Monday, September 21, 2026

Anamudi mountain, India: M 9/21/26 recording of @WorldUnivAndSch @WUaSPress #WUaSNewsAndQA #WUaSWBM #MITAS #MITAlumniStartups * (was - M 9/21/26 & M 9/28/26 open best STEAM Creative Commons' licensed OpenCourseWare wiki World Univ & Sch WUaS News and Q&A, with Zoom URL)

 




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M 9/21/26 & M 9/28/26 open best STEAM Creative Commons' licensed OpenCourseWare wiki World Univ & Sch WUaS News and Q&A, with Zoom URL 



Dear Leaders of St Lucia in the Caribbean, Philip J. Pierre & Felix Finisterre, Friend Peter Ford, Multnomah Monthly Meeting (Quakers) in Portland, Oregon, Universitians, World University and School networks & friends, World Universitians, all,  


Friendly NtF Quaker & Yoga greetings! How are you? 


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Free-to-students' St Lucia World University and School, building on CC-4 MIT OCW in 7 languages:   


Dear Leaders of St Lucia in the Caribbean, Philip J. Pierre & Felix Finisterre, 

How are you? Greetings from the SF Bay Area, and World University and School. In Santa Cruz CA recently, 1.5 hours south of San Francisco, I met an English woman scientist from St. Lucia who works re-growing corals that have died due to global bleaching - for reefs there. 

In talking with her, and learning about St Lucia, a country of 184,000 people I learned, it lead me to write to you to let you know about free-to-students' World University and School, building on CC-4 licensed MIT OCW in 7 languages, and in a #GrowWithGoogleWUaS program, to offer online WUaS degrees - Bachelor, PhD, Law, MD, IB high school or similar, AA / AS, and Master's degrees - in English and Saint Lucian Kwéyòl French Creole too if helpful, and potentially by eventually building a physical WUaS Medical School with Teaching Hospital in St Lucia (possibly in collaboration with Harvard Medical School and Kaiser Permanente's new medical school in Pasadena California, begun in 2020. and matriculating 48-50 people a year). WUaS's other wing also seeks to build physical-digital WUaS Educational Services' stores in St. Lucia, and think a Walmart product line with low prices (where Walmart is in 19 out of 200 countries, but not St. Lucia as I understand this). More about World University and School here in an incredible #ToolifyAIWUaS article by Peter Norvig, Google AI director, Revolutionizing Education with Machine Learning and AI: #WorldUniversityInSchool - https://www.toolify.ai/ai-news/revolutionizing-education-with-machine-learning-and-ai-2574306 - updated Mar 2, 2024. World University and School is also wiki, and is planning to be in all 7159 living languages (https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Languages), and with AI and ML too. And free open wiki St. Lucia World University and School will also emerge from here - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Nation_States - and in English and also planned in Saint Lucian Kwéyòl French Creole, if helpful. 


Philip J. Pierre & Felix Finisterre, and all, how might we potentially explore this further with time? I'll add you to the open World University and School WUaS Weekly Business Meeting WUaS News and Q&A emailings (loosely conducted in the manner of unprogrammed Friends NtF Quakers) that meet generally on Mondays in a Zoom conference call at 10 am Pacific Time for further information. Please let me know if you have any questions. 

Friendly regards, all the best, thank you, 
Scott
Scott GK MacLeod


PS
I've blogged about this here - 


Thursday, September 17, 2026
Frangipani (Plumeria): The island country of St Lucia - Philip J. Pierre & Felix Finisterre





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Again - 
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 the WUaS 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.



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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.




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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?




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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?




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World Univ & Sch's OPEN WUaS Weekly Business Meeting News and Q&A meet on Mondays, next on M September 21, 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)




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Here is the agenda and news for Monday'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 9/21/26 open best STEAM CC-4 licensed OpenCourseWare wiki World Univ & Sch WUaS News and Q&A, with Zoom URL
Time: Sep 21, 2026 10:00 AM Pacific Time (US and Canada)

Join Zoom Meeting
https://us04web.zoom.us/j/75951171180?pwd=wuCxFOiQVUL9LLwSafXSiBYOt0bp1W.1

Meeting chat link
https://us04web.zoom.us/launch/jc/75951171180

Meeting ID: 759 5117 1180
Passcode: CU95SY





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here is the WUaS Agenda for M September 28, 2026 - 


Topic: M 9/28/26 open best STEAM Creative Commons' licensed OpenCourseWare wiki World Univ & Sch WUaS News and Q&A, with Zoom URL
Time: Sep 28, 2026 10:00 AM Pacific Time (US and Canada)

Join Zoom Meeting
https://us04web.zoom.us/j/71228313741?pwd=xUnQd2lQ4K4dvIASJTgZqZUCWTYDmQ.1

Meeting chat link
https://us04web.zoom.us/launch/jc/71228313741

Meeting ID: 712 2831 3741
Passcode: V9GckN





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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. 




