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.
Jon Barron @jon_barron Love this idea, here’s my pitch. https://pic.twitter.com/4Y2hgpnSQ0 x.com/sporadicalia/s… spor @sporadicalia look, all i’m saying is that SF and the Bay Area would be so much cooler if someone built a Statue of Colossus on Alcatraz, with one of these bad boys, SF goes from our #2 city behind NYC, to #1 in America
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Osvaldo Contreras @osvaldoics In Sydney, 🇦🇺 prices range around $40,000-45,000 AUD a year. Without child support for new immigrants, the situation is not far worse The cost is prohibitive in many ways. x.com/frankiedheywar… Frankie D Heyward, Ph.D. @FrankieDHeyward A postdoc with a newborn just told me daycare in Boston is ~$30,000/year 🤯 Despite having dual
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Eric Jang @ericjang11 relatable x.com/liz_love_lace/… Liz Lovelace! @liz_love_lace very correct take, developers take note https://pic.twitter.com/vc7jIqa1wR Replying to @ericjang11 Only about 1 in 10,000 of the roughly 5 billion humans using the Internet strives to be software developers. “Open” developer sites are some of the worst run and least focused sites on the Internet, after edu
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Jeffrey Mold @Jeff_Mold We need more people studying p63… https://biomarkerres.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s40364-021-00260-5 Replying to @Jeff_Mold Happy to put some of my AIs on it, but with their certifications and training, they charge $35,000 per human equivalent work year. You can get a cost break if they run 24/7 off an open shared cluster and have rights to
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Mel_Goodale @action_brain Photo taken by my daughter from the window of the cottage at Lake of Bays on this snowy February afternoon. The snow squall has just passed through. https://pic.twitter.com/RKqGvvCLpP Replying to @action_brain Is her name Sora? Your daughter’s work is much more natural, and pleasing. Probably not. Enjoy the snow and take time with
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CLaE @leafs_s THE MIT PRESS How We Sort the World: Gregory Murphy on the Psychology of Categories “Every category is a simplification to some degree; it throws away information about the thing.” https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/how-we-sort-the-world-gregory-murphy-on-the-psychology-of-categories/ Replying to @leafs_s Lossless categorization is called perfect memory. Extremely efficient and can be re-run in the future because you did not throw
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Emily Waltz @EmWaltz The world’s first commercial-scale ethanol-to-jet fuel plant has begun producing its first gallons of aviation fuel. The plant is part of a larger scheme to eventually make jet fuel from microbes. @NatureBiotech @LanzaTech @LanzaJet https://nature.com/articles/s41587-024-02136-z Replying to @EmWaltz @NatureBiotech and 2 others Dear Nature, Serious global issues require serious global effort by
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Francesco Pasqualini @fspasqualini We can now directly “see” the central dogma of biology! For all the negativity around Academia on Social Media, this type of thing can only be done by dedicated basic science researchers! Congrats @tim_stasevich and team! x.com/tim_stasevich/… Timothy @tim_stasevich A dream of our lab has been to image the full central dogma
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Michael Hahn @mhahn29 Why is human perception systematically biased? In joint @NatureNeuro work with @weixx2 , we provide a unified theory of perceptual biases. OA link: https://rdcu.be/dyHzf journal page: https://nature.com/articles/s41593-024-01574-x Replying to @mhahn29 @NatureNeuro and @weixx2 For human survival, efficiency, and competitive advantage. My lifetime recorded experiences, hard self-training, instantly eliminate the useless and extraneous.
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Dan Roy @roydanroy Amazing news for researchers working on hallucinations. x.com/mlittmancs/sta… Michael Littman @mlittmancs Airline installs chatbot. Customer gets bad information from it. Customer asks for refund. Airline says “the chatbot is a separate legal entity that is responsible for its own actions” (!). Court says no. (Whew.) Airline makes refund and turns off chatbot.
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