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.

A concept rattling around in human brains might influence, but rarely does anything directly

THE AUGUSTE LAURENT SOCIETY @JorgeJi83882694 As far as Im concerned dialectical phenomenology, which is to say the nature of experience, knowledge, and communication, at the highest & lowest planes of abstraction & their interfaces, is the only subject that matters right now. Feels like we are going to lose Science for good https://pic.twitter.com/PiH37IeCel Replying to
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“LLM wrapper programs” cannot do perfect mathematics” unless they use exact compiled algorithms

If you are doing it, then calculate the cost for just over 5 Billion humans using the Internet to have access to ALL mathematics. And you should quickly find that LLM statistical indexing in grossly inefficient, at that scale, compared to storing symbolic mathematics, its operations, and very very precise answers as data. ChatGPT always
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ResearchGate seems to have no archives or way for members to work together

At https://www.researchgate.net/profile/H-Neidig you have a few paper by H A Neidig.  His full name is Howard Anthony Neidig.  If you search for him https://www.google.com/search?q=Howard+Anthony+(Tony)+Neidig you find he attended Lebanon Valley College in Pennsylvania and was an early advocate for the Chemical Bond Approach effort that seems to have been stimulated by John F Kennedy’s “moon
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Why did I work on certain problems all my life? The Chemical Bond Approach, Passion Without Guidance

Passion Without Guidance. My first year of high school was 1963/64 at Eau Gallie High School just across the bay from Cape Canaveral where my Dad was working. Kennedy gave his moon speech at Rice University on 12 Sep 1962. Within a few months, my Dad left his old job in Texas and moved our
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