Sunday, August 30, 2026

K2 mountain, Pakistan: Backup - M 8/31/26 & Tu 9/8/26 open best STEAM Creative Commons' licensed OpenCourseWare wiki World Univ & Sch WUaS News and Q&A, with Zoom URL

 


Dear Universitians, World University and School networks & friends, World Universitians, all,  


Friendly NtF Quaker greetings! How are you? 

Who among us is publishing, or posting paper citations - e.g. even gleaned with AI and ML -  to Google Scholar Alerts ?


Glad to be continuing to receive Google Scholar Alerts, eg many from Google DeepMind and roboticist, and UC Berkeley Assistant Professor of EECS Anca Dragan (originally from Germany), 

Anca D Dragan - new related research

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Google Scholar Alerts

8:03 PM (3 minutes ago)
to me

[PDF] Hierarchical Skill Retrieval for Data-Efficient Adaptation of Vision-Language-Action Models

H Hao, SN Syed, J Schneider, J Ichnowski - arXiv preprint arXiv:2608.24042, 2026
While Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models pretrained on large-scale robot
datasets provide a strong foundation for robot manipulation, their performance can
degrade when adapted to new tasks with limited task-specific demonstrations …
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[PDF] UniMem: Unifying Multimodal Memory and Control for Vision-Language-Action Models

L Osterberg, M Wang, M Schwager - arXiv preprint arXiv:2608.22869, 2026
While Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have leveraged internet-scale
pretraining and task-focused finetuning to achieve strong performance on long-
horizon tasks, they often struggle with non-Markovian tasks that require memory …
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[PDF] Mamba-based Selective State Space Modeling Improves the Accuracy-Complexity Tradeoff of SmolVLA Vision-Language-Action Experts

F Mohsen, T Elkaffash, MRC Qazani, M Mabrok… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2026
Vision-language-action (VLA) models face a crucial tradeoff between their task
success rate and the policy-call frequency. Executing a single action per inference ($
N= 1$) enables accurate robot control but comes at the cost of huge compute time …
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yang hua - new articles

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8:03 PM (5 minutes ago)
to me

[HTML] Temperature-associated quality deterioration and fungal community succession in stored paddy rice during long-term storage

Y Wu, Z Wang, Y Liu, J Shi, Z Wu, C Shen, H Zhang… - Food Chemistry: X, 2026
Storage temperature critically governs physicochemical deterioration and fungal
community succession in paddy rice. This study examined quality changes and
fungal dynamics in three Yongyou-series hybrid rice varieties stored for 240 days at …
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A 1
How might World University and School potentially collaborate with Professor Anca Dragan, and regarding even developing WUaS in Germany in German too and for possible accreditation there, and with Abstract-Technology.DE, by adding CC4 licensed MIT OCW in English into the Open edX Europe platform, potentially translating it into German, and creating both a Germany WWorld University and School  in German, and an English language World University and School and seeking accreditation with an German accreditation agency (for the Germany WUaS) - and developing with University of California resources too in ways that might be helpful?

 
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World University and School has also heard back fruther from Abstract-Technology.de and see Agenda item 10 (again)



B
World Univ & Sch is building on MIT OCW in 7 languages (https://ocw.mit.edu/ & https://opencw.aprende.org/courses/translated-courses/), and is like Wikipedia in ~348 languages, and is in Wikidata (Wikipedia's back end structured knowledge database e.g. for AI & ML), as WUaS develops ~200 world class free-to-students' WUaS universities in all 200 countries and in their main languages, and wiki schools for people to people wiki teaching and wiki learning in all 7,159 known living languages, on our 2 wings: 

1) 501 c 3 nonprofit World University and School - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/ -

AND 

2) for profit general stock company in the state of California legal entity, - 
the Academic Press at WUaS in 7159 living languages, with machine translation, machine learning and human translation ... and the WUaS Educational Services' Stores in each of all 200 countries, ...

and in a WUaS store within a store model with Walmart, which is in 19 out of 200 countries, and see their tax id numbers at the bottom of these beginning web pages for these 2 WUaS wings.  


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There are amazing potential synergies between these 2 wings in all 200 countries and in all 7159 living languages, and with AI and ML, in the centuries ahead even.


B 3 

WUaS is also seeking to code for all 7.9 billion people each a wikidata PIN # from - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/You_at_World_University - and to facilitate free universal education that's highest quality, and potentially to end poverty by distributing Stanford Mine Pi cryptocurrency free money daily to say the poorest billion on the planet, which you too can begin to mine here, taking less than 5 seconds dailly and by clicking two buttons - https://minepi.com/sgkmac.




C
How best to proceed, possibly to grant write for this with https://simpler.grants.gov/ for coding for both of these WUaS wings? Sid Mazumdar in HHS? Others?




D
In what ways could an accredited or accrediting WUaS adding MIT OCW courses to the Open edX Europe platform (in Germany?) matriculate students in English from all ~200 countries' beginning around Monday January 4, 2027?




