Sunday, March 31, 2019

Zinnia 15 - Meeting WorldUniversity meeting@worlduniversityandschool.org (Quaker - NtF)


World University seeks high schoolers to apply this autumn 2015 to matriculate online in 2016 (as if going to MIT) - Signup at WUaS's home page -
http://worlduniversityandschool.org/ -
for free CC accrediting Baccalaureate (Bachelor's) degrees -
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/The_College_at_World_University_and_School -
and planning to graduate in 2020.
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To Solar Energy - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Solar_Energy? Planned in many languages ...
Make sure your friends see this: President Obama is making it easier for more Americans to access solar power → http://nyti.ms/1H6F6SU ‪#‎ActOnClimate‬
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To Mathematics at World University - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Mathematics? Planned in many languages ... check out the MIT OCW in 7 languages ... (STEM too - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/STEM_Education_-_Science,_Technologies,_Engineering_and_Mathematics)
Chaos made simple

This shows a lot of tiny particles moving around.   If you were one of these particles, it would be hard to predict where you'd go.  See why?  It's because each time you approach the crossing, it's hard to tell whether you'll go into the left loop or the right one. 

You can predict which way you'll go: it's not random.  But to predict it, you need to know your position quite accurately.  And each time you go around, it gets worse.  You'd need to know your position extremely accurately to predict which way you go - left or right - after a dozen round trips. 

This effect is called deterministic chaos.  Deterministic chaos happens when something is so sensitive to small changes in conditions that its motion is very hard to predict in practice, even though it's not actually random.

This particular example of deterministic chaos is one of the first and most famous.  It's the Lorenz attractor, invented by Edward Lorenz as a very simplified model of the weather in 1963.

The equations for the Lorentz attractor are not very complicated if you know calculus.  They say how the x, y and z coordinates of a point change with time:

dx/dt = 10(x-y)
dy/dt = x(28-z) - y
dz/dt = xy - 8z/3

You are not supposed to be able to look at these equations and say "Ah yes!  I see why these give chaos!"   Don't worry: if you get nothing out of these equations, it doesn't mean you're "not a math person"  - just as not being able to easily paint the Mona Lisa doesn't mean you're "not an art person".  Lorenz had to solve them using a computer to discover chaos.  I personally have no intuition as to why they work... though I could get such intuition if I spent a week reading about it.

The weird numbers here are adjustable, but these choices are the ones Lorenz originally used.  I don't know what choices David Szakaly used in his animation.  Can you find out?

If you imagine a tiny drop of water flowing around as shown in this picture, each time it goes around it will get stretched in one direction.  It will get squashed in another direction, and be neither squashed nor stretched in a third direction. 

The stretching is what causes the unpredictability: small changes in the initial position will get amplified.  I believe the squashing is what keeps the two loops in this picture quite flat.  Particles moving around these loops are strongly attracted to move along a flat 'conveyor belt'.  That's why it's called the Lorentz attractor.

With the particular equations I wrote down, the drop will get stretched in one direction by a factor of about 2.47... but squashed in another direction by a factor of about 2 million!    At least that's what this physicist at the University of Wisconsin says:

J. C. Sprott, Lyapunov exponent and dimension of the Lorenz attractor
http://sprott.physics.wisc.edu/chaos/lorenzle.htm

He has software for calculating these numbers - or more precisely their logarithms, which are called Lyapunov exponents.  He gets 0.906, 0, and -14.572 for the Lyapunov exponents.

For more nice animations of the Lorentz attractor, see:

http://visualizingmath.tumblr.com/post/121710431091/a-sample-solution-in-the-lorenz-attractor-when

David Szakaly has a blog called dvdp full of astounding images:

http://dvdp.tumblr.com/

and presumably this one of the Lorenz attractor is buried in there somewhere, though I'm feeling too lazy to do an image search and find it.
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To Chamber Music at World University - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aHJolteDIzc - here - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Chamber_Music ... Stanford University's Geoff Nuttall is a skillful raconteur ... how would you edit this Chamber Music page to conversationally interact with this video? Check out the World University community page here - https://plus.google.com/u/0/communities/116251696406981539440 … 
To Chamber Music at World University - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aHJolteDIzc - here - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Chamber_Music ... Stanford University's Geoff Nuttall is a skillful raconteur ... how would you edit this Chamber Music page to conversationally interact with this video? 
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Growing wiki ESL resources for KIDS' open teaching and kearning at WORLD UNIVERSITY
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/English_as_a_Second_Language_for_Kids... Kids can be very WIKI creative language-wise and potentially in ALL 7929 LANGUAGES.
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Rainbows: The Rainbow Gathering's ahappening now in the Black Hills of South Dakota, Have blogged a fair amount about past gatherings here, Rainbows have a great conception of Freedom - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2015/07/rainbows-rainbow-gatherings-ahappening.html
Rainbows: The Rainbow Gathering's ahappening now in the Black Hills of South Dakota, Have blogged a fair amount about past gatherings here, Rainbows have a great conception of Freedom - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2015/07/rainbows-rainbow-gatherings-ahappening.html
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To Species' wiki Subject page - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Species - for open teaching and learning at World University? Planned in many languages ... 
It's that time of year again: the time when a young pinniped's fancy turns to thoughts of lounging around on the beach. And what better way to celebrate high summer in the Arctic than with WalrusCam, a continuous live stream from Round Island, Alaska, where you can hear the soothing sounds of the waves crashing on the shore as thousands of tons of blubber, muscle, and tusk photosynthesize and lumber about?

