Monday, November 11, 2019

Northern Gannett: VIRTUAL college STEM laboratories in #GooglePoly wi #MachineLearning to prepare WUaS BACHELOR students for PHYSICAL Ph.D. chemistry laboratories * * * Create 'lovely and lyrical' ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy as a new form of 'writing' even :) . . . I don't think such a lovely and lyrical book has been written about St. Kilda, Scotland (re my Univ of Edinburgh Master's thesis on virtual senses of place) . . . Ethics' questions seem 'operative' here - I hope in my whistle-blowing that California law will be observed with regard too to the sex trade re these questions (re Stanford too?) * * * NO World Univ & Sch Monday TALK Q & A News TODAY 1/11/19 10am PT due to WIFI issues * * * Annual Meeting for World University and School meets this Saturday at 9am PT, electronically-mediated, at open WUaS Monthly Business Meeting * * * No Open Band at St. Clement's in Berkeley, playing for Scottish Country Dancers, this evening due to Veterans' Day. And is anyone heading to hear Northumbrian piper Dick Hensold and Irish guitar-player Patsy O'Brien this Thursday * * * Hoping wiki WUaS will turn the education electricity on - and in all ~200 countries and 7111 known living languages online with MIT OpenCourseWare-centric degrees and wiki schools for open rocking teaching and learning - for FREE UNIVERSAL EDUCATION



Online IB high school STEM laboratories in #GooglePoly
#PhysicalDigital #ActualVirtual @WorldUnivAndSch like
https://twitter.com/ashisht1122/status/1190836764019048449 wi #MachineLearning to prepare WUaS IB students for PHYSICAL college chemistry laboratories ~https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/STEM_Education_-_Science,_Technologies,_Engineering_and_Mathematics
 #RealisticVirtualEarth ~



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WUaS_International_Baccalaureate_Diploma_and_Programme - 
https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/WUaS_International_Baccalaureate_Diploma_and_Programme


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VIRTUAL college STEM laboratories in #GooglePoly
#PhysicalDigital #ActualVirtual @WorldUnivAndSch like
https://twitter.com/ashisht1122/status/1190836764019048449 wi #MachineLearning to prepare WUaS BACHELOR students for PHYSICAL Ph.D. chemistry laboratories ~ https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/STEM_Education_-_Science,_Technologies,_Engineering_and_Mathematics ~
 #RealisticVirtualEarth ~

- https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1193935126612197376



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The_College_at_World_University_and_School -
https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/The_College_at_World_University_and_School


Ph.D._Degrees_at_World_University_and_School -
https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Ph.D._Degrees_at_World_University_and_School


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DIY Gene Editing from Home? How best to add this CRISPR kit/lab tools https://twitter.com/ramymik/status/1181696994403897344 >#RealisticVirtualEarth >#GooglePoly & #FilmTo3D App in #RealisticVirtualEarthForCRISPR for learning CRISPR lab techniques for working in University labs #ActualVirtual #PhysicalDigital?



https://twitter.com/HarbinBook/status/1182013815308705792


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How best to create STEM laboratories in #GooglePoly #PhysicalDigital #ActualVirtual like twitter.com/ashisht1122/st Experiments newly wi #MachineLearning >wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Experimen ~wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/STEM_Educ
@WorldUnivAndSch
#RealisticVirtualEarth #RealisticVirtualEarthForExpetiments ~

https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1193672028466774016




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Hi M, 

Very nice to talk. And your book looks 'lovely and lyrical' - "Emma Hooper’s book about Newfoundland, Our Homesick Songs, is ‘lovely and lyrical’" ... https://www.thestar.com/entertainment/books/reviews/2018/08/03/emma-hoopers-book-about-newfoundland-our-homesick-songs-is-lovely-and-lyrical.html ... I don't think such a lovely and lyrical book has been written about St. Kilda. But maybe a realistic virtual earth will opportunity to create lovely and lyrical 'ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy' as a new form of 'writing' even :) ... 


Just sent David the following: 

Hi David, 

Great to hear you're super busy with work in the DC area. I just spoke with my mother, and it looks like she'd like to head to Washington for possibly 2 nights, and she mentioned the 26th and 27th, so if we can find an Air BnB with your helpful thinking, and if you're going to be in town it would be really great to see you. (My mother is also hoping to see her cousin Karen Leighty, and visit some museums in your amazing city for this - all interesting from my perspective as well). 
Hoping we overlap as well. 

