Sunday, December 8, 2019

Sugarloaf Mountain (Massachusetts): GrowIng World Univ And Sch CAMPUS in Realistic Virtual Earth For Robotics for RESEARCH eg How to wiki-add Drawings from sKetchuP +Pics into SketchFab into Google Street View w TIME SLIDER w Second Life (but realistic) with Brick Street View for Lego Robotics w Scratch 3 . . . And How to get #VR of Hugh Gatt's flint-knapped blade https://skfb.ly/6LWJN - into Google Street View for Archaeology 1) when blade was made 10s of 1000s years ago, 2) where it was dug up, 3) in what collection it is now * * * Writing about ethics . . . See much, much need for excellent MD psychiatry (e.g. https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Psychiatry) these days, and available easily online - and with psychiatrists from diverse backgrounds and religious & identity traditions especially - but especially science / medicine knowledgeable, and potentially licensed by each of ~200 countries' nation states/countries! . . . Perhaps AI psychiatrists will emerge with time ... and yet partly dramatically changing the nature of privacy and confidentiality in psychiatry (and in multiple languages), - For example, an AI psychiatrist wouldn't be a person, and so couldn't breach an analysand's or client's or patient's or 'call the sufferer of mental health disorders what you will' confidentiality or privacy (MD psychiatrist George Alexander's saying he's heard psychiatrists talk about their patients at cocktail parties), and, yet to protect others and so the state too could license and regulate effectively, recordings of sessions could be made as well . . . Am not clear what countries do psychiatry, and now online, best * * * Former US President Jimmy Carter's 1995 book of poetry "Always a Reckoning"



GrowIng
@WorldUnivAndSch
 CAMPUS in #RealisticVirtualEarthForRobotics for RESEARCH eg How to wiki-add Drawings < sKetchuP +Pics > SketchFab> https://skfb.ly/6LWJN > #GoogleStreetView w TIME SLIDER w SL w #BrickStreetView for #LegoRobotics w #Scratch3 -
https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1203734357501853696?s=20 -



https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1203762660107374592?s=20



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How to get #VR of Hugh Gatt's flint-knapped blade https://skfb.ly/6LWJN - https://twitter.com/clmorgan/status/1202628882089857024 into Google Street View w time slider w SL #RealisticVirtualEarthForArchaeology 1) when blade was made 10s of 1000s years ago 2) where it was dug up 3) in what collection it is now



https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1203734357501853696


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Wonderful post from recent
@UoYArchaeology
Digital Heritage MSc, Hugh Gatt about combining artefact illustration, 3D scanning & photogrammetry. Well done Hugh.
😊




https://twitter.com/clmorgan/status/1202628882089857024




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Scott MacLeod
Sat, Dec 7, 1:32 PM (1 day ago)
to Ed, Barbara, Janie

Hi Ma, and Ed,

Time traveled far in the de Young museum last Tuesday, - to 1845-1900 east coast, west coast in painting ... Remington, Bierstadt, maple sugar camps in Maine, afternath of US Civil War,  Italy & France too - fantastic ... then New Guinea some 1300-1600 estimated ... incredible! ... then Vietnamese in art video in CA from 2006!

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... A lot of mental health issues here in Bay Area, Ma! ... and per your asking about my giving piping lessons to R.P., who I think graduated from UC Berkeley in engineering recently :)



(7 Dec 2019)...

And Ma, and Ed,

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I pulled a few poetry books off the public library shelf the other day, and one of them was Jimmy Carter's 1995 "Always a Reckoning," and am continuing to think about how an "ecology of life" including internet, symbols, religious traditions, ethics, and evolutionary biology, - and not really the karma idea, but with some kind of parallels "(in Hinduism and Buddhism) the sum of a person's actions in this and previous states of existence, viewed as deciding their fate in future existences" (Apple dictionary) plays out with the "Always a Reckoning" idea (after Carter was US President in the late 1970s/ early 80s, with its own probably very confusing 'politics' of 'power' / web of interrelationships between actors, including navigating the harm people do to one another). Appreciating Carter's ethics, his 95 years of age ... and having read the first 2 poems in his book, his focus on life in Georgia (he was born in 1924) and with its focus too in 1st poem) race, and in 2nd poem) trading / barter ... all on a very human, rural, scale in Georgia many decades ago ...

