Thursday, March 26, 2020

oleracea (Wild cabbage): Humor - “Don’t worry, there are 2 parachutes left, the smartest man in the USA took my school bag.” * * Learning programming socially and together in "Create-Along LIVE!" - in the middle of this national emergency (presumably with different laws) - the new Scratch drag and drop visual programming language * Sweden's taking a different approach to the worldwide "coronavirus" meme 'fire drill' (I hypothesize) ... "The world stands still. Only Sweden doesn't" * * * Was there a kind of 'eco-radical' action, reversing global warming, in Wuhan, China, gene-wise - that could be contributing to far less airplane travel and people staying home, thus burning far less fossil fuel driving cars * * * Some further dancing (potentially with singing) in #VirtualChoir for benefits of movement while 'sheltering-at-home' during the #coronavirus meme pandemic #UnitarianUniversalist @WorldUnivAndSch #RealRealTime #GoogleMeet ~



Hi Ma (Janie), and All, 

Thanks for the humor, and the realism too! 

From a British Tweet:

Plane with 5 passengers on board: Donald Trump, Boris Johnson, Angela Merkel, The Pope, and a 10-year-old schoolboy. The plane is about to crash and there are only 4 parachutes. Trump says, “I need one. I’m the smartest man in the USA and am needed to sort out the problems of the World!” — takes one and jumps. Boris says, “I’m needed to sort out Britain.” He takes one and jumps The Pope says, “I need one, as the world needs the Catholic Church.” He takes one and jumps. Angela says to the 10-yr-old: “You can have the last parachute. I’ve lived my life, yours is only just starting.” The 10-yr-old replies: “Don’t worry, there are 2 parachutes left, the smartest man in the USA took my school bag.”

In the middle of this national emergency (presumably with different laws - and I'm hoping it's mostly a kind of 'fire drill'), ... and while we're all sheltering at home (in case of emergency??? - in a time of increasingly sophisticated biological weapons???) want to learn the new Scratch drag and drop visual programming language ? Here are two MIT Scratch programmers, Eric Schilling and Zoe Bentley sharing how it works - 
https://youtu.be/tCMZckWp82w - in a great tutorial (accessible from https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/12/panamanian-golden-frog-world-university.html), and here's Zoe Bentley from a related interactive livestream today - "Create-Along LIVE! Let's make Scratch projects together!" ...  
https://youtu.be/IGDCZGfj_cQ ... The next live "Create-Along" Scratch get-together online happens next Thursday, and stay tuned to the Scratch Team's Twitter eg 

Sweden's taking a different approach to the worldwide "coronavirus" meme 'fire drill' (I hypothesize) ... 

"The world stands still. Only Sweden doesn't" (https://translate.google.com) https://zeit.de/politik/ausland/2020-03/coronavirus-schweden-stockholm-oeffentliches-leben Why do kindergartens & primary schools remain open in Sweden despite the increasing number of infections? #Coronavirus Tegnell (epidemiology) answers the same> https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Sweden ~
https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1242826022849921030?s=20

Wash your hands, and practice social distancing in this 'in case of emergency' ??? :)

Scott

With my mother encouraging me to keep a journal in this time of the novel corona virus COVID-19 (SARS CoV2) pandemic,  

you'll find 15 recent blog posts regarding the novel corona virus COVID-19 (SARS CoV2) pandemic, mostly in the 'genes' label in my blog, ... check out the questions re "radical act"?,  'pan'-demic?  and "archery contest in Wuhan, China" ... among other inquiries ... ?


Mount Oeta - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/03/mount-oeta-greece-world-univ-sch-with.html
Desert Quandong - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/03/desert-quandong-medianthro-digital.html

High Sierra snow pack - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/03/high-sierra-snow-pack-heres-beginning.html
Mandrill - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/03/mandrill-current-hypothesis-and-line-of.html
Asteroid - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/03/asteroid-actual-virtual-blockchain.html
Mirabilis jalapa - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/03/mirabilis-jalapa-greece-world-univ-sch.html
Courtship display - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/03/courtship-display-heartsong-and-all.html
Caterpillar - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/03/caterpillar-teaching-intelligence-how.html
Bizet sheep - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/03/bizet-sheep-wisdom-worldunivandsch.html
Sexual selection in birds - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/03/sexual-selection-in-birds-thanks-to.html
Rabies - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/03/rabies-dramatic-it-seems-1-as-if-some.html
Glass frog - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/03/glass-frog-cochranella-regarding-this.html
Coronavirus - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/03/coronavirus-from-richard-dawkins-heres.html
Teak - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/02/teak-24-feb-2020-world-univ-sch-q-and.html ~



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M,

How are you doing in these contemporary "coronavirus" meme (or 'ideas') spheres? Am glad you're safe at home. After sending my longish email to you, Dick, Lucy, Ann and Alden this morning - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/03/golden-barrel-cactus-world-stands-still.html (see 2nd part) - am seeking to send out the nearly complete minutes - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/03/snowshoe-hare-minutes-for-march-21.html - for big project, and then may head out for groceries.

