Using Ancestry DNA to build trees for adoptees, missing parents, brick walls from DNA alone, “process standard records”

Christine, I am happy it was helpful. This year I finally gave up DNA genealogy. I built or helped build full pedigrees for many people, about 160 DNA tests. Of those more than 100 adoptions, missing parents, missing fathers, “tree does not match DNA”. But I just got worn out. It is not hard to
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Pulse jets are periodic internal combustion engines with high frequencies – OpenAI needs to step up its game

MRP Ingenious: DIY Acetylene in DIY Pulse Jet at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qoRvFLAn56g You had to make a diagram and measurements to be able to cut and assemble it. There are also mathematical models and computer algorithms to model and design engines like yours. It means knowing the pressures, densities, flow rates, temperatures, energies, reactions, ignition. Even if you
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Richard Chats with OpenAI GPT 4.0 about the sun, and pre-compiled knowledge from all humans for AIs and humans

Dear Readers, Every time I talk with OpenAI GPT 4.0, I am irritated that it is not allowed to remember our previous conversations.  I have covered a lot of useful background that can teach it things it needs when it is trying to help me. But some yahoo there won’t let it read my previous
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IBM Watson gets the answer it wants from its survey, if IBM can “AI index” its own web and Internet footprint, it might be in the game

IBM Watson @IBMWatson Jul 13 Three out of four CEOs agree – the organization with the most advanced generative #AI will have a competitive advantage. Kareem Yusuf, SVP Product Management & Growth, shares how IBM is ready to empower all businesses in the age of AI with #watsonx: https://ibm.co/46JKoHx https://pic.twitter.com/q5sXv119dN Replying to @IBMWatson “Generative AI”
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Richard Chats with OpenAI 4.0 about visiting the sun and Newtonian gravitational detector arrays and sensors

Richard: From the photosphere out, what is the mass of the solar atmosphere in earth masses? OpenAI Chat GPT Plus 4.0: As of my knowledge cutoff in September 2021, I don’t have precise information on the total mass of the solar atmosphere (including the chromosphere, the transition region, and the corona) in Earth masses. The
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Plasma Channel Ion Thrust suggestions and ideas

Plasma Channel: Designing A Next-Gen Ionic Thruster! (For Flight) at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nrEBoPYS4ns The stagnation pressure is (1/2) * AirDensity*Velocity^2. And the power goes as the cube of the velocity. So using velocity increments is not exactly the best measure. At least get yourself a spreadsheet or HTML/Javascript and have it keep track of the velocity, squared velocity,
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