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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 VR goggles, and 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 human  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 - 


M 9/21/26 open @WorldUnivAndSch #WUaSNewsAndQA @WUaSPress #WUaSWBM
-https://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2026/09/anamudi-mountain-india-m-92126-m-92826.html
-https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2026/09/anamudi-mountain-india.html
w Tue 9/14 #WUaSAgenda
-https://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2026/09/tushar-mountains-ut-m-91426-m-92126.html
-https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2026/09/tushar-mountains-ut.html
-https://www.youtube.com/@ScottMacLeodWorldUniversity/videos
#MITAS #NorCal #MITalumniStartups' assoc #CoWorkingSessions~


https://x.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/2101876147348979953

https://x.com/WUaSPress/status/2101876668612911419

https://x.com/Q_YogaMacFlower/status/2101876105427001694

https://x.com/sgkmacleod/status/2101876328589070836

https://x.com/HarbinBook/status/2101876716218269708











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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)




Agenda item 0 
As video minutes - 


Monday, September 14, 2026
Tushar Mountains, UT: M 9/14/26 recording of @WorldUnivAndSch @WUaSPress #WUaSNewsAndQA #WUaSWBM #UgandaWUaS #WUaSMedSchs * (was - M 9/14/26 & M 9/21/26 open best STEAM Creative Commons' licensed OpenCourseWare wiki World Univ & Sch WUaS News and Q&A, with Zoom URL)
 


M 9/14/26 recording of @WorldUnivAndSch @WUaSPress #WUaSNewsAndQA #WUaSWBM #UgandaWUaS #WUaSMedSchs

https://youtu.be/9I5maMo9WUI

https://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2026/09/tushar-mountains-ut-m-91426-m-92126.html

https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2026/09/tushar-mountains-ut.html

w Tue 9/8 #WUaSAgenda

-https://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2026/09/rwenzori-mountains-uganda-tu-9826-m.html

-https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2026/09/rwenzori-mountains-uganda.html

-https://www.youtube.com/@ScottMacLeodWorldUniversity/videos



Recording

M 9/14/26 recording of @WorldUnivAndSch @WUaSPress #WUaSNewsAndQA #WUaSWBM #UgandaWUaS #WUaSMedSchs
-https://youtu.be/9I5maMo9WUI
-https://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2026/09/tushar-mountains-ut-m-91426-m-92126.html
-https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2026/09/tushar-mountains-ut.html
w Tu 9/8 #WUaSAgenda
-https://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2026/09/rwenzori-mountains-uganda-tu-9826-m.html
-https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2026/09/rwenzori-mountains-uganda.html
-https://www.youtube.com/@ScottMacLeodWorldUniversity/videos ~


https://x.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/2099592032234971489

https://x.com/Q_YogaMacFlower/status/2099591951582699940

https://x.com/HarbinBook/status/2099592973147340871

https://x.com/WUaSPress/status/2099592496489873650

https://x.com/sgkmacleod/status/2099592901869306048

https://x.com/scottmacleod/status/2099594850614309035

https://x.com/TheOpenBand/status/2099594788798685688


https://www.linkedin.com/posts/scott-macleod-4691a011a_wuasnewsandqa-wuaswbm-ugandawuas-activity-7505362931035918337-dKCs


https://www.linkedin.com/posts/scottgkmacleod_wuasnewsandqa-wuaswbm-ugandawuas-activity-7505363793644777472-AW4A

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/scottgkmacleod_wuasnewsandqa-wuaswbm-ugandawuas-activity-7505363200008200192-AOru






Agenda item 1 


Excited for the #HarvardAARD Harvard Aging Research and Drug Discovery conference October 1-October 3 in Boston, and re eg https://agingpharma.org/program2026#virtual-cell-in-time 1) Add #VirtualCellInTime to #AvatarAgentEHR as #DigitalTwins for 7.9B people in #RealisticVirtualEarthForGenetics ...at WUaS ? * * *


https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2026/09/frangipani-plumeria-island-country-of.html




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Tuesday, September 15, 2026

Nubian giraffe (Giraffa camelopardalis):

At #HarvardAgingResearch & #DrugDiscovery conf 10/1-10/3 & re #PetrinaKamya's #VirtualAgingCell fr #InsilicoMedicine https://youtu.be/vufvnB1R1xM Code 2007, '12 & '24 #GStreetView w #GTimeSlider in https://goo.gl/maps/7gSsSTweRCBo9gf87 @ #GCellViewLevel WITH #AgingReversal #GPegman #AvatarAgentEHR? * * *