I wonder what climate scientists would say about comparative cooling of the earth in the month of March 2020 - and going back regarding different historical data sets? Was there a kind of 'eco-radical' action, reversing global warming, in Wuhan, China, gene-wise - that could be contributing to far less airplane travel and people staying home, thus burning far less fossil fuel driving cars, and which was thought out beforehand in these regards? Per you observation to keep a journal, my blog posts in these regards are growing - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/genes - with some thoughts about all of this :) (I have the sense that China is open for business even after this genetic novel coronavirus COVID-19 (SARS CoV2) epidemic triggering event - https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-west-is-misinterpreting-wuhans-coronavirus-progressand-drawing-the-wrong-lessons-11585074966 (did Henry C help create this?) - and the US is seeking to be open for business too, but 'how' is changing, and just changed (what does the data say?); And the way the US gets business information in China via journalists, and for investments (and vice versa), is also changing - as is probably how students study not only in China and the US reciprocally, but also in India, Europe, Africa, south America, etc.). And how have climate simulations change in recent months, I wonder - and also regarding the idea of creating a single realistic virtual earth (see below)?

A number of interesting Tweets by what could be from ZB today ... eg

https://twitter.com/scratch/status/1242820796344606727?s=20 ... :)

And as I look at and think about the beautiful pictures on my Google Smart TV that pass by, both of nature and intense large cities (all very interesting patterns), I see a number of the aurora borealis, and one looks like a tiny community in Alaska (I think) on a body of water (probably ocean) at dusk with the community alit and borealis above a mountain range behind; this gives me a new perspective on community ... These Google Smart TV photos offer perspective on life too in interesting other ways, and make me appreciate where I live in Canyon for its beauty. If ZB and I were to connect further, and she were somehow to explore moving out here, my landlord's taking care of the place could have much merit - offering freedom. Perhaps the Alaskan community, and Canyon's too, are kinds of native communities with all their historical knottedness which Angela Farmer touches on here -

https://youtu.be/qQWieQ2s2eM (aka 'Underground Yoga' here - http://www.scottmacleod.com/yoganotations.html) but am keeping both the Desiderata in mind with regard to my big project, as well as a kind of good ethics, and possibly philosophically as well. Great ethics even ... Some of the other images are underwater, and of turtles and seals swimming too ... am wondering when all of these great images will emerge in an interactive single realistic virtual earth and for science, as well as exploration, and creation. :)

With the creation of a realistic virtual Harbin, it could be great to turn the pool Sioux and Tim and I found - HERE IT IS ... http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/05/camellia-japonica-photos-of-seemingly.html - about 1/2 mile from here into a WARM pool, and bring a digital mask up there - as if to visit Harbin - and still get a nice little walk up there (but I have no idea how it would be managed socially, or even whether nascent robots could eventually make it nice:).

See, too, from 2009 ... :))
Deep Canyon: into the pools, into the vision vessel, releasing
http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2009/11/deep-canyon-into-pools-into-vision.html

What are you up to today? And how are you weathering the media? Hoping you're doing well, and creating great new possibilities creatively and exploration-wise too in your new home! (As I read further in Castells' "Communication Power" currently much about the US elections in 2004 and 2008 regarding media, am appreciative of the perspective they offer on the current race).

Love, Scott
Beginning here - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/03/mount-oeta-greece-world-univ-sch-with.html - you'll find 14 recent blog posts regarding the novel corona virus COVID-19 (SARS CoV2) pandemic ... check out the questions re "radical act"?,  'pan'-demic?  and "archery contest in Wuhan, China" ... among other inquiries ... ?


