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Waves and currents Data, Global Open Efficiency Prizes

Richard K Collins Assistive Technologies, Efficiency Prizes, Internet efficiency March 18, 2024

Amin Chabchoub @DrAminChabchoub Our new Geophysical Research Letters #AGUpubs @theAGU work led by @YanLi_PhD elaborates also on the connection between extremely large ocean waves and Langmuir circulation dynamics . Enjoy the read! 🤓 https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/2023GL107381 https://pic.twitter.com/lrvc3ZsLjW Replying to @DrAminChabchoub @theAGU and @YanLi_PhDIt seems you need better ways to image, record and model these flows at all
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Mixture of Experts

Richard K Collins Assistive Technologies March 17, 2024

Omar Sanseviero @osanseviero Grok weights are out. Download them quickly at https://huggingface.co/xai-org/grok-1 huggingface-cli download xai-org/grok-1 –repo-type model –include ckpt/tensor* –local-dir checkpoints/ckpt-0 –local-dir-use-symlinks False Learn about mixture of experts at https://hf.co/blog/moe Replying to @osanseviero It seems there is a conflict between saying “Grok-1 open-weights model” and “Due to the large size of the model (314B parameters),
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Keep learning streams complex enough to avoid boring the learning algorithms

Richard K Collins Assistive Technologies March 17, 2024

Alpha Alimamy Kamara @alpha_alimamy Graph Neural Networks as gradient flows by @mmbronstein in @TDataScience https://towardsdatascience.com/graph-neural-networks-as-gradient-flows-4dae41fb2e8a?source=social.tw Replying to @alpha_alimamy @mmbronstein and @TDataScience If you expose your neural nets to continuously increasingly complex streams, it will not get bored and fall into simple patterns. It is not the algorithm that gets lazy, it is the input that
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To be universal, some things need to be independent of the simulation playback rate.

Richard K Collins Assistive Technologies March 17, 2024

Laboratory for Social Minds @LaboratoryMinds  How does, like, information, flow in conversation? How do, uh, speakers and listeners, like, cope? We use LLMs and CANDOR to measure the information rate of human speech (just 13 bits/second!), and how disfluencies and backchannels help us manage it. https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.08890 Replying to @LaboratoryMinds Then you should be able to
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Universal Positioning System can use gravitational electromagnetic 3D volumetric recordings

Richard K Collins All Sky Cameras, Electromagnetic Gravitational Field March 16, 2024

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/international-journal-of-astrobiology/article/pulsar-positioning-system-a-quest-for-evidence-of-extraterrestrial-engineering/E4CCF6D8F46B4B64F7AB99972C30903E Found this paper looking at neutron/quark/gluon star interiors and gravitational waves. But the idea that civilizations might be detected by their use of unique signatures embedded in their communication struck me as useful. “Earth’s sun” is not a sequence of text characters but a unique all possible frequencies large data signature of the mass
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Maritime wars might need AI assisted, whole battlefield and near field, 3D real time imaging, and distributed multispectral arrays.

Richard K Collins 3D Scannning Replication, Assistive Technologies March 16, 2024

Anders Puck Nielsen: Why are maritime drones so hard to beat? at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QX68_FZl8UE Thanks for explaining why active electromagnetic radar based systems are so vulnerable. There are many passive, time of flight, correlating imaging array methods now. That is a mouthful, but an emerging set of complementary technologies that might one day give your people
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Automating design and fabrication of tools for specific kinds of 3D expression

Richard K Collins 3D Scannning Replication, Assistive Technologies March 16, 2024

Thomas Sandladerer: Made with Layers: I bought the cheapest 3D printer on AliExpress! at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ikjOEaPY6Rk I was amazed you got it assembled and working. Getting rid of the screen is a good idea, and they are closer to essential operating steps. If you got some wood or aluminum you could hot glue some rigidity. It
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Famine is fixable. So is climate change. It needs an open, fair world or no one will have an incentive to help

Richard K Collins Assistive Technologies March 15, 2024

PNASNews @PNASNews  As temperatures rise, which regions will experience the most severe effects of #drought, #flood, and stifling #heat? Explore these #interactive global maps for insightful projections: https://ow.ly/gBtM50QTvOi #wetbulb #ParisAgrement #IPCC #ImpactAttribution #ClimateChange https://pic.twitter.com/ZwjvzK7nwM Replying to @PNASNews Suggest you work out the economic value to local people and to the global economy of greening all
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OnSemi and others who are part of ( “machine vision” OR “machine learning” )

Richard K Collins All Sky Cameras, Collaborative Model and Data, Internet efficiency March 13, 2024

https://www.onsemi.com I was just looking for a datasheet for the AR0522. I was on Digikey looking to buy it, and their “datasheet” is only a summary. I wanted something that shows pins, interfaces and register level programming. I am looking at education on the Internet at all levels. One area where advances seem to be
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