Wednesday, May 16, 2018
Stanford Africa Table - Writing the Lives of Slaves in Africa and the African Diaspora
Dear Kristin,
Thanks for your fascinating talk just now: "Writing the Lives of Slaves in Africa and the African Diaspora" - https://events.stanford.edu/events/774/77485/. In asking about the many languages you're engaging in your research for your book, I'd love to learn more about this. And it would also be wonderful to follow up about a possible universal translator on a smartphone with the Android OS, for example, for scholarly / STEM research, which could potentially read any text or glyph of any of the 8,475 entries in languages in Glottolog (http://glottolog.org/glottolog/language) with a camera, for one. It was very nice to meet you as well.
I'm also developing a CC-4 MIT OpenCourseWare-centric online wiki university called World University and School - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/ - which seeks to create major online universities in each of all ~200 countries' official / main languages, and wiki schools for open teaching and learning in all 7,097 living languages. In seeking to develop an Universal Translator, WUaS is also seeking to create an Academic Press at WUaS for STEM / poetry + translation - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html. World University and School seeks to offer online Bachelors, Ph.D.s, Law, M.D. and I.B. high school degrees in all ~200 countries' official and main languages which would be free to students due to the CC-4 licensing of MIT OCW in its 5 languages, from which WUaS seeks to build and grow. WUaS plans to create an enormous number of faculty positions and academic jobs, and in many, many languages. To begin graduate student instructors, who are learning to become faculty, would teach sections to the MIT faculty in video - in Google group video Hangouts, conceptually. Here's the beginning "History" wiki subject - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/History (in English) - with the MIT OCW courses at the top to become available for credit toward WUaS degrees. And WUaS will thus create many History departments in many languages as well. It would be great to talk further about this as well, and perhaps with Carl, too, since it sounds as if he's an information technologist.
I hope classes will also begin to take place in a realistic virtual earth - think Hangouts into Google Street View with time slider / Maps / Earth / Brain / TensorFlow / Translate, and for STEM modeling, and a new social science method I'm calling ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy, where researchers and scientists can add our research and data to a developing realistic virtual earth, and thereby also in 3D virtual reality with avatar bots. A film to 3D interactivity conversion app will eventually help with realism, but then stitching this together will become part of the process when film isn't available (but film of archaeological sites millennia old will be a help too, for example). I've included an email below to Jane Lubchenco, a former head of NOAA, who spoke at Stanford on January 29 - https://events.stanford.edu/events/740/74065/ - which will give you an overview of this project from a related perspective.
Re a realistic virtual STEM ethnographic field site - and for history especially - visit the Harbin Hot Springs' gate here ~ http://tinyurl.com/p62rpcg ~ and "walk" down the road to Middletown, CA, where you can "amble" around the streets there (accessible from here https://twitter.com/HarbinBook and http://bit.ly/HarbinBook)... and add a photo, if you happen to have one, for example. (I've added one of the gate here). Texts (and equations, for example), could appear on the left. Avatar bots will be like in OpenSimulator / Second Life, but realistic ... and planned at the cellular and atomic levels too for STEM research, and in all 7,097 living languages. (Think Google Street View with time slider / Maps / Earth / Brain et al).
It was wonderful too to hear of your time at Stanford, and to meet Carl. I'm curious about Stanford in the 1960s and 1970s as well, academically and socio-culturally, and re characterizing its STEM ethos / culture in comparison with MIT's, but also in terms of Stanford's alternative culture, which I've observed was part of life here at that time.
Do you happen to know Cathy and David Newbury, two Professors of African Studies at Smith? (I know them from Cuttyhunk Island, MA, where I've grown up in the summers:).
Your knowledge as a Professor of African Studies would facilitate so much in the development of a universal translator as well as a realistic virtual earth with time slider - from an historical perspective - and re the ethos of Stanford too (again which I'm interested in from a variety of perspectives).
Thank you, thanks for your great talk, and it was very nice to meet you. And how might we best talk further about some of this?
Best regards,
Scott
~ http://tinyurl.com/p62rpcg ~ https://twitter.com/HarbinBook ~ http://bit.ly/HarbinBook ~
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Dear Jane,
Thanks again for your excellent Stanford talk - "Science in a Post-Truth World" - https://events.stanford.edu/events/740/74065/.
