Sunday, March 24, 2019

Ashoka 8 - Jan 1, 2017 - November 4, 2016


The culture in which Yoga emerged ... To Yoga at WUaS http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Yoga and India World University and School http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/India ... planned in Hindi and India's 22 official / ALL languages as major universities and schools, accrediting on best STEM OpenCourseWare such as CC MIT OCW in its 7 languages and CC Yale OYC.
Offered prayers at the Sri Venkateswara Swamy Temple. Feeling blessed.
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World University joins with MIT in wishing you a wonders-of-discovery filled New Year .... http://worlduniversityandschool.org ... We hope your year is filled with wonder and discovery. #HappyNewYear2017 ... https://plus.google.com/u/0/+mit/posts/8GCDadukN9z ... re Yoga at WUaS as well?


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Evolution of language(s) too ... To http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Evolution and http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Languages /Art /Music ... add /Yoga too here?
A new work by composer Pete Wyer draws from MIT research on the evolution of language. 🐦🎶

#music #evolution #linguistics #arts #MIT


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Medicine Innovation / Creativity re Parkinson's ... SO GREAT ... To http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Biomedical_Engineering and "Medicine," "Innovation" and "Creativity" wiki subjects at WUaS ... planned in many countries' main languages ...
When Emma Lawton was 29 she was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease. As a graphic designer, drawing is a huge part of her life but over the past three years the tremor in her hands has grown more pronounced stopping her from writing and drawing straight lines.
Enter Haiyan Zhang and her invention that is changing Emma's life.


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Exquisite Carving of cavalry on a pillar in the 100-pillar hall at the Varadaraja Perumal Temple, Kanchi
The temple was built by Pallava king Nandivarman in 8th century which was later expanded and renovated by Cholas.
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Re http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Yoga wiki subject for open teaching and learning ... re and http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/India and http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Indonesia World University and Schools, as major accrediting universities (CC MIT OCW-centric and CC Yale OYC-centric, planned in main languages there)?
With President Joko Widodo at the ceremonial welcome at Rashtrapati Bhavan.
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Many implications for Yoga asana here and learning ... To http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Yoga ... http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Robotics ... planned in many languages ...
Triple Pendulum Control

A few years ago Dr. Tobias Glück from Technische Universität Wien, found that along with his mathematical insights, computers and numerical methods were now fast enough to swing-up and balance a pendulum, on a pendulum, on pendulum on a sliding rail under computer control.

IEEE CSS Video Clip Contest 2014 Submission

Triple Pendulum on a Cart (YT ~1 min.): https://goo.gl/XkKxHL


The presented work deals with the swing-up of the triple pendulum on a cart. The swing-up maneuver is accomplished within a two-degrees-of-freedom control scheme consisting of a nonlinear feedforward controller and an optimal feedback controller. Based on a precise mathematical model, the feedforward controller was obtained by solving a nonlinear two-point boundary value problem with free parameters. A time-variant Riccati Controller was developed in order to stabilize the system along the nominal trajectory and an Extended Kalman Filter was used to estimate the non-measurable states. The overall control strategy for the swing-up maneuver was successfully implemented and tested on an experimental test bench. Up to the authors’ knowledge, this is the first contribution so far providing numerical and experimental results of the swing-up maneuver for a triple pendulum on a cart.

Paper (open pdf): https://goo.gl/oT1cQY

Tobias Glück: https://goo.gl/RZtSte


Here is an easy to follow and graphic explanation of Kalman filters due to Tim Babb, who lives in the San Francisco Bay Area, and is Lighting Optimization Lead for Pixar Animation Studios.

Related Post: https://goo.gl/5X2ZpV

Image: https://goo.gl/nt6jPW
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Restorative poses are so great, and especially with supports ... World University and Schoo's wiki, 'Yoga,' subject page - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Yoga :) ...
"Why not a vigorous practice? When someone is deeply fatigued, a dynamic practice, like a double espresso, can be depleting, despite its initial invigorating jolt.

