Friday, December 18, 2020

Northern bald ibis (Geronticus eremita): UC Berkeley Anthropology tourism presentation this afternoon went well ... "Creating a realistic virtual earth for tourism and tourism studies with actual-virtual Harbin Hot Springs: A Case Study" * * * "I'm curious how the AI would work with these avatars" - Bringing Sunheart of Harbin alive again in avatar bot form: How would this work? And how to bring alive our ancestors in genealogy in avatar bot form so we could even talk with them interactively? * * See the Sunheart > our ethnographic audio interviews at Harbin > the animated Max Ehrmann Desiderata Youtube video - in my UC Berkeley talk slides from F 12/18/20 at the end of the presentation


 "Creating a realistic virtual earth for tourism and tourism studies with actual-virtual Harbin Hot Springs: A Case Study"

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1SI2U7ssoy52met1OIwDwT5CbVLz98RuYRVE4OY5dj6A/edit?usp=sharing


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Creating a realistic virtual earth for tourism and tourism studies with actual-virtual Harbin Hot Springs:

A Case Study

 https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1SI2U7ssoy52met1OIwDwT5CbVLz98RuYRVE4OY5dj6A/edit?usp=sharing


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‘Naked Harbin Ethnography’ book cover ~



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A next Actual-Virtual Harbin Ethnographic Book Project

Create a realistic virtual Harbin Hot Springs for visiting and soaking at, in something like Google Street View with Time Slider, Maps, Earth, TensorFlow AI with realistic avatar bots like artificial humans aka “Samsung Neons,” see: https://twitter.com/labordeolivier/status/1336562439358459904?s=20 .

 



Publish this from Google Street View’s ‘text-in-the-sidebar’ to paper



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93 slides ... https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1SI2U7ssoy52met1OIwDwT5CbVLz98RuYRVE4OY5dj6A/edit?usp=sharing ... 




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How would Avatars work with AI? 

"I'm curious how the AI would work with these avatars."


See the Sunheart > our ethnographic audio interviews at Harbin > the animated Max Ehrmann Desiderata Youtube video - in my UC Berkeley talk slides from F 12/18/20 at the end of the presentation.  


Sat, Dec 19, 8:38 PM (3 days ago)
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Thanks for the links! I'll explore those creative computing ideas further. I'm normally a fan of more low tech classroom settings involving not much more than a chalkboard and pads and pens for the students; it's been proven that writing by hand aids memory better than typing and cuts down on the number of potential distractions in the classroom. There definitely still might be a pivot post-COVID to more digital learning, which comes with its own set of challenges given how detached it is. I'd love to find out how different teachers are dealing with the issue.

I'm curious how the AI would work with these avatars. Our physical bodies determine our thoughts to such an extent that it's an open question whether a digital version of an ancestor could really be called a full recreation. 

Most of my ancestors who came by way of Boston (specifically the Warrens) were English Puritans who went to their deaths with a certain stoicism. I think awaking them before the General Resurrection would be...jarring for them, to say the least. ;)

Here's some fun info about the ones buried in Weston (Ensign John Warren and Mary Warren were my 9th great-grandparents):




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Taylor, 

What textbook would you use, and even on an iPad or tablet? What continuing education credits would you take, or how would this work, if you were teaching civics / history in a highest achieving academic high school in Georgia? Could you choose the continuing education credits, from Harvard for example, or would you have to take the continuing education 'units' from the school you were employed by? 


I concluded my UC Berkeley Anthropology Tourism Studies' talk on Friday, 12/18/20, with a question about how to bring Sunheart, my friend and main informant in "Naked Harbin Ethnography" alive again in avatar form (since he passed away this autumn). I have about 10 audio interviews I made, which could become interactive, and the basis of AI chatbot developments which eventually could pass the Turing test). See my blog too re bringing Richard Rorty alive as an avatar in a similar way - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/Richard%20Rorty?m=0 - with ideas here in a number of posts

In a peacock spider blog post, with UC Santa Cruz virtual / world/ gaming archaeology conference, and mentioning UC Berkeley archaeology Ph.D., now York Univ lecturer, Colleen Morgan, that now seems to have disappeared (there are 2 peacock spider blog post URLS here ) - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2017/11/eos-genus-historical-reenactments-in.html - I found and posted a game of a hunter-gatherer in video game from 10,000 - 50,000 years ago, that could be the digital basis, pre-language, of avatars of our human ancestors from prehistory - WITH CONTINUAL ITERATION potential, and by all of us, with new evidence and new thinking. (Not being able to find the Peacock Spider blog post I'm thinking of with archaeological video games/representation, potentially because they've been edited, makes me want to create a backup of each post in a MS Word document or similar, on my own computers:).

