Saturday, May 4, 2024

Collomia flower: By asking Gemini AI, just found the fascinating Hello Talk App for finding language partners for learning - I'm from the USA and know English grammar fairly well. I'm newly on @HelloTalkApp because I'd like to improve my intermediate German. Ich suche eine Sprachpartnerin fuer Deutsch< >Englisch Unterhaltung als Win-Win Austausch. Nice to meet you! Alles Gute! https://hellotalk.com/u/m_scottmacleod?source=1 ~ AAAB https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1786819063496245513 * * * Great! @CordeliaSchmid Smart Image Recognition for AI with #TiagoRobot -to make ALL archival resources, including in attics etc, eg in #QuakerValleyPA area machine readable > #GStreetView in #RealisticVirtualEarthForHistory @WorldUnivAndSch * * * Ideas for walks in western PA - Wildflowers ? ~ glad to have visited the Sewickley Heights History Center and Fern Hollow Nature Center (where we visited last Sunday!) ... and also I went in to the Sewickley Public Library to ask a few further Quaker Valley history questions and learned some interesting things further ... like the neighboring community Edgeworth in 1878 may have had 1/3 of its residents identifying with Quaker Valley (but not necessarily as Quaker)


By asking Gemini AI, just found the fascinating Hello Talk App for finding language partners for learning: 


Wie kann ich am besten eine Sprachpartnerin in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania fuer Deutsch < > Englisch Unterhaltung, als eine Win-Win Lage, kostenlos Austausch ?



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I'm from the USA and know English grammar fairly well. I'm newly on @HelloTalkApp because I'd like to improve my intermediate German. Ich suche eine Sprachpartnerin fuer Deutsch< >Englisch Unterhaltung als Win-Win Austausch. Nice to meet you! Alles Gute! https://hellotalk.com/u/m_scottmacleod?source=1 ~




Retweeting

What is the Hardest phrase to say in Japanese? 

#learnjapanese #japanese #japaneselanguage #japanesephrase #learn #viral #HelloTalk #interview #speakenglish 




Ohne retweet -

I'm from the USA and know English grammar fairly well. I'm newly on @HelloTalkApp because I'd like to improve my intermediate German. Ich suche eine Sprachpartnerin fuer Deutsch< >Englisch Unterhaltung als Win-Win Austausch. Nice to meet you! Alles Gute! https://hellotalk.com/u/m_scottmacleod?source=1 -






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Great! @CordeliaSchmid Smart Image Recognition for AI with #TiagoRobot -to make ALL archival resources, including in attics etc, eg in #QuakerValleyPA area machine readable > #GStreetView in #RealisticVirtualEarthForHistory @WorldUnivAndSch 


Great! @CordeliaSchmid Smart Image Recognition for AI
#TiagoRobot -to make ALL archival resources, incl in attics, eg in #QuakerValleyPA area machine readable > #GStreetView in #RealisticVirtualEarthForHistory @WorldUnivAndSch 








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Retweeting -







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Cordelia Schmid – Körber Prize Winner 2023: Smart Image Recognition for AI

Tiago the robot 

2:14 image recognition 

2:34 local descriptives 



to make ALL the archival resources, including in people's attics, in the Quaker Valley Sewickley area machine readable in an iterating way, and to add some of them to Google Street View with Time Slider in an iterating #RealisticVirtualEarthForHistory - and especially at / with / per MIT OCW-centric wiki World Univ & Sch - 





Congratulations to Googler @CordeliaSchmid for being named Monte-Carlo International Woman of the Year for her work in artificial vision and automatic image interpretation by robots. Learn more about the award ↓







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Ideas for walks in western PA - Wildflowers ? ~ glad to have visited the Sewickley Heights History Center and Fern Hollow Nature Center (where we visited last Sunday!)... and also I went in to the Sewickley Public Library to ask a few further Quaker Valley history questions and learned some interesting  things further  ...  like the neighboring community Edgeworth in 1878 may have had 1/3 of its residents identifying with Quaker Valley (but not necessarily as Quaker) 

Hi Ma, 


Looking forward to exploring Saltsburg PA area, and walks in the vicinity tomorrow on Sunday May 5, 2024 ... and potentially for wildflowers 

Further thoughts about Quakers in Quaker Valley Sewickley research (would like to be heading up to Harbin for soaking and ethnographic book 2) from yesterday F 5/3/24 ... and with your/our Hi email threads from then below (for the record, and because I'm a scholar of the internet and information technology innovation idea-wise) ... 

