https://x.com/keenanisalive/status/1866251675440460234 Many fairly random and chaotic looking things are often nothing surprising at all. Take any sequence and count unique values, the probability distribution ( as counts) tells you how many unique tokens are needed to store it losslessly. A log function fits for estimation, but so does the tail of a Poisson or normal
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A rule that “data containers” and systems must credit and bidirectionally link the original developers. Edward Mehr, Thank you for sharing your experiences and insights. Process and control systems optimization is critical to efficient global and heliospheric industries. When the methods are not refined and shared, individual groups might benefit, but reduce the potential of
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Why go to Mars to find a desert to green? Copycats are fairly common on the Internet, not just videos, but articles, products, groups, ideas. Identifying groups and individuals is difficult. Verifying ownership of sites often impossible. It it not easy to enforce now, and with hundreds of millions of domains one size will not
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I talked with OpenAI ChatGPT about the early universe. We are talking about Z=22 Richard Collins: Now if the early universe were dense it would form stars and black holes faster. With faster rates of accretion, it might well have fast creation of more black holes, more collisions and mergers of black holes. Also, if
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Issues in using AIs for “meningitis” and other exact terms on the Internet Richard Collins: What are the routes of infection for meningitis? Separate fungal, bacterial and viral. How good can diagnoses be if done by AIs with good tools and tests? The checklists with probabilities that are done by traditional databases and statistical frequencies
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Respectful, Responsible Humans and AIs: A New Approach to Handling Public Social Media Inputs I notice many X accounts of government agencies, cities, countries, large corporations, public entities, famous people, and groups say “This account is not monitored 24/7.” With the tools we have today, this doesn’t need to be the case. AI
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Ultimately you have to change the shape and size of the pixel and voxel sensors. Even make them movable. Jaggies happen during capture and display, too rigid and exact grids are often counter productive. Event driven cameras seem to show sparse sensor arrays sometimes are much better. Just because cameras are cheap does not mean
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I am looking at solar flows , with chemical and isotopic compositions, densities and mass. I do not have a telescope but I wanted to share what I am doing with Helioviewer, aiming to add some features perhaps. If you are far ahead, please have patience. This is SDO AIA 171 with 15 minute running
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Yuntian Deng @yuntiandeng Interesting analysis by @NZZTech on WildChat, focusing on German-language conversations! They found that most German-language users treat ChatGPT like a search engine, with 45% of queries seeking concrete information. Grateful to see our work featured! x.com/NZZTech/status… NZZ Technologie @NZZTech Nov 29 Seit zwei Jahren gibt es Chat-GPT. Nun liefert ein Datensatz Einblick
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Conclusion: A World That Remembers Richard Collins: For things like Medicare health and drug plans it seems the confusion and complexity of the current system benefits the insurance companies, not the users. I see 70 plans offered and no tools to compare them. Just a long list of vague terms and no independent verification or
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