Sunday, October 20, 2024

Great White Heron National Wildlife Refuge, FL: Welcome to BlockTalk! Confirmation (Harvard Graduate School of Education - Scratch BLOCK programming language get together regarding Creative Computing in Computer Science) * * * * * * Added the following summary to the following WUaS Wiki Subjects regarding the above resources - Added Norvig's Revolutionizing Education with Machine Learning and AI: #WUaSunivs, Blocktalk Scratch programming AI, and virtual Harbin in G Street View potentially with Scratch resources + * To https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Machine_Learning AND .../wiki/Dialogue AND .../Programming AND .../wiki/Computer_Science AND .../wiki/Creativity AND .../wiki/Education AND .../wiki/Artificial_Intelligence AND .../wiki/Proof_of_Educational_Information_Technologies%27_Effectiveness AND .../wiki/STEM_Education_-_Science,_Technologies,_Engineering_and_Mathematics AND .../wiki/Inspiration_in_learning_and_teaching AND .../wiki/Theories_of_Learning * * * 'Proposed Reedie+ book group beginning in late December 2024 or early 2025?' - at 670A Ridgecrest Rd, Canyon CA 94516 on Sat 12/14/24??? - AND Happy Birthday Byron & Cindy Hann MDs in Moraga 94556 about 4 miles away from Canyon 94516 * * * Have read that caloric restriction (with good nutrition) can extend longevity 10-15 per cent across species ... Searched on - 'caloric restriction and longevity: what percent life extension across species? harvard' * * "In 1935, a scientist named Clive McCay published a startling discovery: rats with severely restricted diets lived up to 33% longer than previously known possible. ... "


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Hi Paulina and Karen, Brian (Yu), and Peter (Norvig), and Vicky, 

Thanks again for the edifying Block Talk get together on Thursday 10/17/24. And good morning! And thanks for this Tweet, Brian - 


Brian Yu
@brianyu28
Jul 16, 2021
Thrilled to see the #GettingUnstuck curriculum release! I'm so grateful to have worked this past year with
@karen_brennan,
@phaduong,
@Mary_Adelaide23, and everyone else at
@HGSE_CCL
 on this new creative computing curriculum.


https://x.com/brianyu28/status/1416144888467447808


Retweets -

#CreativeComputing
@HGSE_CCL
Introducing #GettingUnstuck, a 10-module intermediate
@Scratch
 curriculum to help your students develop greater creative and conceptual fluency with code! Explore this free #CreativeComputing resource at: https://gettingunstuck.gse.harvard.edu

https://x.com/HGSE_CCL/status/1416104983129362432



Brainstorming, 
how could I use Scratch blocks to move little Pagman to the Harbin Hot Springs' gate house in Google Street View - BUT FURTHUR possibly with Brian getting access from Peter Norvig or similar to Google Street View for Harbin Hot Springs - how could I GET PAST the INVISIBLE WALL at the Harbin Gate House in GSV - and code Pegman (as possibly a physical- little Lego Spike Prime robot build, with an parallel virtual Pegman robot - eg for the physical-digital development 'conversation') to "WALK" about 300 yards or meters up to the Harbin Hot Springs' warm pool in the Harbin pool area, and get in the pool to soak-meditate? (I've attached a jpg of the Harbin Hot Springs gatehouse from the Google Street View URL below, in some of these regards. I could try to use a photo editor like Photoshop with the .jpg picture and digitally cut out Pegman and the Gate House, and upload them here - https://scratch.mit.edu/users/helianth/ - and play around ... but don't think I'm heading in this direction ... I am just hacking around here thinking-wise ... and continue to be interested in returning to physical Harbin Hot Springs in northern California about 2.5 hours north of the SF Bay Area for further ethnographic field work +).

And further, 
how best to build out this  Harbin Hot Springs IN Google Street View N-Dimensionally, and with SCRATCH BLOCKS for coding sprites etc + with Scratch (https://scratch.mit.edu/users/ScottWorldUnivAndSch/) - 


- AND for PHYSICAL-DIGITAL explorations with Scratch Lego Spike Prime robotics and in Google Street View, and for WUaS Home Robotics (for matriculating WUaS  students, and WUaS volunteer Universitians, and WUaS explorers too) ?