9 generations back? (Like my ancestor Benjamin Lincoln - https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Lincoln-78  (about 6-7 generations before me) - and here's his gravestone https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/4852/benjamin-lincoln (and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Lincoln ... and Ancestry .com SUCKS ... ie is Really PROBLEMATIC as my cousin, Mark MacLeod says, who 'lives Ancestry .com' writes, in these regards, and historically, for ex, saying his name is Benjamin L Chadbourne .:) - who accepted the sword of surrender from the British after the American Revolution, was no. 2 to George Washington, apparently?), with relatively little dialogue or writings available, with which to create datasets for bringing B.L. alive as avatar-person to talk and interact with ... ? (Identity and money probably play a role in Ancestry .com's historiography and genetics, sadly ...). Start with a digital avatar, and historical knowledge, linguistic knowledge, do digital history through building out an interactive avatar ... via ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy ... 

If 'identity politics' could be playing a role in all of these genealogy historical websites, as data sources, I'm in a Richard Rorty philosophy (even with hints of the social gospel, - and I think he had some Scottish ancestors :) ... and was a Univ Chicago Ph.D., and Princeton, Univ of Virginia and Stanford Professor of philosophy / comparative literature, who flipped the whole philosophy project :)

Cool stone of Ensign John Warren and Mary Warren, and thanks for sharing ... and interesting identity-wise especially ... I'm interested in bringing James Edward McLeod who emigrated from Scotland in the first half of the 1800s, to PEI, where he was a tailor and kiltmaker for example, and where more and more data is emerging thanks to Mark MacLeod in particular (now living in Maine, but a Stanford alum) ... and James Archibald Brown (mother's maiden name), also I think from Scotland to the US in the first half of the 1800s ... iteratively ... but worth getting a variety of avatar coding information technologies going first ... toward historical veracity, and conversational interactivity ... evidence, and thinking, as data sets, to talking and conversation  ... 

Check out the last few slides of my talk re AI chat bots ... https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1SI2U7ssoy52met1OIwDwT5CbVLz98RuYRVE4OY5dj6A/edit?usp=sharing ... slides 89-92 as key ideas, pre conversation ... with the interviews being the basis of the datasets ... aggregating more data from social media, telephone call recordings, if we could get access to them (Sunheart worked in crypto in the US services in Germany ~1965-1966) before coming to Harbin in around 1980, and living there since then. He was also brilliant, and fascinatingly influenced by the 1960s, and 1970s, and originally from Ohio :)

Thoughts, suggestions, questions, ideas? And what do you think of the Desiderata poem, slide 92, and even re career thinking, for example? 

Cheers, Scott
As I begin to near the close of adding the ~38 Scottish Small Piping tunes to my upcoming album here - 
i am finding the process generative, I may begin to start recording Piobaireachds as well. :)

 



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Taylor, 

Looks like Rorty has a Yale Ph.D. and went to the Univ of Chicago as undergraduate - https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/rorty/ - 

And could one use genealogy web platforms as data set sources for interactive avatar bot ancestors - now with DNA too?

For example, this is my mother's father, "Sandy Brown," aka Alexander Chadourne Brown, in WikiTree - 
https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Brown-92991 - who had one or two chemical engineering degrees from MIT (and now my mother, his daughter, has newly become a private person in WikiTree here ... if I'm not logged in ... all these platforms are working out privacy, identity, and so many other new web-emergent genealogy questions and issues ...:)

And CC-4 MIT OCW-centric wiki World Univ & Sch is planning to code, brainstorming-wise, for all 7.8 billion people on the planet, and even interoperate with WikiTree for genetics, since they are planning for a single family tree (presumably for all 7.8 billion people too, at least DNA-wise)

How to bring my grandfather, Sandy Brown (ACB or Alexander Chadourne Brown), alive in conversational avatar bot form, and with everyone who remembers him, and our family members' contributions, memories, data etc?

Are you in WikiTree, or is Ensign John Warren? I didn't find you when I searched just now. (It also seems to be much better quality than Ancestry, and it's free ...and has an honor code even, and process ...)

How best to develop veracity and great identity-affirmation processes with genealogy software, I wonder?

Cheers, Scott
Here's my WikiTree - 




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A new little southern Rock and Roll from 1970 re your upcoming move - https://youtu.be/TIjMJ97SReY with great new video :)

Scott

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- Scott MacLeod



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Taylor, again: 

Allman Brothers Band at Love Valley Festival 1970 Original Band with Duane Allman
https://youtu.be/TIjMJ97SReY
This show took place in Byron, Georgia
https://statesville.com/news/47-years-ago-this-weekend-love-valley-hosted-its-version-of-woodstock-this-is-what/article_5fa95a36-695f-11e7-8de2-ab37751ac63f.html ~ :)


Musical cheers, Scott

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- Scott MacLeod



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Taylor, 



This piping has a lot of R&R influence - both AC /DC, energy-wise, and moving ... 