#HarvardAgingResearch & #DrugDiscovery conference 10/1/26 - 10/3
https://agingpharma.org/program2026#virtual-cell-in-time

Petrina Kamya
and
Fedor Galkin -

Virtual Aging Cell from Insilico Medicine
Insilico Medicine
https://youtu.be/vufvnB1R1xM


https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2026/09/nubian-giraffe-giraffa-camelopardalis.html





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Insilico Medicinere #HarvardARDD -
 
Mapping or Predicting "Biological Age into Virtual Cell Research: Launches Virtual Aging Cell Webpage and Previews Multi-Agent Driven VAC Generation" * * *

https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2026/09/frangipani-plumeria-island-country-of.html







Agenda item 2

Mapping 9B (9 billion) possible single letter genetic changes across the human genome with AlphaGenome Atlas and made it openly available to researchers
 

Great #AIdevelopments #AlphaFold,  #AlphaMissense with #AlphaGenome -& #AgingReversal & #ExtremeLongevity #GeneticDrugTherapies ? (in #RealisticVirtualEarthForGenetics, & think #GStreetView w #GTimeSlider #GCellView #GMoleculeView even?) -  https://share.google/aimode/2WAJ4EaQye5akhyMX - #WUaSpharma ? 

 



Great #AIdevelopments #AlphaFold,  #AlphaMissense with #AlphaGenomeAtlas -& #AgingReversal & #ExtremeLongevity #GeneticDrugTherapies ? (in #RealisticVirtualEarthForGenetics, & think #GStreetView w #GTimeSlider #GCellView #GMoleculeView?) -  https://share.google/aimode/2WAJ4EaQye5akhyMX - #WUaSpharma ~



Retweeting ~ 

Today we have set out how we’re building AI to accelerate science and improve people’s lives. Just some examples in the last week or so:

- Mapped all 9B possible single letter genetic changes across the human genome with AlphaGenome Atlas and made it openly available to researchers.
- Billions of decisions depend on weather predictions so we introduced WeatherNext 3, our most accurate and capable global weather AI model to date.
- We published AI & Economy ATLAS, a comprehensive open-access look at how people are using AI globally.
- AI has enabled extraordinary advances in language translation. Today our services are available in nearly 300 languages, spoken by 7B people

We’re focusing our efforts on four key areas: health, natural disaster and weather resilience, learning, and economic opportunity. blog.google/innovation-and… 






AlphaFold and AlphaMissense with AlphaGenome Atlas



Building AI to accelerate science and improve lives

Sep 15, 2026

11 min read

We’re asking what’s possible for health, natural disaster and weather resilience, learning, and economic opportunity.



https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2026/09/indus-river-dolphin-platanista-minor.html






Agenda item 3 

How best could World University & School develop a Uganda World University and School large language model ... eg in Swahili for example, or ... ? * * *



How best could world univ & sch develop a Uganda World University and School - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Uganda - large language model with Wikidata in 348 languages, and for free WUaS Bachelor, PhD, Law, MD, IB high school, AA, and MS degrees in English and Swahili, building on MIT OCW courses in 7 languages, if helpful or useful, and possibly with Open edX Europe platform with abstract-technology.de building this for data gathering from matriculating students ?