E
World Univ & Sch's OPEN WUaS Weekly Business Meeting News and Q&A meet on Mondays, next on M August 30, 2026, at 9:00 AM Mexico City Time, 10:00 AM Pacific Time, 11 AM Mountain Time, 1:00 PM ET (US & Canada), 5:00 PM GMT, 10:30 PM India Time, 1:00 AM Tuesday the next day Hong Kong Time (but please CHECK your time converter from any of your 24 time zones to join this open WUaS Weekly Business Meeting) with Zoom URL in the open WUaS Weekly Business Meeting Agenda and News below and in the following WUaS blog posts ... With an invitation to join this WUaS Weekly Business Meeting with your questions and answers; (and will be posted here - https://www.youtube.com/@ScottMacLeodWorldUniversity/videos)



E 1

Here is the agenda and news for tomorrow's open WUaS Weekly Business Meeting, which I shared with you last week, so as to season, and to invite your thinking and feedback too - 


Topic: M 8/31/26 open best STEAM CC-4 licensed OpenCourseWare wiki World Univ & Sch WUaS News and Q&A, with Zoom URL
Time: Aug 31, 2026 10:00 AM Pacific Time (US and Canada)
Join Zoom Meeting
https://us04web.zoom.us/j/76596171064?pwd=djrjK6BynQQxYj8IpELNYkSbwaC1Gk.1

Meeting chat link
https://us04web.zoom.us/launch/jc/76596171064

Meeting ID: 765 9617 1064
Passcode: eFVu3R



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here is the WUaS Agenda for Tue September 08, 2026 - 


Topic: M 9/08/26 open best STEAM CC-4 licensed OpenCourseWare wiki World Univ & Sch WUaS News and Q&A, with Zoom URL
Time: Sep 8, 2026 10:00 AM Pacific Time (US and Canada)
Join Zoom Meeting
https://us04web.zoom.us/j/74844761761?pwd=60LuNCln5aRCqnqtblNUjDuOyclnyl.1

Meeting chat link
https://us04web.zoom.us/launch/jc/74844761761

Meeting ID: 748 4476 1761
Passcode: 6jUGNt




F
World University & School is growing daily, and Weekly Business Meeting by Weekly Business Meeting - https://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/search/label/Business%20Meeting AND https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/Business%20Meeting - (and before these, with WUaS Monthly Business Meeting by Monthly Business Meeting, loosely conducted in the Manner of unprogrammed Friends NtFs Quakers) and blog post by blog post too ... And waiting, I think, for accreditation opportunities to further develop, and in WUaS seeking to Deploy with the Full US Federal Toolkit as well. 




G 
And WUaS is waiting for money ... from Grants.gov initially or https://simpler.grants.gov/? ...  or some other grant somehow ? (MacArthur foundation, Nobel foundation, or?)  And how to grow a flourishing, engaged and engaging research community online? MIT and Harvard's "How to Grow Almost Anything" synthetic biology course online as a model - https://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/search/label/HTGAA and https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/HTGAA? And how best to grow an engaged and engaging WUaS wiki-teaching and wiki-learning community - with wiki-teachers and wiki-learners teaching and learning in any of these subjects - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Subjects  or beginning new wiki subjects (first in English but then in all 200 countries' main languages, and then for speakers of all 7159 living languages to do this, in all these languages, and again with wiki-subjects one can create ... for example about what one loves to do, teach or learn about ) - and both online with a 2D-3D computer screen & in our homes in a developing realistic virtual earth in digital glasses and similar hardware AND especially in WUaS Multimedia Rooms (in our homes and which we create or eventually are able to purchase), a WUaS Hospital Multimedia Room, & at the WUaS Academic Medical Center, (eg out of 670 Ridgecrest Rd, Canyon 94516 potentially too)?  And see: "Google Earth in an Immersive Meeting Room" 
https://youtu.be/KjUHngd5fDk - AND for N-Dimensional developments & developing a realistic virtual earth in a myriad of ways further and with AI and M - 


3 unique MIT multimedia rooms
https://share.google/aimode/9uSlU9DEO2ALdlaP9


3 unique MIT multimedia rooms for n dimensional model used in museums
https://share.google/aimode/KMSJXumGJttgjbzgf 


3 unique MIT multimedia rooms able to project Google Street view with time slider Google Maps (eg for robot and robo car simulations, at the atomic level too ... and in a myriad of other ways) 
https://share.google/aimode/fydPNRn9MyrUvmMOR




All the best, abolition-ally - and with ~50 million people enslaved or caught in trafficking - https://www.modernslaverycommission.org/ &  https://share.google/aimode/Wi9Zp8zsytD4mU08C (a best STEAM Creative Commons' licensed OpenCourseWare wiki @WorldUnivAndSch #WUaSabolition movement continues to grow to protect people ... https://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2025/10/eagle-aquila-world-university-and.html 
... and in WUaS seeking to code for all 7.9 billion people on the planet from here -https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/You_at_World_University - to facilitate wiki free universal education, and potentially to end poverty worldwide), Yogically (8 limbs of Yoga & see tree of 8 limbs of yoga picture - https://x.com/Q_YogaMacFlower/status/2044848212360753480), Friendly NtF NtQ Quaker (& re Quaker SPICES - https://www.friendsjournal.org/s-p-i-c-e-s-quaker-testimonies/) & Unitarian Universalist church (re 7 or 8 UU Principles' https://www.uua.org/beliefs/what-we-believe/principles) greetings, kind regards, 

