Friday, May 24, 2019

Flying gurnard: Stanford - Launch Event for The Chinese Deathscape Digital Project



Stanford - Launch Event for The Chinese Deathscape Digital Project

Dear Tom, (and David and Glen, whom Tom mentioned as central to this project),

Thanks for your excellent "Launch Event for The Chinese Deathscape Digital Project" - https://events.stanford.edu/events/833/83388/ - and brilliant work and I.T. platform. The question I approximately asked: how a Chinese scholar on your project might add a smartphone photo, say of a map (in Chinese) at the museum of the Xi'an Terracotta Warriors as a kind of mausoleum even, to your platform is interesting potentially for your colleagues and other students who might seek to extend the parameters of your project with time, or come into conversation with it. If such a photographer/scholar/student could also then geo-rectify this, and then subsequently overlay this with other geo-rectified maps and compare, - your data on related projects would also grow significantly with time.  
(For example, with regards to my actual-virtual ethnographic field site with many parallels to your project, I added this 2001 photo of the Harbin gate house around 2009 to Google Street View here - https://www.google.com/maps/place/Harbin+Hot+Springs/@38.7860806,-122.6518315,3a,109.6y,90t/data=!3m8!1e2!3m6!1sAF1QipOR33JEA3qzAchuAOEFPss-U_w6cXPc-OsiNgSE!2e10!3e12!6shttps:%2F%2Flh5.googleusercontent.com%2Fp%2FAF1QipOR33JEA3qzAchuAOEFPss-U_w6cXPc-OsiNgSE%3Dw203-h153-k-no!7i576!8i436!4m5!3m4!1s0x0:0xde57c3ab0ecaa2c9!8m2!3d38.7860806!4d-122.6518315 - as an example of what could get very involved machine learning-wise if people were many maps, or even adding video of maps in your project). And I'll welcome people to add photos to a realistic virtual Harbin in Google Streetview (outside the Harbin gate, since Harbin doesn't allow photos on property, but also welcome people to add drawings of Harbin's pool area to this realistic virtual Harbin; see ~ http://tinyurl.com/p62rpcg ~ https://twitter.com/HarbinBook ~ http://bit.ly/HarbinBook ~).

And in asking after your talk at the podium about even re-conceiving the book, re your comments that the book isn't dead, please see this blog entry - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2018/12/leaf-re-conceiving-book-printable-on.html).
As we talked about coming down the Rumsey Maps' Center stairs, I'm also interested in facilitating a realistic virtual earth for everything - and particularly for developing a realistic virtual Harbin Hot Springs for actual-virtual, physical-digital ethnographic comparison, STEM research (including brain research), and at the cellular and atomic levels too, and with regard too to a new social science method I'm calling ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy. But after hearing your presentation, I'm also curious about a related approach one might newly call historio-wiki-virtual-world-graphy, where people might wiki-add historical data to an emergent realistic virtual earth (am thinking Google Streetview / Maps / Earth / Tensorflow, Translate + and with avatar bots) . What I appreciate much about your approach, Tom, is that you circumscribe your project, platform, map-URL-citation-approach and book project for scholars, as a way to both generate questions, and ask them as well, - but also in a way which is potentially in a network of people you trust (I think - is this correct?). 

And re adding further photos of maps, photos of people and even graves (and even corpses re your Chinese project) and also potentially videos of this, which could conceivably be integrated into the whole realistic virtual earth, here's the Google AI video "Our depth predictions" link I mentioned -


https://twitter.com/GoogleAI/status/1131615568753115136 (with a related Tweet about emergent scholarly approaches to privacy -


https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1131647658815176705 - and in a realistic virtual earth), with many implications for machine learning, privacy and a Google-centric realistic virtual earth.

In what ways might we explore further collaboration re possibly exploring making interoperable your map platform, which seems to be quite Google-centric, with creating a realistic virtual earth for related question-generating and new approaches to historical data and evidence (and re creating a realistic virtual Harbin, and explicitly developing a platform for ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy, and potentially newly for historio-wiki-virtual-world-graphy, which wouldn't interfere with your current great work, but which might eventually provide more helpful data for your projects)? 

