Saturday, February 27, 2021

Mount Darwin (California): MIT's Manduhai Buyandelger - "Elections, Virtual Reality, and Climate Change: What Can Anthropology of Mongolia Offer?" . . .'In your virtual reality thinking and what you spoke about, would you envision a virtual Mongolia as nation state, with individual virtual land plots with ownership possibilities even in-world (think Google Street View with time slider for iterative realism, with Second Life with avatar bots, group build-ability, and land ownership, but realistic not cartoon-esque)?'


MIT - "Elections, Virtual Reality, and Climate Change: What Can Anthropology of Mongolia Offer?" ~ MIT Professor Manduhai Buyandelger

 

Dear Professor Buyandelger (and Kate, since you were mentioned, and are on the faculty of IU),

Thank you for your excellent talk and Q&A as well. 

In addition to my question below, how might you envision alternative realistic virtual earth(s) emerging in something like Google Street View with Time Slider (and for tele-robotic surgery at the cellular and molecular levels too for all 200 countries, re one definition of 'medical realism' in 'VIRTUAL REALITY' for example)? 

"Thank you for your excellent presentation on Mongolia “Elections, Virtual Reality, and Climate Change: What Can Anthropology of Mongolia Offer?”. In your virtual reality thinking and what you spoke about, would you envision a virtual Mongolia as nation state, with individual virtual land plots with ownership possibilities even in-world (think Google Street View with time slider for iterative realism, with Second Life with avatar bots, group build-ability, and land ownership, but realistic not cartoon-esque)? Thanks, Scott MacLeod (sgkmacleod@worlduniversityandschool.org)"



And from Linked In - 
https://www.linkedin.com/in/manduhai-buyandelger-49b00b88/

Thanks for your great talk, Professor Buyandelger 
https://twitter.com/MITanthropology/status/1365752815008718848! I'll email you further about alternative virtual reality questions, incl. virtual @HarbinBook. Best, Scott (worlduniversityandschool.org & Mongolia WUaS https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod)


In developing CC-4 MIT OpenCourseWare-centric wiki World Univ & Sch, am interested in facilitating the creation of Mongolia World Univ & Sch in Mongolian languages (which will emerge from here - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Nation_States and https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Languages and check out the main wiki subjects' page - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Subjects - for its academic wiki subjects, with their MIT OCW to get a sense how WUaS works, as we partnering with edX presently as well), and for free-to-students' online Bachelor, PhD, Law, MD and IB high School degrees as well (and in the other Eurasian countries you study, Kate, as well). How might we best communicate further about this as well? 

I will look out for a recording of your excellent talk if it becomes available. Thank you again so much!

Sincerely, Scott
PS
My actual-virtual field site is Harbin Hot Springs in northern California, and you can access the Harbin gatehouse here, and 'walk' 4 miles down the road to Middletown, CA, from one of the bottom most images I think ~ http://tinyurl.com/p62rpcg (see the time slider function, brainstorming-wise, here or other Google Street Views) ~ accessible from - https://twitter.com/HarbinBook ~ http://bit.ly/HarbinBook ~ and regarding too a realistic virtual Mongolia planning too, some beginnings of which are here - https://www.google.com/maps/place/Mongolia/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x3627050669aa6d4b:0xe0dd213937e6e096?sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwibw6vWgovvAhULLK0KHQ-6AG8Q8gEwLHoECDwQAQ . 

#RealisticVirtualHarbin

#ActualVirtual


PPS
Greetings to Heather Paxson if you're in communication with her. 

Thank you again!


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Friday, March 5, 2021


Hi Manduhai (Kathy and Marianne), 

Thanks again for your excellent talk on Mongolia last week (and per my email to you which I'm posting again below). I blogged about this here - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2021/02/mount-darwin-california.html. 

This popped up in Twitter today, so I'm following up in writing to you again - https://twitter.com/MIT_SHASS/status/1367853173210243074?s=20 - having added a Minute to the World University and School Monthly Business Meeting Minutes for 2/20/21 - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2021/02/xoloitzcuintle-mexican-hairless-dog.html - about an emergent Mongolia World Univ & Sch planned in Mongolian online (https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Nation_States) and for free-to-students' MIT OCW-centric degrees (Bachelor, PhD, Law, MD, Law, and IB) from World Univ & Sch.  I didn't send you the Minutes last Monday, but will add you to the World Univ & Sch mailings (until you say unsubscribe) - and especially since WUaS is planning major online Universities in all of the countries you study anthropologically - and in their official / main languages, as well as wiki schools for open teaching and learning in all the living languages in your countries, as field sites, too. WUaS is currently partnering with edX (founded by MIT and Harvard) and seeking both online Bachelor and PhD degree applicants beginning this autumn, in English - and from Mongolia for example! 