Developing a Uganda World University and School (WUaS) multilingual Large Language Model (LLM) and degree platform requires a structured, multi-phase technical roadmap. By anchoring your ecosystem on Open edX, Wikidata, and MIT OpenCourseWare (OCW), you can build a highly scalable, AI-driven educational framework for zero-cost degrees (AA, Bachelor, MS, PhD, Law, MD, and IB High School).
Here is a strategic approach to bringing this vision to life:
1. Unified Learning Ecosystem Architecture
To seamlessly blend data collection, automated curriculum mapping, and student interaction, you should position the Open edX platform as your core core infrastructure, developed in tandem with Abstract Technology.
┌────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│             Abstract Technology / Open edX             │
│  (Student Matriculation, Data Gathering & Analytics)   │
└───────────────────────────┬────────────────────────────┘
                            ▼
┌────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│            Uganda WUaS Multilingual LLM                │
│     (Instructed in 348 Languages via Wikidata)         │
└─────────────┬────────────────────────────┬─────────────┘
              ▼                            ▼
┌──────────────────────────┐  ┌──────────────────────────┐
│   MIT OCW Curriculum     │  │  Degree Standards & IB   │
│     (7 Languages)        │  │   (English & Swahili)    │
└──────────────────────────┘  └──────────────────────────┘
2. LLM Data Integration: Wikidata & 348 Languages
Training or fine-tuning an LLM to support 348 languages while maintaining accuracy requires heavily structured knowledge graph grounding.
  • Wikidata Triplet Extraction: Rather than relying solely on raw text tokens, use Wikidata’s query service to extract cross-lingual structured properties (Entity-Property-Value). This ensures that conceptual definitions (e.g., medical or legal terms) map identically across low-resource languages like Luganda or Swahili and high-resource ones like English.
  • Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG): Instead of trying to bake 348 languages completely into the static weights of a small model, use an LLM architecture paired with a dense vector database containing multi-lingual embeddings. This allows the model to retrieve context dynamically from Wikidata items in real time.
3. Curriculum Standardization & Localization (MIT OCW)
Your degrees will build upon MIT OCW material available in 7 languages.
  • Targeted Translation Expansion: Use cross-lingual AI translation models (grounded by your Wikidata dictionary) to bridge the gap and localize those courses natively into English and Swahili.
  • Bloom's Taxonomy Mapping: Abstract Technology provides an AI-powered course authoring assistant aligned with Bloom's Taxonomy. You can utilize this to automatically ingest raw MIT OCW text, syllabi, and transcripts, transforming them into structured quizzes, milestones, and grading rubrics customized for your AA, Bachelor, MS, and PhD pipelines.
4. Native Open edX Data Gathering & Analytics
Using Abstract Technology to build your Open edX deployment handles the administrative and legal scaffolding for student enrollment.
  • GDPR-Compliant Matriculation: Abstract Technology hosts platforms on EU-based, GDPR-compliant servers. This is crucial for collecting student matriculation info safely and maintaining data sovereignty.
  • Feedback Loops via Learning Analytics: Open edX includes real-time analytical tools (via Aspects) tracking over 200 metrics. When a student struggles with a concept in Swahili, the platform logs the breakdown, creating clean data points to continuously fine-tune the Uganda WUaS LLM for better regional accuracy.
To help refine this operational strategy, could you share a bit more context?
  • What is the current technical stack hosting your Wikidata bot and wiki database?
  • Do you have a target hardware configuration or cloud computing partner in mind for hosting the LLM?
  • Are there specific Ugandan university accreditation standards you are aiming to satisfy early in the process?





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AND

What can a large language model do for Swahili speaking world university and school students?



Large Language Models (LLMs) are breaking down long-standing educational barriers across the East African region. Traditionally, many students have had to study technical subjects in English rather than their native language.
With the emergence of specialized local models—like Sartify’s Swahili tools, Lelapa AI’s InkubaLM, and Swahili Gemma—the technology is directly elevating educational equity for over 200 million Swahili speakers. [1, 2]
1. Dual-Language Mentorship and Tutoring
  • Bilingual "Sheng" and "Kiswa-English" Comprehension: In day-to-day life, many students naturally mix Swahili and English. Modern LLMs are adept at understanding this code-switching, making technical definitions approachable without requiring rigid academic English. [1, 2]
  • Personalized AI Remedial Tutors: Educational platforms like "Tuti" (built using localized Swahili architecture) act as interactive virtual tutors that can be deployed straight onto school computers. They offer infinite patient explanations for complex subjects like science and history. [1]
2. High-Quality Academic Content Creation
  • Generating Local STEM Context: LLMs can quickly draft lesson plans, practice problems, and study guides natively in Swahili. For example, recent academic applications show that LLMs can effectively generate geometry and primary school mathematics introductions tailored directly to national curriculum standards. [1, 2]
  • Bridging the Translation Gap: Instead of spending months manually translating global academic textbooks, universities can utilize LLMs for high-speed, localized translation of research papers, digital libraries, and educational materials from English to Swahili. [1]
3. Leveling the Research & University Field
  • Academic Writing and Editing Assist: For university students whose first language is Swahili, LLMs serve as an editorial bridge. They help structure complex research, correct English grammar for international journal submissions, and synthesize dense literature.
  • Preserving Epistemic Sovereignty: Local open-source initiatives empower African researchers and university departments to build and manage datasets on their own terms. This ensures regional history, idioms, and local cultural nuances are accurately represented rather than wiped out by Western-centric internet data. [1, 2, 3]
4. Overcoming Technical Challenges
  • Offline and Mobile Optimization: Since data costs and internet access can be prohibitive in many rural schools, localized Small Language Models (SLMs) can be compressed through quantization. This allows school systems to load functional, text-based AI models onto low-spec computers or offline mobile devices. [1, 2]
Summary of Performance Realities
While the benefits are immense, the technology is still a work in progress. When utilizing LLMs for Swahili-based education, it helps to know what they excel at versus where they require human oversight:
CapabilityWhat LLMs Do BestCurrent Limitations / Weaknesses
Conversational LearningSmooth, contextually relevant explanations; dialogue-based tutoring.Can sometimes use general vocabulary instead of specialized academic jargon.
Translation QualityNative-trained Swahili models outperform generic "English-to-Swahili translation" layers.Agglutinative Swahili grammar (complex prefixes/suffixes) can still cause occasional errors.
STEM TasksConceptual explanations of math, physics, or geometry.Prone to calculation and logic errors in complex multi-step math problems.
Are you looking at this from the perspective of an educator designing a curriculum, a university researcher, or a software developer looking to implement a tool? Let me know, and I can share tailored prompting strategies or recommend open-source data initiatives to check out!



