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Solving Global Problems using the Internet

Month: December 2024

A rule that “data containers” and systems must credit and bidirectionally link the original developers.

Richard K Collins Collaborative Model and Data, Efficiency Prizes, Extended atomic and nuclear materials, Global Open Resources, Infrastructure Water Power Internet Food Weather, Long range planning, Markets Products Industries Communities, Material and Process Model Calibration, Open Algorithm Development, Process Monitoring and Control December 9, 2024

A rule that “data containers” and systems must credit and bidirectionally link the original developers. Edward Mehr, Thank you for sharing your experiences and insights. Process and control systems optimization is critical to efficient global and heliospheric industries. When the methods are not refined and shared, individual groups might benefit, but reduce the potential of
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Why go to Mars to find a desert to green?

Richard K Collins All Languages, Assistive Intelligences, Global Climate Change, Homeless Displaced Refugees December 9, 2024

Why go to Mars to find a desert to green? Copycats are fairly common on the Internet, not just videos, but articles, products, groups, ideas. Identifying groups and individuals is difficult. Verifying ownership of sites often impossible. It it not easy to enforce now, and with hundreds of millions of domains one size will not
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Issues in using AIs for “meningitis” and other exact terms on the Internet

Richard K Collins All knowledge, Assistive Intelligences, Assistive Technologies December 8, 2024

Issues in using AIs for “meningitis” and other exact terms on the Internet Richard Collins: What are the routes of infection for meningitis? Separate fungal, bacterial and viral. How good can diagnoses be if done by AIs with good tools and tests? The checklists with probabilities that are done by traditional databases and statistical frequencies
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Respectful, Responsible Humans and AIs: A New Approach to Handling Public Social Media Inputs

Richard K Collins All knowledge, All Languages December 7, 2024

Respectful, Responsible Humans and AIs: A New Approach to Handling Public Social Media Inputs   I notice many X accounts of government agencies, cities, countries, large corporations, public entities, famous people, and groups say “This account is not monitored 24/7.”   With the tools we have today, this doesn’t need to be the case. AI
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Ultimately you have to change the shape and size of the pixel and voxel sensors.

Richard K Collins All Global Open Devices, Collaborative Global Model of the Sun December 4, 2024

Ultimately you have to change the shape and size of the pixel and voxel sensors. Even make them movable. Jaggies happen during capture and display, too rigid and exact grids are often counter productive. Event driven cameras seem to show sparse sensor arrays sometimes are much better. Just because cameras are cheap does not mean
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Humans are not “searching” to be searching, but rather as part of “find, gather, verify, combine, analyze, do”.

Richard K Collins All Global Open Devices, All knowledge, All Languages, Assistive Intelligences December 3, 2024

Yuntian Deng @yuntiandeng Interesting analysis by @NZZTech on WildChat, focusing on German-language conversations! They found that most German-language users treat ChatGPT like a search engine, with 45% of queries seeking concrete information. Grateful to see our work featured! x.com/NZZTech/status… NZZ Technologie @NZZTech Nov 29 Seit zwei Jahren gibt es Chat-GPT. Nun liefert ein Datensatz Einblick
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