Cheers, Scott


Looks like Catherine Ashcroft (whom I mentioned living in the NW of England), whose 1 Youtube  I admire much in particular, playing the Uilleann pipies - 


Catherine Ashcroft & Maurice Dickson (Mochara) - Táimse im' Chodladh/King of the Pipers
https://youtu.be/P40YOU8ggJk - with her Mochara musical partner, is 'with' Steven Johnston, another piper / musician and reed maker, another musical partner/boyfriend - and in the NW of England. Catherine and Steven appear to make a good couple. Perhaps I will connect similarly here in the SF Bay Area with a good fit! 

Am curious about the psychology of my bagpiping ... and the ways a teacher will open ways in these regards ... Possibly Finlay .... who's teaching I enjoy ... on with recording for learning here ... as I seek a partner who might be both musical, as well as listen in unique connecting ways ... and possibly what I texted you recently ... 

How was your day? One hope re upcoming piping House Concert. SINCE it's near Open Band at St. Clement's in a nice house, if a 28 yo musician came, might she come play in on Mondays, (might she have gone to Oberlin or high achieving college), might someone like Barbara have talked with her, might we even play together in other contexts + ... and might we have coffee ? :)

L, Scott


 PS Just announced to the WUaS Board that next Saturday is the Annual Meeting for WUaS.

PPS I also just emailed a number of UC Berkeley Anthropology faculty members with regard to introducing the Laotian speaker from Friday evening with UC Berkeley Prof. Aiwha Ong, a formed professor of mine, and originally from Malaysia, see - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/11/drooping-she-oak-allocasuarina.html  - and perhaps this will open ways for WUaS to collaborate with the University of California.

Looking forward to seeing  and traveling with you over Christmas, M!



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Hi Ma,

Nice to talk again last night. 

After your mentioning in Emma Hooper's book "Our Homesick Songs" those Newfoundland towns that ran out of fish and therefore food and had to be evacuated, and our also talking about St. Kilda (Hirta) off of the west coast of Scotland and its evacuation, and my Univ of Edinburgh's Master's thesis in 2003-2004 on St. Kilda as virtual place, I wanted to find out more about what a "Factor" (in Scotland) is, since I had mentioned that MacLeods at Dunvegan were the Factors of St. Kilda. So a Factor is a property manager - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Factor_(Scotland) ... and St. Kilda had a Factor's house I just learned here - https://www.nrscotland.gov.uk/research/learning/features/stories-from-st-kilda ... which all makes more sense now (compared with the 'tax collector' idea - see my 2012 description below). 

Per your question last night, here's a description of my engagement with St. Kilda academically in 2003-2004 from 2012 in my blog (https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2012/09/macleod-piping-stories-traditions-and.html): 



Scotland 2003-2004

I lived in Scotland in 2003-2004 studying at the University of Edinburgh in the School of Celtic and Scottish Studies on the very picturesque George Square at the University of Edinburgh.

Gary West, who does the BBC Pipeline Radio show, was my adviser.

My focus of study in Edinburgh was St. Kilda, the island archipelago off the west coast of Scotland, for which the MacLeods were the factors, or tax-collectors. I was interested in studying St. Kilda as a kind of virtual place on the world wide web, which people could visit at the National Trust for Scotland's web site. I wanted to think through whether people were visiting a virtual site via the internet.

So when I went to visit actual St. Kilda, which is the largest island archipelago at the greatest distance from Britain, which you can only get to by hiring a boat, I also went to Dunvegan Castle again, for the 3rd time.

There's no ferry or anything to St. Kilda, it's so remote. St. Kildans, many MacLeods included, were birders. They made their living by rappelling from the steep cliffs of St. Kilda, and capturing Gannets, Puffins and Fulmars, by hand I think – at least back 2000 or so years.

And St. Kilda, was evacuated by the British government in 1930, when its population had dwindled to around 30 people. At its most populous, St. Kildans numbered around 180 in the late 1700s.

What the MacLeods as factors came over a rough sea annually to collect was a share of these oily birds.
- https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2012/09/macleod-piping-stories-traditions-and.html - 