https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2026/09/nubian-giraffe-giraffa-camelopardalis.html






Agenda item 4 

WUaS Medical Schools and growth 


Kaiser Permanente HMO Health Care organization in 8 states & expansion? * * *


Are there any medical schools teaching hospitals (e.g. surgery) in buses especially for the developing world? * * *

in ships ???  


humanoid robots as md professors of surgery? * * *


https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2026/09/frangipani-plumeria-island-country-of.html






Agenda item 5

Thursday, September 17, 2026
Frangipani (Plumeria):


The island country of St Lucia - Philip J. Pierre & Felix Finisterre & World Univ & Sch, building on MIT OCW in 7 languages * * * searched on "realistic virtual earth world university and school for aging reversal genetics" -and found "to host free online university degrees and research hubs, including a specialized school for aging reversal genetics." [1] * * *


https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2026/09/frangipani-plumeria-island-country-of.html






Agenda item 6

Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking ... advances in AI * * *


Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/gemini-models/gemini-3-8-live-gemini-3-8-live-extended-thinking/
- https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Machine_Learning & https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Artificial_Intelligence (https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Subjects) @WorldUnivAndSch @sgkmacleod @WUaSPress ... #AIandMLWUaS in ~200 countries' free #WUaSunivs on 7k languages building on #MITOCW in 7 languages

https://x.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/2101467008701497822

https://x.com/scottmacleod/status/2101017334119075870

https://x.com/sgkmacleod/status/2101464968671769075

https://x.com/Q_YogaMacFlower/status/2101464536847089783

https://x.com/WUaSPress/status/2101465149244907836

https://x.com/HarbinBook/status/2101465354660905098

https://x.com/TheOpenBand/status/2101480773685739932




https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2026/09/fritillaria-meleagris.html







Agenda item 7

NIH-funded research showing that semaglutide, a GLP-1 medication, extended lifespan and improved several measures of health in older mice ... * * *


NIH-funded research showing that semaglutide, a GLP-1 medication, extended lifespan and improved several measures of health in older mice ... To https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Experimentation & https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Pharmacology ? New #WUaSExtremeLongevityGenetics' #WUaSWikiSchool @WorldUnivAndSch @WUaSPress ?

https://x.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/2100720896621306116

https://x.com/WUaSPress/status/2100721541315187181

https://x.com/Q_YogaMacFlower/status/2100721675432341825

https://x.com/HarbinBook/status/2100721802221940953

https://x.com/scottmacleod/status/2100721062430622136

https://x.com/sgkmacleod/status/2100722096347463785

https://x.com/TheOpenBand/status/2100721995319239012



NIH-funded research showing that semaglutide, a GLP-1 medication, extended lifespan and improved several measures of health in older mice ... To https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Experimentation ? @WorldUnivAndSch @WUaSPress ?

https://x.com/sgkmacleod/status/2100706495784767665



Both retweeting

What can GLP-1 drugs teach us about aging?
 
In this video, I share new NIH-funded research showing that semaglutide, a GLP-1 medication, extended lifespan and improved several measures of health in older mice. While more research is needed to understand what these findings could mean for people, the study offers intriguing insights into the biology of aging.
 
Learn more: bit.ly/463JGWt

https://x.com/NIHDirector_Jay/status/2100621305594675535



https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2026/09/frangipani-plumeria-island-country-of.html







Agenda item 8 

Restorative Yoga class on Saturdays (and as we may live to 150 and well beyond:) 

Saturday, September 19, 2026
White Egyptian Lotus (Nymphaea lotus):

Restorative Yoga class on Saturdays (and as we may live to 150 and well beyond:)? * Thanks to Sundar Pichai, since I've read Sundar (originally from Tamil Nadu, India - re the origins of Yoga) does Yoga Nidra (and as CEO of Google and Alphabet)? - This just popped up on Twitter, with a new approach to exploring restorative Yoga - Yoga Nidra on Pinterest https://pin.it/4VkSavyug


https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2026/09/white-egyptian-lotus-nymphaea-lotus.html