And by thousands, I mean thousands; there can be as many as 14,000 walruses, each weighing a good two tons, on this island at a time. It's kind of fascinating.

Alas, the video link on the page below seems to have expired; you can see the current WalrusCam at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-XizvosHgHQ .

h/t +California Academy of Sciences 
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Very Cool ... To Electric_and_Hybrid_Vehicles ... http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Electric_and_Hybrid_Vehicles at World University and School? Planned in many languages ... I wonder how well this works ... fun to do from home for WUaS matriculated students ...  
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Fun, Jie! ... hmmm ... where at World University and School might this go ... how about to the Electric_and_Hybrid_Vehicles wiki subject - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Electric_and_Hybrid_Vehicles ? Planned in many languages ... 
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Sweet ... To Meditation at WUaS ... http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Meditation ? Planned in many languages ...
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Hi i Q, S, L and Wikidatans, 

In terms of strategic partnerships with CC Wikidata, and this Wikidata Engineering Community project looking for -

 "* people that have been in touch with organizations willing to contribute their open data" - 

in what ways could CC World University and School contribute our early CC Nation State Universities, e.g. Mexico World University and School - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Mexico - (with only the CC MIT OCW in Spanish so far, and not yet in Spanish otherwise)? See also, for example, the Nation States' wiki subject page at WUaS - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Nation_States. Each wiki Nation-State University at CC WUaS, seeks to accredit in each country in their main languags to offer online CC baccalaureate, Ph.D., Law and M.D. degrees, and also I.B. high school degrees, if possible, based on CC MIT OCW in 7 languages and CC Yale OYC, to begin. 

In addition, CC World University would like to facilitate wiki / Wikidata schools for open teaching and learning in each of all 7,929+ languages. As planned interlingual wiki schools for highest quality universal education, CC World University and School would like to explore developing in Wikidata, and become a growth story also for Wikidata. World University would thus like to explore contributing our open data in these regards. 

In what ways might WUaS best contribute in terms of a strategic partnerships re this Wikidata Engineering Community project ? Perhaps World University could become a part of the"community framework allowing Wikidata content and tech contributors, data engineers, and open data organizations to collaborate effectively." Thank you.

Best, 
Info (Scott)


- Scott MacLeod - Founder & President  

- http://worlduniversityandschool.org 

- World University and School - like Wikipedia with best STEM-centric OpenCourseWare - incorporated as a nonprofit university and school in California, and is a U.S. 501 (c) (3) tax-exempt educational organization, both effective April 2010.
Hi Q, S, L and Wikidatans, 

In terms of strategic partnerships with CC Wikidata, and this Wikidata Engineering Community project looking for -

 "* people that have been in touch with organizations willing to contribute their open data" - 

in what ways could CC World University and School contribute our early CC Nation State Universities, e.g. Mexico World University and School - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Mexico - (with only the CC MIT OCW in Spanish so far, and not yet in Spanish otherwise)? See also, for example, the Nation States' wiki subject page at WUaS - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Nation_States. Each wiki Nation-State University at CC WUaS, seeks to accredit in each country in their main languags to offer online CC baccalaureate, Ph.D., Law and M.D. degrees, and also I.B. high school degrees, if possible, based on CC MIT OCW in 7 languages and CC Yale OYC, to begin. 

In addition, CC World University would like to facilitate wiki / Wikidata schools for open teaching and learning in each of all 7,929+ languages. As planned interlingual wiki schools for highest quality universal education, CC World University and School would like to explore developing in Wikidata, and become a growth story also for Wikidata. World University would thus like to explore contributing our open data in these regards. 

In what ways might WUaS best contribute in terms of a strategic partnerships re this Wikidata Engineering Community project ? Perhaps World University could become a part of the"community framework allowing Wikidata content and tech contributors, data engineers, and open data organizations to collaborate effectively." Thank you.