(And with regards to how you signed off last night, I'm reminded that fish and food metaphors for women seem in the air here in California as well. I hope in my whistle-blowing that California law will be observed with regard too to the sex trade re these questions (re Stanford too?). Let the sex trade operate under legal auspices, for example, in Nevada and the Netherlands; what goes on under-the-radar culture or discourse-wise sometimes comes to light eventually, and it can be media-attention that can limit or lessen the illegal sex trade, for example. Ethics' questions seem 'operative' here as well. And perhaps in a realistic virtual earth / realistic virtual Harbin, with avatar bots, societies, countries and legal systems will be able to address such questions anew - and re the actual-virtual, physical-digital, and even re law enforcement on-the-ground for example. In my experience, the illegal sex trade brings people down and creates un-great cultural processes ... and can make criminals and victims of people too. Becoming an adult in the 1970s, I'd like to envision a good flourishing society world ... free and and improving ... and to echo IBM's Jim Spohrer re questions of process re Ethical AI, the law is a good place to start. California law has probably improved over the decades as well, even as its limits were stretched ... and can be smart in its regulatory processes. Women are neither food nor fish (and I wrote a feminist theology thesis at Reed), and yet a realistic virtual Harbin Hot Springs may be also a place to explore sexual freedom and creativity as well (but perhaps not Stanford), in addition to developing actual-virtual research approaches to ethnography and STEM. I'm not clear at this stage how all of us will represent such questions iteratively via ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy in a realistic virtual earth for history and anthropology yet (but books and film have paved the way for centuries). )

Your book looks interesting, Ma, ... and good luck getting it read by Wednesday! 

I was envisioning a realistic virtual earth in 2003-2004 when I was studying at the University of Edinburgh, pre Harbin Hot Springs' ethnographic field work as well. My field site was - https://www.nts.org.uk/visit/places/st-kilda - but back in 2004, and as nascent place you could visit online. So I visited the 360 degree QuickTime surround-videos of specific places on the virtual St. Kilda web site, looked at the pictures of the wildlife, and listened to some bird sounds, and importantly, looked at comments from the online guest book where people had also left their email addresses. As part of my study, I contacted this people with a questionnaire, to inquire if and how they had visited the NTS online St. Kilda virtually as place.  My Edinburgh MSc thesis - http://scottmacleod.com/MacLeod%20Physical%20and%20Online%20St%20Kilda%20A%20%20Comparison%20of%20Senses%20of%20Place%20MSc%20Dissertation%20University%20of%20Edinburgh.pdf 

Looked up too the Scottish clan system to learn more, and found https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottish_clan and https://www.scotclans.com/scottish-clans/the-clan-system/ and https://theculturetrip.com/europe/united-kingdom/scotland/articles/a-brief-history-of-the-scottish-clan-system/ but would appreciate a more pacific interpretation ... Appreciating too that Scotland in these recent centuries is a very civil place, and that the crazed-in-part clan system of yore appears to be history. 

All identity-questions in part (and re Manuel Castells' "The Power of Identity," his middle book in his Information Age trilogy, "The Rise of the Network Society" being the first book in the series) I recall too that you and Dad went to the Isle of Skye for your honeymoon in these regards, pre-dating my interest in piping and Scottish Country Dancing in my teens in Pittsburgh, for example. ... On with circulating and seeking a life-partner, perhaps via my outgoing-ness and re meeting friends in groups (here in individualistic California).

L, Scott
Some blog posts about my University of Edinburgh dissertation / thesis

MacLeod Piping Stories & Traditions (and some of Donald MacLeod's Music)

Jaguarundi: Scots' history, hear ye, hear ye, Univ of Edinburgh Professor Gary West will have given the Hamish Henderson Lecture earlier today ... :) A defining Scottish ethnologist, (a Quaker too, I understand), and one who got to know the "wee folk," Scotland's St. Kilda as nascent online 'place,' and as part of two networks - the internet, and UNESCO World Heritage Sites, A harbinger of my actual-virtual Harbin Hot Springs' project, A new social science / humanities' / STEM method I'm calling ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy ... or which Scots in academia might call anew ethno-wiki-virtual-world-ology, Scottish_Gaelic_language wiki subject at World Univ & Sch planned in Scots' Gaelic ... along with all of the 7,097 living languages (per Ethnologue) at WUaS, And David Chalmers, philosopher of mind, philosophy talks on the actual and the real, Scottish philosopher, David Hume and his passions, Just began a Philosophy People profiles' page today ... https://philpeople.org/profiles/scott-gk-macleod ... Not entirely easy to add either these - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Philosophy , /Consciousness , /Philosophy_of_Language , /Philosophy_of_Science - planned in all ~200 countries' official languages to this site ... or these "Hippy-anjali Yoga Notations" - http://www.scottmacleod.com/yoganotations.html ~ Seeking to see Prof. Gary West's lecture in Google Street View with TIME SLIDER, I went to the Harbin Hot Springs' gate in Google Street View ~ http://tinyurl.com/p62rpcg ~ to get into Street View, clicked the back arrow in the top left to get to Search ... but found it on YouTube, AMAZING!

https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2018/11/jaguarundi-scots-history-hear-ye-hear.html

On with seeking a friend / partner / mom-to-be ... :)



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Ma,

I added this shorter excerpt from Lacan with the young French hippy
public demonstration -

excerpt from Lacan Parle (1972).mp4

 https://youtu.be/6aqGYYBwKbQ

to
https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2015/04/flax-nectar-jacques-lacan-parle-what.html
- and updated 2015 post ...

