developers for training and experiments. Richard Collins, posted on Facebook on 30 Jun 2021.  My first public use of “open algorithm developers”. “open algorithm development”
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