Sunday, September 30, 2018

Circus Animals: Waiting for when we can ask our smartphone MD questions, & get a helpful knowledgeable response. Will be some years yet. Appreciating these medicine web sites & Google search: - http://www.drweil.com - http://health.nih.gov - http://www.webmd.com (http://scottmacleod.com/yoga.htm) * * * Like escaping to the circus? Not only hippies played with this idea: the idea has been around for a long time, of "climbing out" (- aussteigen - is a great German word, connoting hippies too - i.e. 'Aussteigers' ... ) of society to a kind of freedom of travel and creativity in circuses - Yogini Angela Farmer too thinks very visually in this way * * * "Hear our Friend ⁦@RupertRead⁩ talking about #climatechange on ⁦@BBCNorfolk⁩ today & debate the issues with him on #Weds evening at the #Quaker Meeting House, Upper Goat Lane," * * * WUaS Mentoring from Stanford's John Hennessy? Would be so great!, AppleWatch into ELECTRODES for brain research?, Here's MIT Media Lab Director Joi Ito's article again - THE RESPONSIBILITY OF IMMORTALITY: WELCOME TO THE NEW TRANSHUMANISM ..., NYT's The Calorie-Restriction Experiment (2009), Scientific American's ""The Hunger Gains" (2017) … "eating less is better than eating more," "grains, fruits, vegetables ..."


Waiting for when we can ask our smartphone MD questions, & get a helpful knowledgeable response. Will be some years yet. Appreciating these medicine web sites & Google search: - - - ()



- https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1046425595704303618

- https://twitter.com/HarbinBook/status/1046432826147713024


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Waiting for when we can ask our smartphone MD questions, & get a helpful knowledgeable response. Will be some years yet. Appreciating these medicine web sites & Google search:
- http://www.drweil.com
- http://health.nih.gov
- http://www.webmd.com
>https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1046425595704303618 -


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Waiting for when we can ask our smartphone MD questions, & get a helpful knowledgeable response. Will be some years yet. Appreciating these medicine web sites & Google search:
- http://www.drweil.com
- http://health.nih.gov
- http://www.webmd.com
(http://scottmacleod.com/yoga.htm)

https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1046425595704303618

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1046426073846624258


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Waiting for when we can ask our smartphone MD questions, & get a helpful knowledgeable response. Will be some years yet. Appreciating these medicine web sites & Google search:
-http://www.drweil.com
-http://health.nih.gov
-http://www.webmd.com
(http://scottmacleod.com/yoga.htm)

https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1046427145910738944



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Waiting for when we can ask our smartphone MD questions, & get a helpful knowledgeable response. Will be some years yet. Appreciating these medicine web sites & Google search:
-http://www.drweil.com
-http://health.nih.gov
-http://www.webmd.com
>https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1046426073846624258 -

https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1046427380577796097

https://twitter.com/WUaSPress/status/1046428752253599744

https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand/status/1046429215237656576

https://twitter.com/HarbinBook/status/1046429700912889856

https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1046429813215363072


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Waiting for when we can ask our smartphone MD questions, & get a helpful knowledgable response. Will be some years yet. Appreciating these medicine web sites & Google search: - - - ()







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Hi M,

Really nice to talk just now. Am admiring the abundance of movement in your life greatly, and think it benefits your health a lot ... walks in park, up and down the stairs at home et al. ... and your iPhone smartphone app measuring the distance you walked ... cool ... I found


Hank Greely's AppleWatch post I mentioned -

Hank Greely
@HankGreelyLSJU

Four good medical questions about the AppleWatch EKG's medical value

https://twitter.com/HankGreelyLSJU/status/1040714566974337024

Here's one but you probably have another -
Best Free Walking Apps for Fitness Walkers
Map My Walk. MapMyFitness Screen Capture. ...


Whether we'll be able to connect movement with longevity scientifically and rigorously is an interesting question with such technologies, but these technologies probably will be able to allow us to begin to measure related questions in new way ... Joi Ito's article on longevity privileges gene editing for longevity. I shared this article with Dick Robb MD and think I also shared Joi's article with you.
Thanks M for sharing ...