I'd love to communicate further, conceptually, about your talk, and re my questions concerning developing a realistic virtual earth / ocean (think Google Street View with time slider / Maps / Earth / Brain and at the cellular and atomic levels and with all species) for ecological STEM research - and further modeling the oceans. Here's a related beginning example of what I have in mind re such interactive realistic virtual world modeling from the Milky Way - https://twitter.com/Harvard/status/951638613078495233 (and which I blogged a bit about recently - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2018/01/indian-blanket-harbin-experience-from.html - and also re my actual / virtual Harbin Hot Springs' project, where I'm seeking to create a realistic virtual Harbin as field site for actual-virtual comparison; "walk" 4 miles down the road from the Harbin gate in Google Street View here, top left - https://twitter.com/HarbinBook - to get an idea of what I mean, but with realistic avatar bots too, and then how to "drill down" to the cellular or the atomic in one of the trees one passes, for example?). In a related vein: in what ways could individual researchers on dives stream real time video from their mask cameras (like Google glass) of fisheries, and for eventual machine-learning facial recognition, - into an unfolding realistic virtual earth with time slider, for example?
And how best might we communicate further about developing a realistic virtual universe even, and again at the cellular and atomic levels too (in something like Google Hangouts/Streetvie/Maps/Earth with time slider and group build-able, in all 7,099 living languages and for STEM researchers doing a kind of STEM ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy - a new STEM and social science method I'm developing - to help build this out as well; see, for example - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy).
I was interested to see, Jane, that you were at Woods Hole Research Center. Did you ever make it to Cuttyhunk Island, Massachusetts, when you were at Woods Hole? (I've grown up there in the summers since I was little:).
In developing World University and School, which is like Wikipedia in 301 languages with CC-4 MIT OCW in 5 languages, WUaS seeks to create wiki schools for open teaching and learning and in all 7,097 living languages. I take your response to my question yesterday at Stanford - to focus on local uses of the sea and culturally even at World University - as a possible remarkable focus for these wiki schools.
(I emailed Kelly Benoit-Bird this, whose Stanford talk I also heard, but you would likely have great ideas about this too: I'd also like to inquire how we might best communicate further to explore potentially developing CC-4 MIT OpenCourseWare into oceanographic and ecological BAs and Ph.D.s and in all countries' languages? World University and School seeks to develop major universities in all ~200 countries' official/main languages for free CC-4 MIT OCW-centric degrees - Bachelor, Ph.D., Law, M.D. and I.B. high school. Law schools with WUaS Faculty in all ~200 countries' languages, with a focus, for example, on Maritime Law - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Maritime_Law - which may be of help in some of your endeavors. WUaS is moving into a new wiki soon too here - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Nation_States).
Even as I continue to develop World University and School, I'm currently waiting to hear back about a MIT Media Lab faculty position I applied for (by Dec 1). And Media Lab director Joi Ito has an interest in both oceans and scuba as well as marine technologies. He's also on the Board of the MacArthur Foundation, and since you are a recipient of a MacArthur, this could all make for good potential networking, too.
World University and School offers numerous ways potentially in all nation states' official languages and in all living languages for scientists to engage in the ways you spoke about yesterday.
Thank you again for your great presentation, and very nice to meet you.
All the best, Scott
https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch
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- World University and School
- http://worlduniversityandschool.org
- 415 480 4577
- http://scottmacleod.com
- 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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Thursday, May 17, 2018
Stanford Economics / Sociology - "Raj Chetty - Race and Economic Opportunity in the United States: An Intergenerational Perspective"
Dear Raj,
Thanks for your fascinating and brilliant study and Stanford talk today - "Raj Chetty - Race and Economic Opportunity in the United States: An Intergenerational Perspective" - https://events.stanford.edu/events/779/77969/ (this link doesn't seem to be working now anymore), but an announcement for your talk is also here - http://cepa.stanford.edu/events/seminar-series. It was great to talk with you in person afterward as well, and I'm curious how your study and approaches might extend to each of all ~200 nation states and these countries' official / main languages. Think Google Street View with time slider / Maps / Earth / Brain / Tensorflow+ with Avatar Bots - and for the creation of online nation states in VR. Very nice too to meet you before your talk in the room with lunch.