...  the possible threat of force behind this at the time ... and how this plays out too in an ecology of life over time between peoples of different religious traditions' backgrounds. I see much, much need for excellent MD psychiatry (e.g.
https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Psychiatry) these days, and available easily online - and both excellent and very smart - and with psychiatrists from diverse backgrounds and religious & identity traditions especially - but especially science / medicine knowledgeable, and potentially licensed by each of ~200 countries' nation states/countries! Perhaps AI psychiatrists will emerge with time, and re Jim Spohrer's re-Tweet again, about aggregating open AI projects -

Ibrahim Haddad
To add new projects or modify existing entries:
https://github.com/lfai/lfai-landscape

- https://twitter.com/ibrahimatlinux/status/1203037719137419264?s=20 -

 ... and yet partly dramatically changing the nature of privacy and confidentiality in psychiatry (and in multiple languages). For example, an AI psychiatrist wouldn't be a person, and so couldn't breach an analysand's or client's or patient's or 'call the sufferer of mental health disorders what you will' confidentiality or privacy (MD psychiatrist George Alexander's saying he's heard psychiatrists talk about their patients at cocktail parties), and, yet to protect others and so the state too could license and regulate effectively, recordings of sessions could be made as well. Am not clear what countries do psychiatry, and now online, best in these regards, and now internationally as well.

What are you up to this weekend?

Hoping you had a good week as well, Ma, Ed and Barbara!

Seeking for World University and School to facilitate (good Quaker-wise too) great ethics, and in 200 countries' main languages, and online newly especially.


Fondly, Scott

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- Scott MacLeod
- http://scottmacleod.com





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(9 Dec 2019)...


Dear Ed, Ma and Barbara,

Ethics ...

It was October 28, 2019 when both you Ed and my cousin Ann Brown in Oregon called me, - somewhat out of the blue. I was returning from a trip to the Point Montara Youth Hostel to escape the horrible air from smoke from forest fires (controlled burns? - which seem to be not very well controlled at all, year after year now) ... And Ann called me as I was driving along Ocean Beach in SF (whereupon I pulled over to watch the sun set, Ma, and talk - so I wasn't driving while talking on smartphone, and Ann rarely calls me, if ever), and then you called, Ed, as I was just entering Rainbow Grocery (a worker-owned cooperative) in very very urban SF and which creates 'great energy' - 'alternative' 'cultural' - in this under-the-freeway industrial-not-quite-wasteland-but-close, homeless too, area of SF ... (and where I had met Fred von Lohmann (https://twitter.com/flohmann?lang=en) many months ago, also somewhat out of the blue. He's a former lawyer at Google, and Stanford graduate) ... ... hmmm ... Google Maps ... !? And what are the ethics of networks with regard to information technologies?

.... Hoping to prevent harm to kids here (and Quaker kids esp.), in particular.

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Writing to make sense of ethics ... and what to do about spurious, illegal, unethical actions (esp. which directly affect me?) ... are an interesting ecology to navigate - and re Carter's "Always a Reckoning" poems, which main ideas I haven't yet read ... I guess I seek to cope by writing about ethics.

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Am missing Harbin ... hope to visit in virtually eventually ... Much about psychiatry in my blog post from yesterday as well ...  Next (4th book, Harbin-centric too, is coming out soon - "To the Dance or the Pools? ~ Virtually! ... ":)

Best regards, Scott
- https://www.amazon.com/author/scottmacleodworlduniversity -
- http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/12/sugarloaf-mountain-massachusetts.html?m=0 -






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M,

Just watched again, Zoe and Eric's Scratch Hour of Code Webinar from Monday 2 Dec 2019 -

https://youtu.be/tCMZckWp82w - and did the first 2 Tutorials that they show (in the first few minutes - mainly "Imagine a World" #2).

