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Category: Assistive Technologies

Symbolic Mathematics and tools for symbolic math and algorithms – teach computers who teach students or who help others

Richard K Collins Assistive Technologies, Symbolic Mathematics May 8, 2023

Flammable Maths: An Insane Approach! The Fresnel integrals: sin(x^2) and cos(x^2) without complex analysis at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCwiDPL3EMI Writing math by hand is a bad thing to do to new generations. Get a decent symbolic math editor/solver and at least make the symbols standard. Do you trust programmers who make canned math manipulation tools, or some old guy
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Georgeta Vaman Electromagnetic Self Force, Gravitational Energy Density, Atomic Fuels, Negative mass

Richard K Collins Assistive Technologies, Atomic Fuels May 5, 2023

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/367280933_The_electromagnetic_self-force_of_a_Lorentz-contractible_spherical_shell_of_radius_R_in_rectilinear_arbitrary_motion_the_terms_of_order_1R_and_R0 Georgeta Vaman, I found this paper on Arxiv at https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.08223 You might want to post the link or tell ReseachGate where the paper is stored on the Internet. I quickly read some of your older papers, starting with “Cartesian multipole moments and tensorial identities”. I came to your paper following some ideas from “A
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You might like a short paper I just posted on ResearchGate. It is an April Fools paper

Richard K Collins Assistive Technologies, Electromagnetic Gravitational Field, Gravitational Engineering, Sun Moon Vector Tidal Signal April 1, 2023

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/369689107_Richard_Collins_working_with_ChatGPT_Model_4_on_1_Apr_2023_to_discuss_some_simple_models_from_electrical_engineering_and_physics When I chat with GPT 4, these are the kinds of things I always wanted to discuss with real humans. I have learned its limitations and by careful adjustment to the way I write, I can get it go generate words in the directions I want to go. I realized most people cannot absorb
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Frasier Cain Revolutionary 100-Kilometer Space Telescope [NIAC 2023]

Richard K Collins Assistive Technologies March 26, 2023

@elonmusk Please read my comment on this video. You can help groups be “early settlers”. Venus has a lot of potential if only because it is stable and complex. A few million human equivalent years of thought and it might be easier than we think.   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8NZDimTlwM Frasier Cain Revolutionary 100-Kilometer Space Telescope [NIAC 2023]
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Could one 3D print an LNG tanker?

Richard K Collins Assistive Technologies March 14, 2023

Relativity Space @relativityspace Could you 3D print an LNG tanker? Rolling and forming solid metal into rounded shapes takes a LOT of equipment and people. Trying to see what happens to the grain boundaries. I think it could be lighter and cheaper, micro-welded if not melted from wires. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2qYd79ZChQ

Now make it into an online toolkit with associated data

Richard K Collins Assistive Technologies, Schools, Universities, Learning and Working, Units Dimensions Formats Reference Values, Visualizations Simulations March 11, 2023

Zhigang Suo @zhigangsuo 23h The new book by ⁦@LallitAnand⁩, Ken Kamrin, ⁦@SGovindjee⁩ arrived today. The authors state that the book is for a course for undergraduate juniors and seniors. Topics include Elasticity Plasticity & creep Fracture & fatigue Viscoelasticity Rubber elasticity https://pic.twitter.com/mWhbXpAVKy Replying to @zhigangsuo @LallitAnand and @SGovindjee Now make it into an online toolkit
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Hitachi Construction Machinery – Moon from earth and Mars from Mars Orbit is cheaper

Richard K Collins Assistive Technologies, Solar System Colonization March 11, 2023

Hitachi Construction Machinery @hitachicm_en Mar 10 [Ultra-large hydraulic excavator with #remotecontrol] The operation support systems can support safe and efficient work even from a remote operation. We are developing a function that assists excavation work and automates a part of the loading work on dump trucks. https://pic.twitter.com/CWCbfg5mQp Replying to @hitachicm_en Adjusting for a 1.3 light
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Comment on Video about “Real Capacitors” – When you give people memories of real things, they learn faster

Richard K Collins Assistive Technologies, Electromagnetic Gravitational Field, Visualizations Simulations March 2, 2023

Real Capacitors at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlmPFbHTHTw Sabrina Koffler, You could easily have shown the behavior of a few “real” capacitors as a function of frequency. And added a variable resistance and inductance to show the effects of changing those. Design, testing, measurement is all about numbers, data collection. More and more that also means models, algorithms, comparison between
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All part of speech groups working together – tokenize the whole Internet, so AIs can work with real languages

Richard K Collins Assistive Technologies March 2, 2023

Paul Rayson, The reason the OpenAI Bing ChatGPT fails is because it uses a bad tokenizer. If the part of speech community would work together, they could standardized the part of speech tokens and code the entire Internet. So it would not have to be scanned and parsed every time.  A pre-tokenized, pre-coded, internet would
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