Thursday, August 23, 2018

African sacred ibis: Tree planting drone in #RealisticVirtualEarth from MIT combined with some kind of actual "Duckietown" robotics from MIT too with #FilmTo3D could become basis of #ActualVirtual WORLD with flight - which everyone could PLAY with! >/Robotics >/Virtual_World, Tree planting FLYING DRONE as #ActualVirtual WORLD basis in #RealisticVirtualHarbin for TREE-PLANTING?, See "Duckietown" robot toys' documentary film of first class at MIT too!, Thanks, Jauma, for your very edifying "Tourism and Climate Change" talk yesterday evening in the UC Berkeley TSWG, Catalan World University and School


Tree planting drone in #RealisticVirtualEarth from MIT https://twitter.com/MIT_CSAIL/status/1030125784755826693 combined with some kind of actual "Duckietown" robotics from MIT too https://twitter.com/MIT_CSAIL/status/1032305396130742273 with #FilmTo3D could become basis of #ActualVirtual WORLD with flight - which everyone could PLAY with! >/Robotics >/Virtual_World




https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1032687798426292225


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These drones can plant 100,000 trees in a single day, how ’bout you? http://bit.ly/2vGsbv2  #tbt (article: @MentalFloss)



https://twitter.com/MIT_CSAIL/status/1030125784755826693

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Tree planting FLYING DRONE in #RealisticVirtualEarth from MIT https://twitter.com/MIT_CSAIL/status/1030125784755826693 combined with some kind of actual "Duckietown" robotics from MIT too https://twitter.com/MIT_CSAIL/status/1032305396130742273 with #FilmTo3D could become #ActualVirtual WORLD basis in #RealisticVirtualHarbin for TREE-PLANTING





https://twitter.com/HarbinBook/status/1032689249609342976

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VIDEO: CSAIL’s 2016 “Duckietown” course taught students to develop self-driving cars using rubber duckies. Here's a "Duckumentary" about the first class:



https://twitter.com/MIT_CSAIL/status/1032305396130742273


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See "Duckietown" robot toys' documentary film of first class at MIT too!

Duckietown


https://youtu.be/_YC74wUmRrQ



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Robotics -
https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Robotics

Virtual Worlds -
https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Virtual_Worlds

Film - Documentaries -
https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Film_-_Documentaries


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Tree planting FLYING DRONE in #RealisticVirtualEarth from MIT combined with some kind of actual "Duckietown" robotics from MIT too with #FilmTo3D could become #ActualVirtual WORLD basis in #RealisticVirtualHarbin for TREE-PLANTING https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2018/08/african-sacred-ibis-tree-planting-drone.html @WUaSPress @HarbinBook ~



https://twitter.com/HarbinBook/status/1032689249609342976


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Tree planting FLYING DRONE in #RealisticVirtualEarth from MIT combined with some kind of actual "Duckietown" robotics from MIT too with #FilmTo3D could add to #ActualVirtualFieldWork eg in #RealisticVirtualHarbin &for TREE-PLANTING https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2018/08/african-sacred-ibis-tree-planting-drone.html @WUaSPress @HarbinBook ~



https://twitter.com/HarbinBook/status/1032699542074847232

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1032687798426292225

https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2018/08/african-sacred-ibis-tree-planting-drone.html



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Friday, August 24, 2018


Edifying talk yesterday evening at UC Berkeley in the TSWG:

http://tourismstudies.org/news_archive/RNadal2018.htm

2018-2019 Colloquium Series


The Tourism Studies Working Group is pleased to announce

EVALUATING THE EFFECTS OF CLIMATE CHANGE ON TOURISM:
Methods and Findings

Jaume Rossello-Nadal
Professor of Economics
Universitat de les Illes Balears, Majorca (Spain)

Friday, August 23, 5:00pm
Gifford Room, 221 Kroeber Hall
University of California, Berkeley

Abstract:
During last years, different empirical studies have made evaluations of the effects of climate change on tourism based on different methodologies and perspectives. The aim of this presentation is to assess the most popular methods used in the literature to show how the effects of climate change can first be assessed through changes in physical conditions essential to tourism (like snow cover); secondly, by using climate indexes to measure the attractiveness of tourist destinations; and, thirdly, by modelling tourism demand with the inclusion of climate determinants. Results suggest that although some methodologies are in the early stages of development, different approaches result in a similar map of those areas mainly affected by the global warming problem.



Speaker Bio:
Jaume Rossello-Nadal is Full Professor at the Department of Applied Economics at the University of the Balearic Islands (Spain). He got his PhD in Economics and Business at the same University in 2001 on tourism demand modelling and forecasting. He teaches microeconomics, tourism demand modelling and tourism economics at graduate and master levels. He has published over 25 research papers in international journals and books, monographs and collective volumes. He is currently Vice-dean of Economics in the Faculty of Business and Economics and he is currently involved in different research projects related to climate change and tourism. In 2009 he was awarded 'Emerging Scholarship' from the International Academy for the Study of Tourism.

See more information at: http://www.uib.cat/depart/deaweb/webpersonal/jaumerossello/


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Thanks, Jauma, 

for your very edifying "Tourism and Climate Change" talk yesterday evening in the UC Berkeley TSWG - http://tourismstudies.org/news_archive/RNadal2018.htm - and very nice to meet and talk with you. I blogged a bit about this, and with my questions, in the second half of my daily blog yesterday here - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2018/08/african-sacred-ibis-tree-planting-drone.html. 

You'll find Catalan World University and School here eventually - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Nation_States - and planned in the Catalan language here - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Languages. 

Have a great trip to Los Angeles, and looking forward to communicating further about your research and thinking. 

Sincerely, Scott


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Thanks for your
sun sea surf snow peaks tourism talk – re climate change

in SW Europe

and tying-connecting temperature to economics

Am glad to have read that Global Warming is manageable – from Harvard Prof Jim McCarthy

How and what variables to focus on as an economist?

Could we further aggregate your Aggregated Tourism Models?

re the holism of anthropology – and the 'dismal science' :) of economics


Would a realistic virtual earth – Think Google Street View with TIME SLIDER with Google Maps & Earth with Avatar bots - help facilitate this remarkably - 

for economics’ data, tourism data?

Add all time series and data you use to a realistic virtual earth with Tensor Flow for machine learning?



What if the oceans rise – and there’s 2 feet less of coast line in Catalan areas – and 30% fewer hotels?

And on the other hand, how about tree planting of broad leafed plants en masse by flying drones bots to absorb CO2 with a realistic virtual earth for direct correspondence between the ACTUAL & VIRTUAL - to reverse global warming?


How best to add your data and variables, and aggregate your Aggregated Tourism Models data - to Google's Tensor Flow artificial intelligence and machine learning software?




Question - 
Dean MacCannell:
"You’ve said the

Strongest predictor in all your models

is income of the tourist.

Could your models differentiate between these well-to-do and not so well-to-do groups (re wealthy and poor “mass” tourism)?"


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Scott (after your talk):
And what's the ecology of economics re Gary Snyder's "Earth House Hold," I wonder?





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