Here's MIT Media Lab Director Joi Ito's article again - THE RESPONSIBILITY OF IMMORTALITY:
WELCOME TO THE NEW TRANSHUMANISM ...
https://web.archive.org/web/20180605002848/https://www.wired.com/story/the-responsibility-of-immortality/
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In that calorie restriction is the most proven method for longevity - 10-15% across species - this article further confirms however that calorie restriction is key, and movement isn't the key element ... but is still helpful ...

Gertner, Jon. 2009. The Calorie-Restriction Experiment. Oct 7.
https://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/11/magazine/11Calories-t.html

"The Hunger Gains: Extreme Calorie-Restriction Diet Shows Anti-Aging Results -
A new study shows five days of hunger a month may reduce risk factors for aging and age-related diseases"
By Richard Conniff on February 16, 2017
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-hunger-gains-extreme-calorie-restriction-diet-shows-anti-aging-results/

To https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Longevity


Created a Tweet too:

Calorie Restriction & Longevity -10-15% across species- & this art.
confirms this: Gertner, Jon. 10/7/09. The Calorie-Restriction
Experiment. https://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/11/magazine/11Calories-t.html
… "eating less is better than eating more," "grains, fruits, vegetables ..."
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-hunger-gains-extreme-calorie-restriction-diet-shows-anti-aging-results/
… >https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Longevity ~

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1046590847150514176



L, Scott


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Am excited for when we can put electrodes, such as adaptations of the AppleWatch, into e.g. something like hairnets to create actual BrainWave EEG headsets (and much more capable and sophisticated electrodes) and with more and more precision, i.e. eventually be able to target 3 inches into the brain at neural coordinate / region, XYZ, at the cellular level, - and possibly harmlessly disrupt a firing neuron, and scientifically deduce / research what's going on.


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S,


How is your son, and what steps might you head in? Waiting for the time when we can ask our smartphone MD such questions, and get a helpful knowledgable response. Will be some years yet. 

I appreciate these three allopathic western medicine web sites re doing what I call health information arbitrage, as well as Google search: 

~ Dr. Andy Weil's integrative medicine web site -  http://www.drweil.com
- The SEARCH field in Dr. Andy Weil's integrative / complementary medicine web site offers helpful FREE health information. Check out, for example, a condition you have, OR "wellness diet" or "mediterranean diet."

~ National Institutes of Health - http://health.nih.gov


 (Accessible from here - http://scottmacleod.com/yoga.htm)

Best, Scott



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Friday, September 28, 2018

Hi! Thank you! I'm ok. I'm really enjoying my new firm. I'm a bit caught up right now in urgently trying to find and get my son into see a pediatric endocrinologist in the US who is an expert on growth treatments for kids with congenital adrenal hyperplasia who have advanced bone age. My 11 year old son has CAH and advanced bone age (14 - bone plates close and ability to grow ends at bone age 16). He's 4'10" and the doctors here in Victoria say he won't grow much more and know nothing about the treatment options. There are evidently experts at UCSF. Do you by any chance have any knowledge about that? How are you??


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Sounds complicated, S, but unfortunately I don't have knowledge about that. World University and School's planned online medical schools - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/World_University_Medical_School
 - with planned online teaching hospitals, building out of Project ECHO with Google Stanford's Project Baseline - might be able to offer something in the future, but WUaS doesn't have anything to offer yet. WUaS hopes to build out of some kind of Stanford Medicine OpenCourseWare in all ~200 countries' official languages (like CC-4 MIT OpenCourseWare in its 5 languages). Then, in the future, your son might be able to see a Stanford trained pediatric endocrinologist online in Project ECHO-like mentoring situation. I'm alright, thanks. Continuing seeking a partner to begin a family, and although Katherine Henderson in SF, a lawyer like you, whom I met in Stanford Law seems interesting, we're not going hiking yet, for example. Blogging continues to be a creative process, however -  https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/Law
 ... Cheers, Scott :)



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Saturday, September 29, 2018 

