Scott MacLeod's Anthropology of Information Technology & Counterculture: Soap bubble: Happy birthday to Ma Mère! Animated birthday card with song for Ma Mère - in exploring this "Create-Along LIVE! Let's make Scratch projects together!" tutorial . . . ... 'homemade' programming as birthday card * * "Click on the green flag to send heart to the middle! . . . " * * * * What roles are information technology and machine learning playing with the coronavirus in China? For example, in what ways could Stanford’s and Duke’s and Google’s and Verily’s Project Baseline play a role even in China? - "The Baseline #COVID19 Program is scheduling tests for people at high-risk of infection in San Mateo & Santa Clara counties. Please take the screener at https://bit.ly/2QxLxMR and learn about additional sites coming online by checking @verilylifesci " - https://twitter.com/CAgovernor/status/1241176851864637441?s=20 Thanks.

Hi Ma, Dick, Lucy, Ann, and Alden,

Happy birthday to Ma Mère!

I made this animated birthday card with song for Ma Mère - in exploring this "Create-Along LIVE! Let's make Scratch projects together!" tutorial this morning (https://youtu.be/IGDCZGfj_cQ from 3/26/20, as well as the next livestream, also by Zoe, today, 4/2/20 - https://youtu.be/cN5yL0-RmKw ... as well as ).

This card is animated, or programmed, (and may still be a work in progress ... :)

https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/382124547

(https://scratch.mit.edu/users/Helianth/)

... 'homemade' programming as birthday card, could one say? :) (And it may be as close as it gets to a 'physical' gift for her today:)

Happy BIRTHDAY, Ma!

Click on the green flag to send heart to the middle!
Click on the space bar to send it back.
Click the heart to hear a birthday song.
And click on the stop sign to end the song.

And for a moment of hilarity in the middle of this 'national emergency,' from Monty Python's John Cleese (who's quarantining in LA:) -

When someone tries to come over during quarantine... #johncleese #montypython #tauntingfrenchman #quarantine

When someone tries to come over during quarantine... #johncleese #montypython #tauntingfrenchman #quarantine pic.twitter.com/g7m1QzaUwj
— John Cleese (@JohnCleese) April 2, 2020

https://twitter.com/JohnCleese/status/1245798680306860033?s=20

Warmly, Scotty

5 Tweets in a beginning new "Hypothetical News" re the 'coronavirus' -

Himalyan Monal: How are the Harbin Hot Springs' Residents coping - in this time of 'national emergency' in the USA? * * * New newspaper ... "Hypothetical News" ... with first tentative headlines: The novel coronavirus COVID-19 (SARS CoV-2) pandemic has been primarily 1 a fire drill - i.e. 'in case of emergency' (eg genetic, war, nuclear) - and lead to governments, internet media, and economies working together internally in all ~200 countries, and internationally too * * * I think this question of caring for Harbin Residents comes back to the state of California and Lake County as governmental entities in part ...

- https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/04/himalyan-monal-how-are-harbin-hot.html -

- Scott MacLeod

- http://scottmacleod.com

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https://scratch.mit.edu/users/Helianth/

Imagine a World tutorial
https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/382283884/editor

Scratch Hour of Code Webinar for Educators

https://youtu.be/tCMZckWp82w

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

https://youtu.be/IGDCZGfj_cQ

Introduce a Character! Create-Along LIVE: Let's make Scratch projects together!

https://youtu.be/cN5yL0-RmKw

Submit a question to the Scratch Create-Along livestream!
Got a question or a comment? Want help with something? Looking for a project idea? Send it in! I'll answer questions on the livestream.
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd00xlAo3bp-Y0di1Mz8be_RjOoQMHNxBJO13S1f4Y8Q7EQZw/viewform

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Hi Zoë,

With another inspiring video by Zoe and Eric, Karen Brennan's Alexa Kutler's Retweet, and Jared Amalong in Sacramento having gotten back to me that he had met and knows Zoe, I followed up with Zoe yesterday in email. Hoping to become email friends and communicate in writing some at first.

April 2, 2020

Thanks so much, Zoe! Am curious how characters we animate might eventually enter a Google Smart TV environment in Google Street View ... How to anticipate this somehow - and in Scratch? (And how might such a Google Smart TV environment with Google Street View / Brick Street View regarding Lego Brick Robotics be coded for with Scratch, or how to anticipate this?) Thanks for your inspiring Scratch Create-Along livestream!

