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.
Archer.com Adam Goldstein, I saw your ad on Twitter (now X) promoting Archer. I read some of the website, but had to ask Google Bard for specifications on your craft and battery and motors. Your site is too glossy for me. Now people who might want to use VTOL are likely to be efficiency minded.
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#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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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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Dear Readers, I have had some really interesting conversations with Open Chat GPT PLUS 4.0. This was NOT one of them, until the end when I got to the reason I asked about the power required to produce a flow velocity. I tried to talk to OpenAI ChatGPT 4 about a simple physics problem but
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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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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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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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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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@xai Please hire women, and people who live in the real world. Design systems to “Understand the Universe”? With people so tightly bunched and narrowly educated? 8 Billion humans is 253.51 years at 1 second each. The real universe, the real human species, needs real AI companies. @JoyHeYueya @xai @elonmusk The XAI team is all
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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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