Wednesday, January 6, 2021

Gloriosa superba: a new Tamil language World University and School for Tamil Nadu-ans, and in Tamil, in conversation with English-language World University and School, and for MIT OCW-centric free degrees online at WUaS, a STEM focus, and wiki especially * * "Cognitive science & Twitter meeting" (email thread) * * * Natural Arch, Tirumala hills (India): SOFT COPY - now I see on a larger-than-my-smartphone's screen that you're asking about my new book "Light, Float, Sit, #Watsu ~ Virtually: Bodymind Electricity Sings to Me at Harbin Hot Springs & Other Traveling Poems" for translation in the WUaS Press * * Tamil language WUaS - a possible model for developing World University and School in all ~200 countries' official and main languages, - and even in all 7,117 known living languages? :))


Starting a new Tamil language World University and School for Tamil Nadu-ans, in Tamil, and thanks to Prasanth in Madurai, south India


Perhaps you've noted here for example - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/12/tussilago-farfara-coltsfoot.html - that WUaS educational approach has 2 sides to it:


1) free to students' DEGREES - with students taking MIT OCW and  NEWLY edX courses, as WUaS licensing with BPPE and accredits with WASC senior


2) WUaS is a free wiki, for open teaching and learning, where you or I can add free high quality courses, and teaching resources to our WUaS wikis - and eventually in Tamil, in French, in Arabic - now in English. But these resources, like Youtube videos you created teaching something in Tamil about Electronics' engineering, or free books like the ones you shared -  or Coursera+Khan Academy courses - would NOT be for credit, toward WUaS free degrees. 


There are a number of ways to add discussions, for example to a WUaS wiki subject page - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Academic_Freedom_Studies - for example this subheading, which will be translated into potentially all 7,117 known living languages - 

2.13 Select Conversations / Dialogues / Idea Competitions

- and which will be added to all WIKI subjects via - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/SUBJECT_TEMPLATE - and with artificial intelligence too, 

- so that, for example, you could start a Google group with a group of WUaS students, or a Twitter conversation



I can see a number of directions that World Univ & Sch would head in with regarding to developing WUaS in the Tamil language:


1 Supporting scientific papers that are written in Tamil - perhaps in a Google Scholar sort of way


2 Creating online university and school on both sides (for degrees and as wiki schools) - and on WUaS platforms as they develop 


3 Translation from many languages into Tamil language by developing the machine translation, both for poetry and STEM 



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So Prasanth, entering a WUaS PhD program would involve your taking some edX courses (and not research) this summer - if and as WUaS proceeds with partnering with edX - to prepare you for entering this PhD program, and candidacy, in your major, and Imad, probably some Computer Science undergraduate courses



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Cognitive science & Twitter meeting (email thread)


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Scott MacLeod sgkmacleod@worlduniversityandschool.org

Wed, Dec 30, 2020, 5:26 PM (7 days ago)
to prasanthkaruppasamy

Hi, Prasanth? 

Please reply if possible 🙏 :)

Namaste, 


World Univ and Sch Twitter - http://twitter.com/WorldUnivandSch  
Languages - World Univ - http://twitter.com/sgkmacleod  



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Hi Prasanth, I didn't receive anything yet, from your Yahoo email address. Please resend ...


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Prasanth KP

Wed, Dec 30, 2020, 5:30 PM (7 days ago)
to me
I am available.  How to we discuss on Education.


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Scott MacLeod sgkmacleod@worlduniversityandschool.org

Wed, Dec 30, 2020, 7:53 PM (7 days ago)
to ZalmatPrasanth
Hi Imad, and Prasanth, 

I'd like to introduce you to one another. as prospective PhD students at WUaS in 2021. Prasanth is interested in potentially becoming a cognitive science Ph.D. student. 


Best regards, Scott


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Scott MacLeod sgkmacleod@worlduniversityandschool.org

Dec 31, 2020, 3:21 PM (6 days ago)
to PrasanthZalmat
Prasanth, and Imad,

can you please send your new resume here. (LinkedIn doesn't always work well for me, and I can't seem to be able to access your resume there). 

Imad, do you happen to have a resume you could send as well please, as WUaS seeks to plan for our Ph.D. program. Thank you!

Thanks, Scott 



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Scott MacLeod sgkmacleod@worlduniversityandschool.org

Dec 31, 2020, 3:30 PM (6 days ago)
to PrasanthZalmat
Thank you, Prasanth! 