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- Scott MacLeod
- http://scottmacleod.com





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Create-Along LIVE! Let's make Scratch projects together! - Zoë
https://youtu.be/IGDCZGfj_cQ

#RealisticVirtualEarthForRobotics
#ScratchInPracticeForLegoRobotics
#RealisticVirtualEarthForRobotics


Einar Öberg @inear

Zoë: Regarding your great Create-Along LIVE!
https://youtu.be/IGDCZGfj_cQ & Jim Spohrer's "telerobotics & future of jobs,' 'state-of-the-art & projections' Qs, how to focus on #WeDo2 #RealisticVirtualEarthForLego #ScratchInPracticeForLegoRobotics & #RealisticVirtualEarthForRobotics?

https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1243257428088512517?s=20


Create-Along LIVE! Let's make Scratch projects together!


Zoë: Regarding great Create-Along LIVE! @zoebentley_
https://youtu.be/IGDCZGfj_cQ & Jim Spohrer's "telerobotics & future of jobs,' 'state-of-the-art & projections' Qs, how to focus on #RealisticVirtualEarthForRobotics #ScratchInPracticeForLegoRobotics & #RealisticVirtualEarthForLego?

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1243256856039964672?s=20
https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1243258160241987584?s=20
https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1243258899269996544?s=20


Zoë: Regarding your great Create-AlongLIVE!
https://youtu.be/IGDCZGfj_cQ & @JimSpohrer's "telerobotics & future of jobs,' 'state-of-the-art & projections' Qs, how best to focus on Scratch 3.0 with #LegoWeDo2 #RealisticVirtualEarthForLego #RealisticVirtualEarthForRobotics #ScratchInPracticeForLegoRobotics?

Related Tweets with more info & LINKS -
https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1243256210033274881?s=20
https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1243257428088512517?s=20
https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1243256856039964672?s=20
https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1243258160241987584?s=20

And especially for MACHINE LEARNING VIRTUALLY - "Special WeDo 2.0 + Scratch Project BOXER from Roboriseit!" - https://youtu.be/HjD1zAWToYU
https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1243258899269996544?s=20 - WITH Google Research Football

https://twitter.com/WUaSPress/status/1223738618264481793?s=20
https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand/status/1223738898909499392?s=20


Google Research Football

https://youtu.be/F8DcgFDT9sc



Zoë: Regarding great Create-Along LIVE! @zoebentley_
https://youtu.be/IGDCZGfj_cQ & Jim Spohrer's "telerobotics & future of jobs,' 'state-of-the-art & projections' Qs, how to focus on #RealisticVirtualEarthForLegoRobotics #ScratchInPracticeForLegoRobotics & #ScottishCountryDancing?


Zoë: Regarding great Create-Along LIVE! @zoebentley_
https://youtu.be/IGDCZGfj_cQ & Spohrer's "telerobotics & future of jobs,' 'state-of-the-art & projections' Qs, how to focus on #WeDo2 #RealisticVirtualEarthForRobotics #ScratchInPracticeForLegoRobotics & #ScottishCountryDancing ?
https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand/status/1243292658761486341?s=20
https://twitter.com/MIT_CSAIL/status/994979618963755009?s=20

https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand/status/1243292290862338048?s=20



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Three questions I asked in the interactive real time question form:

Thursday, March 26, 2020: 
Create-Along LIVE! Let's make Scratch projects together! -
https://youtu.be/IGDCZGfj_cQ 
Thanks for making this Scratch Create-Along so social and interactive in a new online way with this question tool :)! Am liking the sociality of your livestream live esp. too. How to make Scratch with 'Home Robotics' (WeDo 2.0, Mindstorms EV3 / Mindstreams:) & Spike Prime) as social and interactive online - and in new ways? (Animate a Greeting Card with a Scratch coded Lego robot???) How to make the making of Scratch coded robots as fun as your "Animate a Greeting Card"? And how to make coding Scratch together somehow newly social and very fun online?  Happy International Waffle Day, Zoë !  :) Thank you!

Zoë: MIT alumnus Jim Spohrer asked in some ways my Scratch with Lego Robotics' interactive, fun and social and making/creating-together online questions in a related way: "Jim Spohrer @JimSpohrer:
Does anyone have an article on telerobotics and future of jobs?  Would like to understand the state-of-the-art and projections.
https://twitter.com/JimSpohrer/status/1243227311681331200?s=20" Happy International Waffle Day, Zoë !  :) Thank you! 

