Tuesday, February 4, 2025

New Caledonian crow: Innovating w #MLandAIWUaS "One area that holds immense potential is the integration of #MLandAI to revolutionize the field of education & w #MITOpenCourseWare & #WorldUniversityInSchool" & see #PeterNorvig INCREDIBLE #ToolifyAIWUaS article https://www.toolify.ai/ai-news/revolutionizing-education-with-machine-learning-and-ai-2574306 How w #WUaSwikis? * * * Texts with Ma (Janie MacLeod), Pin (Mazumdar HHS) Ed (Smyth MD) - February 2025

 


Innovating w #MLandAIWUaS
"One area that holds immense potential is the integration of #MLandAI to revolutionize the field of education & w #MITOpenCourseWare & #WorldUniversityInSchool" & see #PeterNorvig INCREDIBLE #ToolifyAIWUaS article














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Texts with Ma (Janie MacLeod), Pin (Mazumdar HHS) Ed (Smyth MD) - February 2025 



 Monday · 3:42 PM

Hi Ma, Pin, Ed! How are you? Good WUaS News and QA today including yesterday meeting AND CONNECTING with in the Youth Hostel Shreyash Agrawal and Ahkil Sakkale (and their great wives!) all living in Calgary Canada most working at S.A.P.  a German multinational software company - AND all from Mumbai India :) (w pic of us here - 

M 2/3/25 open @WorldUnivAndSch @WUaSPress #WUaSNewsQA "Can we reverse aging?" #AgingReversalGenetics

https://youtu.be/GYdEMDLCuYw
https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2025/03/red-panda-ailurus-fulgens.html
-https://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2025/02/m-2325-open-mit-ocw-centric-wiki-world.html (https://www.youtube.com/@ScottMacLeodWorldUniversity/videos) "Can we reverse aging? 7 yrs ago, Ocampo et al. ..." #AgingReversalGenetics ~) ... Just walked out to almost under the Golden Gate Bridge from HI hostel an hour and met a great couple too George Sery, an Intel engineer for 30 years and smart and IT minded (re its visions)  and wife  ... How might my move into a newly safe Canyon 94516 be developing I wonder and in a complex set of developments knocking back into organized crime ... Not sure but glad to be going to a first Stanford Law Constitutional event in the Law school tomorrow ... Stay tuned, abolitionally, warm regards, Scott (really great Stanford Enterprise AI governance class "Ask an Expert" session with Peter Norvig this morning  at 11 am PT :)
3:42 PM


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MMS
Msybe the WUaS corp will become financially operational thanks to meeting Shreyash and Ahkil childhood friends at SAP in Calgary :)





 Monday · 5:38 PM


Hi Pin, Ed, Ma ... How are you doing? The battery in my MacBook Air held out for 2 full hours of video calls in Zoom this morning, interestingly, WUaS News and QA first, then Stanford Enterprise AI Governance course second ... and BOTH OUTSIDE on a picnic table with the Golden Gate Bridge in the background in 58F overcast winter weather ... getting down to 30% charge remaining ... AND Google Pixel Android OS smartphone's wifi hotspot was fast with T-Mobile wifi signal for video conferencing and lasted data-transfer-wise and battery went down to 66% ... impressive ... but I'm waiting for super lightweight bicycle electric motor battery and bicycle that hold enough charge for a 500 mile bicycle camping trip with 4 full panniers, and lots of hills, and no need to charge it overnight because it wouldn't be possible camping ... and with enough power to move the bike uphill at say ~25 mph ... Ah batteries, storage, batteries, storage ... more, more, more ... but 54 mile range for current electric bike batteries might get one around a city much of a day with a cargo electric bike ... a success for day trips 🙂 Thoughts? Scott (You'll find here a picture of a ZAP lead-acid battery - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2015/11/flowering-kudzu-electric-bicycles-with.html - with a 2-3 mile range which I used in the 1990s to ride up Market St in SF here - http://www.electricscooterparts.com/images1/zapkitdx200.jpg ) ... Good long fairly brisk walk to Golden Gate Bridge and meeting and talking with engineer George Sery along the way and back was invigorating in further connecting ways 🙂 - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/connectedness) How are you doing with batteries? I think I recall, Ed, you showing a battery recharging pack for smartphones and similar years ago ... never really looked into them re MacBook Air laptop batteries ... 🙂 Fondly, Scott






