Friday, December 8, 2017

European herring gull: Stanford Petr Pridal Talk "Old Maps Online GIS and Cutting-Edge Technology," Film/video CONVERSION APPLICATION/PROGRAM into 3D interactive virtual world with avatar bots, And in what ways will people be able to wear dreadlock brain wave headsets, in the warm pool in a Watsu session (water shiatsu) for learning about the brain chemistry of water dance, enjoyment and healing at the neuronal and atomic levels, for example? Some related Actual>Virtual and Virtual>Actual recent @HarbinBook and @WorldUnivAndSch Tweets, Developing a research group in these regards as well perhaps with Stanford / MIT Media Lab students in a anthropological course I plan to teach re actual virtual Harbin, Asked the great computer scientist Stanford Don Knuth how to mathematize the making of a realistic virtual Harbin Hot Springs / earth / universe in terms of the "tight paving" example he talked about, A photo of Don Knuth and I (Scott MacLeod) with a picture of a lotus from this spring


Dear Petr and David,

Thanks for your fascinating talk yesterday at Stanford - http://events.stanford.edu/events/736/73693/.

CC wiki and MIT OCW-centric in 5 languages' World University and School would like to create / map a realistic virtual earth/universe for STEM research and as a classroom - and at the street view level, as well as at the atomic and cellular levels. 

While there are many possible approaches to A.I., machine learning, machine translation and STEM and the digital humanities' mapping here, CONCEPTUALLY the approach I alluded to in my question has to do with a film/video CONVERSION APPLICATION/PROGRAM into 3D interactive virtual world with avatar bots (for further AI coding, design, engineering and avatar/actual robotics too) and in a realistic virtual earth, conceptually like GoogleStreetview with TIME SLIDER/Maps/Earth/ and which would also be Google Brain-centric, for example, for research at the cellular and atomic levels). Visit the Harbin Hot Springs' gate here in Google Streetview/Maps - https://twitter.com/HarbinBook/ (in the top left) - and "walk" down the road 4 miles to Middletown, CA, as a start. (I've added one of the photos here to the left, so in a sense, this Google Streetview / Earth is wiki). 

A new method I'm calling ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy would allow scholars and students in any library or museum in the world to photograph or video an old map, or an ancient road, or a developing archaeological dig, or an underwater excavation of a ship or for historic atmospheric conditions, and add this to the whole realistic virtual earth going back 4.5 billion years. More about ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy here - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy. 

With regards to avatar bots in such a realistic virtual earth walking on the terrain of your amazing mapping projects: In these archaeological video games - 
https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2016/04/peacock-spider-archaeology-in-video.html - it would be great for example eventually to be able to do a kind of anthropology - participant observation - with these developing avatar bots of cave painters and hunters 10,000-15,000 years ago (not sure what geography is being represented here mapping-wise, but that would co-develop with evidence and iterations of ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy).

David, great to learn that you have visited Harbin Hot Springs, about which I've just written a large actual-virtual ethnographic book. Much of the above emerges from my plans to create a realistic virtual Harbin Hot Springs for actual virtual comparative STEM ethnographic research. (Will I be able to scroll back to 1975 there, and hang out with avatar bots at Harbin, asking them questions, and soaking in the warm pool with them from my home bath tub?) And in what ways will people be able to wear dreadlock brain wave headsets (http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/lovesick-cyborg/files/2017/03/1The-feedback-system-enables-human-operators-to-correct-the-robots-choice-in-real-time-Jason-Dorfman-MIT-CSAIL.jpg) in the warm pool in a Watsu session (water shiatsu) for learning about the brain chemistry of water dance, enjoyment and healing at the neuronal and atomic levels, for example? Some related Actual>Virtual and Virtual>Actual recent Tweets - https://twitter.com/HarbinBook/status/939174825020424192 and https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/939174272123023363. An interesting place to begin re modeling the actual and virtual in these regards, beyond Minecraft-Lego/Legomics at the cellular level, would be with the actual robotic smart bird into your mapping projects - 

Am interested further in developing a research group in these regards as well - http://www.scottmacleod.com/research-group.html - perhaps with Stanford / MIT Media Lab students in a anthropological course I plan to teach re actual virtual Harbin - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2017/06/bipedalism-naked-harbin-ethnography.html. How will actual scientific experimentation develop in a realistic virtual earth with species' avatar bots - and for studying, too, the biology of longevity, even? 

Thank you for your inspiring and fascinating talk yesterday, Petr, in the Stanford Rumsey Map Center. Great to meet you both.

Best regards, 
Scott



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In terms of "a film/video CONVERSION APPLICATION/PROGRAM into 3D interactive virtual world," am thinking here too at the atomic level of transposing, for example, Ed Boyden's expansion microscopy images at the atomic level, both still and video -

https://twitter.com/eboyden3/status/935464499162820608

https://twitter.com/BMCBiology/status/876836400129355776

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https://twitter.com/HarbinBook/status/939207398174027776

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https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/939207071047680000

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In a room like this at Stanford https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/938944408996769793 … w great SCREENS at https://events.stanford.edu/events/733/73339/ … & https://twitter.com/AsiaTechSU/status/936395824300306432 … I SAW THE LIGHT of real time visiting realistic virtual Harbin from Stanford Thnx @rdasher8 for retweeting 12/2/17 @WorldUnivAndSch @WUaSPress SPACE Tweets

https://twitter.com/HarbinBook/status/939209736540450816



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- Scott MacLeod - Founder & President  

- World University and School


- CC World University and School - like CC Wikipedia with best STEM-centric CC OpenCourseWare - incorporated as a nonprofit university and school in California, and is a U.S. 501 (c) (3) tax-exempt educational organization. 

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Asked the great computer scientist Stanford Don Knuth how to mathematize the making of a realistic virtual Harbin Hot Springs / earth / universe in terms of the "tight paving" example he talked about - http://events.stanford.edu/events/735/73599/ - (but in so so many ways, for students re mathematics' ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy, and at the neuronal and atomic levels ... et al.). Said I'd send him a photo of he and I with a picture of a lotus from this spring, but he doesn't have a public email address, so here it is:




Also said afterward how I appreciate the consciousness which he brings to his teachings (such as in this talk), and got his signature on my "Naked Harbin Ethnography" beautiful bookmark, and gave him a bookmark as well.




Th Dec 7, 2017
Hi M,

Just heard the renowned Stanford prof of math and CS Don Knuth give his 23rd  annual Christmas lecture - http://events.stanford.edu/events/735/73599/. Reminds me of Grandpa (Sandy Brown) re somehow fascinating and abstract play problem solving math-wise ... full house ... lots of consciousness in reflecting and making clear his thinking in words /language. Bit of a California Swedish father Christmas too.

L,
Scott

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Fr Dec 8, 2017

Hi M,

Just added a bit more about Don Knuth and a picture of he and I with a lotus from a Stanford CS history talk this spring - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2017/12/european-herring-gull-stanford-petr.html.

He's great, possibly a kind of math / computer science genius (what does this word mean, anyway), and he's an active Lutheran, soon to turn 80 years' old - and good, of which I'm appreciative. He generates great energy.

How are you today? Heading to meet Pin's cousin, Saumitra (who left Calcutta when he was around 20, so speaks Bengali), for coffee before a Tourism Studies' talk at UC Berkeley.

L, Scott





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