Tuesday, February 22, 2022

Yellow-winged darter dragonfly: How best to develop #PhysicalDigital #HotSprings, for soaking from home, & #EthnographicResearch by visiting actual #RealisticVirtualHarbin @HarbinBook? A #ToyotaProaceElectric 2023 USA with enough range & great for sleeping in! * * * Cas13 RNA design for knockdown of chicken cells * Digitizing single molecules! per a Harvard Medical School Prof of Genetics' George Church Tweet here * WUaS is interested in adding genes of live chickens (and possibly ducks), as well as of human beings, dogs, mice, (and regarding species' genomes for flight) honey bees, and drosophila flies - and again chickens (6 species), to a realistic virtual earth for genetics (and think Google Street View with time slider, Maps, Earth, TensorFlowAI and realistic species' avatar bots, and also at the cellular and molecular levels too * Upcoming Paper (2024?) ~ Comparative Genomics' paper - Modeling (beyond Sequencing) their Genomes together: Human, Dog, Mouse, Chicken, Honey Bee, Drosophila fly (D. melanogaster) * * * At Google Education - Dear Brendan, Thanks so much for your detailed response, and thanks for inviting 'asks' as well previously. Appreciating the two links you shared (mission-wise in a sense): "CS First: A computer science curriculum that makes coding easy to teach and fun to learn" "How can we help you?"

 

How best to develop #PhysicalDigital #HotSprings, for soaking from home, & #EthnographicResearch by visiting actual #RealisticVirtualHarbin @HarbinBook? A #ToyotaProaceElectric 2023 USA https://insideevs.com/news/454862/toyota-proace-verso-electric-passenger-van/amp/ in https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2022/02/oriental-bay-owl.html with enough range & great for sleeping in!

https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1496317512279068676

https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1496318777004376066

https://twitter.com/WUaSPress/status/1496318923448455173

https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand/status/1496319038779437059

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1496319788947472385

https://twitter.com/HarbinBook/status/1496319614011297796




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How best to develop #PhysicalDigital #HotSprings, for soaking from home, & #EthnographicResearch by visiting actual Hot Springs? #RealisticVirtualHarbin A Toyota Proace Electric 2023 USA https://insideevs.com/news/454862/toyota-proace-verso-electric-passenger-van/amp/ in https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2022/02/oriental-bay-owl.html w/ enough range & great for sleeping in!

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1496316924242055169





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Cas13 RNA design for knockdown of chicken cells 

Hi Julian Sng & Genome scientists, 


Greetings and thanks for your email. I'm replying with an interest in creating a #RealisticVirtualEarth for evolutionary biology and genetics and species and STEM - 
https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1489383134109917185 (and in digitizing single molecules! per a Harvard Medical School Prof of Genetics' George Church Tweet here) and in developing CC-4 MIT OCW-centric wiki World Univ & Sch planned in all ~200 countries and in all their main languages for genetic research especially.




Brainstorming-wise, and doing what you're exploring, Julian, I'm interested in adding genes of live chickens (and possibly ducks), as well as of human beings, dogs, mice, (and regarding species' genomes for flight) honey bees, and drosophila flies - and again chickens (6 species), to a realistic virtual earth for genetics (and think Google Street View with time slider, Maps, Earth, TensorFlowAI and realistic species' avatar bots, and also at the cellular and molecular levels too - so big data-genetics-genomics' projects). See the proposed academic paper here - http://scottmacleod.com - regarding these 6 species.

So I searched on 
'adding genes to Google's Street View' -
and found, amazingly ... 

Building a ‘Google Street View’ for cancer
https://blogs.biomedcentral.com/on-medicine/2016/01/25/building-google-street-view-cancer/

and
Publish & connect 360 photos with the Street View app
https://support.google.com/maps/answer/7011737?hl=en

Here's the proposed 'brainstorming' academic paper - 

Upcoming Paper (2024?) ~
Comparative Genomics' paper - Modeling (beyond Sequencing) their Genomes together: Human, Dog, Mouse, Chicken, Honey Bee, Drosophila fly (D. melanogaster), in a #RealisticVirtualEarthForGenetics and for Longevity Genetics, using machine learning to predict life spans beyond oldest individuals in these species, in Google Street View with time slider, Maps, Earth, TensorFlowAI, Translate, and with realistic avatar bots at the cellular and molecular levels too; Developing this for aging reversal genetics' engineering and research too.

http://scottmacleod.com/


One aspect of WUaS World Univ & Sch's seeking to develop a realistic virtual earth for genetics in Google Street View with time slider is WUaS's plans to facilitate academic publishing in new ways, potentially publishing in 3D for example, and with text-in-the-sidebar as well, both to paper, as well as to something like #wuAsVR on a new digital platform too (possibly a new computer, and even with new chips). 