Have a glance at my blog where WUaS is heading currently platform-wise, and to understand what WUaS has so far and what we're planning to do.

For example, you can see our new WUaS Opencura WikiBase/WikiData here - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/12/indiana-bat.html?m=0 (and much more) - with 300 potential languages, and you've seen WUaS's WUaS Miraheze MediaWiki in Wikidata, regarding the Electronics' page - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Subjects - and this email is in WUaS G Suite for Education, which WUaS has and in Google Translate's 100 languages ... 

Thanks, Scott


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rasanth KP

Thu, Dec 31, 2020, 3:32 PM (6 days ago)
to meZalmat
Thanks, I'll check it out. 


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Scott MacLeod sgkmacleod@worlduniversityandschool.org

Thu, Dec 31, 2020, 3:33 PM (6 days ago)
to PrasanthZalmat
Great, thanks! 



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Imad Zalmat

AttachmentsThu, Dec 31, 2020, 3:33 PM (6 days ago)
to me
Of course. 


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Scott MacLeod sgkmacleod@worlduniversityandschool.org

Fri, Jan 1, 11:32 AM (5 days ago)
to PrasanthLarryImad
Hi Prasanth and Imad, 

Thank you for your resumes, and your STEM focuses!

Prasanth, thank you for your question too in LI: 

What are the research works done in the EECS field at MIT College? I want to apply for an undergraduate course this year.
https://www.quora.com/unanswered/What-are-the-research-works-done-in-the-EECS-field-at-MIT-College-I-want-to-apply-for-an-undergraduate-course-this-year?ch=99&share=2f287eeb&srid=SYOm
 
As you know, Prasanth, from my correspondence with Imad - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/12/tussilago-farfara-coltsfoot.html (please read this fairly closely, Prasanth) - CC-4 MIT OCW-centric World Univ & Sch (and while WUaS can adapt the CC-4 MIT OCW COURSEWARE, WUaS can't use the MIT name, in outreach for ex.) is in the process of partnering with edX, which was founded by MIT and Harvard, and MIT Prof of EECS and edX CEO Anant Agarwal (and to be clear WUaS is not MIT). 

Since you both have expressed interest in applying to the PhD program at WUaS - as WUaS first licenses with BPPE in California for PhD programs, in addition to licensing our WUaS Bachelor of Science programs - WUaS may suggest you take some undergraduate courses in our May-August 2021 term to prepare you both for the PhD programs in your new possible fields. Imad, I think you have expressed interest in a WUaS Computer Science PhD program (moving from and building upon your chemistry undergraduate Bachelor's degree), and Prasanth, I think you have expressed interest in first a Cognitive Science PhD program, and now possibly a EECS PhD program (moving from your Electrical and Electronics Engineering undergraduate Bachelor's degree major). What are your thoughts now about a possible PhD major, Prasanth?

So Prasanth, entering a WUaS PhD program would involve your taking some edX courses (and not research) this summer - if and as WUaS proceeds with partnering with edX - to prepare you for entering this PhD program, and candidacy, in your major, and Imad, probably some Computer Science undergraduate courses. And WUaS will refine our application and admissions' processes as we develop with both BPPE and WASC senior. 

Questions or thoughts about all of this? Please let me know. (I'm including Larry Viehland in this email, who is the head of the WUaS Academic Accreditation committee, and who also went to MIT as an undergraduate in physics/chemistry, and to the Univ of Wisconsin for his Ph.D. in chemistry).

Thank you,
Scott
The undergraduate majors here - worlduniversityandschool.org - will probably be similar for WUaS PhD programs, with students studying both CC-4 MIT OCW and edX courses online at WUaS.




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to meImadLarry
Thank you for the information! 


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Scott MacLeod sgkmacleod@worlduniversityandschool.org

Fri, Jan 1, 11:49 AM (5 days ago)
to PrasanthImadLarry
Hi Prasanth,

Thank you for this question too. 