8 A

I'm planning to join - to yoga with? - George Church re https://x.com/geochurch/status/2084958479148523537 in the Harvard TreeHouse in Allston, from Thursday October 1-3, 2026 at the Harvard Aging Research and Drug Discovery conference e.g. https://agingpharma.org/program2026 # virtual-cell-in-time  - 

One new question here, how might World University and School even develop an OSK drug to age-reverse genetically, I think, my what I'm calling 'eustachian tube dysfunction"  in my right ear ... where a few MDs have looked into my ear but haven't seen anything. As a first step, how can I medically identify the place or spot, or specific cells, in my ear, so as to be able to design such a new OSK drug to reverse the action in their cellularly? Talk with a Harvard Med Sch ENT MD at the Harvard AARD conference as a starting place? And in what ways could World Univ & Sch and Harvard Med Sch collaborate on this in a #RealisticVirtualEarthForENT virtual #RVEforEHR at the cellular level and perhaps with Insilico Medicine's irtual-cell-in-time ?

https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2026/09/white-egyptian-lotus-nymphaea-lotus.html






Agenda item 9 

Networking with Five Branches University Graduate School of Traditional Chinese Medicine in Santa Cruz and re Chinese herb molecules and student wiki teaching + ... 


Wednesday, September 16, 2026
Indus river dolphin (Platanista minor)):

Greetings from free-to-students' World Univ & Sch building on MIT OCW in 7 languages, and which is wiki too to Five Branches University Graduate School of Traditional Chinese Medicine in Santa Cruz * * * 


On Wed, Sep 16, 2026 at 1:18 PM Scott MacLeod <sgkmacleod@worlduniversityandschool.org> wrote:

Dear Nick and Sandra, All, 
& 

Greetings from free-to-students' World Univ & Sch building on MIT OCW in 7 languages and in a #GrowWithGoogleWUaS program, for free online WUaS degrees, in each of all 200 countries and in their main languages, and which is wiki too to Five Branches University. And very nice to talk with you just now Sandra at Five Branches University Graduate School of Traditional Chinese Medicine in Santa Cruz. 

Networking here, and as free World Univ & Sch grows, and seeks to accredit, to offer online free WUaS degrees - Bachelor, PhD, Law, MD, IB high school / similar, AA / AS and Master's degrees.

On World Univ & Sch's wiki side, here's the beginning wiki Chinese Medicine subject at WUaS, for people to people wiki teaching and wiki learning - 



To give you an idea of how WUaS wiki works, I just searched on 

'scientific papers on traditional chinese medicine and the molecules in chinese medicines nih'

found: 


Modern research investigates Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) through the lens of molecular biology, mass spectrometry, and network pharmacology, with thousands of peer-reviewed studies hosted in the PubMed Central (PMC) NIH database.
Core Research Areas on Molecules in TCM
  • Component Analysis & Identification: Advanced tools like liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry (LC-MS) map diverse active molecules in herbs, including terpenes, flavonoids, steroids, and phenylpropanoids. [1, 2]
  • Network Pharmacology: Researchers map complex herb formulas to human biological targets using computational molecular docking, showing how multi-ingredient remedies influence pathways like PI3K/Akt/mTOR or MAPK/NF-κB. [1, 2]
  • Biomacromolecules: Studies explore how active fractions—such as polysaccharides, proteins, and nucleic acids—modulate immune responses, gut microbiota, and cellular signaling. [1, 2]
Key NIH/PMC Open-Access Review Papers
Unveiling secrets of traditional Chinese medicine: Cutting-edge techniques in component analysis – Covers artificial intelligence, imaging mass spectrometry, and structural annotation of herbal compounds.
Are you looking for studies on a specific herb (like Artemisia annua or ginseng) or a particular disease/condition?

referencing -

The scientific basis of synergy in traditional Chinese medicine: physicochemical, pharmacokinetic, and pharmacodynamic perspectives -


Unraveling the Molecular Mechanism of Traditional Chinese Medicine: Formulas Against Acute Airway Viral Infections as Examples


Pharmacodynamic material basis of traditional Chinese medicine based on biomacromolecules: a review



Will add to https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Chinese_Medicine - and I invite your students to wiki-teach and wiki-learn to this, perhaps as great learning projects. Brainstorming, how might World University and School explore the molecules in Chinese herbal medicines further for pharmaceutical production even & in a #RealisticVirtualEarth (and see - https://www.toolify.ai/ai-news/revolutionizing-education-with-machine-learning-and-ai-2574306) #RealisticVirtualEarthFor, a #RVEforPharmacology #RVEforMolecules, a #RVEforChineseMedicine (on #TwitterX and #Linkedin)?