Best, 
Info (Scott)


- Scott MacLeod - Founder & President  

- http://worlduniversityandschool.org 

- World University and School - like Wikipedia with best STEM-centric OpenCourseWare - incorporated as a nonprofit university and school in California, and is a U.S. 501 (c) (3) tax-exempt educational organization, both effective April 2010.
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Glory bush: Universal Translator THROUGH a Digital Virtual Earth, Libraries in ALL 7,929 languages, Wikidata / wiki 3D interactive virtual earth libraries (building on Markus's beautiful maps, for example) will create digital libraries in all 7,929 languages re my post from yesterday, but concerning digital readable books "in the stacks," [Wikidata] New Wikidata maps, In what ways could such Commons' photos/images with millions of coordinates, related video resources, and other related Wikipedia items be incorporated into a 3D film-realistic interactive wiki-informed virtual world - think Google Earth with OpenSim, Second Life, Illustris + - and in a way that's wiki-buildable, and could be used even for STEM-research (e.g. mapping in specific photos and videos from the various archaeological digs at Troy), and decade-by-decade to begin, even, for a kind of historical reference time frame virtual-world mapping?, Wikidata / wiki 3D interactive virtual earth libraries but concerning digital readable books "in the stacks," Will every book in every language eventually get a Wikidata Q-item reference with coordinates and be includable in such a wiki virtual earth? And become a significant basis of an universal translator from these stacks in a virtual earth?


http://scott-macleod.blogspot.nl/2015/07/glory-bush-universal-translator-through.html

Glory bush: Universal Translator THROUGH a Digital Virtual Earth, Libraries in ALL 7,929 languages, Wikidata / wiki 3D interactive virtual earth libraries (building on Markus's beautiful maps, for example) will create digital libraries in all 7,929 languages re my post from yesterday, but concerning digital readable books "in the stacks," [Wikidata] New Wikidata maps, In what ways could such Commons' photos/images with millions of coordinates, related video resources, and other related Wikipedia items be incorporated into a 3D film-realistic interactive wiki-informed virtual world - think Google Earth with OpenSim, Second Life, Illustris + - and in a way that's wiki-buildable, and could be used even for STEM-research (e.g. mapping in specific photos and videos from the various archaeological digs at Troy), and decade-by-decade to begin, even, for a kind of historical reference time frame virtual-world mapping?, Wikidata / wiki 3D interactive virtual earth libraries but concerning digital readable books "in the stacks," Will every book in every language eventually get a Wikidata Q-item reference with coordinates and be includable in such a wiki virtual earth? And become a significant basis of an universal translator from these stacks in a virtual earth?


http://scott-macleod.blogspot.nl/2015/07/glory-bush-universal-translator-through.html
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Extended circles
Lots of Friendly influences in this group ... 2 went to Earlham College and 2 went to George School ... 
Wisdom Creek Ranch on the weekend of my great Aunt Mary Brown's memorial celebration in Eastern Oregon (around 1980-1981)
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Aunt Mary Brown's memorial celebration in Eastern Oregon
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To Medicine at Wotld Uni?
In excellent news of the day, California SB277 has just been signed into law: all non-medical exemptions for school vaccination requirements are now gone. California has several hubs of people who have been refusing critical vaccinations based largely on rumors that They're Bad For You, and has had serious outbreaks of diseases like measles and pertussis as a result. 

No more. The personal and religious exemptions (basically, the "I don't wanna" exemptions) have been eliminated.

I'm incredibly happy to see the state legislature move so quickly on an issue that put thousands of lives across the state at risk. 
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Inspiring and virtuosic ....
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Thank you for https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/feeling-it/201506/embracing-hardship-surprising-secret-happiness

To the "Happiness" wiki subject - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Happiness - for open teaching and learning at World University and School (which is like Wikipedia with best STEM-centric OpenCourseWare - eg. CC MIT OCW in 7 languages and CC Yale OYC and planning online accrediting CC university degrees) ? This wiki Subject (http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Subjects) and most others (e.g. see the "Meditation" subject at WUaS) at WUaS are planned in many many languages.

All the best, 
Scott
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QMeeting SF Friends - +Scott MacLeod, +David Matchett​ +Stephen Matchett​ +Neil Fullagar​ at "Pride" 
Scott, David M, Stephen M, and Neil F in SF at "Pride" +David Matchett+Stephen Matchett+Neil Fullagar
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To Archaeology - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Archaeology - and Virtual Worlds - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Virtual_Worlds - at WUaS ? ... wiki subjects where YOU can teach and learn ...  Planned in many, many languages.
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Brilliant, Inspiring, Virtuosic - Faculty Speaker Karen Brennan: HGSE Convocation 2015 https://youtu.be/dPGAplELF3Q @Harvard Added to "Inspiration_in_learning_and_teaching" http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Inspiration_in_learning_and_teaching as well as "Ph.D.s," Media Lab at WUaS" and "Creativity" and may explore adding to "Teaching" ... All these wiki Subjects are planned in many, many languages!
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Celestial eye goldfish: Trip to Portland, Oregon (June, 2015), Oregon photos, WUaS got the contract documents for hiring Reed College Federal Work Study students as I pulled in to the Reed campus ... 
http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2015/06/celestial-eye-goldfish-trip-to-portland.html ... 
To Reed College and Friends Association for Higher Education (Quakers)
Trip to Portland
Trip to Portland
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