(and how to do this further for and STEAM research (including ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy), my 2nd Harbin Hot Springs' ethnographic book project, AND to PUBLISH this 2nd ethnographic book project, and book itself, FROM Google Street View with TIME SLIDER, Maps, Earth, TensorFlowAI text-in-the-sidebar ... REINVENTING the book in the process)?

Thanks, Scott

Virtual Harbin as ethnographic and STEAM field site is a significant focus of my academic research - 

and also in seeking to facilitate a realistic virtual earth (for everything) ... and see again Peter Norvig's INCREDIBLE #TooiifyAIWUaS article - 


Revolutionizing Education with Machine Learning and AI
Updated on Mar 02,2024 

#WorldUniversityInSchool 
re #WUaSunivs in all ~200 countries and in their main languages 


PS

A set of Tweets - 

Brainstorming, how to use #ScratchBlocks to move little #GPegman to #HarbinSprings' #GateHouse in #GStreetView & FURTHUR possibly w @brianyu28 getting access from #PeterNorvig to #GSV, how could I GET PAST #InvisibleWall
https://www.google.com/maps/@38.7859764,-122.651938,3a,75y,341.91h,90t/data=!3m8!1e1!3m6!1s8oIujkhNbVoj1fL3eS7djw!2e0!5s20240501T000000!6shttps:%2F%2Fstreetviewpixels-pa.googleapis.com%2Fv1%2Fthumbnail%3Fcb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile%26w%3D900%26h%3D600%26pitch%3D0%26panoid%3D8oIujkhNbVoj1fL3eS7djw%26yaw%3D341.91!7i16384!8i8192?hl=en&coh=205410&entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI0MTAxNi4wIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D >https://scratch.mit.edu/users/ScottWorldUnivAndSch/ to soak?


scratch.mit.edu - image on Twitter

https://x.com/scottmacleod/status/1847639113660297358

https://x.com/Q_YogaMacFlower/status/1847639380925518099

https://x.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1847639549297508592


Retweeting:  





Retweets -



With jpg pic 








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Harbin Gate House w Pegman Screen Shot 2024-10-19 at 9.24.13 AM
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PPS
In a related vein - 

Wow, a Googler #PeterNorvig? has been building out #RealisticVirtualHarbin in #GStreetView w #GTimeSlider 2012 - #HarbinGateHouse - 2007 - w #VintageFireEngine (TURN LEFT) ... #vintageRV 

Wow, a Googler #PeterNorvig? has been building out #RealisticVirtualHarbin in #GStreetView w #GTimeSlider in
&
2007 - w #VintageFireEngine (TURN LEFT) -
& NEW: 2024 - a #vintageRV








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Society, Information Technology, and the Global University (2025, forthcoming) 

- Scott GK MacLeod  
Founder, President, CEO & Professor
CC-4 licensed MIT OCW-centric, Wiki, 
World University & School (WUaS) 
- PO Box 442, Canyon, CA 94516 
- 5816 Callowhill St., Pittsburgh, PA 15206

1) non-profit 501(c)(3) Public Charity 
MIT OCW-centric, 
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F, October 18, 2024



Paulina and Karen, Brian, all, 

Thanks for the BlockTalk yesterday - https://x.com/HGSE_CCL/status/1842887376575562171. Great to e-meet you anew. 


I first met Karen in person in one or two Scratch Meetups in SF in around 2015, one in teh new Exploratorium - 


WorldUnivandSch
@WorldUnivAndSch
·
Dec 6, 2022
The #ExploratoriumSF hands on #InteractiveScienceMuseum 7 years ago & a #ScratchProgramming MeetUp with #HarvardGSE's #ProfKarenBrennan
@karen_brennan
 (There was an interactive #Exploratorium in '3D' #VirtualWorld #SecondLife around then too) >#RealisticVirtualEarthForMuseums ALL

https://x.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1600128982107594752

As a further question about where Blocktalk as well as Scratch are heading, any chance Scratch block programming could develop in a realistic virtual earth (and see Peter Norvig's INCREDIBLE MIT OCW-centric wiki World Univ & Sch #ToolifyAIWUaS article "Revolutionizing Education with Machine Learning and AI - https://www.toolify.ai/ai-news/revolutionizing-education-with-machine-learning-and-ai-2574306), and think Google Street View with time slider, maps, earth, tensorflow ai, (and with little Pegman in GSV becoming a main Scratch sprite) and in a realistic virtual earth for Lego Robotics (and see PSs at Tweets below) as well? 