Again, 

"glad to have visited the Sewickley Heights History Center and Fern Hollow Nature Center (where we visited last Sunday!)... http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/environment ... and also I went in to the Sewickley Public Library to ask a few further Quaker Valley history questions and learned some interesting  things further  ...  like the neighboring community Edgeworth in 1878 may have had 1/3 of its residents identifying with Quaker Valley (but not necessarily as Quaker) ... As I left I passed a woman with a kind of 'Sewickley society face' (with parallels to 'Fox Chapel society' and related 'society faces' that I associate with what I recall seeing in the 1970s, I'd write (as ethnographic interpretation further research needed)  ... and am curious how Sewickley produces such faces social scientifically ..."

Having gone in to the Sewickley Public Library again yesterday, and gotten a few further references from a librarian there (see email below - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2024/05/chinook-salmon-oncorhynchus-tshawytscha.html ), would love to make this getting of Quaker evidence and documentation possible with machine learning and robots even ... and to get ALL (in an iterating way) of the library archives in the Quaker Valley Sewickley area into a machine readable format ... and re even interesting stories books and narratives emerging out of Google Street View books ... And even talking with avatar bots or avatar agents ...

See you tomorrow fir further wildflower seeking in around Saltsburg ... 

Love, Scott



PS

Dear Sewickley Library, 

Thanks for your emails - and these  "Quakers in Sewickley and Quaker Valley, PA" search resources, both 

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the article (on April 22, 2024)

Quaker Valley Joint Schools. 1955. Quaker Valley.  Sewickley, PA: Sewickley Herald.   

which says as you pointed out 
"the residents of the upper one-third of Edgeworth commonly identified themselves as Quaker Valley persons ... "

(and perhaps it's time to begin to explore some ethnographic historical interviews with people in that area today with some Quaker background ... AND RE ARCHIVES IN PEOPLE'S ATTICS and similar for example)

and 
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these new links' resources -  https://digitalcollections.tricolib.brynmawr.edu/object/hc142265 - with PHOTO. ...

Description

Sewickley Mtg., Pa. & congregation. Established by Baltimore Yearly Meeting. Became part of Ohio Yearly Meeting in 1813. Closed about 1870.
Sewickley Meeting is a part of Ohio Yearly Meeting (Conservative)



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Interesting to get a first image, and thanks for the pointer to the Tri-Colleges' libraries (Haverford, Bryn Mawr and Swarthmore Colleges) in the greater Philadelphia area, but the reference data needs parsing, since it seems to be a bit contradictory in terms of dates for example (a direction I'm not heading in necessarily). 



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Would love with Gemini generative AI chatbot - https://gemini.google.com/ - and robotics even - 


and see 
Cordelia Schmid – Körber Prize Winner 2023: Smart Image Recognition for AI

re 
2:14 image recognition 

2:34 local descriptives 

and the Thiago robot

- to make ALL the archival resources, including in people's attics, in the Quaker Valley Sewickley area machine readable in an iterating way, and to add some of them to Google Street View with Time Slider in an iterating #RealisticVirtualEarthForHistory - and especially at / with / per MIT OCW-centric wiki World Univ & Sch - 

https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Quakers_-_Religious_Society_of_Friends 

https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Library_Resources

again in and with iterating generative AI machine readable formats.
 



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Thanks for the information that Quaker Valley Sewickley might possibly have been informed by Wilburite and Quaker Conservative Ohio Yearly Meeting Friends' trajectory (re Friends /Quakers in the 1800s) ... 

The Wilbur-Gurney Quaker split occurred (~1845?) after

The Hicksite-Orthodox Quaker split (~1827ish?)

and while I posit they were Quaker identity related (re I think Bible and individual Friends' groups' place history, in conversation with British traveling Quakers too), I don't know the underlying issues in these splits ...