Well, apparently people who don't marry generally live longer! Did you see this article in the latest Stanford alumni Loop?   https://www.economist.com/briefing/2018/08/18/how-the-internet-has-changed-dating

How the internet has changed dating
Your World University is going to be AWESOME


S,


How is your son?,  ... (above)


-- 
- Scott MacLeod - Founder, President & Professor

- World University and School

- 415 480 4577




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Like escaping to the circus? Not only hippies played with this idea: the idea has been around for a long time, of "climbing out" (- aussteigen - is a great German word, connoting hippies too - i.e. 'Aussteigers' ... ) of society to a kind of freedom of travel and creativity in circuses - Angela Farmer too thinks very visually in this way - and re circuses). And I could see Leonie thinking she's escaped for a bit to SF - THERE'S a freedom in traveling to the Bay Area from a European country, its contemporary norms and expectations, for some months or a year these days. And while L is well in general I'd think - i.e. not bent out of shape as quite a few people / women can seem to be in the US - she may also be seeking ... (I'm not sure how Europeans do this - create this social psychological wellness that I've observed in a widespread way (may have to do with norms & German educational culture) - and it doesn't often include experiences of freedom I'm familiar with or American understandings of freedom (especially emerging from the social movements of the 1960s).

Am glad to be in touch with a friend S.J.de N, who was on the Stanford Law faculty for about 5 years, focusing on  heritage and law - much on stolen art, and some re indigenous / native American peoples - (and who also went to Stanford as an undergraduate), and recently returned home to Canada, to Victoria on Vancouver Island (what a nice place to raise her son! - and right across from the Olympic peninsula). We had lunch together at Stanford a few years ago. And she may also be a good contact for Canada World University and School - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Canada - and even re teaching in the Canada Law School at WUaS online, for example.

S shared an article on dating from "The Economist" which brought to mind the role money can play in these regards - https://www.economist.com/briefing/2018/08/18/how-the-internet-has-changed-dating - but also the role of money here in SF Bay Area re a kind of realism, - ... but kids and being president/professor at WUaS ... and that money will come .... could be appealing ... (Glad Stacey said at the end of one recent text: "Your World University is going to be AWESOME").

Here, M, in the second half of my blog post from Friday is the WUaS opportunity with the city of San Francisco - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2018/09/sea-anemone-baja-california-zylab-city.html - which may be opening up for World University and School.

Would love it if John Hennessy could somehow mentor me re World University and School ... am continuing to read his interesting new book "Leading Matters" and while it's inspiring, wise, smart and empathic ... it also is the writing of a successful recent president of Stanford, in a boom time for Silicon Valley, and has a focus on money, which I am learning from (and re SF Bay Area money realism - where WUaS's lack of money is a little surreal). And if I were a Stanford faculty member (where I'd become a team player in a new way) - and possibly sometimes working from home, per his book - and with him as the chair of Alphabet he would likely be in a great position to mentor me, knowing almost ALL? of the Stanford faculty, all of whom are in the mentoring business, even. :)

Made about my 20th WeDo2 Lego robot yesterday evening ... working / playing through their projects ... it's fun ...

What are you up to today, M? Looking forward to hearing your thoughts about connecting further with Leonie, and other thoughts as well. :)

L, Scott



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Hear our Friend ⁦@RupertRead⁩ talking about #climatechange on ⁦@BBCNorfolk⁩ today & debate the issues with him on #Weds evening at the #Quaker Meeting House, Upper Goat Lane




https://twitter.com/NorwichQuakers/status/1046407786022752256





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Saturday, September 29, 2018

Cribrinopsis fernaldi: Calling here for one #RealisticVirtualEarth #OneRealisticVirtualEarth conceptually like Google Street View with TIME SLIDER/Maps/Earth/Brain/Translate+ for #RealisticVirtualEarthForArchaeology #RealisticVirtualEarthForSurgery & #vrforsocialchange (Quaker-wise) #PhysicalDigital ~ Blockchain ledger riot re Google?, Numismatics / Ancient Coins, Museums, (All museums in all 7097 living languages planned at WUaS in a realistic virtual earth)