Best regards, more later, thanks, 
Scott
Scott GK MacLeod 


 







Agenda item 10

Friday, September 18, 2026
Anna's hummingbird (Calypte anna): Here's the UC Berkeley "Creating a Realistic Virtual Earth Harbin for Tourism" talk I gave in December 2020 in the Cal Anthropology department for a Tourism Studies' Working Group meeting  - and which may lead to the building of a Realistic Virtual Harbin Hot Springs as well - 


Video presentation of the the UC Berkeley "Creating a Realistic Virtual Earth Harbin for Tourism" talk I gave in December 2020 in the Cal Anthropology department for a Tourism Studies' Working Group meeting (emerging from "Naked Harbin Ethnography" 2016, WUaS Press)


SGK MacLeod TSWG 12 18 2020 Creating a Realistic Virtual Earth Harbin for Tourism.mp4



10 A

Search for 
"Naked Harbin Ethnography" 2016, WUaS Press

at a library near you in World Catalog - https://search.worldcat.org/ - and find a free paper copy close to where you live ... 

Just requested a copy of this in the San Francisco Public Library in the Main Branch downtown ... re-read pps. 104-105 ... and was delighted ...





Agenda item 11

Friends Meeting at Cambridge Guest Room Information ~ and re the Harvard aging research and drug discovery conference 10/1-10/3 at the Harvard Tree house in Allston * * *

I've registered for and am attending the Harvard aging research and drug discovery conference 10/1-10/3 at the Harvard Tree house in Allston  (per https://x.com/geochurch/status/2084958479148523537), and regarding World University and School's developing realistic virtual earth for genetics, and aging reversal (and our free open wiki Aging_Reversal_Genetics' subject - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Aging_Reversal_Genetics, not yet in other countries' languages).

https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2026/09/indus-river-dolphin-platanista-minor.html



11 A

Connecting with Harvard faculty and researchers in communication with 





Agenda item 12


In growing as a #FriendlyQuakerLeading #freeToStudents' @WorldUnivAndSch, building on #MITOCW in 7 langs & which is wiki too ... develop out of a #QuakerMonthlyMeeting for Business Administration? ...

Peter Ford, Clerk of Finance, and Hearthkeeper Sabrina Freewynn, both at Multnomah Monthly Meeting (Quaker) in Portland, Oregon, and at first with the Gusto payroll and bookkeeping system, - and on both WUaS wings? - 



Sunday, September 20, 2026
Fritillaria meleagris:

In growing as a #FriendlyQuakerLeading #freeToStudents' @WorldUnivAndSch, building on #MITOCW in 7 langs & which is wiki too ... develop out of a #QuakerMonthlyMeeting for Business Administration? ...


In growing as a #FriendlyQuakerLeading #freeToStudents' @WorldUnivAndSch, building on #MITOCW in 7 langs & which is wiki too (in all 7159 languages as #WikiSchools) & planned in each of all 200 countries as major universities, develop out of #QuakerMonthlyMeeting for Administration?

https://x.com/Q_YogaMacFlower/status/2101387304116068442

https://x.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/2101386713935626488

https://x.com/scottmacleod/status/2101386111453196433

https://x.com/HarbinBook/status/2101387428280099264

https://x.com/WUaSPress/status/2101387161266541043

https://x.com/sgkmacleod/status/2101386996656812331

https://x.com/TheOpenBand/status/2101386869963706841



Retweeting -

Here are three things about education in America that should be pretty simple.

https://x.com/SenWarren/status/2101324748512780605



https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2026/09/fritillaria-meleagris.html








Agenda item 13


#ScotlandIndependenceReferendum - Swinney aiming for independence referendum by 2031 * * *



#ScotlandIndependenceReferendum -
Swinney aiming for independence referendum by 2031
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn5dlq35v2xo
with Plaid Cymru leader Rhun ap Iorwerth, Sinn Féin president Mary Lou McDonald, and Northern Ireland First Minister Michelle O'Neill
https://share.google/aimode/fwzTw3mdANKi9TLgs #WUaSunivs ~


https://x.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/2101005338527121422

https://x.com/sgkmacleod/status/2101004811089203474

https://x.com/scottmacleod/status/2101003033782206627

https://x.com/TheOpenBand/status/2101002886310478111

https://x.com/Q_YogaMacFlower/status/2101005047228518638

https://x.com/HarbinBook/status/2101006212078997662

https://x.com/WUaSPress/status/2101006793761779851



https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2026/09/fritillaria-meleagris.html










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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)



Agenda item A 

In a similar way to the gold standard and barter being supplanted in the US by cash and the US dollar, how might a main single cryptocurrency for all 7.9 billion people like Stanford Mine Pi cryptocurrency displace cash ? * * *







A 1
In a similar way to the gold standard and barter being supplanted in the US by cash and the US dollar, how might a main single cryptocurrency for all 7.9 billion people like Stanford Mine Pi cryptocurrency free money daily come to supersede and encompass cash and the US dollar and also the Euro currency for example?