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 Tuesday · 8:04 AM


Good morning, Ma, Ed, Pin, How are you doing (where it's very rainy this morning in SF). I hope this finds you well. I think I'm getting close to the end of being able to stay 14 days at this SF youth hostel ... Glad I was able to extend my stay here another day (and after meditating Yogically, and Quaker-wise too, this morning first thing upon rising) and pay cash a second time (after using a credit card the times before that). My Chase Freedom credit card stopped working when I just checked in here a few days ago (2nd asylum address in Pgh 5816 Callowhill St Pgh 15206 was the address on this card, my being unable to give a new address yet, for one) ... which will limit my checking into other hostels or similar places ... Will seek to pay off the the 990.26 balance this morning  ... Hoping I get the green light somehow to move into a newly safe open Canyon 94516 by tomorrow (with US federal, state of CA, and Contra Costa county law working effectively together in new ways), and seek to move my things out of storage then in nearby Rheem Valley/Moraga to 670 Canyon before the Th February 6th ... Will attending my first in person Stanford Law event in the Stanford Law School help facilitate this somehow? (Stanford Law is being helpful for WUaS I think ... with the Stanford Enterprise AI Governance course, with Peter Norvig giving the first talks - and who was a fascinating speaker in the 1st Ask an Expert session yesterday ... on top of Stanford Law CodeX and Roland Vogl ... re incorporating as the WUaS Corporation in CA in 2017 thanks to one of its presenters AI LawDroid software for writing articles of incorporation) ...Could I have met multinational business software SAP's Shreyash Agrawal and Akhil Sakalle in this youth hostel somehow through Peter Norvig's networks - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2025/03/red-panda-ailurus-fulgens.html?  Desiderata is helpful - https://www.desiderata.com/desiderata.html - as I navigate MIT OCW-centric wiki World Univ & Sch WUaS forward with the first MIT-Harvard "How to Grow Almost) Anything" synthetic biology course beginning today at 11am PT  ... and potentially to grow a #RealisticVirtualEarthForGenetics and even #ForAgingReversal ... Thoughts? Warm regards, Fondly, Scott (https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/global%20university)







 Tuesday · 8:52 PM

Hi Ma, Ed, Pin! How are you? How best to potentially move the process forward of moving the WUaS Academic Medical Center & the WUaS Longevity Genetics Institute into a newly safe 670 Ridgecrest Rd Canyon 94516 in a timely way I wonder, and with whom to communicate about this further - post the first How to Grow (Almost) Anything' synthetic biology course today - in which George Church is kind of a student, as well as a teacher interestingly ? And where to stay tomorrow ... Bill Robert's Garden Cottage where I lived from about 1994- 2001 which he seemed to suggest might be possible the other day on the phone ? Thoughts, questions, suggestions? Fond regards, Scott (http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/Canyon)






Hi Ma, Ed, Pin, (all), - will see what Bill (Roberts) says in the morning ... Not sure where to stay otherwise ... and as I seek to stay alive re the 'murder' word spoken by Chase bank VP Shauna McNally in Chase bank Shadyside Pgh in March of 2024 ... and re being in asylum now in the SF Bay Area eg from Chase bank possible affiliates in Pgh especially (but am also wondering about Chase bank Moraga and Canyon 94516 links re intl organized crime too)   in International Organized crime in the SF Bay Area too ... Thoughts? Fondly, Scott http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/nonharming & Desiderata ... )