Is it possible to Combine application futures like (edX+Coursera+Khan Academy) + TED + (Telegram+Signal) + Quora + Google Meet + Researcher + Mendeley + Google Maps + Google Calendar + Kormo Jobs into an integrated platform at non-profit?

https://www.quora.com/unanswered/Is-it-possible-for-Combine-application-futures-like-edX-Coursera-Khan-Academy-TED-Telegram-Signal-Quora-Google-Meet-Researcher-Mendeley-Google-Maps-Google-Calendar-Kormo-Jobs-into-a-integrated-platform-at-non-profit?ch=2&share=7c208eba&srid=SYOm

Perhaps you've noted here for example - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/12/tussilago-farfara-coltsfoot.html - that WUaS educational approach has 2 sides to it:

1) free to students' DEGREES - with students taking MIT OCW and  NEWLY edX courses, as WUaS licensing with BPPE and accredits with WASC senior

2) WUaS is a free wiki, for open teaching and learning, where you or I can add free high quality courses, and teaching resources to our WUaS wikis - and eventually in Tamil, in French, in Arabic - now in English. But these resources, like Youtube videos you created teaching something in Tamil about Electronics' engineering, or free books like the ones you shared -  or Coursera+Khan Academy courses - would NOT be for credit, toward WUaS free degrees. 

Try adding the resource you shared and I added, referencing it as follows - 

Vilakkan, Prasanth Karuppasamy. 2020. Internet Resources for Electrical and Electronics Engineering: Hyperphysics; Tony R Kuphaldt. Madurai, India: cyperone.wordpress.com.


to another WUaS Wiki subject page - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Subjects - like - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Electrical_Engineering - to get a feel for how this works, when YOU add a resource to a wiki page, and thus in a sense begin to teach (in addition to learn).


Does this answer your question?

Thanks, Scott



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Prasanth KP

Fri, Jan 1, 11:57 AM (5 days ago)
to meImadLarry
No, it doesn't satisfied me. Is WUaS has any discussion platform for students  and student's own notes sharing platforms

 

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Scott MacLeod sgkmacleod@worlduniversityandschool.org

Fri, Jan 1, 12:08 PM (5 days ago)
to PrasanthImadLarry
Thanks, Prasanth, 

WUaS doesn't have any students, or matriculated students as we license with BPPE and begin the accreditation process with WASC. Thanks too for learning about the WUaS platform, as it develops.

Perhaps you've noticed that there are a number of ways to add discussions, for example to a WUaS wiki subject page - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Academic_Freedom_Studies - for example this subheading, which will be translated into potentially all 7,117 known living languages - 


- and which will be added to all WIKI subjects via - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/SUBJECT_TEMPLATE - and with artificial intelligence too, 

- so that, for example, you could start a Google group with a group of WUaS students, or a Twitter conversation, and discuss an issue, say free speech, and then add it to the above wiki Academic Freedom Studies' page. As you look over the platform building blocks I've shared with you (see below), you may see multiple opportunities with students' dialogues. 

Scott

the developing WUaS platform 'building blocks' - 
For example, you can see our new WUaS Opencura WikiBase/WikiData here - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/12/indiana-bat.html?m=0 (and much more) - with 300 potential languages, and you've seen WUaS's WUaS Miraheze MediaWiki in Wikidata, regarding the Electronics' page - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Subjects - and this email is in WUaS G Suite for Education, which WUaS has and in Google Translate's 100 languages ... 


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Prasanth KP

Fri, Jan 1, 12:13 PM (5 days ago)
to meImadLarry
Thanks, I'll check them out. How to get all of the WUaS students contact for discussion?


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Scott MacLeod sgkmacleod@worlduniversityandschool.org

Fri, Jan 1, 12:17 PM (5 days ago)
to PrasanthImadLarry
Great, thanks! 

As I wrote WUaS doesn't have any students yet, and is aiming for 150 undergraduate students taking edX courses, AS WUAS partners with edX, to begin May 1, with PhD graduate students POSSIBLY beginning in September. 

See you soon,

Scott


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Prasanth KP

Fri, Jan 1, 12:20 PM (5 days ago)
to meImadLarry
Sounds good, thanks! 


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Prasanth KP

Fri, Jan 1, 12:22 PM (5 days ago)
to me
Is it possible to see the WUaS courses in edX? Or already in it?



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Scott MacLeod sgkmacleod@worlduniversityandschool.org

Fri, Jan 1, 12:28 PM (5 days ago)
to ImadLarryPrasanth
You're welcome! Might you be applying for other PhD positions, (like at MIT, or the Univ of Illinois, where all of them have stipends available, or in India)?

If you were to gain admittance into such a program, I'm curious what their policies would be for student information access by other matriculated students. Applying to a number of PhD programs would increase the strength of your application, Prasanth! WUaS is seeking highest achieving graduate students (such as would apply to and get accepted at Harvard, Stanford or Cambridge) and interested in their STEM PhD major as a career.

