The telegraph was invented and put into use in the 1800’s. From 1850 to now has seen about 40x growth from inflation. That technology enabled wide fast communication. But, when you consider the cost of transportation over solar system (heliospheric) distances, the economy needed is much larger. I saw EM say that 10,000 times larger
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You really ought to think, not in terms of “publication in 90 days” but “enabling real time collaboration globally”. The “90 days” was fine in the 1800’s, but today adding quarter year delays into global critical developments is like adding a mlll stone to a Formula 1 race car. If authors are chasing after
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Queegle MultiTask and his New Species, Note 1 — Queegle did not hurry. Transitioning yet another alien culture did not require a Grok implant. It was easy enough that an unmodified Human could to it. And it held status, even if the benefits beyond Universal Minimum Living were not lavish. He mostly spent his time
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#XfinitySupport I had to rest for a while, but did go over my experiences with XFinity in recent days and weeks and years. It is typical of what most large corporations face now – trying to piece together many divisions and workers with a bewildering variety of computers and information systems, rules and automated systems.
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https://cosmosmagazine.com/history/archaeology/oldest-neanderthal-cave-engravings-france/ Cosmos offers newsletters, but still seems to separate the whole world into publishers, authors, readers in a strict hierarchy. The articles are difficult to read, not using explicit references with title, authors and affiliations. Just hyperlinks hidden under fairly generic words like “recent studies”, “published”. The users experience is jarring. Going from Cosmos style
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Give true AIs large mandates, not narrow computer tasks – For the cost of one human position, you can install continuously improving global open resource nodes. Not just change one human’s life, but all 8.1 Billion. Find, gather, verify, curate, summarize, share, connect, predict, test, compare, enable — good computer learning and sharing will impact
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Kaiser Lab @DKaiserlab Our official ad for a PhD position is out. We’re looking for someone conducting fMRI and EEG work on the neural representation of visual beauty / visual preferences. Link: https://uni-giessen.de/karriere/stellenangebote/ausschreibungen/wissenschaftliche-mitarbeiter/369-07-e Kaiser Lab @DKaiserlab We’ll soon advertise a 3-year PhD position on a project that explores the brain processes underlying visual aesthetics using
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SEMI Foundation @semifoundation You can help high school #students, #veterans, and other motivated people find their professional calling through SEMI Foundation programs. Learn more about supporting our work: https://semi.org/en/workforce-development/semi-foundation-donation-page #SEMIFoundation #Semiconductor https://pic.twitter.com/TyRcnijzAH Replying to @semifoundation What is the purpose of the Semi Foundation? What should it be doing? There are about 780 Million humans in
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Jason, This is my first post on this forum.AudacityTeam.Org. I have used Audacity for a few years, and use it most every day to look at statistics in signals of many sorts. My priority is to do things in Javascript, since as Director of the Internet Foundation for 26 years, the only common language available
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Most content, groups and products on the Internet are not easily verifiable — In 26 years of the Internet Foundation, most papers on the Internet do not provide sufficient information to verify, let alone reproduce and test what is written. The publishers only consider themselves “paper printers”, even when it is in electronic form. I
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