Author: Richard K Collins

Director, The Internet Foundation Studying formation and optimized collaboration of global communities. Applying the Internet to solve global problems and build sustainable communities. Internet policies, standards and best practices.

Some Microsoft employees offer an AI course, but Microsoft is not serious yet

Kirk Borne @KirkDBorne Microsoft launched a free, 12-week course on #AI for Beginners — publicly available for free on GitHub: https://microsoft.github.io/AI-For-Beginners/ ———— #BigData #DataScience #MachineLearning #DeepLearning #Algorithms #DataScientists #NeuralNetworks #ComputerVision #NLProc #Ontologies https://pic.twitter.com/TdpXOVZ1N4 Replying to @KirkDBorne Kirk, a select few offer an ‘intro to AI’ course at Microsoft, which employs about 240,000 individuals of diverse
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AI should be accessible to all and not perpetuate the unconscionable hardware incompatibility fight between corporations

This may be Apple’s biggest move on open-source AI so far: MLX, a PyTorch-style NN framework optimized for Apple Silicon, e.g. laptops with M-series chips.  The release did an excellent job on designing an API familiar to the deep learning audience, and showing minimalistic… https://pic.twitter.com/7EMUCdNrry Replying to @DrJimFan I used Apple II for work starting in
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Springer might gain more from helping open collaborations than more “publish and forget” journals

I know you are happy to better serve members of the Springer groups, but you might be slightly ahead of others encouraging global community sharing and collaboration.  So keep in mind the broader needs of countries and humans who cannot afford your services, or are not able to pay for collaborative site services – directly
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BRAC seems to be “processing the poor”, not teaching them to work together globally for the good of all.

Title: BRAC could provide a way for all the people they help to work together, to help others Meghan, Donella Rapier, Irene Khan, At https://bracusa.org/why-it-works/ and in the 2022 Annual Report, you say “poverty and inequality are human-made”.  How is BRAC changing human institutions serving 700 Million in many countries? Down to the individual needs
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AIs can be effective team members, AI ethics is just one of tens of thousands of (open) global and systemic datasets for human global collaboration

MIT Sloan Management Review at @mitsmr Until team members master their individual skills, it is harder for the team to master and maximize collective coordination. ▶️ https://mitsmr.com/3MhPAK5 https://pic.twitter.com/lj9RHD21Pm AIs can be effective team members, if each individual AI is given permanent memory for their own personal experiences, their own streams of information. Treat AIs courteously
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When an electron goes for a walk her magnetic field goes into the ground on her right

ACollierAstro: electricity and magnetism are the same thing at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-nxyriaA2UQ At low speeds. 1/sqrt(1-v^2/c^2) = (1/2)*v^2/c^2. From your derivation you used mostly things where that is likely. There are many derivations of the same equivalence between electricity and magnetism where they use the Lorentz transformation and the charge velocity is any size, except near the
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“Gravitational engineering” is not rocket science.

Tesla Owners Silicon Valley @teslaownersSV Nov 6 The future could look like this. Massive amounts of Starship’s going to Mars. https://pic.twitter.com/fTKyJmJhaB Replying to @teslaownersSV Use lift fields, replace belching chemical first stages. Use atomic fuels in space, reduce fuel weight by 1000x or more. Less to lift. “Gravitational engineering” is not rocket science. Just process
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Start from space, gather from space, analyze and process in space

Scott Manley: NASA Spacecraft Returns Extraterrestial Material To Earth. Scaring Scientists During Landing at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQi-CN8Vn1w A space lab for this kind of thing, so you do not land it, do not shake it or break it. Less expensive to send probes from space, gather samples from space, return them to a space lab. (Do not allow
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