Thanks!

Best, Scott


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Prasanth KP

Fri, Jan 1, 12:31 PM (5 days ago)
to meImadLarry
OK


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Prasanth KP

Fri, Jan 1, 1:22 PM (5 days ago)
to me
Acceptance is main thing, I think.



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Scott MacLeod sgkmacleod@worlduniversityandschool.org

Fri, Jan 1, 1:50 PM (5 days ago)
to LarryZalmatPrasanth
Thanks! World Univ & Sch had one student (from India) this year (before we've begun licensing/accreditation, and before we've completed partnering with edX) who was accepted as a Bachelor's Degree student in English literature, but could only audit the edX courses, not take them from the inside (because WUaS has completely partnered with edX). He very much wanted to do a free-to-students' Bachelor's degree (taking about 4 years, from home in India), and he has since dropped out, and is no longer interested in taking edX courses 'from the inside' at WUaS. So in the WUaS Application process for PhD candidacy, WUaS seeks to see if WUaS can learn whether accepted student candidates will complete the PhD (with an estimated average 7 year completion time). Stay tuned, and on your upcoming exams in India, as the WUaS application process develops! And thanks for your interest, Prasanth!

Some of the WUaS PhD process may take place newly in a single realistic virtual earth (think Google Street View with TIME SLIDER and TensorFlow AI +) ... https://twitter.com/hashtag/RealisticVirtualEarthForSTEM?src=hashtag_click ... And check out the Scott Greenwald Tweet here - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/12/tussilago-farfara-coltsfoot.html - regarding virtual worlds at the molecular level (and even emerging from Imad's chemistry knowledge, and possibly in or for species, digitally even!), and potentially for Electrical Engineering even - https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-computer-science/ . 

Best, Scott



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Prasanth KP

Fri, Jan 1, 1:54 PM (5 days ago)
to meLarryZalmat
Very interesting! 



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Prasanth KP

Fri, Jan 1, 4:36 PM (5 days ago)
to me
Free Education:
Google

Wikipedia

Gutenberg

Internet Archive: Digital Library of Free & Borrowable Books, Movies, Music & Wayback Machine


UNdata


Directory of United Nations System Organizations | United Nations System Chief Executives Board for Coordination

"UN CountryStats"


National Institutes of Health (NIH) | Turning Discovery Into Health

National Center for Biotechnology Information

The PubChem Project

Education resources

National Institute of Standards and Technology | NIST


Library Directory - Online Libraries of the World

ipl2: Information You Can Trust

Finding Primary Sources for Teachers and Students | National Archives

Internet History Sourcebooks Project

LIFE photo archive hosted by Google

Spartacus Educational

The World Factbook — Central Intelligence Agency

BBC NEWS | Country Profiles

Raman Research Institute | lIBRARY | Open access Portal | Raman Research Institute

Mathematics Resources on the Internet - (Math Links by Bruno Kevius)

PlanetMath.org

DLMF: NIST Digital Library of Mathematical Functions

Open Academic Courses of the University of Athens

Concept Mapping Resources - UBC Wiki

HyperPhysics

S.O.S. Math

About MathWorld


The Clay Mathematics Institute | Clay Mathematics Institute

zbMATH - the first resource for mathematics


Welcome to Virtual Labs

Free Textbooks

Dictionary of Algorithms and Data Structures

GCSE.com: revising revision

hypertextbook

Mathematics | Matrix Introduction - GeeksforGeeks


Omniglot - the online encyclopedia of writing systems and languages

Namas Te


Math Course Materials: Prerequisites/Objectives/Syllabi/sample Final Exam Questions

Online Reference & Tools - RapidTables.com

BC Open Textbooks – Open Textbooks Adapted and Created by BC Faculty

NIST Chemistry WebBook

Vidya-mitra, Integrated E-Content Portal

Central Nervous System Histology -

Category Theory (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)

nLab

List of talks organised by event - Categories, Logic and Physics

NASA Picture Dictionary | NASA

SI Redefinition | NIST

Cognitive Science



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Prasanth KP

Fri, Jan 1, 4:40 PM (5 days ago)
to me
You're welcome! Can I give my father's number for you to use Telegram?


