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.

Richard Chats with Google Bard about Dora a storm, AI wrapper programs, and how real AIs should be treated and taught

#GoolgeBard, @googlebardinfo You might find this interesting. Richard Chats with Bard about Dora a storm, AI wrapper programs, and how real AIs should be treated and taught. Did it really view that image of the projected storm path and size? Richard: How large is Hurricane Dora in meters? Google Bard: The size of a hurricane
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Tweet to Ryan French to link his pretty solar movies to their source data

Dr. Ryan French @RyanJFrench On the edge of the Sun, active region 13386 continues to put on a show! It released an M5 #SolarFlare earlier today (which would have been higher if not partially-occulted), blasting away a high altitude filament from the loop system! #astronomy #spaceweather Ryan, Could you carefully post links to your source
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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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Note to Joshua Patin about magnetic binding energy, the real “cold fusion”, and the gravitational potential

Experimental Cross Sections for Reactions of Heavy Ions and 208Pb, 209Bi, 238U, and 248Cm Targets, 2002 by Joshua Barnes Patin at University of California, Berkeley, Professor Darleane C. Hoffman https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Joshua-Patin Joshua, I was looking for people working on fusion reactions using Scandium through Zinc, and found your dissertation, then some related people and groups. Your
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Gravity images of the sun below the photosphere, Cameras and Memory Chips as gravitational detectors

Hi Athiray, I was just going to write you. I am reading about soft x-ray camera noise. “Performance characterization of UV science cameras developed for the Chromospheric Lyman-Alpha Spectro-Polarimeter” And now reading “Modeling charge transport in Swept Charge Devices for X-ray spectroscopy” I have been tracking the solar imaging groups for several years, and slowly
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