Author: Richard K Collins
The Internet Foundation
Internet policies, global issues, global open lossless data, global open collaboration
Jeanin, Thank you so much for you patience and persistence in solving that immediate problem with the mixed up name, email addresses, and ancestry names. You fixed my invitations, and I hope your clear analysis and description will help the programmers to improve things for everyone. My suggestion is (1) add a column for the
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Hello, I was updating my notes on “great green wall”, “desertification”, “reforestation” and came across https://www.reforestationhub.org/ It says it is a project of the Nature Conservancy, but no links back to that context, who is involved. Your icons at the bottom (should be at the top) for Nature Conservancy, American Forests are just pictures, they
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Find how what NIH has on its site regarding a specific topic site:NIH.gov has 58.9 Million entry points (Google, 15 Oct 2021) and it is not indexed and organized as a whole. Just checking overall efficiency. The people who post materials on the site are trying to do a good job. Look at the whole
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“spinal cord injury” has 18 Million entry points (15 Oct 2021, Google) Can you make a short video? Put it on YouTube and add Patreon? That would reach the largest audience globally, and it is fairly stable. You can make videos about the issue in Bangladesh and globally, about the impact on the family. Tell
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Richard K Collins
Collaborative Model and Data,
Global Climate Change,
Intelligent Algorithms,
Machine Vision,
Open Algorithm Development,
Plasma,
Process Monitoring and Control,
Schools, Universities, Learning and Working,
Solar System Colonization,
Visualizations Simulations
October 14, 2021
I have had deserts on my mind a lot over the last few decades. All during the 1980’s I worked on populations forecasts and issues in Africa, then the Famine Early Warning Systems (FEWS.net), then global climate change. I sort of keep up with any efforts to turn those vast areas into something more suitable
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2021 MIPI DevCon Demo: Silvaco at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4eSrVKN–M Add links to resources in the video description. Including links to the authors and groups. The more comments and discussion, the more views are likely. Make these YouTube nodes living parts of your global efforts on I3C and MIPI. Not just things stuck on the Internet. Make evaluation
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David, The lens is usually a fisheye or other lens with 1X magnification. You have to add it to a microscope meant for a human eyeball. A decent microscope is expensive and odd shaped for humans, so it does not fit in an industrial or lab or security environment. What I want is a 10x
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Ion Engine 2.0 at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSt1-JsDyGs (“electric wind” OR “ionic wind”) has 574,000 entry points (Google, 9 Oct 2021) (“electric wind” OR “ionic wind”) site:arxiv.org has 310 entry points (“electric wind” OR “ionic wind”) site:youtube.com has 141,000 entry points And they are not all working together globally. Richard Collins, Director, The Internet Foundation
Floating under a levitating liquid at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bodsuTucSxQ and https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2643-8 (for pay, just for reference) This is not science and sharing, but what I have come to call “eye candy”. Pretty pictures and people playing with phenomena, but not showing the context and background. You start with showing the whole of the apparatus, explain the parts,
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How to demonstrate convection at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-8PoCwx2de0 The simple materials are good, but you, yourself, did not explain what you were expecting, where the students and demonstrators were supposed to focus their attention. You said (don’t use purple shirt) and for this short video, why did you not go change your shirt and record it again? Or,
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