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Month: November 2024

Why is H-alpha so popular? Are there low cost ways to look at fine detail of events and processes on the sun?

Richard K Collins All Global Open Devices, All knowledge, Collaborative Global Model of the Sun November 11, 2024

https://www.facebook.com/groups/1278689162297491 Why is H-alpha so popular? Are there low cost ways to look at fine detail of events and processes on the sun? Multiple frequencies? Energies, densities, temperatures, velocities, concentrations, entropy measures, etc? I am finding more and more groups sharing data about the sun on the Internet, and some of it is accessible in
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Tools and methods for visualizing real time flows of previously “invisible” fields are expanding but not maturing

Richard K Collins 3D Scannning Replication, All Global Open Devices, All knowledge, All Languages, Collaborative Global Model of the Sun November 11, 2024

RS4GeoHZ @GfzRemote Thrilled to announce the release of #SARVey, an open-source #software for the #InSAR time-series analysis using both #Persistent & #Distributed scatterers in #Python.  https://github.com/luhipi/sarvey Tools and methods for visualizing real time flows of previously “invisible” fields are expanding but not maturing  There are about 5.4 Billion humans using the Internet now. Where on
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AIs need to be treated as humans, evaluated on their ability to do the job or assume a role in society

Richard K Collins All Global Open Devices, All knowledge, Assistive Technologies November 10, 2024

Many discussions about large language models (LLMs) and whether they can truly “reason” are, honestly, missing the point. Inspired by recent research like Physics of Language Models(https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.20311), which examines reasoning processes by constructing tasks with fewer https://pic.x.com/0ygRGPm3Py Replying to @limoquan in Large language models (LLMs) I saw a note about a group called “Large language
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I love it as an evocative image. But I absolutely hate that you used a lossy format

Richard K Collins All knowledge, All Sky Cameras, Global Open Resources November 8, 2024

https://x.com/Havenlust/status/1854750698769920469/photo/1 My comment: I love it as an evocative image. But I absolutely hate that you used a lossy format so I cannot study the pixels with deep algorithms I know and design. NONE of the colors will match the original. Because you let the bad jpeg algorithms chew up your raw sensor data and
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DNA genealogy – global, open shared, lossless, efficient, fair and for all humans

Richard K Collins All Global Open Devices, All knowledge, All Languages, Assistive Technologies, DNA Genealogy, Efficiency Prizes November 8, 2024

I have whole sections of my DNA matches that are off by two generations. Everything is crowded into 3rd and 4th cousins and many of them make no sense. I have found that part of that is mistakes in trees that are propagating faster and with less and less review. Ancestry does not give sufficient
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Copy posted on X summarizing “Richard and OpenAI ChatGPT refine ideas related to sharing and using all data, forever”

Richard K Collins All Global Open Devices, All knowledge, All Sky Cameras November 7, 2024

Richard and OpenAI ChatGPT refine ideas related to sharing and using all data, forever [ full conversation at /?p=18322 ]   Richard Collins:   I am looking at some of the Rubin Observatory postings and sites on the Internet. It is ONE project but many fragmented sites, styles, purposes, methods and policies.   What are
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