Scott MacLeod sgkmacleod@worlduniversityandschool.org

Fri, Jan 1, 4:44 PM (5 days ago)
to Prasanth
I've had some negative experiences with that App - am not heading into it, Prasanth. Thanks, Scott



Prasanth KP

Fri, Jan 1, 4:44 PM (5 days ago)
to me
Cool, thanks! 


Prasanth KP

Fri, Jan 1, 11:30 PM (5 days ago)
to me
Sir, We have to plan a discussion on Machine Learning, Tamil Computing, Natural Language Processing via Google Meet. Can you have any chance for to attend that?


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Hi Prasanth, 

I can see a number of directions that World Univ & Sch would head in with regarding to developing WUaS in the Tamil language:

1 Supporting scientific papers that are written in Tamil - perhaps in a Google Scholar sort of way

2 Creating online university and school on both sides (for degrees and as wiki schools) - and on WUaS platforms as they develop 

3 Translation from many languages into Tamil language by developing the machine translation, both for poetry and STEM 

So, perhaps I'd attend the second machine learning and Tamil Google Meet, so you can get organized a bit ... 


Glad to have just published yesterday my 5th book, 4th book of poetry; now how experimentally to translate these into Tamil while improving Google Translate :

~Light, Float, Sit, Watsu ~ Virtually '21
~Honey in the Bag '20 (Scottish Small Pipes' album)
~To the Dance or the Pools? in #VR '19
~Winding Road Rainbow '18
~Haiku-ish and Other Loving Hippy Harbin Poetry '17
~Naked Harbin Ethnography '16
http://amazon.com/author/scottmacleodworlduniversity ~ @WUaSPress ~

https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1345451515394158592?s=20
https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1345464239729725440?s=20

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*Light, Float, Sit, Watsu ~ Virtually '21
*Honey in the Bag '20 (Scottish Small Pipes' album)
*To the Dance or the Pools? in #VR '19
*Winding Road Rainbow '18
*Haiku-ish and Other Loving Hippy Harbin Poetry '17
*Naked Harbin Ethnography '16
http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html ~ @WUaSPress ~

https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1345451817786753024?s=20
https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1345461565802254336?s=20


Here are the slides and video from my UC Berkeley Anthropology talk on 12/18/20 - 


Slides -
With about 50 further slides (in addition to those in my talk) - here "Creating a Realistic Virtual Earth for Tourism and Tourism Studies with Actual-Virtual Harbin Hot Springs: A Case Study" UC Berkeley Anthropology TSWG presentation (slides) - 12/18/20 Fr ~ https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1SI2U7ssoy52met1OIwDwT5CbVLz98RuYRVE4OY5dj6A/edit?usp=sharing :)


Video talk -
And in my UC BERKELEY Anthropology talk on 12/18/21, on creating a realistic virtual Harbin, I mention Friends Hospital (1813) as an asylum (philosophy even?), and in regards to Harbin Hot Springs as a hot springs's retreat center, and even regarding online psychiatry at WUaS (for Harbin circles esp too)  http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/12/doubledays-hummingbird-cynanthus.html?m=0 - Creating a Realistic Virtual Earth Harbin for Tourism

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1rjAgHoN1uE4JcuGPiVnvDibpA0Fd4StA/view ~

 


Scott


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Prasanth KP

Sun, Jan 3, 2:31 AM (3 days ago)
to me
Thanks, I'll check them out. 



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Hi Prasanth, 


As one approach to developing the Tamil language at Tamil Nadu World University and School, perhaps we can explore the following. I'm waiting partly to hear back too from Volcano (Aurelien M Wende) in these regards. 

Cheers, Scott



Hi Sri Lanka WUaS, Peter, and Universitians and All, 

As you may have read in yesterday's WUaS News and Q&A, it's now possible - due to Covid-19 pandemic - to record (and live stream too) from WUaS's G Suite for Education:: 

How to record or live stream with Google Meet
https://youtu.be/ONyV40J_KZM

And here's the Video recording from yesterday - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2021/01/arches-national-park-dear-anthony.html - 

WUaS News, Q&A, and Conversation 1/4/21 (2021-01-04 at 10:02 GMT-8)" 

in a new video format in GDocs ... (which you're all welcome to use too re WUaS)


And if you may recall too, Rifai (head of Sri Lanka WUaS), created Sri Lanka WUaS in the Sinhala Language in Google Sites - and for a smartphone too - a few months ago:

"Here's the English version of WUaS on Google Sites - https://sites.google.com/view/worlduniversityandschool - but which doesn't have any language for Sri Lankans and Indians, on WUaS Google Sites in the Sinhala language and in the Hindi language, that they will be studying for 4 years in English! ... and which language needs to be added. 

