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Jim Spohrer 2024

@spohrer.bsky.social

Books, Science, Nature (good hikes in California), Service Science, Artificial Intelligence, Open Source, Quest for Geothermal-Powered , Master-Mechanic-Robot for Family Farms.

225 Followers  |  140 Following  |  39 Posts  |  Joined: 16.11.2024  |  1.4545

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Half Moon Bay

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Merry Christmas!

25.12.2025 23:41 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Oak above clouds

30.11.2025 03:43 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Call for Papers - AHFE Human-Side of Service Engineering "Styled for Innovation" - Prof. Clara Bassano (ISSIP.org Ambassador) www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

29.11.2025 13:12 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Agreed.

17.10.2025 19:27 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Check out Stanislaw Lem's "The Cyberiad" - lots of fables of constructors who can build anything. Read it 50 years ago - thought it good. Re-reading it now - Lem was a time traveler - great stuff.

14.10.2025 20:48 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Bend in the road

02.09.2025 21:00 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Looks good. I need to stop by.

20.08.2025 03:43 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Thanks for the excellent town hall meet

05.08.2025 02:47 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Homestead Avenue 2

02.08.2025 03:40 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Gunsmoke “The photographer”

02.08.2025 03:11 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Here is the photo with my mentor!

11.07.2025 22:30 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Homestead A enue

12.07.2025 02:36 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Thanks Sam Arbesman for sending me a copy!

09.06.2025 22:58 — 👍 32    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 0
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New notions of infinity challenge a plan to define the mathematical universe: "Is Mathematics Mostly Chaos or Mostly Order?" @quantamagazine.bsky.social
(Plus- John Allen Paulos @ja-paulos.bsky.social)

Get down with Godel: roughlydaily.com/2025/07/04/a...

04.07.2025 16:25 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Wilder Ranch near Santa Cruz

03.07.2025 23:56 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Coastal fog - in retreat.

14.06.2025 02:15 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Cowell-Purisma Coastal Trail

09.06.2025 21:30 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
198 Methods of Nonviolent Action — AEI/ Empowering Humankind

From Nichols Kristoff on NYT

www.aeinstein.org/198-methods-...

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Carl Sagan: Goal For Human Species

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Samuel Arbesman’s recent book looks great!

20.05.2025 17:52 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Systems thinking and systemic design: working with complexity - learningforsustainability.net Systems design explained, with key concepts and links to tools that support systems thinking, planning, and collaboration in complex contexts.

🌍 Learning for Sustainability
I post on systems thinking, facilitation, co-design & evaluation — grounded in practice and shared learning.

📄 Worth revisiting: Systems thinking and systemic design: working with complexity
🔗 learningforsustainability.net/post/systems...

🧪 #LfSinsights

11.05.2025 01:36 — 👍 16    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 1
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Coyote Lake in the distance

30.03.2025 21:36 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Measuring AI Ability to Complete Long Tasks We propose measuring AI performance in terms of the *length* of tasks AI agents can complete. We show that this metric has been consistently exponentially increasing over the past 6 years, with a doub...

How fast is AI getting better at long tasks?
Seems to be doubling every 7 months
URL: metr.org/blog/2025-03...

Bottomline
AI is impressive, but imperfect - but it is getting better.

21.03.2025 19:40 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

AI is not very good at:
Truth - it makes many mistakes
Properly citing sources
Long complex tasks - it gets lost in the weeds

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AI is very good at:
24x7 access
Fast response
Summarization
Point-of-views
All languages
Generating multiple-choice questions for learning
Generating explanations of wrong answers for teacher guides
Generating python code

21.03.2025 19:38 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Orion over Apple spaceship

08.03.2025 03:14 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Neighbors napping

15.02.2025 22:38 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Blue sky

27.01.2025 23:24 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Delighted this arrived today!

27.01.2025 20:07 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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