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.

Give AIs large mandates, and not waste them on tiny micromanaged computers tasks

Kaiser Lab @DKaiserlab Our official ad for a PhD position is out. We’re looking for someone conducting fMRI and EEG work on the neural representation of visual beauty / visual preferences. Link: https://uni-giessen.de/karriere/stellenangebote/ausschreibungen/wissenschaftliche-mitarbeiter/369-07-e Kaiser Lab @DKaiserlab We’ll soon advertise a 3-year PhD position on a project that explores the brain processes underlying visual aesthetics using
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What is the purpose of the Semi Foundation? What should it be doing?

SEMI Foundation @semifoundation  You can help high school #students, #veterans, and other motivated people find their professional calling through SEMI Foundation programs. Learn more about supporting our work: https://semi.org/en/workforce-development/semi-foundation-donation-page #SEMIFoundation #Semiconductor https://pic.twitter.com/TyRcnijzAH Replying to @semifoundation What is the purpose of the Semi Foundation? What should it be doing? There are about 780 Million humans in
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Good people are hard to find, mostly their companies have bad global Internet methods

@elonmusk You might want to have someone from your brain human interface group check out https://www.semi.org/en/event/femc18-biohybrid-sensing-systems-volatile-organic-compounds Elisabeth Steel is presenting on Biohybrid Sensing Systems for Volatile Organic Compounds. Her LinkedIn is https://www.linkedin.com/in/bioesteel.   UES is at @UESIncDayton. They follow things their web person chooses, and do not link to their employees on Twitter(X). That is
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All sites do conversions from global open resource, not rely on their few programmers

(1.5 inch)^3 has units of length^3 Google answered 55.306341 milliliters Rather than treating each word problem separately just do the whole thing, consistently and coordinate with all search engines and sites so it is not “everyone doing their own thing) (1.5*2.54 cm)^3 = 5.5306341E-5 meter^3 — for (1.5 inch)^3 in meter^3 they refer to a
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$Million-wise and $100 Trillion foolish – precise field technologies

Ariane Briegel, @BriegelAriane Finally- a book on cryo-electron tomography, written by leading experts! Edited by the one and only @FriedrichForst1 and myself! https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-51171-4 Replying to @BriegelAriane and @FriedrichForst1 Ariane, I am sure you did good work, but I have a few comments about your method of sharing. I hate to see good things locked up
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With Internet simple mistakes or choices now can have global effects

Chenxin Li, PhD (@chenxinli2.bsky.social) @ChenxinLi2 The mustard greens I got this week has strongly thickened stems and leaves that curl to form a ball or head at the apex, similar to that of a cabbage. https://pic.twitter.com/xxOSTmofHV Replying to @ChenxinLi2 —- ISS Bacteria Mutate into Earth-Unseen Pathogens https://twitter.com/i/trending/1787224148013404664   Tools for newbies to make “covid”s with
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