As I think about this further, and re Lego Robotics' WeDo 2.0 Tutorials which Lego kit I have and have done its Tutorials too, with enjoyment, am appreciative of Eric and Zoe's presence in video - and before that having seen the live presentation with interactive text chat in the side bar (which we can view again above) - even in video live streaming just a little over their Scratch Tutorials. Whereas I enjoyed the Lego WeDo2 Tutorials on their own, because they provided me an entree into making robots with Lego ... and hands' on as well.

Interestingly, as I started exploring the Scratch Tutorials beyond their video introduction eg through here - https://scratch.mit.edu/users/ScottWorldUnivAndSch/ - since I/WUaS have a MIT account for this, I had a slight experience of practicing the piano again when I was growing up - and a kind of related isolation, whereas I didn't have that experience with the Lego Robotics' WeDo2 Tutorials, and Zoe and Erics' warm and sincere and smart (and ethical) presence in the video (in whatever form) ameliorated this sense of 'alienation' ("the state or experience of being isolated from a group or an activity to which one should belong or in which one should be involved") of doing the Scratch Tutorials alone ... so, it seems to me, there's room for development for the Scratch Tutorials further vis-a-vis the Lego WeDo2 Tutorials, and as good as the Scratch Tutorials are, and as significant an improvement over their not having been made (or what came before), as they are. :)

Just some writing analysis and thinking and observations re consciousness questions even. :)

How's your day going? And how was your weekend? Talk with you soon, perchance!


L, Scott



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Hi Ma,

Just printed the large amount of sheet music for Scottish Country Dancing Berkeley Holiday party, and rehearsal this evening - as I showered with new hair cut - so am letting the print exhaust settle with windows wide-open (since it makes me a little short of breath otherwise).

One idea for developing good and helpful new Scratch language Tutorials further is for MIT Scratch team to come into conversation with Lego Robotics' WeDo2 Tutorials,  but perhaps AFTER Lego Robotics begins to develop in a rEalistic Virtual Earth - and of course with Scratch, since Scratch programming and physical Lego Robotics WeDo2 already work together  ... so awaiting VIRTUAL Lego robotics in something like Brick Street View with Google Street View Maps Earth ... and anticipating a realistic virtual universe too ... to send Lego Mindstorms EV3 robotics to Mars in 2030s virtually ... :)

a little brainstorming here ... am curious if Zoe and I will become friends (she's a little like Cathy Ford Schenck on Cuttyhunk to my way of thinking ... perhaps Zoe knows some Schencks in Boston:).

How was your day, Ma? .... heading out to music-making soon :)

L, Scott



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Hi Ma, Ed, and Barbara, 

Just blogged today about this ethics' email (and much more) to you here - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/12/sugarloaf-mountain-massachusetts.html?m=0 - as well as started fairly recently an ethics' label in my blog - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/ethics?m=0 ... In the 'mind-reading' aspect of California culture (empathy-wise too) which seems more prevalent than in other states I've lived in, these lines of poetry from Nobel Laureate poet Seamus Heaney just popped up here https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch which I re-Tweeted, and possibly in this email threads' regards - 

...
As green sticks hissed and spat into the ashes
And whatever rampaged out there couldn’t reach us,
Firelit, shuttered, slated and stone-walled.
https://twitter.com/HeaneyDaily/status/1203796014047608833?s=20

California culture re ethics raises interesting questions in these regards as well (and comparatively with Britain, east coast US and many other places ..)

Scott
PS
Will blog too today re MIT Scratch Team's Zoe Bentley who is wonderfully engaging, and re questions of alienation even! :)





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