I asked the last question about in what ways could virtual place / environment and virtual education could begin to be studied re your study, apart from housing, and without regard to census data, or tax data (which may not exist). And could data about black boys / men engaging electronics differentially, for example, even be consider visiting early "place" over the last few decades - and even re neighborhoods re a physical aspect? I ask this with a focus on studying the actual < > virtual (where my ethnographic actual-virtual field site is Harbin Hot Springs in No. California) and whether and how we might create virtual place / neighborhoods / nation states online - and in a realistic virtual earth.
Re a realistic virtual STEM ethnographic field site - and for sociology and economics especially - visit the Harbin Hot Springs' gate here ~ http://tinyurl.com/p62rpcg ~ and "walk" down the road to Middletown, CA, where you can "amble" around the streets there (accessible from here https://twitter.com/HarbinBook and http://bit.ly/HarbinBook)... and add a photo, if you happen to have one, for example. (I've added one of the Harbin gate here). Texts (and equations, statistics, graphs, maps, etc., for example), could appear on the left. Avatar bots will be like in OpenSimulator / Second Life, but realistic ones ... and planned at the cellular and atomic levels too for STEM research, and in all 7,097 living languages. (Think again Google Street View with time slider / Maps / Earth / Brain et al). Your maps with income inter-generational economic disparity could add another facet with an actual < > virtual comparison perchance.
In terms of economic opportunity for people of color especially, but everyone, I'm creating online World University and School, which is like Wikipedia in 301 languages with CC-4 MIT OpenCourseWare in its 5 languages, and WUaS would like to develop major online Universitiies in each of all ~200 countries' official languages, and wiki schools in all 7097 living languages for open teaching and learning. In a key time of moving into our new wiki - eg https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Subjects - with a backend database in Wikidata / Wikibase to come (Wikipedia's structured knowledge database in 301 languages too), we'd like to plan for all Universitians / endusers in all 7097 living languages, and indeed perhaps all 7.5 billion people - planning-wise. Could this be an opportunity for census-like and tax-like data generation too? WUaS is seeking to offer online free CC-4 OCW Bachelor, Ph.D., Law, M.D. and I.B high school degrees online in about 100 languages, and possibly more.
WUaS is seeking too to facilitate planning for an Universal Basic Income for all 7.5 billion people, as a way to spread a (~200 countries' central banks) single CryptoCurrency (think the Euro) with the Blockchain ledger - and re our planned academic bookstores / computer stores / robotics' stores for said registered / matriculated students / learners in all 7097 living languages. In addition to a CryptoCurrency with Blockchain ledger spread via a Universal Basic Income for 7.5 billion people, WUaS Corp / Bookstore is also, conceptually, like Quickbooks/Multi-Store/TurboTax particularly for their multiple countries' multiple languages' tax systems' focus. Tax data, and the possibility of building into this census-like data is a potential here.
In the process World Unviersity and School is seeking to become the online Stanford / Harvard / MIT / Oxbridge of the Internet, again in ~200 nation states, and 7097 living languages +.
Do you happen to know the Mazumdars, by any chance? Pin also went to Harvard College, and was my best friend in high school, Marti, is a now a professor at Harvard, and I visited Pin's parents, Mainak and Sati in Kolkata a few years ago. You shared a slide with a Mazumder reference.
Thanks for your fascinating talk, and how might we talk further about this? It could be great to extend the conversation about race and inter-generational economic opportunity in the U.S. to all ~200 countries and perhaps to groups associated with all 7,097 languages - in terms of creating economic opportunity. But if WUaS is able to facilitate an UBI (something like $1000 / month in the richer countries?) for all 7.5 billion people via a new CryptoCurrency with blockchain, especially for people of color and disadvantaged people, some of the questions you're asking may take on new form ahead indeed.
Thank you again!
Best regards,
Scott
- https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Nation_States
- https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Languages
- https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch?lang=en
- https://twitter.com/WUaSPress?lang=en
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- World University and School
- http://worlduniversityandschool.org
- 415 480 4577
- http://scottmacleod.com
- 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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