 9:47 AM
Good morning, Ma, Ed, Pin! Seeking to head to my Moraga / Rheem Valley storage unit (near Canyon 94516) today to pay another month's $269 before tomorrow 2/6/25 ... and possibly to get things out of it, like a tri-fold mattress, some kitchen supplies, and possibly small-pipes +, if I can stay in Bill Robert's Garden Cottage on Market ST SF tonight (where I lived for about 7 years - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/07/clear-lake-california-family-history.html
 - before I headed to the Univ of Calif Santa Barbara for a master's degree in sociocultural anthropology studying aspects of the internet and information technology and the network society and virtual place from 2001-2003, and then to the Univ of Edinburgh from 2003-2004) ... and then from Moraga drive all the way south of the SF Bay and then back north to SF potentially to avoid bridge tolls (since my car still as PA license plates on it for one) ... it's slightly quicker with less traffic in the morning than with traffic in the afternoon ... What are you all up to today? ... Good to go to a first Stanford Univ Law School talk between Jonathan Gienapp and Michael McConnell on US constitutional originalism ... (I think I'm in other camp ... LIVING CONSTITUTIONALISM  which didn't get talked about basically at all) ... AND even regarding creating World Univ & Sch ... There are still some hippies around Stanford (one couple I recognized in this talk, for example) ... and appreciating Stanford hippiness-in-the-air (even as Stanford becomes more and more prosperous) ... INCREDIBLE new screens in rm 290 in the law school ... and could such screens and Stanford builders too help develop the WUaS Multimedia Room, WUaS Hospital Room with such screens on all 5-6 sides of the space/room, and even to 'float' or 'fly' a Drosophila fly brain Connectome for aging reversal genetics research, in the shop at 670 Ridgecrest Road (and even for a virtual Harbin hot springs for research - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/virtual%20Harbin)? Stay tuned ... Warmly, Scott (https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/07/clear-lake-california-family-history.html)



10:28

Good day, Ed, Pin, Ma! I called Bill and we talked about my moving into the Garden Cottage this evening ...  the kitchen sink needs work ... He had a sleepy voice (and I wonder if he's taken medication for "Aches and pains" per his voice in both calls) ...  He was open to getting together for a coffee or similar ... Tomorrow at 11 we are planning to get together ... And to firm up details later about where and when. He's using a cane ... and he said he's on the way out  (possibly moving to Houston TX  to be near his sister this year) ... But I was able to extend staying at this youth hostel another night (my 13th out of 14 in the calendar year) ... And I don't have a functioning credit card to be able to stay elsewhere ... (But I paid off my credit card bill in full yesterday 2/4/25 due March 1 2025 even though Jenelle said my credit card was closed ... Possibly as Chase credit abolishes intl organized crime too ... But this card has been reactivated before) ..  And what does Bill know about Canyon 94516 and my moving in there (re ex Sen Steve Glazer in district 7) ? ... Could I possibly even move into a newly safe open Canyon 94516 tomorrow? Thoughts? Fondly, abolitionally, warmly, Scott (http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2025/03/red-panda-ailurus-fulgens.html)



 1:03 PM


Turns out the 269 for storage (+ 20 admin fee) initially was through March 6 so didn't need to pay again (had a vague recollection of this but good to check and 135 per month is expensive nevertheless) ... Doing some errands now in Cardenas grocery as I drive south around the SF Bay ... And where will I sleep tomorrow night -  http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/Canyon? How are you all doing? 🥰 Scott



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species that innovate successfully wikipedia

AI Overview
New Caledonian crows and great apes are examples of species that have demonstrated innovation. 
New Caledonian crows 
  • Use twigs and leaves to make tools to fish for insect larvae
  • Can construct compound tools by combining non-functional elements
  • Can solve complex problems
  • Demonstrate cultural variation in tool design
Other examples of innovation
  • Nectar spurs in Aquilegia:
    • A key innovation that helps pollinators pick up pollen 
    • Led to rapid speciation within the genus 
  • Attachment pads in insects, spiders, and lizards:
    • Inspired the development of climbing robots, boots, and tape 
  • Montreal melon:
    • A commercial cultivar of melon that was reintroduced to its former range in Canada 
  • Hybridization:
    • Evidence of hybridization between modern humans and other species of the genus Homo 
  • Co-evolution:
    • Flowering plants and pollinating insects co-evolve as they develop adaptations that interlock with each other 
  • Mimicry:
    • Species evolve to resemble other species 

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