Looking forward to staying in communication. 

Best regards, abolitionally, (seeking to move forward the WUaS academic medical center into a newly safe Canyon 94516 from 11/30/24 - not that far from where you grew up, I think, Brian, and in seeking US federal law working effectively with states' laws in new ways), in asylum in PA from CA, thank you, 

Scott

Scott GK MacLeod 


PSs


WorldUnivandSch
@WorldUnivAndSch
·
Nov 30, 2023
how can CC-4 #MITOCW-centric wiki
@WorldUnivAndSch
 
@WUaSPress
 in collab. w #LegoEducation dev #PhysicalDigital #LegoRoboticsKits for #WUaSHomeRobotics for #HighSch & #Univ w #WUaSSTEM degrees eg in #Engineering+ w https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/es-293-lego-robotics-spring-2007/ in #RealisticVirtualEarthForLegoRobotics?

https://x.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1730224392771182710





HarbinBook
@HarbinBook
·
Jan 11
Re
@WorldUnivAndSch
's #WUaSHomeRobotics, excited to have just received #LegoSpikePrime  #LegoRoboticsKit & since #WUaSBookstores
@WUaSPress
 http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html are authorized reseller
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b6/Lego_Spike_Robot_1.jpg >https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2024/01/king-protea-za-national-flower-of-south.html in #RealisticVirtualEarthForLegoRobotics ~

https://x.com/HarbinBook/status/1745491319277961475




Scott_GK_MacLeod_WUaS_worlduniversityandschool.org
@scottmacleod
·
Aug 29
@WUaSPress
 
@WorldUnivAndSch
 #WUaSEducationalServicesStores #PhysicalDigital #RealisticVirtualEarthForLegoRobotics collaborate w #GrowWithGooglePgh #GrowWithGoogle re 2023 #LegoFactory #LegoGroundbreaking in #ChesterfieldVirginia -https://lego.com/ja-jp/aboutus/news/2023/april/virginia-groundbreaking-release -https://legocareersvirginia.com?

https://x.com/scottmacleod/status/1829159394845847969




Scott_GK_MacLeod_WUaS_worlduniversityandschool.org
@scottmacleod
·
Jun 6, 2023
#CraigMorrow, #BicycleHeavenMuseum #PghPA Pic of #BicycleRobot I just made fr #WUaSLegoRobotics' kit #WeDo2.0 & it runs, but still to be programmed w #LegoBlocks #BicycleHeaven
#BicycleHeavenMuseumAndShop
#RealisticVirtualEarthForMuseums
#RealisticVirtualEarthForLegoRobotics ~

https://x.com/scottmacleod/status/1666116866475958275






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Welcome to BlockTalk!
Date & TimeOct 17, 2024 07:30 PM  in  
DescriptionThe Creative Computing Lab at the Harvard Graduate School of Education is excited to announce the release of BlockTalk! BlockTalk (blocktalk.gse.harvard.edu) is a free platform for teachers to practice debugging common problems in student projects through interactive conversational simulations. 

Join us for a free 30-minute workshop on Zoom on October 17 at 7:30pm ET! We'll be giving a brief overview and demo of the platform, with Q+A to follow




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Adding - 


MacLeod, Scott GK. 2024. 

Brainstorming, how to use #ScratchBlocks to move little #GPegman to #HarbinSprings' #GateHouse in #GStreetView & FURTHUR possibly w @brianyu28 getting access from #PeterNorvig to #GSV, how could I GET PAST #InvisibleWall
https://www.google.com/maps/@38.7859764,-122.651938,3a,75y,341.91h,90t/data=!3m8!1e1!3m6!1s8oIujkhNbVoj1fL3eS7djw!2e0!5s20240501T000000!6shttps:%2F%2Fstreetviewpixels-pa.googleapis.com%2Fv1%2Fthumbnail%3Fcb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile%26w%3D900%26h%3D600%26pitch%3D0%26panoid%3D8oIujkhNbVoj1fL3eS7djw%26yaw%3D341.91!7i16384!8i8192?hl=en&coh=205410&entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI0MTAxNi4wIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D >https://scratch.mit.edu/users/ScottWorldUnivAndSch/ to soak?