(And out of curiosity, how do you conceive of the Information age re the title of your book - "Radical Machines: Chinese in the Information Age" (https://profiles.stanford.edu/thomas-mullaney) and in your upcoming "The Chinese Computer: A Global History of the Information Age" (https://history.stanford.edu/people/tom-mullaney). I'm a bit Manuel Castells' focused in these regards (re a course I teach).

Thank you so much for your great talk and work, and very nice to meet you. (Greetings too David and Glen!). PS: below you'll find an email to Nicole Hu, a brilliant Stanfordian working in a similar space.

All the best, Scott








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April 25, 2019

Hi Nicole Hu, 

Thanks for your excellent talk yesterday. And very nice to meet you after your inspiring Stanford Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders' presentation  - https://events.stanford.edu/events/831/83194. In asking about a realistic virtual earth for geology, with machine learning, and a realistic virtual earth for hydrology, and for atmospheric sciences, I'm wondering too how these will all inter-operate. And how could this best be helpful for cities planning digital mapping for emergency-preparedness? So thanks for your response in the Q&A that a realistic virtual earth for natural sciences is a good idea, and even potentially re:  

14.5 billion years of the universe @ ATOMIC, cellular & street view levels re MODELING a SINGLE #RealisticVirtualEarth #RealisticVirtualUniverse & 3.5 billion years of life with 3-100 million species. Beginning w #PhysicalDigital tele-robotic brain surgery & even re testing in space ships?
https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1121504555840106496 .

Asked in Machine Learning for Cosmology Stanford talk, in seeking to facilitate a #RealisticVirtualUniverse for EVERYTHING, how ML for Physics would interoperate w Chemistry ML, Biology ML. He suggested focusing on ML for Physics, then to 'parameterize' Disciplines' ignoranceshttps://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1119007566816661511
Soft robotics for oceanography COOL! https://twitter.com/Harvard/status/1025039770961903616 … Let's let our students explore, innovate & research further from home with Lego robotics - developing #SoftRobotics & #SoftLegoRobotics, 3D Printers & in a #RealisticVirtualHarbin - @HarbinBook >https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Robotics ~
https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1025043303597625345
See the related #Hashtags above in Twitter for furthering thinking about this. 

Am also interested in exploring how to create a realistic virtual Harbin Hot Springs (my actual-virtual, ethnographic field site) for physical-digital comparative ethnographic /social science & STEM research, and in particular, such that people and researchers could add their own data (eg photos, video, simulations, etc.) to this, and to a related realistic virtual earth via a new STEM & social science method I'm calling ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy.

How best too to make realistic virtual Harbin attractive to visit online for soaking especially, like visiting actual Harbin, is a fascinating question, which I'd love to talk further with you about, as well. I think give in your great talk that you'd have great ideas for this.

In developing MIT OCW-centric wiki World University and School, with major universities planned for online free-to-students' university/high school degrees in each of all 200 countries' languages - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Nation_States (see too /Subjects) - am curious how faculty and students and STEM researchers could all further help develop this realistic virtual universe.

Here's what I have in mind by a 3D interactive realistic virtual universe / earth and at the atomic / cellular levels in something like Google Street View with TIME SLIDER / Maps / Earth / Translate +++ : Visit the Harbin Hot Springs' gate here, and "walk" "4 miles" down the road to "amble" around Middletown, CA: http://tinyurl.com/p62rpcg ~ https://twitter.com/HarbinBook ~ http://bit.ly/HarbinBook ~

Am particularly interested in Google Street View's relationship here with BRICK Street View (re Lego bricks) and re Lego Robotics with Scratch 3.0 for developing eventually this realistic virtual earth for robotics and design - and eventually for emergency preparedness. Cities might find great value in this (and re education too).

Thanks again for your brilliant inspiring Stanford entrepreneurial talk.

All the best, Scott

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