Restorative yoga, on the other hand, soothes the senses, so they stop urging the mind and nervous system to react and instead turn their attention inward—on the breath or embedded tension, for example."

~ Marla Apt

#yoga #meditation #iyengaryoga #yogatherapy #consciousliving #health #wellness


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A wee bit of Yoga in beautiful Montana next year (Feathered Pipe Ranch is beautiful ... I was there in the mid-1980s)
J Brown's "Gentle is the New Advanced: The Quiet Yoga Revolution" at the Feathered Pipe Ranch, June 17-24

Learn more: http://featheredpipe.com/yoga-revolution/

Imagine yoga before it was transformed in its journey to the West. Imagine a personalized, breath-centered practice, passed down from individual teacher to student. A Yoga for the well being of the whole person; something that would provide a vehicle for learning to truly take care of ourselves and ease the pains of life.

#yoga #yogatherapy #meditation #health #wellness #consciousliving #travel
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To Sailing at WUaS (as a kind of Yoga technology even - loosely) ... http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Subjects ... (related too to breath work)
We love a good LEGO build as much as anyone, but Technics takes it to the next level in terms of creating working mechanisms. And nobody takes Technics as far as [Nico71], as evidenced by his super-fast Technics rope braiding machine. The last time we saw…


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A plan herein ... to http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Ocean_%26_Climate_Management_Plan ... hope it's more and more yogic in the reversal approach (re Dean Ornish's and other researcher MDs who proved that heart disease is reversible, clinically; Ornish began his research from a Yoga perspective, in part).
“The signal that the EU is sending is that there is political consensus to go down the clean energy route... Donald Trump is not shifting us one inch, one centimetre from this path.”


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What is happening here with beautiful floral wreath, and yogically as well (and in what language)? To Yoga http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Yoga and India WUaS - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/India ...
आज कुशीनगर में विशाल सभा को संबोधित करने का मौका मिला। यहां आए सभी नागरिकों का बहुत बहुत आभार। http://nm-4.com/tzmy
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Gaia hypothesis, Yoga and the '60s ... coming together ... Monsieur Professeur Latour ~Superb ! https://www.youtube.com/shared?ci=SZQjsw5xx1s To /Ecology, /Science & /GLOBALIZATION at WUaS
(http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Subjects)
@LatourBot with great panel too 


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Yoga (I enjoy A&V's thinking) as energy as well ... To Energy Technologies and Energy Courses and Ocean_%26_Climate_Management_Plan wiki subject pages -- http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Energy_Technologies and http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Energy_Courses and http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Ocean_%26_Climate_Management_Plan....
New findings suggest a route toward using the world’s existing infrastructure for fuel storage and distribution, without adding net greenhouse emissions to the atmosphere.

#greenhousegasses #sustainability #greenenergy #MIT


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“People are drawn to MIT to genuinely work together to solve hard problems and make the world a better place. ... It’s in the blood of the faculty, and it’s in the blood of the students.”

#teaching #engineering #science #students #highered #MIT


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To Yoga at World University and School http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Subjects
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And AI with Yoga too? :)
It's time to get hands-on with A.I. Explore #aiexperiments and play with pictures, drawings, music, code, and more → http://g.co/aiexperiments
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And for Yogic music (beginning with Ravi Shankar and Nikhil Bannerjee, for example)?
MuseScore Crash Course ... https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLaitaNxyd8SE_D6PtNvA5vXn8VpXsbA7Z !!! To "Music Composition" wiki subject at World University and School - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Music_Composition (check out the great OCW) in the ALL instruments/ALL languages Music School at WUaS - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/World_University_Music_School (... http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Yoga ...)


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Yoga, money, Gandhi and in a language in India ...
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/India ...
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Banking_and_Money ...
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Yoga ...

Let's (with World University and School) connect these further serenely and equitably ...
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There won't be any rollback..
Hence stop creating panic ..


