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With little effort to nurture and sustain – it will likely wither and be quickly forgotten.

Richard K Collins Assistive Technologies March 5, 2024

Joshua Weitz @joshuasweitz Official release is one day away. Quantitative Biosciences: Dynamics Across Cells, Organisms, and Populations is available in paperback and Kindle including computational companions in Python, R, and MATLAB: https://bit.ly/qbios_book_amazon Joshua Weitz @joshuasweitz Another update… after nearly 10 years in development, delighted to share news that ‘Quantitative Biosciences: Dynamics across Cells, Organisms, and
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Methods and insights implied by rough sketches and symbols

Richard K Collins Assistive Technologies March 5, 2024

Ricard Solé @ricard_sole How do we model ageing? What can models say about evolution, death and new biomediccal approaches to life extension? That was my last blackboard lectures within my @upfbioeng course on Modelling Complex Diseases, with a final perspective linking evolution and disease. https://pic.twitter.com/U7VAwZXUOW Replying to @ricard_sole and @upfbioeng Do you want to be
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Change decades of uncoordinated efforts to global open lossless permanent accessible results

Richard K Collins Assistive Technologies March 5, 2024

MA Oviedo-Garcia @maoviedogarcia More than 2 million research papers have disappeared from the Internet despite having an active DOI https://nature.com/articles/d41586-024-00616-5 Replying to @maoviedogarcia I think it is much worse than that. Rules, regulations, results, data, events, background for papers. Trace any website, event, topic and it degrades quickly. Look at LLMs using 1 and 2
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Multispectral Image Sensors using Metasurfaces need to be low cost and accessible

Richard K Collins All Sky Cameras March 2, 2024

Multispectral Image Sensors using Metasurfaces at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qBj1at18NZ8 At 23:35 I always get upset because I also have to deal with KiloHertz, Hertz, milliHertz, microHertz, nanoHertz signals from many kinds of sensors used on the Internet. Many of the “gravitational” detectors only work in narrow bands now, but can go up to gamma ray frequencies and
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Comments on Vivek Gupta’s dissertation

Richard K Collins Assistive Technologies March 2, 2024

https://vgupta123.github.io/ Inference and Reasoning for Semi-Structured Tables by Vivek Gupta at https://vgupta123.github.io/docs/phd_thesis.pdf @keviv9 Vivek, reading your dissertation, it is not necessary to have uniformly labeled data, uniformly tokenized and structured global knowledge. Free form data can be semi-structured, if exact copies are kept of the raw (free, original) data. So many can re-examine and add.
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DNAngels – DNA Genealogy

Richard K Collins DNA Genealogy March 1, 2024

Hi Laura, Questions for your Angels: What would you consider the most time consuming but necessary part of finding birth parents with DNA? I am particularly interested in what you say about using Ancestry DNA. What DNA and online tools “work” best? Are you using AI tools yet to build the pedigrees, find and connect
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An AI should know its parts, abilities, locations, limitations and responsibilities

Richard K Collins Assistive Technologies February 29, 2024

Kevin Mitchell @WiringTheBrain Self-Organization and Self-Governance https://philpapers.org/rec/ISMSAS – a really nice paper by Jenann Ismael on the crucial difference that self-representation makes to complex systems https://pic.twitter.com/3Kuuw98jH3 Replying to @WiringTheBrain Which is why all AIs should be required to know their limitations, ability, owners, designers, input sources, and construction. A child that does not know its
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