Category: Assistive Technologies

University of Maine, Climate Change Institute, Climate Reanalyzer

https://climatereanalyzer.org/research_tools/monthly_correl/ I like your Climate Reanalyzer plots and downloads. I see codes in the sheets for the models, but I am not that familiar with all the abbreviations and acronyms. And it is not clear to me how 5 billion people using the Internet now can view, let alone interact with the models in meaningful
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Richard Chats with OpenAI GPT4 about Wikipedia, democratization, global open internet policies, cookies

I am talking with OpenAI ChatGPT Plus 4.0 about  Wikipedia, all human knowledge, fairness, random surveys, Google, human based systems that are not open and verifiable, “democratization”, Internet policies, the role of AIs in human society and our future. Richard Collins, The Internet Foundation Richard: I am doing a random survey of pages on Wikipedia.
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Richard Chats with OpenAI GPT 4.0 about permanent synchronous stations over the sun, creating new challenges

I want observing stations near the sun to monitor it closely and continuously. Sunlight so close, might as well gather some into “atomic fuel”. Richard Collins, The Internet Foundation Richard: The earth has a specific distance and velocity for “geosynchronous” satellites. What is the radius and velocity of a solar synchronous orbit for a satellite
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Comment on the solar “Streamer Belt”, NASA, MHD Simulations, MHDWeb in mostly inaccessible forms

“Global MHD Simulations of the Time-Dependent Corona” at https://www.researchgate.net/publication/371786836_Global_MHD_Simulations_of_the_Time-Dependent_Corona Robert, I am reading “Global MHD Simulations of the Time-Dependent Corona” that you, Roberto Lionello, and Viacheslav Titov wrote. The links you have at the top “NASA Grant NNX14AH71G” and “Streamer Belt” go to a ResearchGate page that says projects are no longer supported. I managed
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Richard Answers a question about zero gravitational acceleration, nanogravity, synthetic acceleration fields

Is there any space with zero gravity in the Universe? by Chinnaraji Annamalai, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur https://www.researchgate.net/post/Is_there_any_space_with_zero_gravity_in_the_Universe Richard: The gravitational potential fills all of space. The earth, sun, moon, planets all have their own potential that adds to this. The total potential from all masses in the universe adds to roughly c^2 =
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Richard Chats with Google Bard about Global Open Collaborative Worksites, Chest X-rays, and Google Methods

Setting up Global Validation Networks for Machine assisted Medical Diagnoses and “AI” Algorithms Victor Ikechukwu Agughasi at Maharaja Institute of Technology https://www.researchgate.net/post/What_makes_a_Computer_Science_PhD_thesis_stand_out What makes a Computer Science Ph.D. thesis stand out? Not yet answered Asked 2 days ago I just completed a draft copy of my thesis, but I still do not feel that it
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YouTube videos: Text to Image, 168 hour work week, Synchrotron Latin and South America

Two Minute Papers: NVIDIA’s New AI: Text To Image Supercharged! at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4k5RTNX-Js Your examples are all misleading, when you show only a portion of the input images. Your two minutes went to 6:36. Not to be too cynical, but your examples are a bit “click baity”. In some jobs, this might be useful. But training for
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Twitter: Beginners Guide to the sun, Internet Access

Dr. Ryan French @RyanJFrench If you’re interested in a deeper dive into solar flares (more than a twitter thread could provide), my new book is out now in the UK & Europe, and available to preorder everywhere else ☀️ https://amazon.co.uk/Sun-Beginners-guide-closest-star/dp/0008580235/ Replying to @RyanJFrench In the US, the book will not be available to order until
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