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!

https://docs.google.com/forms/u/0/d/e/1FAIpQLSd00xlAo3bp-Y0di1Mz8be_RjOoQMHNxBJO13S1f4Y8Q7EQZw/formResponse -

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!

https://docs.google.com/forms/u/0/d/e/1FAIpQLSd00xlAo3bp-Y0di1Mz8be_RjOoQMHNxBJO13S1f4Y8Q7EQZw/formResponse

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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Am wondering when characters we animate in Scratch might enter the Google Smart TV environment in Google StreetView / Brick StreetView regarding Lego Brick Robotics & be code-able with Scratch? scottmacleod.com
(https://scratch.mit.edu/users/Helianth/)

Could such characters eventually become both realistic and fantastic avatars in Google Street View ?

And even become surgeon robots eventually ... a character I may seek to introduce re

Searched on -

Google Street View in Google Smart TV

Google Street View in Google Cardboard

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Dear Stanford's Hoover Institute, and Tom Gilligan,

Tom,

Thanks for the conversation today with Lanhee J. Chen, Ph.D., and Michael Auslin.

Here's the question I asked in the Q&A a little further spelled out:

What roles are information technology and machine learning playing with the coronavirus in China? For example, in what ways could Stanford’s and Duke’s and Google’s and Verily’s Project Baseline play a role even in China? - "The Baseline #COVID19 Program is scheduling tests for people at high-risk of infection in San Mateo & Santa Clara counties. Please take the screener at https://bit.ly/2QxLxMR and learn about additional sites coming online by checking @verilylifesci "
- https://twitter.com/CAgovernor/status/1241176851864637441?s=20 Thanks.

This is the Duke Univ professor, a former FDA commissioner, who's the head of Project Baseline there -

Robert M Califf @califf001 Mar 20
Working with the governor's office to screen for Covid 19. @verilylifesci
https://twitter.com/califf001/status/1241179487972159488?s=20

And Bob Harrington MD, who's the chair of Stanford Medicine, is a colleague and also involved with Stanford's Project Baseline.

Scott

- https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch

I've blogged, in part, about Niall Ferguson's great presentation - https://www.hoover.org/events/niall-ferguson-covid-19-light-history-and-network-science - here - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/03/grey-seal-gordon-duncan-and-stuart.html - (and thanks for the video of Niall's presentation; I had emailed him this question:

Thank you, Niall Ferguson and Tom Gilligan, for - https://www.hoover.org/events/niall-ferguson-covid-19-light-history-and-network-science - this morning.

Here are the questions and comments I posted to the Zoom Q&A:
Have China and Russia somehow been successfully 'contained' in new ways as a consequence of the coronavirus pandemic (if there were expansion developments occurring), - and China, with their own new legal language (somehow potentially in relation to the Stanford Law China Guiding Cases Project - https://cgc.law.stanford.edu - which has been translating, in a time of legal reform in China, the fairly new Beijing Supreme Courts' rulings ... and law is a writer's game, - and in Chinese/Mandarin too) - has now apparently 'closed their borders' ?

Thank you, Niall and Tom! - Regards, Scott (https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/03/lavacicles-this-picture-in-who-delivers.html)
- Scott GK MacLeod - Founder, President & Professor
-World University and School
-http://worlduniversityandschool.org
- 415 480 4577- http://scottmacleod.com
- CC World University and School - like CC Wikipedia with MIT OCW.

(I sent the following to http://www.niallferguson.com/contact after Niall's fascinating Stanford Hoover briefing: https://www.hoover.org/events/niall-ferguson-covid-19-light-history-and-network-science) ).

- Scott MacLeod - Founder, President & Professor

- World University and School

- http://worlduniversityandschool.org

- 415 480 4577

- http://scottmacleod.com

- CC World University and School - like CC Wikipedia with best STEM-centric CC OpenCourseWare - incorporated as a nonprofit university and school in California, and is a U.S. 501 (c) (3) tax-exempt educational organization.

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... mostly in the 'genes' label in my blog, here are 22 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 ... ?

Soap bubble - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/04/soap-bubble-happy-birthday-to-ma-mere.html

Himalyan Monal - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/04/himalyan-monal-how-are-harbin-hot.html

Grey seal - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/03/grey-seal-gordon-duncan-and-stuart.html

Lavacicles - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/03/lavacicles-this-picture-in-who-delivers.html

Mt. Shasta at sunrise - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/03/mt-shasta-at-sunrise-inquiring-here-was.html

oleracea (Wild cabbage) - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/03/oleracea-wild-cabbage-humor-dont-worry.html

golden barrel cactus - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/03/golden-barrel-cactus-world-stands-still.html