(And when I worked in the bookstore of Pendle Hill Quaker Center for Study and Contemplation, near Swarthmore College, I recall seeing an elaborate chart poster of Quaker historical branches, but only find this one here - https://quakerpodcast.org/quaker-branches/ - which is helpful even with dates, but as an unprogrammed Friend coming out of the 1960s and 1970s, and having becoming a member of the RSoF in Edinburgh Scotland in 2004 when studying at the University of Edinburgh's School of Celtic and Scottish studies, and progressive, I'm interested in how did Quaker Valley near Sewickley PA, 12 miles west of Pgh PA become Quaker ... and what this history is ... and 'from the inside' - eg as a Friend / Quaker who appreciates the meditation of unprogrammed Quaker Silent Meeting and the related life from this).




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So, thanks too for mentioning the 'other' possible Sewickley Quaker Meeting, I'll call it (in Westmoreland county) ... and possible documents'  and / or library  resources ... and for sharing the links /URLs for further follow up, as I continue to seek to grow a Realistic Virtual Earth For History and For Quaker Valley history, with parallels to, and interoperable with a Realistic Virtual Harbin Hot Springs for ethnographic study, and regarding my second Harbin ethnographic book project, to be published potentially FROM Google Street View with time slider, text in the sidebar too. 




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Am curious, too, in the way libraries and books and archival documents too make possible - to explore carrying out such Quaker Valley Sewickley research remotely or virtually, eg after I move back to the SF Bay Area potentially later this 2024, and with machine learning and AI and even robotics, but perhaps in seeking to lay some groundwork for making accessible the Quaker Valley Sewickley archival resources in iterating ways re information technologies  - and regrading World Univ & Sch wiki libraries especially. 

How best, I'm wondering, to add and make machine readable and accessible not only ALL the documents from the 

Sewickley Valley Historical Society

Sewickley Heights History Center

Sewickley Library 

including of course Quaker resources and references, and also re the Tri-Counties' libraries - Haverford, Bryn Mawr and Swarthmore Colleges - in the greater Philadelphia area, but also with new approaches re MIT OCW-centric wiki World Univ & Sch's university research libraries with wiki-adding local archives, like those above and the Tri-Counties' libraries, eg to Gemini generative AI purposes (planned in all 200 countries and in their main languages) ?


I just asked this question to GEMINI AI, and got this amazing response in seconds - 

ere's a breakdown on how to approach this ambitious project of creating a machine-readable archive incorporating local historical societies, libraries, and colleges with a focus on Quaker materials:

Data Acquisition:

  1. Contact and Collaboration: Reach out to the aforementioned institutions:

    • Sewickley Valley Historical Society
    • Sewickley Heights History Center
    • Sewickley Library
    • Haverford College Library
    • Bryn Mawr College Library
    • Swarthmore College Library Explain your goals and the potential benefits of a wider audience accessing their materials through your machine-readable archive. Negotiate data-sharing agreements that give you the right to process their information.

  2. Data Formats: Ideally, the institutions would provide their documents in electronically readable formats like:

    • Plain Text (.txt)
    • Portable Document Format (PDF) with searchable text (OCR applied)
    • Microsoft Word (.docx) or other editable document formats

Machine Readability:

  1. Optical Character Recognition (OCR): If documents are scanned images (PDFs or JPEGs), you'll need OCR software to convert them into searchable text.
  2. Document Structure and Metadata: Apply a consistent structure to the documents, including:
    • Title
    • Author(s)
    • Date
    • Subject keywords (including "Quaker" for relevant documents)
    • Links to original sources (websites or physical archives)

Collaboration with World University and School (WUaS):

  1. Data Integration: Explore how WUaS's wiki platform can handle your data. Ideally, their system should allow:

    • Uploading documents in various formats
    • Extracting text content for searchability
    • Adding metadata tags for categorization
    • User-friendly interface for browsing and searching documents

  2. Local Archive Integration: Discuss how WUaS can integrate local archives like yours. This might involve:

    • Creating a dedicated section for your project within WUaS's wiki
    • Linking your documents to relevant MIT OCW materials or other scholarly resources on WUaS

Incorporating Generative AI (like Gemini):

  1. Training Data: While Gemini is still under development, you can prepare training data for future AI applications. This could involve:

    • Annotating your documents with additional information like named entities (people, places, organizations) and relationships between them.
    • Extracting factual information from the documents to create a knowledge base.

  2. Accessibility: Ensure your archive is accessible in multiple languages to align with Gemini's global aspirations. Explore using Machine Translation tools to create multilingual versions of your documents.

