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Highlighting “divergent recruitment”, Grok and global human memories

Richard K Collins All knowledge, All Languages, Intelligent Algorithms August 16, 2024

Flavio Donato @FlavioDonato82 How can memories persist in the brain when their properties and supporting biological substrates change over time and experiences? Our latest work newly published in @ScienceMagazine proposes that a balance between memory dynamics and persistence is achieved through the divergent recruitment of multiple memory traces established in parallel upon memory encoding. https://science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adk0997
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I have not seen “one of those” in 58 years, begging AIs for help

Richard K Collins All knowledge, All Languages August 16, 2024

The Otorongo Lodge @OtorongoLodge Another dead Electrophorous varii. Not really sure what did this one in, I can only hypothesize that a bank collapsed on it and remained buried long enough to drown it 😬 https://pic.x.com/8owkk3gvjy Replying to @OtorongoLodge ( “Electrophorus varii” ) has 2,240 entries ( “Electrophorous varii” ) has 2 entries ( “Electrophorus
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It is not “many disciplines” is it willingness to work and learn in large networks

Richard K Collins All knowledge, All Languages August 16, 2024

Cin-Ty Lee @CinTyLeeEarth  I used to be a big fan of interdisciplinary science, but not anymore, at least not in practice. We r seeing too much performative interdisciplinary science now and they are not producing much to get excited about. The reason why they often fail is that interactions are forced by Replying to @CinTyLeeEarth
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Business processes depending on humans memorizing and processing symbols will almost always fail

Richard K Collins All knowledge, All Languages August 16, 2024

Bureaucracies have IQs: Business processes depending on humans memorizing and processing symbols will almost always fail During the really cold war, it was impossible to study nuclear reactions. So everyone studied and wrote about astrophysics and stellar models. Science fiction just uses “alien species”. Jonathan Swift used fictional worlds. Perhaps you all can write about
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Chatting with CoPilot about Bangladesh, Pakistan, Unique Humans, Genocide and Solar System Expansion

Richard K Collins All Global Open Devices, All knowledge, Intelligent Algorithms August 15, 2024

Richard Collins, The Internet Foundation: Is the division between India and Bangladesh primarily religious, ethnic and language? Or it is just a jumble of historical periods of dominance by others and arbitrary geographic boundaries? Microsoft Bing CoPilot: The division between India and Bangladesh is a complex interplay of several factors, including religious, ethnic, linguistic, and
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WorldBank.org grows but diminishes in ability, awareness and relevance? Same for UN.org

Richard K Collins All Global Open Devices, All knowledge, All Languages August 15, 2024

@WorldBank Please put more effort into editing your data reports. Look at Population Total at https://data.worldbank.org/?locations=PK-IN-BD-CN-IR-AF   The entries for China and India are in Billions. You need consistent units. Do not round to whole numbers, give background links. I used to respect WorldBank data, but your Internet people apparently are not trained in statistical
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What to do if you need to look 500 or 5000 years back to understand African roots

Richard K Collins All knowledge, All Languages, DNA Genealogy August 15, 2024

Debra, I read your message again. Yes join the group on GedMatch and learn what it can do.  But it is only about 2 Million Tests, so do not expect magic solutions. Ancestry DNA Painter https://support.ancestry.com/s/article/Chromosome-Painter?language=en_US DNA Painter Example on DNAPainter.com https://dnapainter.com/example Adding 23andMe Data to DNA Painter  https://www.familysearch.org/to/rootstech/session/adding-23andme-data-to-dna-painter Ancestry Pro Tools matches of matches:
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Solar observing, Newtons Rings – artifacts of narrow band filtering, use it for good not evil

Richard K Collins All Sky Cameras, Collaborative Global Model of the Sun, Solar Observing, Visualizations Simulations August 14, 2024

Drexel Glasgow posted images 14 Aug 2024 on Facebook with title “With the Altair GPCAM 130M. Plenty newton rings” Kirtsunegari posted in StarGazersLounge some animated gifs showing what you likely see when you look at live data, and what the software has to guess at when trying to separate the “really on the sun” things
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Yes, David, Internet search is highly biased and controlled by a few. It can be better

Richard K Collins All knowledge, All Languages, Internet Best Practices, Internet efficiency August 13, 2024

David Ho @_david_ho_ Anyone else notice that search doesn’t really work anymore? It used to be great. https://pic.x.com/8ip2boegma Replying to @_david_ho_ In the 26 years of the Internet Foundation, I have seen the Internet as a whole get worse. The terms I mostly use for myself are like “co-opted”, “fiddled” “manipulated”, “gamed”, “biased”. True random
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