scratch.mit.edu - image on Twitter

https://x.com/scottmacleod/status/1847639113660297358

https://x.com/Q_YogaMacFlower/status/1847639380925518099

https://x.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1847639549297508592


Retweeting:  





Retweets -


With jpg pic 




AND 







as well as - 


Norvig, Peter. 2024. [https://www.toolify.ai/ai-news/revolutionizing-education-with-machine-learning-and-ai-2574306 Revolutionizing Education with Machine Learning and AI]. (Updated on Mar 02,2024). Mountain View, CA: Toolify.ai - toolify.ai/ai-news/revolutionizing-education-with-machine-learning-and-ai-2574306.



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Haduong, Paulina. 2024. [https://youtu.be/Pzb9riO5kiE Introducing BlockTalk]. (See, too: https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2024/10/great-white-heron-national-wildlife.html). Cambridge, MA: Harvard Graduate School of Education - Creative Computing Lab.



Ross, Elizabeth. 2024. [https://www.gse.harvard.edu/ideas/usable-knowledge/24/10/how-generative-ai-can-support-professional-learning-teachers How Generative AI Can Support Professional Learning for Teachers: A new free online tool helps teachers practice creative problem-solving]. Cambridge, MA: Harvard Graduate School of Education - gse.harvard.edu/ideas/usable-knowledge/24/10/how-generative-ai-can-support-professional-learning-teachers.



Welcome to BlockTalk!. 2024. [https://blocktalk.gse.harvard.edu/ Welcome to BlockTalk! - Conversational Simulations]. Cambridge, MA: Creative Computing Lab at the Harvard Graduate School of Education - blocktalk.gse.harvard.edu/.


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Added the following summary to the following WUaS Wiki Subjects regarding the above resources - 

Added Norvig's Revolutionizing Education with Machine Learning and AI: #WUaSunivs, Blocktalk Scratch programming AI, and virtual Harbin in G Street View potentially with Scratch resources +


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https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Machine_Learning

https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Dialogue

https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Programming

https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Computer_Science

https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Creativity

https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Education

https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Artificial_Intelligence

https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Proof_of_Educational_Information_Technologies%27_Effectiveness

https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/STEM_Education_-_Science,_Technologies,_Engineering_and_Mathematics

https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Inspiration_in_learning_and_teaching

https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Theories_of_Learning




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'Proposed Reedie+ book group beginning in late December 2024 or early 2025?' - at 670A Ridgecrest Rd, Canyon CA 94516 on Sat 12/14/24??? - AND Happy Birthday Byron & Cindy Hann MDs in Moraga 94556 about 4 miles away from Canyon 94516 


Hi Byron (whom I've known since around 1979 at Oregon's Reed) and Cindy, Robin (Phillips), Reedies, All,

Happy birthday, Byron and Cindy in Moraga about 4 miles from Canyon 94516! Can we reinvent the book further and for our "Proposed Reedie+ book group beginning in late December 2024 or early 2025?" and in or from even Google Street View with time slider, text in the sidebar ... and with the liberating effects of listening to Grateful Dead music even too, and going to a Dead concert (from 1965-1979 I find are great) possibly in Youtube these days ... in a #WUaSMultimediaBarn in #Canyon94516 ... Write a physical-digital book about this together too? :)

Just sent this - 
Hi Byron and Cindy!

I'm writing to wish you very happy birthdays! 

Since https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead seems to be now inaccessible ...
so instead of 
Pretty great Dead show from 1970 -
Grateful Dead Live at Fillmore East on 1970-07-11 ...
 https://archive.org/details/gd70-07-11.aud.cotsman.9379.sbefail.shnf/gd70-07-11d2t10.shn - partly because it's a funky recording and sounds kinda communal :)

How about this one - https://youtu.be/15Y124wTxc4 and sounds kinda communal :) ? 

See you at the "Proposed Reedie + book group ... " on Saturday 12/14/24 at 670A Ridgecrest Rd Canyon 94516 ... if I'm still alive and there (growing a worldwide WUaS abolition movement to protect people in each of all ~200 countries and in their main languages, and with AI and ML too) ... and to celebrate your birthdays further?