Calling here for one #RealisticVirtualEarth #OneRealisticVirtualEarth conceptually like Google Street View with TIME SLIDER/Maps/Earth/Brain/Translate+ for #RealisticVirtualEarthForArchaeology #RealisticVirtualEarthForSurgery & #vrforsocialchange (Quaker-wise) #PhysicalDigital ~






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Thanks for your good Stanford Archaeology/Classics' talk - https://events.stanford.edu/events/799/79946/ - @kilianmallon Seeking to create a #RealisticVirtualEarthForArchaeology conceptually in  Google StreetView with TIME SLIDER for -  https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Archaeology - @clmorgan @Katherine_McDon @CMKearnsy ~



https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1046049013773070336

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1045830419260747776


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https://twitter.com/UNESCO/status/1046051185583689728


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https://twitter.com/MITOCW/status/1045746561286844416


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https://twitter.com/HarbinBook/status/1044243626962743299


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https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1046049993470169089


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Heralding #RealisticVirtualEarth eg for #Mars2030s #WUaSVirtualSpaceTravel #StanfordLinearAccelerator - like Google Street View/Maps/Earth with TIME SLIDER + for #RealisticVirtualEarthForHistory -#ActualVirtual -#PhysicalDigital #RealisticVirtualEarthForRobotics -@HarbinBook ~


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Heralding #RealisticVirtualHarbin #RealisticVirtualEarth #OneRealisticVirtualEarth like Google Street View/Maps/Earth with TIME SLIDER + for #RealisticVirtualEarthForAnthropology for https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy -#ActualVirtual -Lego #RealisticVirtualEarthForRobotics  -@HarbinBook ~


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Heralding #RealisticVirtualEarth #RealisticVirtualHarbin in Google Street View/Maps/Earth w TIME SLIDER + for #RealisticVirtualEarthForAnthropology ~https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy -Lego #ActualVirtual #RealisticVirtualEarthforArchaeology -#RealisticVirtualEarthForHistory -@HarbinBook ~


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It's all 1s & 0s #Unicode anyway>INTO #RealisticVirtualEarth #RealisticVirtualHarbin #RealisticVirtualUniverse #InternetGalaxy like Google Street View/Maps/Earth w TIME SLIDER + for STEM https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy -#ActualVirtual -Lego #RealisticVirtualEarthForRobotics -@HarbinBook~

- https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1046079087498932224
- https://twitter.com/HarbinBook/status/1046072856579330048



It's all 1s & 0s #Unicode anyway>INTO #RealisticVirtualHarbin #RealisticVirtualEarth #RealisticVirtualUniverse #InternetGalaxy like Google Street View/Maps/Earth w TIME SLIDER + for STEM https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy -#ActualVirtual -Lego #RealisticVirtualEarthForRobotics -@HarbinBook~

https://twitter.com/HarbinBook/status/1046111435493969920

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1046110268311384065



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But isn't Google a riot? Where's the blockchain ledger riot happening re Google? :) Might be here ... https://www.prlog.org/12732203-california-governor-jerry-brown-signs-two-pro-blockchain-bills-into-law.html ... or might it even have something to do with a single cryptocurrency with blockchain ledger backed by ~200 nation states' central banks, and distributed via a universal basic income to all 7.5 billion people (which is taxable? so countries and the poor benefit?:)


https://plus.google.com/u/0/events/c0qmeksl4emljqv04b2omqm9iu8?cfem=1


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Blockchain ledger riot re Google? https://www.prlog.org/12732203-california-governor-jerry-brown-signs-two-pro-blockchain-bills-into-law.html ? A single cryptocurrency with blockchain ledger backed by ~200 nation states' central banks, distributed via #UniversalBasicIncome to 7.5 billion people-taxable?-so countries and the poor benefit? https://plus.google.com/u/0/events/c0qmeksl4emljqv04b2omqm9iu8?cfem=1 ~



https://twitter.com/WUaSPress/status/1046118796497379328
https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1046116683503607808
https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1046118899987603456
https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand/status/1046119708624281600
https://twitter.com/HarbinBook/status/1046120195759104000
https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1046119352385253376

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https://twitter.com/atlasobscura/status/1046119283678433280