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What would A&V Yoga in beautiful Tibet online (in a realistic virtual earth, for example) be like - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Yoga ?
Tibetan civilization has a long history of creative interaction with our various neighbors. #Tibet has been particularly close to Mongolia since the 13th century. Strong friendship & continuing religious & cultural ties between our two countries have marked our subsequent history. In the 20th century, however, both Mongolians & Tibetans suffered the effects of the communist dictatorship and its destructive traits. Thankfully, #Mongolia has now emerged from that dark era & is beginning to revive and renew its religious and cultural roots. ~ HH 14th Dalai Lama
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Dog walks the drone ... flying-robot-drone flies the dog? And for all kinds of supported yoga eventually ... backbends, restorative poses ... what potential precision (but probably won't be silent for a while) ...


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In what ways might we consciously and yogically see that this geometry is occurring within us - in our neurophysiology (beyond language)? To Yoga http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Yoga and Geometry ... http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Geometry ? (I kinda wanna add color and head in the direction of art and temples from India - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/India - and to create from this as well:)


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The future is here: MIT engineers have created bionic plants that can send us text messages when they detect dangerous chemicals.

#engineering #chemistry #biology #nanotech #technews #MIT


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Yogically, what happens to our consciousness when we read, watch and understand Yonatan's post here? (http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Yoga & http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Consciousness) ... and how would this work in a realistic virtual earth - re a Harbin warm pool in Google Street View, for example (and at the neuronal and atomic levels)?
Today, a simple illustration of physics. You might wonder why so much liquid splashes backwards; you can see what's happening most clearly with the water bottle (second from the bottom). The bullet strikes the liquid and starts transferring energy to it. (That energy transfer is why a bullet damages things) This, in turn, pushes a wave forward, moving faster than the bullet until it strikes the front wall and begins to break it. That breakage will be amplified by the bullet's impact a moment later, but before that, the wave has started to bounce back -- until shortly afterwards, it strikes the back wall, already damaged by the bullet hole, and blows it open.

All of this works because the bullet is travelling slower than the speed of sound in the liquid. (The speed of sound in liquid is much higher than it is in air) If the bullet were travelling much faster, around 3,400mph, then you would see a different reaction: the bullet would strike the front wall before the wave did, and by the time the wave hit it there would be much less for it to bounce against. Almost all of the splatter would fly forward, in that case.

If the bullet were travelling faster still, at around 11,000mph, it would be going faster than the speed of sound in glass, and things would change even more: the bullet would make it out of the glass before the shock waves from the impact had a chance to spread, and it would punch a fairly clean hole through it rather than shattering it. Of course, the impact of the water wave (if it were a filled bottle target) would then shatter the glass anyway.

I know this thanks to Prof. Bob Laughlin, a slightly mad physicist (and Nobel laureate) for whom I TA'd for many years. He asked a version of this question on the qualifying exam for the PhD, asking students to design a new "Star Wars"-type defense system called Brilliant Potroast. The idea (an improvement, no doubt, over the real "brilliant pebbles" design) was that we would attach rocket engines to a bunch of pot roasts, put them in orbit, and then fire them at incoming ICBM's; students were tasked with doing all the calculations for this, from calculating fuel needs to describing what would happen when a pot roast struck a nuclear missile.

The correct answer turned out to depend on the angle and position of impact, because (given orbital speeds and so on) the relative speed of the pot roast and the missile could fall anywhere above or below the speeds of sound in pot roast, structural Aluminum, and Plutonium. In almost all the cases, though, the effect would look sort of like a "water balloon:" the pot roast would punch a hole almost straight through the missile, and splatter outwards as it flew like a water balloon hitting, well, an ICBM.

Hopefully, this would damage critical components of the missile, and/or make it aerodynamically unstable once it reentered the atmosphere. Alternatively, you could design the flying meatsacks to deliberately hit the missile at an angle so that it would always be below the speed of sound in structural metals, and cause much more shattering along the length of the missile.

As a footnote: When Prof. Laughlin won the Nobel, the department held a party for him. A bunch of students got together and got him a very large pot roast as a gift.

h/t +Steven Flaeck and +İsmet D. İstanbul for the wonderful image.
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