With a particular interest in virtual reality and anthropology ie in seeking to create a realistic virtual earth for everything, and a realistic virtual Harbin Hot Springs, and as an anthropologist, I'm interested in developing Actual-Virtual ethnographic field sites as both classrooms and STEM field sites (and regarding my actual-virtual ethnographic field site of Harbin Hot Springs in northern California - https://www.amazon.com/author/scottmacleodworlduniversity): 

As #Anthropologist seeking to create #ActualVirtual #RealisticVirtualHarbin think #GoogleStreetView + #TextintheSidebar w #TensorFlow for #PokemonGo #WUaSgaming too via #EthnoWikiVirtualWorldGraphy < #RealisticVirtualEarthForPublishing >  Writing abt #MachineLearning from within

https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1365504298436599808?s=20

I'm including below also some related Tweets. 

And how we might best otherwise communicate about some of this further?

All the best, Scott
- Scott GK MacLeod  
Founder, President, CEO & Professor
1) non-profit World University and School - http://worlduniversityandschool.org -
2) for profit general stock company WUaS Corporation - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html - 

CC-4 MIT OCW-centric wiki WUaS is planned in all ~200 countries and in their official languages for free-to-students' Bachelor, PhD, Law, MD and IB high school degrees, accessible from here in due course - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Nation_States - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Languages ... for example (and see, too, the MIT OCW on some of the academic wiki subjects here - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Subjects).






Languages 
MIT talk re #VR in #Mongolia #WUaSwiki Univ:
https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Languages for #WUaSFreeToStudents best STEM CC-4 OCW degrees
http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2021/02/mount-darwin-california.html?m=0 "Elections, #VirtualReality, & #ClimateChange: What Can #Anthropology of #Mongolia Offer?" MIT's Buyandelger https://twitter.com/MITanthropology/status/1365752815008718848~


 









WUaS as free to students' 

 MIT talk re #VR in Mongolia #WUaSMongolia Univ:
https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Nation_States for #WUaSFreeToStudents best STEM CC-4 OCW degrees
http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2021/02/mount-darwin-california.html?m=0 "Elections, #VirtualReality, & #ClimateChange: What Can #Anthropology of #Mongolia Offer?" MIT's Buyandelger https://twitter.com/MITanthropology/status/1365752815008718848~







February 27, 2021 - 

Dear Professor Buyandelger (and Kate, since you were mentioned, and are on the faculty of IU),

Thank you for your excellent talk and Q&A as well. 
In addition to my question below, how might you envision alternative realistic virtual earth(s) emerging in something like Google Street View with Time Slider (and for telerobotic surgery at the cellular and molecular levels too for all 200 countries, re one definition of 'medical realism' in 'VIRTUAL REALITY' for example)? 

"Thank you for your excellent presentation on Mongolia “Elections, Virtual Reality, and Climate Change: What Can Anthropology of Mongolia Offer?”. In your virtual reality thinking and what you spoke about, would you envision a virtual Mongolia as nation state, with individual virtual land plots with ownership possibilities even in-world (think Google Street View with time slider for iterative realism, with Second Life with avatar bots, group build-ability, and land ownership, but realistic not cartoon-esque)? Thanks, Scott MacLeod (sgkmacleod@worlduniversityandschool.org)"



And from Linked In - 
https://www.linkedin.com/in/manduhai-buyandelger-49b00b88/

Thanks for your great talk, Professor Buyandelger https://twitter.com/MITanthropology/status/1365752815008718848! I'll email you further about alternative virtual reality questions, incl. virtual @HarbinBook. Best, Scott (worlduniversityandschool.org & Mongolia WUaS https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod)


In developing CC-4 MIT OpenCourseWare-centric wiki World Univ & Sch, am interested in facilitating the creation of Mongolia World Univ & Sch in Mongolian languages (which will emerge from here - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Nation_States and https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Languages and check out the main wiki subjects' page - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Subjects - for its academic wiki subjects, with their MIT OCW to get a sense how WUaS works, as we partnering with edX presently as well), and for free-to-students' online Bachelor, PhD, Law, MD and IB high School degrees as well (and in the other Eurasian countries you study, Kate, as well). How might we best communicate further about this as well? 

I will look out for a recording of your excellent talk if it becomes available. Thank you again so much!

Sincerely, Scott
PS
My actual-virtual field site is Harbin Hot Springs in northern California, and you can access the Harbin gatehouse here, and 'walk' 4 miles down the road to Middletown, CA, from one of the bottom most images I think ~ http://tinyurl.com/p62rpcg (see the time slider function, brainstorming-wise, here or other Google Street Views) ~ accessible from - https://twitter.com/HarbinBook ~ http://bit.ly/HarbinBook ~ and regarding too a realistic virtual Mongolia planning too, some beginnings of which are here - https://www.google.com/maps/place/Mongolia/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x3627050669aa6d4b:0xe0dd213937e6e096?sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwibw6vWgovvAhULLK0KHQ-6AG8Q8gEwLHoECDwQAQ . 

#RealisticVirtualHarbin

#ActualVirtual


PPS
Greetings to Heather Paxson if you're in communication with her. 

Thank you again!












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