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Will we be able to add all photos/videos of numismatics/ancient coins ever found to a #RealisticVirtualEarthForArchaeology in a #RealisticVirtualEarth #OneRealisticVirtualEarth for #RealisticVirtualEarth3DPrinting #FilmTo3D ?& re https://twitter.com/atlasobscura/status/1046119283678433280 > https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Museums ~



https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1046127932341534720


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Friday, September 28, 2018

Sea Anemone, Baja, California: ZyLAB; City Innovate, Indexing houses in Google Street View in cities in all ~200 countries for legal tech and improving government and their I.T., Brainstorming-wise, how best to teach such law online (e.g. hire Stanford Law students who might be interested in becoming faculty to teach in online group video), and how could many different high-achieving and talented students (in ~200 countries' official languages) benefit for these learning opportunities - and perhaps in new ways, such as developing contracts with a city (in different countries to help improve their information technology, government accessibility and in the legal tech field especially) - to help their cities innovate I.T.-wise and legally? * * * To get an idea of Google Street View in a very early phase, visit the Harbin Hot Springs' gate in Google Street View here ~ http://tinyurl.com/p62rpcg ~ https://twitter.com/HarbinBook ~ where you can "walk" down the road '4 miles' to Middletown and 'amble' around the streets there, if inclined. Check out the houses in Middletown, California; imagine legal documents in many languages associated with them. (Harbin Hot Springs is my actual-virtual ethnographic field site).


Dear Jay, Dee, Johannes and Roland,

Thanks for your excellent presentations at Stanford Law CodeX, Johannes, Jay and Dee. I'd like to re-visit your presentations again soon in the 'CodeX: The Stanford Center for Legal Informatics'' Youtube channel - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL48E61C121CAD0E1B - but until then how might we explore developing student opportunities, perhaps entrepreneurially, to help with city innovation potentials, and in the legal tech space? As one example, I have the Dahlia project in mind, Dee - https://housing.sfgov.org/listings - which you mentioned in relation to Google, and I think you may have said in Google Street View, and with regard to further city legal tech innovations. Students here could entail Stanford Law and Stanford students, as well as online (CC-4 MIT OCW-centric in 5 languages) World University and School students in all ~200 countries' official / main languages. Some Tweets in these regards:

Thanks, @CodeXStanford for excellent @jcscholtes, @Jay_Nath & @deebrar presentations Th 9/27/18 

https://twitter.com/CodeXStanford/status/1045341934175174657 Re 'How do we unlock academic talent to work on the urgent challenges facing our cities?' How about every house in SF/cities into G Street View for Legal Tech+?


Johannes: Thank you #CodeX for yesterday’s invitation. It was a pleasure to present #ZyLAB ONE eDiscovery solution and our vision on how we use AI and data analytics to automate and support eDiscovery at #Stanford Law School. 
Your efforts to bring together research…

Jay: How do we unlock academic talent to work on the urgent challenges facing our cities? We need more scientists tackling congestion, the opioid crisis, and disaster response yet cities rarely ask for help or know how 

Dee: Always so inspired by our amazing program partners! #civicinnovation


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In developing World University and School, which is like Wikipedia in 300 languages with CC-4 MIT OpenCourseWare in 5 languages, WUaS would like to matriculate students online for free-to-students' excellent and innovative education. WUaS seeks to create major online universities in each of all ~200 countries' official main languages to offer online free-to-students' accrediting Bachelor, Ph.D, Law, M.D. as well as I.B. high school degrees ... and eventually in a a realistic virtual earth (think Google Street View with TIME SLIDER / Maps / Earth / Translate / TensorFlow +). And while MIT doesn't have a law school, so there's no MIT OpenCourseWare for law, Stanford Law has about 10 international projects.

Re my questions yesterday, in this Google-centric vision (Wikipedia/Wikidata/Wikibase & MIT OCW in their languages too), both text-mining and, for example, Google Voice in its ~100+  languages would be facilitated among so much more.  