Zoë: Regarding your great Create-Along LIVE! Let's make Scratch projects together! -
https://youtu.be/IGDCZGfj_cQ ... AND Jim Spohrer's "telerobotics and future of jobs,' ' the state-of-the-art and projections' questions, how might a future Create-Along LIVE! focus on Scratch3.0 with Lego WeDo 2.0 #RealisticVirtualEarthForLego (Einar Öberg @inear with his Brick Street View in Google Street View - eg https://twitter.com/inear/status/1242374206601465858?s=20 - but for Lego ROBOTICS), #ScratchInPracticeForLegoRobotics and #RealisticVirtualEarthForRobotics?

Related Tweets with more info & LINKS -
https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1243256210033274881?s=20
https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1243257428088512517?s=20
https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1243256856039964672?s=20
https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1243258160241987584?s=20
And especially for MACHINE LEARNING VIRTUALLY - "Special WeDo 2.0 + Scratch Project BOXER from Roboriseit!" - https://youtu.be/HjD1zAWToYU
https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1243258899269996544?s=20 - WITH Google Research Football

https://twitter.com/WUaSPress/status/1223738618264481793?s=20
https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand/status/1223738898909499392?s=20

Happy International Waffle Day ! :) And thank you!


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And regarding Lego Robotics moving into learning machine learning, see ...

Flying and gliding animals: "This is next level " - Home ONLINE #LegoRobotics in #RealisticVirtualHarbin w #ScratchProgramming & #MachineLearning HOW? Special WeDo2 Scratch BOXER - MIT Lego Robot Competition '99 - Google Research Football - with Reinforcement Learning * So, how could kids learn #MachineLearning by playing with #LegoWeDo2 robotics' kit in a #RealisticVirtualEarth is the gist * * * Belated Robert Burns' night * Let's stay in touch about Italy, Japan, Russia and China World University and School, - and Burns as Scotland poet laureate, - and with some of your countries' poet laureates - from Italy, Japan, Russia and China too

http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/02/flying-and-gliding-animals-this-is-next.html


Painted turtle: Lego Robotics into Machine/Reinforcement Learning & CC-4 Wiki adding to WUaS, 3 Feb 2020 LiveStream * * Lego Special WeDo 2.0 Scratch BOXER * MIT Lego Robot Competition 1999 * Google Research Football * * * Guest Content for the Website *- World Univ and Sch is wiki, so you can openly wiki-add your own posts, writings or testimonials in an open teaching and learning vein (a little like adding to a Wikipedia article), That said, WUaS in general is MIT OpenCourseWare-centric - https://ocw.mit.edu/index.htm - and is heading, like CC-4 licensed MIT OCW, in the direction of CC-4 licensing for people adding their own content to WUaS, and here's an example ...

http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/02/painted-turtle-lego-robotics-into.html


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See, too:

The promise of this novel #GoogleResearchFootballEnvironment wi #ReinforcementLearning env. re Qs of #PhilosophicalAgency #Agency here re #HarbinWarmPool soakers, soakers #avatarbots, or all people as 'team' as #agent https://research-football.dev/about is studying agency with #ML & #RL ~

https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1199773142329122816?s=20

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Could #agents here be #HarbinWarmPool soakers, #avatarbots of soakers, or all people as 'team' in #WarmPool NOW & coders & #RL Bot? ~ #ReinforcementLearning https://research-football.dev/about 'where agents control either one or all football players on their team' & https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1199753845494013952?s=20… ~

https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1199773215842717697?s=20



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Hi Bruce, UUCPA and All,

Here is some further dancing (potentially with singing) in #VirtualChoir >https://twitter.com/HarlanCoben/status/1243285164249296897?s=20 for benefits of movement while 'sheltering-at-home' during the #coronavirus meme pandemic #UnitarianUniversalist https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Virtual_Choir @WorldUnivAndSch #RealRealTime #GoogleMeet ~

https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand/status/1243302422010679296?s=20
https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1243307591762993154?s=20


It may involve some innovative musical direction - especially music-wise.

Cheers, Scott
(Re free 250 place choir hall in Google Meet - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Virtual_Choir ? WUaS's Google Meet doesn't yet livestream to Youtube, FYI - but I'd think the Google Roadmap to real, real time music-making would be one of the best).



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Here is some further dancing (potentially with singing) in #VirtualChoir >https://twitter.com/HarlanCoben/status/1243285164249296897?s=20 for benefits of movement while 'sheltering-at-home' during the #coronavirus meme pandemic #UnitarianUniversalist https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Virtual_Choir @TheOpenBand in #RealRealTime #GoogleMeet ~

https://twitter.com/HarlanCoben/status/1243285164249296897?s=20
https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1243307712516993026?s=20







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