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Category: Internet efficiency

Training Human Perception. The chaotic and fragmented Internet, making it all accessible to all humans

Richard K Collins All Global Open Devices, All knowledge, All Languages, Internet Best Practices, Internet efficiency, Units Dimensions Formats Reference Values September 8, 2024

Cécile Gal @CecileGal Paper out! https://nature.com/articles/s41598-024-59089-1 We show that presenting visual stimuli in random order of visibility impairs humans’ ability to recognise them. Unlike machines, where random presentation of samples helps learning (avoid overfitting), in humans randomness is detrimental. Replying to @CecileGal Training Human Perception. The chaotic and fragmented Internet, making it all accessible to
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“As perfect as possible AIs” are needed, not cheap sales gimmicks

Richard K Collins All Global Open Devices, All knowledge, All Languages, Internet Best Practices, Internet efficiency September 3, 2024

Monica Lewinsky (she/her) @MonicaLewinsky  Doctors use problematic race-based algorithms every day. Why are they so hard to change? – STAT https://apple.news/AbFJCF8d6TPOLH2lF7TGvZQ Replying to @MonicaLewinsky It is a good thing to aim for “attentive, caring, individual, personalized”. It is not the use of methods or writing things down to help guide one self and others. It
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Note I am joking here. Do not take this one seriously

Richard K Collins Efficiency Prizes, Internet efficiency, Schools, Universities, Learning and Working September 2, 2024

Prof. Nikolai Slavov @slavov_n  Yale has more administrators and managers than undergraduate students. https://yaledailynews.com/blog/2021/11/10/reluctance-on-the-part-of-its-leadership-to-lead-yales-administration-increases-by-nearly-50-percent/  Replying to @slavov_n Note that I am joking here. Do not take this seriously:   Your name hints that you are not from the US originally. Please know that you are not supposed to point out such things. Padding staff is
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“To skittle something” could mean “do it right, for everyone, listen and change when needed”

Richard K Collins All knowledge, All Languages, Internet Best Practices, Internet efficiency August 29, 2024

I randomly sample things on the Internet and often trace out business processes to see what companies are doing. Just now I was watching an Australian 60 Minutes about plastic recycling (lack of recycling) and at 6:39 it showed a dirty package of Skittles. I thought, “How hard would it be to send Mars Wrigley
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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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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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Sites cannot force cookies on users and it is bad business. Best to be nice and ask people to join a vibrant community

Richard K Collins Internet Best Practices, Internet efficiency August 19, 2024

Rejecting cookies now costs money. Is this even legal? at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yy_bZhKAUgc The “our way or the highway” has been around for many years. But in recent years, particularly the last year or so, more sites are using cookie challenges that allow “set preferences” with “reject all”. I have been tracking the Internet for the last
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Yes, David, Internet search is highly biased and controlled by a few. It can be better

Richard K Collins All knowledge, All Languages, Internet Best Practices, Internet efficiency August 13, 2024

David Ho @_david_ho_ Anyone else notice that search doesn’t really work anymore? It used to be great. https://pic.x.com/8ip2boegma Replying to @_david_ho_ In the 26 years of the Internet Foundation, I have seen the Internet as a whole get worse. The terms I mostly use for myself are like “co-opted”, “fiddled” “manipulated”, “gamed”, “biased”. True random
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