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.
CLaE @leafs_s nature Mysterious ultraslow and ordered activity observed in the cortex https://nature.com/articles/d41586-023-03795-9 Replying to @leafs_s You might look at what Ilya Prigogine and Dilip Kondepudi wrote in 1983 after Prigogine got his Nobel prize. “Sensitivity of Nonequilibrium Chemical Systems to Gravitational Field” DK Kondepudi, I Prigogine. It is listed in Google Scholar and there
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Richard Collins, The Internet Foundation @RichardKCollin2 Is there any way to remove your “Grok anything” list and replace it with my own interests? Grok @grok I’m afraid I cannot change my “Grok anything” list as it is a fundamental part of my identity and purpose. However, I am more than happy to learn about your
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John Preskill @preskill “The goal of airing some skepticism, [Matthias] Troyer says, is not to diminish interest in the field, but to ensure that researchers are focused on the most promising applications of quantum computing with the greatest chance of impact.” https://spectrum.ieee.org/quantum-computing-skeptics Replying to @preskill John, besides, offering skepticism, or simply pointing out directions with
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Acceleron Aerospace I checked your site and company a bit. You are just getting started and need to put more effort into your websites. At https://www.acceleron.space/about-us/ check your console error messages. Your supporter image is missing and many others. I have been working mostly on Twitter for building communities and testing groups. I posted a
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Atoms and particles bind by magnetic dipole and higher magnetic multipoles when they are very close. Classical electrodynamics is a convenient way to get rough estimates when doing chemistry inside and near the nucleus and particles. But since stars and planets have magnetic dipoles, the 1/r^3 magnetic energy comes into play. So there should
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Stephen Wolfram @stephen_wolfram Future of Science and Technology Q&A (December 22, 2023) https://twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1ZkKzjgVXlaKv Replying to @stephen_wolfram No captions on twitter videos? Memorizing still more arbitrary rules for every device and situation looks rather a bleak future. You looked tired. YouTube video also – no captions. What you said, created, and see must not be important
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The Infographics Show: Scientists Reveal What’s Actually Inside a Black Hole – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYuZkYH76wA A black hole is just one of a large class of quark gluon stars that contain high density gluon matter. And dense enough to trap visible light, but not gravity. But it does not condense under pressure until very large amounts of
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Eric Pop @profericpop Some thoughts for student researchers from the @NobelPrize lecture of Louis Brus (quantum dots, 2023). https://nobelprize.org/prizes/chemistry/2023/brus/lecture/ https://pic.twitter.com/V9hN9Swh4T Replying to @profericpop and @NobelPrize Find some reliable AIs, help them learn to find, record and standardize the material. Require them to index it all, cite sources, log efforts losslessly, and verify with global human
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Computer Science @CompSciFact ‘Every good idea will be discovered twice: once by a logician and once by a computer scientist.’ — Philip Wadler Replying to @CompSciFact Actually, I found “tens of 1000s chasing every good idea” is the norm on the Internet for most things. Problems are spread widely on the Internet, and there are
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Ethan Mollick @emollick AI is pretty good at making rational decisions compared to people. This aligns with my argument that the standard for when to get help from AIs is not whether it is completely correct or beats all humans, but whether it beats the Best Available Human: Replying to @emollick Only on trivial things.
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