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.

XFinity, like all organizations now, has a lossy fragmented distributed information system.

@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.
Read More »

Global open resources – discussions, suggestions, links, knowledge – where all share in exploring

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
Read More »

Give AIs large mandates, and not waste them on tiny micromanaged computers tasks

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
Read More »

What is the purpose of the Semi Foundation? What should it be doing?

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
Read More »

Good people are hard to find, mostly their companies have bad global Internet methods

@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
Read More »

All sites do conversions from global open resource, not rely on their few programmers

(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
Read More »