Challenges and Considerations:

  • Copyright restrictions may apply to some materials. Ensure you have the rights to process and share the information.
  • This project requires significant time, effort, and potentially financial resources for data acquisition, processing, and platform integration.
  • Uploading massive amounts of data to WUaS might require technical considerations and collaboration with their team.

Overall, this is a commendable initiative to preserve local history and make it globally accessible. By collaborating with institutions and leveraging new technologies, you can create a valuable resource for researchers and anyone interested in the history of the region and Quakerism.



Thanks, Scott
Just added this to my daily blog post for 

Friday, May 3, 2024
Chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha): Time to hire #WUaSLawFaculty regarding places spoken "In terms of official languages, China has 11:

 * * * Quakers in Quaker Valley Sewickley, Pennsylvania, area history ... and a realistic virtual earth for libraries and history (and ethnography +) * * *



AND see again too - 

Thursday, April 25, 2024
Wovoka Wilderness (Paiute Shaman pic),


* * * Realistic Virtual Earth for History at WUaS - How for ex. to create & #WikiAdd to #RealisticVirtualEarthForHistory @WorldUnivAndSch (think #GStreetView w #TimeSlider) eg "Quakers in #SewickleyPA & #QuakerValleyPA" & eg also to bring 1800s' history alive & talk w #Quaker #AvatarBots * * * #WUaSUnivs' Universitian School Newspapers at World University and School, planned in 7164 known living languages? MacArthur Foundation Building Trust and Strengthening Democracy 2024 President’s Essay, and regarding Journalism #WUaSUniversitian #WUaSJournalism 




THANK YOU, Richelle, and all the librarians at the SEWICKLEY PUBLIC LIBRARY !









On Fri, May 3, 2024, 5:55 PM Scott MacLeod <sgkmacleod@worlduniversityandschool.org> wrote:
Richelle, and Sewickley Librarians!  

Thanks so much for your emails and the new Quaker history Sewickley and Edgeworth Quaker Valley  resources !

1/3rd of Edgeworth Quaker Valley  in 1878 may have identified as Quaker - interesting!

Scott 












PPS 

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On Fri, May 3, 2024, 9:14 PM Scott MacLeod <sgkmacleod@gmail.com> wrote:
That would be fun, Ma!

Saltsburg PA area and a walk on Sunday?

Somewhere on Saturday?

Nice to hear from you!

Glad to be still alive in Pgh in asylum after the murderous run through attempt of me by the wedgie soldier? f.k. ... and the murder word said in the Chase bank Shadyside not long ago too...

Looking forward to leaving this "Abandon all hope ye who enter here" place culturally somehow of Pgh for me this time around, and after Dad's first subdural hematoma on 12/30/04 - and heading west to a newly safe open Canyon 94516 in 2024.

But going to Ikea after some other shopping elsewhere brought some cheer due to its design thinking I think ...

And also glad to visit the Sewickley Heights History Center and Fern Hollow Nature Center ... http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/environment ... and also I went in to the Sewickley Public Library to ask a few further Quaker Valley history questions and learned some interesting  things further  ...  like the neighboring community Edgeworth in 1878 may have been 1/3 Quaker identifiers ... As I left I passed a woman with a kind of Sewickley society face (with parallels to 'Fox Chapel society' and related faces I associate with having seen in the 1970s, I'd write ... and am curious how Sewickley produced such faces social scientifically ... 

The Future is ahead George wryly used to say ...

Love, abolitionist, see you soon, ❣️, Scott








On Fri, May 3, 2024, 8:51 PM Jane MacLeod <jkbmacleod@icloud.com> wrote:
Hi Scott,

Just checking in.  Are you interested in getting together sometime this weekend?  Let me know. 
Love, Ma







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Scott MacLeod sgkmacleod@gmail.com

Fri, May 3, 9:55 PM (8 hours ago)
to Jane

I think we're making progress at knocking back Pittsburgh organized crime internationally, Ma - and re abolition and a US federal investigation into  Chase bank Wilkinsburg for example!

Appreciating the Tweets and vision, and networks too re getting things done US Senator from MA and former Harvard Law teacher Elizabeth Warren ...



And hopefully something will come of 3rd Curated Coaching with Chase bank Meeting on Wednesday May 1!    

Love, abolitionally, see you Sunday!
Scott 



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