Category: All knowledge

Most species in the Universe might be fabricated, not natural, and live for Millions of years

Watching “Are We Alone?” at https://youtu.be/c53yK1MJOY, I thought (Most species in the Universe might be fabricated, not natural, and live for Millions of years)  If fabricated lifeforms are the dominant species, even from organic precursor species – once formed they can spread for billions of years. Have unique memories and existence for millions/ billions of
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Cheaper by the Dozen, compiling the Internet, the value of global collaboration

Continuing my analysis of the paper at https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ad31a1   I have been treating it as a blob of text and links. The 5+ Billion humans using the internet can find it with their browsers, but it is not easily absorbed as a piece of knowledge. There are different versions – the HTML+images at that URL.
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Compiling and resolving dependencies for all pages on the Internet

Richard Collins: Can you tell me details of the Atacama Total Power Array? It seems to be four (12 meter) radio telescopes. Is any of the data available from the Total Power Array available? I am reading “Discovery of an Accretion Streamer and a Slow Wide-angle Outflow around FU Orionis” at https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ad31a1 and want to
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Coding knowledge to “Standard Internet” can save years each for billions of learners

I spent much of the day tracing out software used by the Fu Ori teams mentioned in https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ad31a1. It is badly organized by my lights (My first full time job was “scientific programmer” for satellite orbit determination in 1970) and I spent much of the last 26 years every day looking at ways to simplify
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Give Grok a public icon, force the Grok Team on X to be open and responsible

Dulwich Quantum Computing @DulwichQuantum BREAKING: Travelling salesman problem is in BQP! * We all trust IACR preprints these days. https://eprint.iacr.org/2024/626 Replying to @DulwichQuantum Give Grok an icon so its postings are clearly and immediately identified. Make the humans behind the green curtain (Wizard of Oz) an identifiable “Grok Team” where they can get credit and recognition
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