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.
@XfinitySupport I had to rest for a while, but did go over my experiences with XFinity in recent days and weeks and years. It is typical of what most large corporations face now – trying to piece together many divisions and workers with a bewildering variety of computers and information systems, rules and automated systems.
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https://cosmosmagazine.com/history/archaeology/oldest-neanderthal-cave-engravings-france/ Cosmos offers newsletters, but still seems to separate the whole world into publishers, authors, readers in a strict hierarchy. The articles are difficult to read, not using explicit references with title, authors and affiliations. Just hyperlinks hidden under fairly generic words like “recent studies”, “published”. The users experience is jarring. Going from Cosmos style
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Give true AIs large mandates, not narrow computer tasks – For the cost of one human position, you can install continuously improving global open resource nodes. Not just change one human’s life, but all 8.1 Billion. Find, gather, verify, curate, summarize, share, connect, predict, test, compare, enable — good computer learning and sharing will impact
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Kaiser Lab @DKaiserlab Our official ad for a PhD position is out. We’re looking for someone conducting fMRI and EEG work on the neural representation of visual beauty / visual preferences. Link: https://uni-giessen.de/karriere/stellenangebote/ausschreibungen/wissenschaftliche-mitarbeiter/369-07-e Kaiser Lab @DKaiserlab We’ll soon advertise a 3-year PhD position on a project that explores the brain processes underlying visual aesthetics using
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SEMI Foundation @semifoundation You can help high school #students, #veterans, and other motivated people find their professional calling through SEMI Foundation programs. Learn more about supporting our work: https://semi.org/en/workforce-development/semi-foundation-donation-page #SEMIFoundation #Semiconductor https://pic.twitter.com/TyRcnijzAH Replying to @semifoundation What is the purpose of the Semi Foundation? What should it be doing? There are about 780 Million humans in
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Jason, This is my first post on this forum.AudacityTeam.Org. I have used Audacity for a few years, and use it most every day to look at statistics in signals of many sorts. My priority is to do things in Javascript, since as Director of the Internet Foundation for 26 years, the only common language available
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@elonmusk You might want to have someone from your brain human interface group check out https://www.semi.org/en/event/femc18-biohybrid-sensing-systems-volatile-organic-compounds Elisabeth Steel is presenting on Biohybrid Sensing Systems for Volatile Organic Compounds. Her LinkedIn is https://www.linkedin.com/in/bioesteel. UES is at @UESIncDayton. They follow things their web person chooses, and do not link to their employees on Twitter(X). That is
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Most content, groups and products on the Internet are not easily verifiable — In 26 years of the Internet Foundation, most papers on the Internet do not provide sufficient information to verify, let alone reproduce and test what is written. The publishers only consider themselves “paper printers”, even when it is in electronic form. I
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(1.5 inch)^3 has units of length^3 Google answered 55.306341 milliliters Rather than treating each word problem separately just do the whole thing, consistently and coordinate with all search engines and sites so it is not “everyone doing their own thing) (1.5*2.54 cm)^3 = 5.5306341E-5 meter^3 — for (1.5 inch)^3 in meter^3 they refer to a
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CERN ought to be a leader in sharing, going out of its way to teach the whole human species, not just a few ten thousands — There are two ways something can be proprietary on the Internet. The whole can exist, but keys to use it are kept so only a few can access it.
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