Thunderstruck-Gordon Duncan
https://youtu.be/_EwDlUHoDFo

Am curious about R&R energy and Piobaireachd ... could be interesting exploration ... and re your move to Georgia (identity and culture-wise too ... while keeping in mind one's career, eg becoming a teacher + :)) ... bit of a trip to say the least :)

Musical cheers, 

Scott





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Sunday, December 20, 2020


5 UC Berkeley Anthropology Tourism Studies' talks in recent years 2012-2020 - 

https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/12/doubledays-hummingbird-cynanthus.html


 CV: https://goo.gl/JZheSb

http://scottmacleod.com/papers.htm

http://www.scottmacleod.com/ActualVirtualHarbinBook.html



2020

2020 - "Creating a Realistic Virtual Earth for Tourism and Tourism Studies with Actual-Virtual Harbin Hot Springs: A Case Study" UC Berkeley Anthropology TSWG presentation (slides) - 12/18/20 Fr ~ https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1SI2U7ssoy52met1OIwDwT5CbVLz98RuYRVE4OY5dj6A/edit?usp=sharing (new slides) - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/12/doubledays-hummingbird-cynanthus.html - http://tourismstudies.org/news_archive/MacLeod2020.htm ~ http://www.scottmacleod.com/ActualVirtualHarbinBook.html


Here's the TSWG video from Friday, 12/18/20 - 

SGK MacLeod TSWG 12 18 2020 Creating a Realistic Virtual Earth Harbin for Tourism

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1rjAgHoN1uE4JcuGPiVnvDibpA0Fd4StA/view


https://drive.google.com/file/d/1rjAgHoN1uE4JcuGPiVnvDibpA0Fd4StA/view


(new file format in Google Drive, and for streaming video!)



2018

2018 - "Harbin & Avatar Bots: Robotics & Tourism" UC Berkeley Anthropology TSWG presentation (video & slides) - 10/26/18 Fr ~ https://youtu.be/dN80Hm_db2I & https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1RSWzevDqjDXZQsLShnWKp-R76GkIcy18-wzQfMtu1oA/edit?usp=sharing (slides) ~ http://www.tourismstudies.org/news_archive/SMacLeod2018.htm - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2018/02/indian-fig-uc-berkeley-harbin-avatar.html ~ http://www.scottmacleod.com/ActualVirtualHarbinBook.html. 



2017

2017 - "ACTUAL-VIRTUAL HARBIN HOT SPRINGS AND TOURISM: "Naked Harbin Ethnography."" UC Berkeley Anthropology TSWG presentation (slides) - https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1LLgbgkl1hXfiJtC6EtQPP6nSj_KiwIkRE7q9uadcA8I/edit?usp=sharing - http://www.tourismstudies.org/news_archive/SMacLeod2017.htm ~  https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2017/05/astrapia-birds-of-paradise-actual.html - http://www.scottmacleod.com/ActualVirtualHarbinBook.html.



2015

2015 – “Naked Harbin and Ethno-Wiki-Virtual-World-Graphy: Sharing a New Digital Methodology with Tourism Studies, Science & the Social Sciences” - UC Berkeley Anthropology TSWG presentation (slides, but no video) - https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1tAhXFinq8xm8BDFcceoHsNBHJi0wpS0HDFh40PXsQ2I/pub?start=false&loop=false&delayms=3000 - http://www.tourismstudies.org/news_archive/MacLeod2015.htm - http://scott-macleod.spot.com/2015/11/waters-36-slides-from-uc-berkeley-talk.html - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2015/10/naked-harbin-ethno-wiki-virtual-world.html -   http://www.scottmacleod.com/ActualVirtualHarbinBook.html.



2012

2012 – “Naked, Virtual Harbin: An Anthropology of Erotisme and the Touristic Imaginaire” talk - UC Berkeley Anthropology TSWG presentation (video, video abstract & slides) - 

Naked, Virtual Harbin: An Anthropology of Erotisme and the Touristic Imaginaire - abstract (6 mins.) - http://youtu.be/p8gur9SMPlw - 

Naked, Virtual Harbin: An Anthropology of Erotisme and the Touristic Imaginaire - paper given in video (159 mins.)

http://youtu.be/op2W_V5xUtM -  

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1i7qIJxfuu3IqlfGwyj84lxkt1GhW4OSTinqMdTKyzRE/edit?usp=sharing

http://www.tourismstudies.org/news_archive/MacLeod2012.htm - http://tourismstudies.org/Colloquia_2012-2013.htm - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2012/11/titan-arum-complete-uc-berkeley-tourism.html - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2012/10/naked-virtual-harbin-anthropology-of.html - http://www.scottmacleod.com/ActualVirtualHarbinBook.html.






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