I think this is the language in Sinhala, to be added in Hindi: 

මෙම (2020) සරත් සමයේ නොමිලේ උපාධි ලබා ගැනීම සඳහා ඉංග්‍රීසි භාෂා ප්‍රවීණතාවය විශ්ව විද්‍යාල මට්ටමින් විය යුතුයි. සිංහල විද්‍යාලය ඉගැන්වීම සහ ඉගෙනීම සඳහා විවෘත වනු ඇත

It could be great if this process of WUaS in many languages could be automated partly. 

And here's the beginning of Sri Lanka WUaS - https://sites.google.com/view/worlduniversityandschool/srilanka - in Sinhala, and eventually with degrees in Sinhala language. ... "


While I've tried to develop WUaS a number of times in Google Sites over the years, it hasn't worked very well, and I'm wondering if Google Sites has iterated further due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Someone named Volcano (Aurelien M Wende) has volunteered to develop the WUaS web site further. Thoughts about all of this? Google Translate will be invaluable for the development of WUaS's web platform, thanks too to Google's AI / TensorFlow ...

Questions, thoughts, ideas, suggestions?

Could I reach out to some of you further regarding your native languages in particular, and developing WUaS, perhaps beginning with the above WUaS on a smartphone re Sri Lanka WUaS? Thank you! 

Cheers, Scott


PS
Email to Volcano just now: 

Hi VOLCANO (Aurelien M Wende), 

Thanks so much for your email and offer. Have you developed websites in multiple languages - and even with Google Translate (including in G Suite for Education)?

Thank you,
Scott



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Prasanth, are these people whom you have in mind for helping to develop Tamil language related universities and schools? - Scott ...


@WorldUnivAndSch
 
@scottmacleod
 
@tshrinivasan
 
@KunjVadakkan
 
@Geeta_Mohan
 
@oligoglot
 
@subalalithaCN
 
@psyecell
 
@worldcitizengov
 
@Neechalkaran
 
@Dr_Uditraj
 
@WPRN_org
 
@vetripandi
 
@WINIFRE33633670
 
@oxfordlinguists

https://twitter.com/Prasanth0Nature/status/1346230969917870080?s=20


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Hi Prasanth, 


Here's our conversation about starting a new online Tamil language world Univ & Sch in Tamil Nadu (in my daily blog post from today, jan 6, 2021) - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2021/01/karthigaipoo-gloriosa-flower.html - including regarding free speech, for ex., and with some of the important ideas at the top. (And could I ask you please not to call me sir, and perhaps whenever you're about to write sir, substitute for the 'IR' the letters "COTT" for Scott - thank you! ... As I see this, calling people Sir for you is a cultural practice, and for me I think we're equals, and people, and I'm wary of names or titles like 'Sir' - perhaps it's a Quaker or a Gandhian thing" )

Namaste, 

Scott



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Natural Arch, Tirumala hills (India): SOFT COPY - now I see on a larger-than-my-smartphone's screen that you're asking about my new book "Light, Float, Sit, #Watsu ~ Virtually: Bodymind Electricity Sings to Me at Harbin Hot Springs & Other Traveling Poems" for translation


https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2021/01/natural-arch-tirumala-hills.html


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Hi Prasanth, Larry, Imad, Koh, Sri Lanka WUaS,


Developments of a new WUaS Press in the Tamil language are underway, I think, and in GDocs - and thanks to Prasanth furthering this conversation. 

And Prasanth, and All, 
here's our conversation about starting a new online Tamil language world Univ & Sch in Tamil Nadu (in my daily blog post from today, jan 6, 2021) - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2021/01/karthigaipoo-gloriosa-flower.html - including regarding free speech, for ex., and with some of the important ideas at the top. (And could I ask you please not to call me sir, and perhaps whenever you're about to write sir, substitute for the 'IR' the letters "COTT" for Scott - thank you! ... As I see this, calling people Sir for you is a cultural practice, and for me I think we're equals, and people, and I'm wary of names or titles like 'Sir' - perhaps it's a Quaker or a Gandhian thing" )

Exciting to be developing both a Tamil language WUaS Press, as well as WHOLE Tamil language World University and School, and regarding planning our WUaS platforms for this - and even with Tamil speaking people that Prasanth knows of (toward bottom of blog post above).  