Scott
Scott GK MacLeod
Founder, President, CEO & Professor, Yoga teacher, Presiding and Recording Clerk (loosely in the manner of unprogrammed NtF Friends / Quakers), 

Recording will be posted here -




TwitterX and LinkedIN - 

Announcement - 

8/31/26 10aPT @WorldUnivAndSch @WUaSPress ~200 #WUaSunivs' #WUaSAgendaNews #ZoomURL: 


w 8/24 #WUaSAgenda 
#MassachusettsInstituteOfTechnology @MIT #AlumniStartups #MITAS #NorCal #CoWorkingSessions ?








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World University and School / WUaS 


1st of 2 WUaS wings - 

World Univ & Sch wing - 
a 501 c 3 / similar non-profit - 
building on CC licensed best STEAM OpenCourseWare and which is wiki:  


World University and School 
http://worlduniversityandschool.org/ (and see both exempt legal entities' tax IDs at bottom here)




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Glad to have received this followup email from Abstract-Technology.DE re WUaS in Open edX Europe potetnially ... as WUaS seeks funding sources (https://simpler.grants.gov/ ?)

How best to develop English language World University and School, German language World University and School, Telugu language World University and School, Bangladesh World University and School in Bangla, and Pakistan World University and School e.g. in Urdu and Punjabi and Pashto early on ? 


 

Thu, Aug 20, 12:06 AM (10 days ago)

Your Academy, Your Data, Your Courses - Custom Open edX® LMS by Abstract Technology, Now Smarter with AI

Jaimin Pavashiya

Thu, Aug 20, 12:06 AM (3 days ago)
to scott.macleod, worlduniversityandschool, me, Stefania

Dear Sir/Madam,

I hope this message finds you well.

I wanted to briefly follow up on my message from a few weeks ago, in case it got buried or the timing simply wasn't right when it first landed.

To recap briefly: we work with organisations across universities, academies, NGOs, and public institutions to build Open edX® learning environments that are fully tailored to their content, their data, and their goals - rather than a generic, out-of-the-box deployment. Since we last reached out, we've also completed a live demonstration of Verawood, the newest Open edX® release, which brings meaningful improvements to platform stability, learner experience, and AI-assisted authoring.

If it would be useful, our blog also covers real Open edX deployments, platform comparisons, and recent community developments: https://abstract-technology.de/resources

The offer still stands: a live demo (30 to 45 minutes) and a complimentary one-month trial of a fully configured Open edX® sandbox, with no commitment required.

If this isn't the right moment, no problem at all - just let us know, and we'll be happy to reconnect whenever suits you better. And if there's a more relevant contact on your side for this kind of initiative, I'd appreciate being pointed in the right direction.

Looking forward to hearing from you.

Best regards,

nicole.kessler@abstract-technology.de

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WUaS Corporation 

 
2nd of 2 WUaS wings - 

the for profit general stock company legal entity in the state of California wing -

WUaS Corporation - WUaS Press

WUaS Corporation / Academic Press at WUaS in 7159 languages with machine and human translation, and re the WUaS Educational Services' Stores  
http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html (and see the tax ID at bottom here)





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Society, Information Technology, and the Global University, (forthcoming, Academic Press at World University and School, 2026) 

Scottish Small Piping album #2 - Honey Piobaireachd (2022)
- Poetry! Order Book #5 Light, Float, Sit, Watsu ~ Virtually (2021, Academic Press at WUaS)

Scottish Small Piping album #1 Honey in the Bag ~ Out of the Air tune (2020)


Order Book #3 Winding Road Rainbow: Harbin, Wandering & the Poetry of Loving Bliss (2018,  Academic Press at WUaS)

Order Book #2 Haiku-ish and Other Loving Hippie Harbin Poetry (2017,  Academic Press at WUaS) 

Order Actual-Virtual Ethnographic Book #1: Naked Harbin Ethnography (2016, Academic Press at World University and School)


https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Nation_States (planning ~200 countries' WUaS world class universities in their main languages, per the Olympics, for free-to-students' WUaS degrees from home)

https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Languages (planning to be in all 7159 living languages, each as or with wiki schools for open people-to-people wiki-teaching and wiki-learning, e.g. from here - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Subjects)

- Scott GK MacLeod  
Founder, President, CEO & Professor
at / of best STEAM CC licensed OCW, Wiki,
World University & School (WUaS)  
- USPS US Post Office, PO Box 132, General Delivery, Canyon, CA 94516

1) non-profit 501(c)(3) Public Charity
building on CC-4 licensed MIT OCW in 7 languages - 


2) for profit general stock company WUaS Corporation in CA - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html
- wuas_ceo@worlduniversityandschool.org







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