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.

Moving Symbol sets, global open methods

Eric Brachmann @eric_brachmann Map-relative Pose Regression CVPR2024 highlight) For years absolute pose regression did not work. There was some success by massively synthesising scene-specific data. We train scene-agnostic APR and it works. Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.09884 Page: https://nianticlabs.github.io/marepo https://pic.twitter.com/uLNMFMQ42L Replying to @eric_brachmann There ought to be a concise moving symbol set to describe precisely this algorithm, not
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File your ideas where they belong in the digital twin of the future. The Internet is a map of the past, present and future.

Internet Foundation Suggestion: File your future policy suggestions with emerging digital twins on the Internet. If you are working in vacuum processing and worried about pollution of the vacuum in new cities on the Moon or orbit, do NOT stuff your ideas in impossible-to-find folders and documents. Link them now directly to the emerging industries.
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Languages used on the Internet, Translations of books, stories, sites, videos as derived works – globally

Project Gutenburg at – https://www.gutenberg.org/about/contact_information.html Codes for the Representation of Names of Languages https://www.loc.gov/standards/iso639-2/php/code_list.phpList of ISO 639 language codes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ISO_639_language_codeshttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_used_on_the_Internet https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_used_on_the_Internet#Internet_users_by_language https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_used_on_the_Internet#Wikipedia_page_views_by_language ============= Richard: Are translations of books and videos “derived works”? Bing CoPilot: Yes, translations of books and videos are considered “derived works” according to U.S. copyright law. A derived work is one that
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Richard Talks to Grok about Libraries, gathering and making knowledge accessible to all humans on the Internet

https://twitter.com/RichardKCollin2/status/1778701348516544845 Richard Collins, The Internet Foundation @RichardKCollin2 There needs to be an open library officially dedicated to the Internet. xAI Grok: There isn’t a single official open library dedicated solely to the Internet. However, the closest equivalent that encompasses the spirit of an open library dedicated to the Internet is the Internet Archive. It is
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Internet Global Open Resources, Global Open Tokens

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mnCmvxt2jn8 I try to read and review internet content of all kinds. When I see people wasting time, it bothers me. When millions of people waste time it is bad. When billions waste years each, a catastrophe. The properties of air and electrical circuits are well known. Air is about 2.5 Kilogram/Meter^3 and molar mass
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Peter Higgs Boson – for heliospheric industrial applications

Robert Garisto @RobertGaristo  Here is text and equation (2b) where Peter Higgs described his boson in his 1964 @PhysRevLett (free to read) https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.13.508 https://pic.twitter.com/v8oZ2BBy9j Replying to @RobertGaristo and @PhysRevLett This would have been much more useful it if was available to me in 1966. And now, in symbolic math format, rather than pixels on the
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The future of India, the future of the human species

How Indian Software Engineer Industry is Changing at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ixbg3QKNs0o In order to have “solar system colonization” and a heliospheric economy, many problems need to be solved. All new industries, all new kinds of jobs. Richard Collins, The Internet Foundation There are about 8.1 Billion humans now, and 2 Billion from 4-24 that I call “first time
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Permuting species and “If Einstein had never been born”

https://communities.springernature.com/posts/permuting-species-reveals-their-hidden-rankings Comment: (If Einstein were not born): They say generalist species are more important. But in fact parallel developing specialists and individuals can far outnumber and have more influence than large nodes with many links. I track these “bubbling up” topics on the Internet and try to find and encourage them to form new global
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Global Open Networks, Global Software Networks, Global Data Networks, all Data Networks, all Software Networks

https://twitter.com/RichardKCollin2/status/1776841580508315666 @elonmusk “Global Software Networks” – Lossless, efficient, reliable, sustainable, accessible, auditable, traceable, trustworthy, above reproach, open, #GlobalOpenNetworks #GlobalSoftwareNetorks  “Global Data Networks”- Lossless, efficient, reliable, sustainable, accessible, auditable, traceable, trustworthy, above reproach, open, #GlobalOpenNetworks #GlobalDataNetorks   If it is not Lossless, efficient, reliable, sustainable, accessible, auditable, traceable, trustworthy, above reproach, open, – it will not
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