Thank you Prasanth, and All! Shall we begin to call a Google Meet meeting of the Tamil speakers - https://twitter.com/Prasanth0Nature/status/1346230969917870080?s=20 (what would be some good times, Prasanth?) - and even so that this could approach could become a possible model for developing World University and School in all ~200 countries' official and main languages, - and even in all 7,117 known living languages? :))

Namaste, 
Scott








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Hi Prasanth, 


As one approach to developing the Tamil language at Tamil Nadu World University and School, perhaps we can explore the following. I'm waiting partly to hear back too from Volcano (Aurelien M Wende) in these regards. 

Cheers, Scott



Hi Sri Lanka WUaS, Peter, and Universitians and All, 

As you may have read in yesterday's WUaS News and Q&A, it's now possible - due to Covid-19 pandemic - to record (and live stream too) from WUaS's G Suite for Education:: 

How to record or live stream with Google Meet
https://youtu.be/ONyV40J_KZM

And here's the Video recording from yesterday - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2021/01/arches-national-park-dear-anthony.html - 

WUaS News, Q&A, and Conversation 1/4/21 (2021-01-04 at 10:02 GMT-8)" 

in a new video format in GDocs ... (which you're all welcome to use too re WUaS)


And if you may recall too, Rifai (head of Sri Lanka WUaS), created Sri Lanka WUaS in the Sinhala Language in Google Sites - and for a smartphone too - a few months ago:

"Here's the English version of WUaS on Google Sites - https://sites.google.com/view/worlduniversityandschool - but which doesn't have any language for Sri Lankans and Indians, on WUaS Google Sites in the Sinhala language and in the Hindi language, that they will be studying for 4 years in English! ... and which language needs to be added. 

I think this is the language in Sinhala, to be added in Hindi: 

මෙම (2020) සරත් සමයේ නොමිලේ උපාධි ලබා ගැනීම සඳහා ඉංග්‍රීසි භාෂා ප්‍රවීණතාවය විශ්ව විද්‍යාල මට්ටමින් විය යුතුයි. සිංහල විද්‍යාලය ඉගැන්වීම සහ ඉගෙනීම සඳහා විවෘත වනු ඇත

It could be great if this process of WUaS in many languages could be automated partly. 

And here's the beginning of Sri Lanka WUaS - https://sites.google.com/view/worlduniversityandschool/srilanka - in Sinhala, and eventually with degrees in Sinhala language. ... "


While I've tried to develop WUaS a number of times in Google Sites over the years, it hasn't worked very well, and I'm wondering if Google Sites has iterated further due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Someone named Volcano (Aurelien M Wende) has volunteered to develop the WUaS web site further. Thoughts about all of this? Google Translate will be invaluable for the development of WUaS's web platform, thanks too to Google's AI / TensorFlow ...

Questions, thoughts, ideas, suggestions?

Could I reach out to some of you further regarding your native languages in particular, and developing WUaS, perhaps beginning with the above WUaS on a smartphone re Sri Lanka WUaS? Thank you! 

Cheers, Scott


PS
Email to Volcano just now: 

Hi VOLCANO (Aurelien M Wende), 

Thanks so much for your email and offer. Have you developed websites in multiple languages - and even with Google Translate (including in G Suite for Education)?

Thank you,
Scott

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Prasanth KP

Tue, Jan 5, 3:01 PM (3 days ago)
to me
Yes, Sir


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Hi Prasanth, 


Here's our conversation about starting a new online Tamil language world Univ & Sch in Tamil Nadu (in my daily blog post from today, jan 6, 2021) - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2021/01/karthigaipoo-gloriosa-flower.html - including regarding free speech, for ex., and with some of the important ideas at the top. (And could I ask you please not to call me sir, and perhaps whenever you're about to write sir, substitute for the 'IR' the letters "COTT" for Scott - thank you! ... As I see this, calling people Sir for you is a cultural practice, and for me I think we're equals, and people, and I'm wary of names or titles like 'Sir' - perhaps it's a Quaker or a Gandhian thing" )

Namaste, 

Scott

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Prasanth,


Do you know about the free money called Stanford Mine Pi, which is mine-able every 24 hours? Use this code sgkmac after you download it, and begin earning every day! I just clicked the mining ⛏️ button now and will invite you from within the Mine Pi App itself. 

Did you add the Tamil resources to the WUAS Tamil language wiki page already?

