Category: All Global Open Devices

Mathematics is still run by people who only work on paper, in their groups, for themselves

Richard K Collins All Global Open Devices, All knowledge, All Languages, Internet Best Practices, Schools, Universities, Learning and Working August 29, 2024

Baran Hashemi @Rythian47 How can we teach Transformers to learn and model Enumerative geometry? How deep can AI go in the rabbit hole of understanding complex mathematical concepts? We’ve developed a new approach using Transformers to compute psi-class intersection numbers in algebraic geometry. https://pic.x.com/xkkjgh1bke Replying to @Rythian47 Enumerative geometry is not “all mathematics”. On the
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100s of millions of heat deaths, 100s of trillions in economic losses, and the frog begins to twitch

Richard K Collins All Global Open Devices, All knowledge, All Languages August 28, 2024

John Lindsey @PGE_John Our son Sean has been stationed with the U.S. Navy in Bahrain in the Persian Gulf. He mentioned that the humid heat there is almost indescribable, with dew points reaching the 90s. In other words, sweat doesn’t evaporate, making it nearly impossible for the body to cool down. x.com/US_Stormwatch/… Colin McCarthy @US_Stormwatch
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Where does Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology fit into global human knowledge?

Richard K Collins All Global Open Devices, All knowledge, All Languages, Internet Best Practices, Internet efficiency August 28, 2024

https://x.com/taejunkim_13/status/1828425787583930607 Taejun Kim, I thought you were asking for approaches to time management and setting priorities. Your question showed up on my time line. Probably because of things I write, work on, or follow. I turned 75 this year, and it seems like a time to set priorities and review. We only get a
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Work hard, at a sustainable pace, where you remember as much as possible, and what it means

Richard K Collins All Global Open Devices, All knowledge, All Languages August 27, 2024

Taejun Kim @taejunkim_13 Hey HCI community, Is there anyone who set their own limits, like hours you spend in a day when running user studies? (e.g. keeping it under 7-8 hours to avoid burnout) If you got any personal rules that you’ve been following, I wanna know! Replying to @taejunkim_13 I have worked alone every
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Symplectic, Simplectic takes a lot more work than its “simple” suggests

Richard K Collins All Global Open Devices, All knowledge, All Languages August 27, 2024

Frank Nielsen @FrnkNlsn Nice thread Jonathan Gorard @getjonwithit In physics, one often thinks of space and time as being fundamental, pre-existing concepts, and proceeds to define everything else (energy, momentum, forces, etc.) in terms of them. But it doesn’t need to be so – symplectic geometry shows us how to go the other way. (1/16)
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Pick hard problems, because problems that last your whole life, you are not continuously starting and stopping

Richard K Collins All Global Open Devices, All knowledge, All Languages August 27, 2024

You only need to look at the things you have not already mastered. I took a speed reading test one time in high school, and read at something like 50,000 words a minute. It was a book on robotics and I only had to glance at pages to see they did nothing new. I
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Electrospray and laser assisted “fabrics” and “strings” can be made – up to atomic and nuclear bond energies

Richard K Collins All Global Open Devices, All knowledge, All Languages, Atomic Fuels, Extended atomic and nuclear materials, Internet efficiency August 27, 2024

Chan Zuckerberg Initiative @ChanZuckerberg Imaging researcher @edithsandstroem + team captured this image in under 12 minutes—the same image generated with the current standard of mass spectrometers would take more than 3 days! https://pic.x.com/wu9fcipfnr Replying to @ChanZuckerberg and @edithsandstroem The electrospray Taylor cone approach for surface tension (surface energy) might well be applied to carbon, boron,
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Bangladesh needs many things for everyone, before quantum toys for a few

Richard K Collins All Global Open Devices, All knowledge, All Languages August 26, 2024

Preschool Lecture on Quantum Mechanics – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jeNobtjRPr0 This is the wrong way to teach quantum technologies, for Bangladesh that has many needs before playing with technologies that require specialized resources only available at high price from other places. You need to start with what you want to do, and then find the best tools and
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Never give up, never surrender

Richard K Collins All Global Open Devices, All knowledge, All Languages August 26, 2024

@Hamptonism Multi-Layer Perceptron (MLP) by hand https://pic.x.com/9sji7rd0fv Replying to @Hamptonism I did it that way in high school in 1966, but I had to extend the diagram properties, and the diagrams were also circuit specifications. A thousand hours on a problem, worked out “by hand” instills a kind of brain “muscle memory” and experience that
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“Plant the deserts?”, see what would happen, in detail

Richard K Collins All Global Open Devices, All knowledge, All Languages, Visualizations Simulations August 26, 2024

Peter D Carter @PCarterClimate IPCC AR6 MITIGATION: 1.5C TOO LATE 2C IMMEDIATE DECLINE AR6 projections confirms 1.5C too late & 2°C requires immediate global emissions decline. 2°C planet catastrophe. For your Kid’s sake End Fossil Fuel Subsidies https://ipcc.ch/report/ar6/syr/figures/summary-for-policymakers/figure-spm-5/ #CO2 #climatechange #globalwarming https://pic.x.com/fxzu0iwxos Replying to @PCarterClimate I am fairly certain that if all the deserts are
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