What do you think of this?

Love, Scott




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- Scott MacLeod 



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Hi M, (and friends),

How's your day going? And how are you? 

Am curious how to get out of the Google AI loop besides by adding the disclaimer below ... just walked into Google Starbucks, and Auld Lang Syne and into Joy to the World started playing ... Don't think I'll contact Peter Norvig about this, but Google usually thinks through how to let end users opt out of this kind of stuff ... so perhaps it's an indication of their not thinking this through ... or a new twist in their company's culture ... (if their AI could put together my smartphone with GPS on it, the name "Scott,' and arriving at this Starbucks and playing Auld Lang Syne ... seems plausible ... ) ... So I turned on this Steeleye Span - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7PUogwLKJ54 (1975) -  on my laptop which played "Long Lankin" ... where I find the words to many of Steeleye Span's ballads interesting, and a kind of history as well, and also which share an orientation to freedom from oppression even ... 

As I think through my piping album for next year 2020 re forward momentum here ... am exploring saying something creatively rather than just playing well and inspiringly these 'Gobies' "Honey in the Bag" (tentative title album / CD) tunes - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/02/gobies-scott-macleods-honey-in-bag-cd.html - but possibly adding lyrics, of potentially that I wrote, eg. this beginning "Boston Tea Party" song ... https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/10/tea-camellia-sinensis-bring-eric.html ... but I may keep CD simple and just play the tunes. However, I may also simply play some of the above tunes slowly on SSP while seeking to sing to some of these SSP tunes that could be good fits. This could get me actively exploring in new ways musically and word-wise in preparation for my album ... I continue to enjoy this folk rock from the early 1970s as a possible thing to come in conversation with. 

Fairly big Scottish focus in blog post today - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/11/northern-gannett-virtual-college-stem.html - as well as quite creative virtual science focus, as well as ethics' focus, actually. 

Fondly, Scott

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Hi Patti, Barbara, and electricity outage friends, 

WiFi signal erratic-ness today here along this electricity outage theme, so  ... 

NO World Univ & Sch Monday TALK Q & A News TODAY 10am PT due to WIFI issues

https://youtu.be/vZcp2zqkI9w > https://youtube. com/WorldUnivandSch >#WorldUnivAndSchNewsQandA info @ http://worlduniversityandschool.orgSeeking 2nd online class for free-to-students' best STEM CC-4 OCW Bachelor's degrees

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1193931632375320576

And if there were a major earthquake topping the 8.0+ of  historical record ... how big an earthquake would it take to flatten all the houses in the SF Bay Area - a 25? ... a big wiggle ... and if still navigable, and with power out, please remember that Canyon 94516 has its own wells, pumps and water supply ... and is in the woods ...  so please make it over here with your camping gear in a catastrophe, if you can, and where in Canyon-in-East-Bay-MUD the aftermath of a city after major event like this might not be such a nightmare. (From the US Post Office in Canyon CA 94516, head 6/10s of a mile up the paved main road).

You might enjoy again this great Allman Bros' concert to turn your lights on :)

The Allman Brothers Band - HD (40th Anniversary - Full Concert)
https://youtu.be/yB-7YnSgv1A

Would be cool to head in this direction folk-rock-wise with Open Band @TheOpenBand Scottish Country Dancing music! :)

And ... 
Can we do this on Google's Stacks and with Quantum computing (in a realistic virtual earth at the atomic level too?:) ... for real real time music making?
MIT Technology Review
@techreview
Why quantum computing could be as important for @Google as artificial intelligence

https://twitter.com/techreview/status/1192074286552551424



No Open Band at St. Clement's in Berkeley, playing for Scottish Country Dancers, this evening due to Veterans' Day. And is anyone heading to hear Northumbrian piper Dick Hensold and Irish guitar-player Patsy O'Brien this Thursday ... http://www.dickhensold.com/calendar.php ?

(Also, the annual meeting for World University and School meets this Saturday at 9am PT, electronically-mediated, at open WUaS Monthly Business Meeting, hour-long as well - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/Business%20Meeting). I hope wiki WUaS will turn the education electricity on - and in all ~200 countries and 7111 known living languages online with MIT OpenCourseWare-centric degrees and wiki schools for open rocking teaching and learning - for  FREE UNIVERSAL EDUCATION.

Longevity blog label is growing - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/longevity ... for prolonged electricity 'on-age' :)

À bientôt,
Ecosse
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