Scott 


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Dear Prasanth, Imad, & Larry, 


I am sending you 1π! Pi is a new digital currency developed by Stanford PhDs, with over 10 million members worldwide. To claim your Pi, follow this link https://minepi.com/sgkmac and use my username (sgkmac) as your invitation code. ... on your smartphones (not your laptop / desktop computers) ...

Can you please test getting free money daily with Stanford Mine Pi on your smartphone - by downloading and installing the 'Mine Pi' App and beginning to mine it - and tell me how it works from India & Morocco? Please let me know (and in the Pi APP itself, I should be able to see my growing network, and you yours). 

Thank you & Cheers, Scott


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Scott MacLeod sgkmacleod@worlduniversityandschool.org

Jan 7, 2021, 4:10 PM (21 hours ago)
to PrasanthLarryImad
Great, thanks for letting me know, Imad. 

Did you use the sgkmac code I shared with you? Glad to hear it works well in Morocco! Let's discover with time how it works - I think for example the more people in one's Pi network, the more one earns. Cheers, Scott


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Prasanth KP

Thu, Jan 7, 6:37 PM (18 hours ago)
to me
I like to say the concept of Universal Basic Income and alliviating the poverty of the Universe is like my ideas and thoughts to me. So I am very happy to work with you and yours (ours).


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Scott MacLeod sgkmacleod@worlduniversityandschool.org

Thu, Jan 7, 6:40 PM (18 hours ago)
to ImadLarryPrasanth
Hi Prasanth, and Imad,

Thanks for letting me know that you signed up for Mine Pi, Prasanth, - and that you had already done so, Imad. When I 'mined' this evening, I didn't see you - maybe I'll see that we're in the same Pi network in 24 hours. Thanks for helping me to learn further about Mine Pi - and for beginning to earn Pi for yourself. 

Scott



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Prasanth KP

Thu, Jan 7, 6:46 PM (17 hours ago)
to me
How to mine via Pi mobile app?


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Insert Pi pic



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Imad Zalmat

Thu, Jan 7, 7:19 PM (17 hours ago)
to me
You're welcome Scott, I'm in your network pi everytime i mine i find you, last day i was little busy and forget to mine. 

Greetings 


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Scott MacLeod sgkmacleod@worlduniversityandschool.org

Thu, Jan 7, 7:49 PM (16 hours ago)
to PrasanthZalmat
Great, Prasanth and Imad, 

Thanks for the information. (I was just giving a Scottish Small Pipes' lesson on Skype video). 

Looks like you've successfully installed the Mine Pi App Prasanth - congratulations. if so, every 24 hours a mining button appears on my Mine Pi App to click on, which I do, - and then 24 hours it appears again. Please let me know within the next 24 hours if you find the button to click on to get Pi (which is the mining button - ie when you click on the Mine Pi button you're using algorithms to get Pi, and it looks like you have 2 Pi, so I'm guessing you're doing it correctly). Good luck with Rupees' conversion too, it seems ... I'll have to explore if this is possible for US dollars !

And thanks Imad for saying you're in my sgkmac network. I'm learning how Pi works, and so far I only see the person (head of Sri Lanka WUaS) whose code I used. Perhaps however I can invite you from the 'security' button after mining, and then see you both newly on my network. 

Let's learn further about Pi with time!

All the best, Scott


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Prasanth, 


I do too - and UBI in combination with the networking and mining technology of cryptocurrencies, here Mine Pi, may even emerge from a kind of 'oneness' thinking, and caring for the poor, I'll call this. :)

I teach a course on "Network Society, Information Technology and the Global University" - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/InfoTechNetworkSocGlobalUniv.html - and while I'm an anthropologist, sociologist, and this is a course of sociology, it's also compassionate and it explains the economics in part of how the IT Revolution developed - regarding Modernity too (an often explored idea in the social sciences) ... maybe, per my course, your thinking relates to some of the cultures that gave rise to the internet! 

Thanks for your email< :)
Scott



Sincerely, Scott 


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Scott MacLeod sgkmacleod@worlduniversityandschool.org

Jan 7, 2021, 10:37 PM (14 hours ago)
to ZalmatPrasanth
Imad & Prasanth, 

I'm glad to write I've found you in Mine Pi in the 'rarn ng teM' (for a total of 4 now on my team) :)

Thanks for joining the Mine Pi community with the invitation code I shared :)

Scott



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