To supersede and encompass dominant global currencies like the US dollar and Euro, a single global cryptocurrency would have to transition from a speculative asset into a universally accepted sovereign replacement. While the historical shift from barter to commodity money (like gold), and later to government-issued fiat currency, relied on physical scarcity and military backings, a digital shift for 7.9 billion people would rely on structural utility, technological architecture, and extreme geopolitical realignments. [1, 2, 3, 4]
The primary example cited, Pi Network (co-founded by Stanford graduates), attempts a social-distribution mechanism to bypass costly mining barriers via smartphone apps. However, for any universal cryptocurrency to move past its initial phase and genuinely supplant fiat currencies, a specific macro-financial progression must occur. [1, 2]
🔎 Step 1: Solving the Core Economic Functions of Money
The Federal Reserve and global central banks evaluate money based on three standard criteria. Most cryptocurrencies currently fail two of the three: [1, 2]
Store of Value: An asset must hold predictable purchasing power over time. High volatility completely disqualifies an asset from being a safe store of value.
📊 Step 2: The Hypothetical Path to Displacing the Dollar and Euro
For a single digital currency to achieve global dominance, the transition would mirror historical currency resets but unfold at internet speed across five primary phases:
PhaseOperational MechanismHistorical Parallel
1. Ubiquitous Software DistributionReaching a massive percentage of the global population via mobile devices, removing traditional banking barriers.The expansion of private bank notes across early America before the National Banking Act.
2. Sovereign Failure & Hyper-FrictionCitizens in countries with unstable local fiats actively reject their national currencies due to hyperinflation or extreme capital controls.The rapid "dollarization" of economies like Ecuador or Zimbabwe during domestic hyperinflation.
3. Closed-Loop Marketplace InvoicingLarge tech conglomerates, global supply chains, and multinational merchants begin invoicing raw commodities directly in the token, skipping conversion to USD.The 1944 Bretton Woods agreement establishing the USD as the mandatory invoice currency for global trade.
4. Tax Remittance MandatesA coalition of major sovereign governments agrees to accept the digital currency for tax payments, establishing true baseline legal utility.The shift from the Gold Standard where governments legally declared paper money as legal tender to settle all debts.
5. Algorithmic Monetary StabilityThe supply adjustments must be completely isolated from speculative hoarding to prevent deflationary traps that stop people from spending.Central banks utilizing open-market operations to expand and contract money supply to keep consumer prices stable.
⚠️ Structural Realities and Friction Points
  1. The Stablecoin Paradox: Blockchain architecture is actually making the US dollar stronger, not replacing it. Hundreds of billions of dollars in "crypto" are actually just stablecoins backed by short-term US Treasury debt, increasing international demand for the dollar by making it easier to hold globally. [1, 2, 3]
  2. Regulatory & Geopolitical Invalidation: Governments control local banking off-ramps and the legal definitions of money. A completely decentralized, un-backed asset handed out "for free" poses severe Anti-Money Laundering (AML) challenges and lacks the legal protections or central bank support that backing institutions like the ECB or the Fed provide to stabilize the economy during recessions. [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
Which specific aspect of this financial transition would you like to explore next—the macroeconomic risks of a single global currency, or how central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) are attempting a similar digital evolution?



https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2026/09/nubian-giraffe-giraffa-camelopardalis.html






Agenda item B

Again - 

(in Agenda item 12 too) - 




Sunday, September 20, 2026
Fritillaria meleagris:

In growing as a #FriendlyQuakerLeading #freeToStudents' @WorldUnivAndSch, building on #MITOCW in 7 langs & which is wiki too ... develop out of a #QuakerMonthlyMeeting for Business Administration? ...


In growing as a #FriendlyQuakerLeading #freeToStudents' @WorldUnivAndSch, building on #MITOCW in 7 langs & which is wiki too (in all 7159 languages as #WikiSchools) & planned in each of all 200 countries as major universities, develop out of #QuakerMonthlyMeeting for Administration?

https://x.com/Q_YogaMacFlower/status/2101387304116068442

https://x.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/2101386713935626488

https://x.com/scottmacleod/status/2101386111453196433

https://x.com/HarbinBook/status/2101387428280099264

https://x.com/WUaSPress/status/2101387161266541043

https://x.com/sgkmacleod/status/2101386996656812331

https://x.com/TheOpenBand/status/2101386869963706841



Retweeting -

Here are three things about education in America that should be pretty simple.

https://x.com/SenWarren/status/2101324748512780605



https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2026/09/fritillaria-meleagris.html










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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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