Brainstorming-wise, how best to teach such law online (e.g. hire Stanford Law students who might be interested in becoming faculty to teach in online group video), and how could many different high-achieving and talented students (in ~200 countries' official languages) benefit for these learning opportunities - and perhaps in new ways, such as developing contracts with a city (in different countries to help improve their information technology, government accessibility and in the legal tech field especially) - to help their cities innovate I.T.-wise and legally? 

How might we best explore this further? Thank you again for your excellent A.I. and city innovate presentations.

Best regards, Scott 
PS
To get an idea of Google Street View in a very early phase, 
visit the Harbin Hot Springs' gate in Google Street View here ~ http://tinyurl.com/p62rpcg ~ https://twitter.com/HarbinBook ~ where you can "walk" down the road '4 miles' to Middletown and 'amble' around the streets there, if inclined. Check out the houses in Middletown, California; imagine legal documents in many languages associated with them. (Harbin Hot Springs is my actual-virtual ethnographic field site).

Thank you,
Scott



P.S. Here are some examples of other wiki subjects at WUaS (but which are not yet in other languages, to give you an idea of how WUaS works, and where MIT OCW courses for online credit can be found) - 
- https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Netherlands (not yet in Dutch, West Frisian, etc.)
https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/India (not yet in Hindi, Punjabi, etc.)


Are here too are the beginning 

Law Schools at World University and School (planned in main languages in them)











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[codex_group_meetings] TODAY! CodeX Mtg (9/27 @1.30p PT): ZyLAB; City Innovate; MOCI - SLS N112 (or via Zoom)

On Thu, Sep 27, 2018 at 7:11 AM Roland Vogl <rvogl@law.stanford.edu> wrote:
Hi Everyone,

Our next CodeX meeting is today (September 27), from 1.30p to 2.30p PT, in Room N112 of the Neukom Building of SLS (or via Zoom link below).

Our guests will be:
Johannes C. Scholtes, Chief Strategy Officer and Chairman, ZyLAB. ZyLAB features an end-to-end eDiscovery platform using AI and data science tools. For 30+ years, ZyLAB has worked with corporations, law firms, and government to handle regulatory requests, eDiscovery, M&A, audits, and more. Mr. Scholtes' topic: "eDiscovery: Why More AI-based Automation and Support is essential for Today’s Legal Truth-Finding Missions."

Jay Nath, Co-Executive Director, City Innovatea nonprofit exploring ways to improve procurement so that residents and government employees can benefit from emerging technologies. Mr. Nath will discuss City Innovate's flagship Startup in Residence (STIR)a 16-week program that partners government organizations with entrepreneurs to address civic challenges.

Amardeep ("Dee") Prasad, Director of Partnerships, City & County of San Francisco, Mayor’s Office of Civic Innovation (MOCI). MOCI was established to help make government more collaborative, inventive, and responsive for San Franciscans, and works with city departments, community partners, and residents to drive impact on some of the City’s biggest challenges.  Ms. Prasad will describe MOCI's work, and San Francisco's participation in STIR. 

See you then!

Roland




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Thanks, Jay and Dee, for your emails!

Brainstorming-wise further, I've blogged a bit about this here - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2018/09/sea-anemone-baja-california-zylab-city.html - and see a lot of potential re city innovation in actual-virtual, physical-digital developments and especially re robotics (e.g. for home repair, testing on SF City? / state of California sites and buildings, - with possible other test places in India and The Netherlands, for example?), - all of which will involve further legal tech, teaching legal tech, legal tech entrepreneurialism, and A.I. text mining in many languages, for example. Will reply to your individual emails separately.

Thank you, Scott

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Thanks, Dee!