Enjoy  ! -Scott





Thanks so much again for your RSVP Robin (which I explore further in the Sat 10/19/24 WUaS Monthly Business Meeting - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2024/10/national-key-deer-refuge-fl-odocoileus.html )!

Book suggestions? - and possibly if we talk about, and suggest a title we've read too, at this first possible Proposed Reedie book group on 12/14/24, the books we might want to read in the months and years' ahead and other 'Reedie + book group' process related questions as well. 

See some of you Sat 12/14/24, 
Scott

1st 'book' - 



PS
Here are some seeds of the idea further and with regards to creating a realistic virtual Harbin Hot springs for virtual visiting and even studying bliss (and see too - https://www.toolify.ai/ai-news/revolutionizing-education-with-machine-learning-and-ai-2574306 - the incredible #ToolifyAIWUaS article about #WUaSunivs and #WorldUniversityInSchool ... from Peter Norvig : ) - 



Wow, a Googler #PeterNorvig? has been building out #RealisticVirtualHarbin in #GStreetView w #GTimeSlider 2012 - #HarbinGateHouse - 2007 - w #VintageFireEngine (TURN LEFT) ... #vintageRV 

Wow, a Googler #PeterNorvig? has been building out #RealisticVirtualHarbin in #GStreetView w #GTimeSlider in
&
2007 - w #VintageFireEngine (TURN LEFT) -
& NEW: 2024 - a #vintageRV









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Have read that caloric restriction (with good nutrition) can extend longevity 10-15 per cent across species ...


Searched on - 
'caloric restriction and longevity: what percent life extension across species? harvard'

Found Harvard article among others - 

"Can Calorie Restriction Extend Your Lifespan?" 

"In 1935, a scientist named Clive McCay published a startling discovery: rats with severely restricted diets lived up to 33% longer than previously known possible. ... " and "Depending on the species, the most promising results have shown lifespan extensions between 50 and 300%"




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And see - 


August 2, 2020
Blog
Can Calorie Restriction Extend Your Lifespan?
by Isabella Grabski
figures by Jovana Andrejevic


In 1935, a scientist named Clive McCay published a startling discovery: rats with severely restricted diets lived up to 33% longer than previously known possible. Over the last few decades, similar experiments have been carried out on countless species, from worms to rodents and even primates. 

The specifics vary from study to study, but many show results just as surprising as those that McCay discovered so many years ago. The exact manner by which calories are reduced changes across studies, but the animals’ calorie intakes are generally reduced by as much as half their normal levels. Depending on the species, the most promising results have shown lifespan extensions between 50 and 300%



According to Harvard Medical School, a Harvard study published in Cell found that caloric restriction can extend lifespan by up to a third. 
 
Caloric restriction (CR) is a diet that involves reducing calorie intake to achieve or maintain a low-normal body weight. Studies have shown that CR can extend lifespan in a wide range of species, including yeast, rodents, primates, and worms. The exact percentage of lifespan extension varies by study, but the results are often surprising. For example, one study found that calorie-restricted mice lived 50% longer than genetically normal mice. 
 
CR can also reduce the risk of chronic diseases and promote healthy aging. In humans, CR can help protect against obesity, hypertension, inflammation, insulin resistance, and atherosclerosis. 
 
The exact mechanism by which CR extends lifespan is not fully understood, but one theory is that it triggers a chain reaction that creates enzymes that make mitochondria stronger and increase energy output. 
 

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Caloric Restriction in Humans: Impact on Physiological, Psychological, and Behavioral Outcomes




  • NEWS
  • 09 October 2024

Eating less can lead to a longer life: massive study in mice shows why

Weight loss and metabolic improvements do not explain the longevity benefits of severe dietary restrictions.




caloric restriction and longevity 10-15 per cent across species


Dietary restriction impacts health and lifespan of genetically diverse mice
Andrea Di Francesco, Andrew G. Deighan, …Gary A. Churchill Show authors
Nature volume 634, pages 684–692 (2024)

Dietary restriction impacts health and lifespan of genetically diverse mice

Nature volume 634, pages684–692 (2024)











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