Month: October 2024

Synchronizing images of the sun and other things, with many independent observers

How do I match up your image with ones from public sources? Here is a GONG H-alpha from Cerro Tololo (CHL) for 2024-10-25 13:38:42Z. Is is possible to match images from different places on earth and compare them? https://gong2.nso.edu/HA/hag/202410/20241025/20241025133842Ch.jpg Here is the page I found by searching “live H alpha images of the sun”. Looking
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Nodes provide global open formats serving humans and AIs; reliable tools adjust to individual goals and needs

https://x.com/RichardKCollin2/status/1849301327886565860 Nodes provide global open formats serving humans and AIs; reliable tools adjust to individual goals and needs Yes that is my recommendation for the future Internet. It is possible, but it requires cooperative encoding of all content on the Internet. That will take about 15 years. The APIs are too narrowly defined and none
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Policies and standards for collaboration on the Internet – DNA Genealogy, sharing and hoarding

https://x.com/RichardKCollin2/status/1848845422498111868 Policies and standards for collaboration on the Internet – DNA Genealogy, sharing and hoarding Someone just asked me to help them with a brick wall. They are not related to me or to any of my DNA matches, or cases. They do not clearly identify themselves, have no age or location, and ALL their
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Sharing Lossless images and videos on the Internet

https://x.com/RichardKCollin2/status/1848782359967002993 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gs8iGuyocCs Sharing Lossless images and videos on the Internet Very expensive hobby, lots of specialized equipment, remote location, communication services, software and time. And no shared raw data or videos. I have always hated ‘astronomers’ who say “look what I can do and you cannot afford”. When I was little I had people who
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Posting a video on X and Facebook from Solar Dynamics Observatory

https://x.com/RichardKCollin2/status/1848297079803871705 https://www.facebook.com/groups/solaractivity https://www.facebook.com/richard.collins.3994/videos/905926050981726?idorvanity=202476246430394 Posting a video on X from Solar Dynamics Observatory Solar Dynamics Observatory AIA Channel at 211 Angstrom which is Fe XIV “Active region corona” (10^6.3 = 1.995 Million Kelvin) from 1 Jan 2024 to 20 Oct 2024, every 100th image at 1024×1024. You can make you own at https://sdo.gsfc.nasa.gov/data/aiahmi/ Channels are described
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All current materials – their systems, industries, markets and impact on humans and related species

https://www.facebook.com/materials.research.society All current materials – their systems, industries, markets and impact on humans and related species Perhaps I missed it, but I did not see any information about all current materials – let alone all their systems, industries, and markets. Richard Collins, The Internet Foundation

The X Grok2 is another shallow toy, not even vaguely resembling a real tool that will last forever

The X Grok2 is another shallow toy, not even vaguely resembling a real tool that will last forever @ElonMusk, I hope your X Grok people read this. But I expect not. In my vision of the future, every AI has effectively infinite memory, so that all things said or seen, done or heard or stored
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The state of “chemistry” on the Internet is atrocious compared to what is possible.

The state of “chemistry” on the Internet is atrocious compared to what is possible. The ACS 3D model at https://www.acs.org/education/resources/undergraduate/chemistryincontext/interactives/nutrition/3d-model-beta-fructose.html seems to be broken today. If ACS posts it, ACS corporate is responsible. @AmerChemSociety   You have a lot of things on your website. ( site:acs.org) shows 21.7 Million entries on GoogleSearch. Having reviewed most
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