- Scott

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WUaS's "City" and "Innovation" wiki subject are here - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Subjects
And Hindi and Punjabi language wiki subjects, and as wiki schools (not yet in Hindi or Punjabi), are accessible here:
- https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Languages



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Sea Anemone, Baja, California: ZyLAB; City Innovate, Indexing houses in Google Street View in CITIES in all ~200 countries for legal tech & improving government & their I.T.  - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2018/09/sea-anemone-baja-california-zylab-city.html For #ActualVirtual, #PhysicalDigital developments and especially re robotics



- https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1045779918888435712

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Sea Anemone, Baja, California: ZyLAB; City Innovate, Indexing houses in Google Street View in CITIES in all ~200 countries for legal tech & improving government & their I.T.  - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2018/09/sea-anemone-baja-california-zylab-city.html For #RealisticVirtualEarth developments & especially re robotics @WUaSPress ~



- https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1045780181749661696


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Hi Scott and Roland

Thank you for suggesting engaging students on making our cities better. Below are a couple of ideas on addressing urban challenges:

1) How might we streamline the matching and procurement of academic talent by cities?
2) How might we streamline the public-sector RFP and contracting process for startups? 

The thesis behind both opportunities is that cities are not utilizing the tremendous talent in universities and entrepreneurial communities to help address their challenges. The benefits are significant to both sectors:


For academic:
  • Work on problems that matter - qualified challenges identified and prioritized by the community.
  • Streamlined government procurement- enables rapid procurement of research, creating incentives and sustainable funding.
  • Plug and play community engagement - partner with local government, which act as a proxy for the community and has trusted relationships with community organizations.
  • Improving communities - researchers tackle civic and societal challenges directly
  • Enhanced educational opportunities - designing and executing experiments within a city ‘living lab’ provides a unique opportunity for researchers to learn, advance technology and integrative research, and strengthens researchers relationship with communities.
  • Attracting talent - People are increasingly drawn to purpose-driven organizations aligned with values like civic-mindedness. To attract the best talent, universities must be competitive in extending their role beyond teaching and pure research.

For communities:
  • Superior research insights and solutions - Having faculty and students address urban challenges gives local government agencies better access to scientific research and discoveries
  • Strengthening University-Community collaboration - By establishing a new bridge between academia and local government, both groups stand to gain significant value for collaborations

-Jay Nath


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Thanks, Jay and Roland,

I often look from a distance to MIT and its engagement with Cambridge and the Greater Boston Area, with regard to your questions. And there might be resources in MIT OCW in these regards as well. And I suspect Stanford already has a history with Palo Alto and SF in these regards, for example, too (e.g. legal clinics, etc - see recent Stanford President John Hennessy's new book "Leading Matters" for specific examples). 

Where I think WUaS could help here is with our A) MIT OCW-centricity, B) Google-centricity and particularly in C) coding our Wikidata / Wikibase "back end" structured knowledge base with our "front end" in WUaS MediaWiki, using this wiki subject as an example - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/The_City - for matriculating WUaS students. Check out the MIT OCW courses here, which students can't yet take for credit, and hypothetical Stanford Law students can't yet teach. If a Stanford Law student, for example, were to teach a MIT OCW-like Law OCW course to matriculated online WUaS undergraduate students (WUaS is seeking 100-500 matriculating undergrads in the autumn of 2019), both the OpenCourseWare, and the students, could be focused in the directions you outline. While WUaS students may well matriculate in some sort of Google Education environment, they may also instead register / matriculate in a WUaS MediaWiki "front end" Wikidata/Wikibase as "back end" environment in each of all ~200 countries' official language eventually. Wikidata / Wikibase coders are centered in Berlin, as a chapter of the Wikimedia Foundation (with its SF Headquarters), and Roland, and another Stanford Law Prof. Barbara van Schewick may be able to facilitate focused (multi-language) communication with Wikimedia Deutschland re coding questions in the following ways. But this coding could emerge out of Stanford Computer Science as well, perchance. Re your following two questions, Jay: 

1) How might we streamline the matching and procurement of academic talent by cities?
If students matriculated at accrediting WUaS first in English in 2019 for free-to-students' Bachelor degrees from any of ~200 countries around the world, they might be able to take courses (similar to a MIT OCW Urban Studies' course) that would address the questions your raise.



2) How might we streamline the public-sector RFP and contracting process for startups? 
If a hypothetical Stanford Law student learning to become a law faculty teacher could hypothetically bring together a OCW Law course and at the same time network with cities re public-sector RfPs - Request For Proposals - (with you and Dee for example, Jay) to inform this OCW course, this would potentially stream this process. 

I think Stanford University as a learning culture could revisit and adapt CC-4 MIT OCW (CC-4 licensing: 1) share, 2) adapt but 3) non-commercially) in very new ways to address all your 'academic points.'

And re 'communities,' it's likely that matriculated students at WUaS, taking courses from HOME with Stanford Law student faculty, would already be living in their communities, which could be leveraged, as well. 

I think an entrepreneurial approach would re-shape such MIT OCW, and even an emergent Stanford Law OCW education. Whether WUaS would also offer single courses for credit - re your proposals, and entrepreneurially, in an interesting question too - since WUaS has been thinking only in terms of offering Bachelor, Ph.D, Law, M.D. as well as I.B. high school degrees in each of all ~200 countries' official languages (while seeking reimbursement from Ministries of Education for what tuition is at Stanford, for example, per year per student, - so would be free-to-students, a bit like public high schools in the US). And WUaS could explore further new directions here as well. (I'm including Larry Viehland in this email, who's chair of the Board at WUaS, and also Stanford's Angela whom I met at Stanford CodeX and who is working on human rights' machine learning legal tech in Colombia). WUaS is also seeking a class of 100-500 high achieving online students in 2019 (likely to complete 4 years or 40 courses for a free-to-students' Bachelor's degree), and I wonder if the cities of SF and others in the Bay Area might be able to generate such students in these regards as well (eg like Lowell High School, which is a public school and I.B. too, sending students to Stanford, for example).

And this whole process would scale to Computer Science courseware taught by Stanford CS graduate students, for example, and into all ~200 countries' official and main languages. And this process would also scale to all  ~32 MIT OCW departments / majors that WUaS seeks to build on as well, not just the Urban Studies and Planning courses in MIT OCW - https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/urban-studies-and-planning/ - as an example. But again MIT doesn't have a law school (or a medical school) ... and WUaS is seeking to offer online degrees in both (defining medicine anew online) and hopefully emerging out of Stanford Medicine for OpenCourseWare or similar in ~200 countries' official languages. 

The streamlining process re both of your questions seems best, from my perspective, to emerge from bringing together the WUaS's MediaWiki "front end" with Wikidata/Wikibase as "back end" in 300 languages - coding for such streamlining. And it's possible Stanford CS graduate students could help with this as well ... and even as an entrepreneurial opportunity. 

How might we best proceed re City Innovate // Stanford CodeX // World University and School?

Thank you!

Cheers, Scott

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As a followup:

To give you an idea of how the inter-lingual aspect of the WUaS Mediawiki "front end" will 'draw from' Wikidata/Wikibase as "back end" structured knowledge database in ~300 languages - as I understand this - is I think that Google Translate, as one example, will draw from parts and sounds of words in Wikidata's new Lexicographical project, and render translations. Re WUaS, this will either be built into Mediawiki or the Google Ecosystem, and possibly able to decipher proper names of matriculated students at WUaS, and inform translation of parts of MIT OCW courses which now number about 2,500 courses in English, making them available to matriculated students in ~200 countries' languages - and with many in cities. Such Google Translation - or Wikimedia's Content Translation - both drawing on Wikidata's Lexicographical project will also likely translate the subject headings in this main WUaS SUBJECT TEMPLATE - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/SUBJECT_TEMPLATE?action=edit - as well as some of the content in these subjects - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Subjects ... So the further development of Wikidata's new Lexicographical project may open a river of WUaS coding developments re your 'streamlining' questions, Jay.

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.@FukuyamaFrancis: We need an integrated national identity based on liberal democratic values so Americans can believe in something in common #Stanfordbooklaunch #Thymos




https://twitter.com/StanfordCDDRL/status/1045462947504390144



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Great interview with @FukuyamaFrancis & @McFaul about “Identity,” the roots of #Thymos and the search for dignity in modern politics during his #Stanford book launch > https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Nation_States … & at @WUaSPress -@WorldUnivAndSch can help with education, academic careers re economics



https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1045464787834949634


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Here’s the Stanford interview itself …

Fukuyama and McFaul:

https://www.pscp.tv/w/1ZkKzNekyVLKv



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