An aspect of this 'gene adding' to information technologies regarding Google Street View is that we can add photos and videos to Street View with time slider already (and also, in a different vein, regarding my Physical-Digital Harbin Hot Springs' ethnographic field site project - and a new social science method I'm developing called 'ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy' - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy ... And Visit the Harbin Gate here in Google Street View, and "walk" down the road -  http://tinyurl.com/p62rpcg - and add pictures or videos if you have them, or are planning to head to Harbin, and if you do, take some samples from along the road, and upload digitized genetic samples of species' individuals there, if you can ).


And all of this aligns with Google's mission of organizing the world's information too, and see -

"In terms of organizing the World's information, WUaS seeks to develop -

adding all genes, and All libraries, all museums, in all languages - ever - by iteratively adding them to Google Street View with TIME SLIDER, Maps, Earth, TensorFlow AI + in 1 realistic virtual earth for libraries and museums (and everything), especially genetics ... 

in all languages - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Languages (planning all 7,139 known living languages)

With a #FilmTo3D App, e.g. - https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1261073678566998017?s=20 - so that people can add more genes (or libraries, and museum objects), to their Google Street View STEM field sites"

https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2021/08/asian-arowana-google-alignment-with_01213412819.html


Also found ...
(https://www.addgene.org/52961/
lentiCRISPR v2
(Plasmid #52961) - which is far too expensive  ...

AND 
Sequencing of 53,831 diverse genomes from the NHLBI TOPMed Program
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-03205-y )

So, one of the questions I'm asking here further, Julian and all, is how to go from physical chickens (and humans, mice, dogs, drosophila, and honey bees) to cellular and molecular samples (from a hypothetical little farm) I could then add to Google Street View with time slider, and begin to sequence, model, and work with genetically and with CRISPR CaS13, and other related scissor-like gene editing technologies ... and especially for longevity genetics' questions, beyond the outer age limit for all of these 6 species. Thoughts, questions, ideas, suggestions?

Thanks, Scott






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At Google Education - Dear Brendan, Appreciating the two links you shared (mission-wise in a sense):   

"CS First: A computer science curriculum that makes coding easy to teach and fun to learn"  

"How can we help you?



Dear Peter and Brendan, 


I am responding to this email from you, Brendan, with what I just sent you from info@worlduniversityandschool.org ... and including Peter (and greetings, Peter! Peter, are you 'The Director' here - https://norvig.com/LI2/ :)?.

Best regards, Scott


Dear Brendan, 

Thanks so much for your detailed response, and thanks for inviting 'asks' as well previously.
Appreciating the two links you shared (mission-wise in a sense):
 
"CS First: A computer science curriculum that makes coding easy to teach and fun to learn"

"How can we help you?" 

For your information, and further, and even regarding development of a computer science curriculum at, brainstorming-wise, CC-4 MIT OCW-centric (in its 4 languages - and even with Wikidata, Wikipedia's structured knowledge back end database in its 300 languages, and which World Univ & Sc has been in since 2015 too) World University & School (and possibly regarding CS First with Google too) - 

the CC-4 licensing of MIT OCW (in its 4 languages), as I learned from a former executive director, MIT OCW's Cecilia d'Oliveira, allows for 1) sharing, 2) adapting, but 3) non-commercially of its content freely, with attribution here to MIT OCW. 

With regard to the last item #3, WUaS is seeking reimbursement from countries' departments of education, per year per student (or similar), eventually along the lines of what it costs students to attend MIT or Stanford - ie about $55,000 (in the developed world - if WUaS can show that our CS Bachelor and PhD degrees, for example, deliver the same value as their degrees), and WUaS may begin with seeking reimbursement of about $800 per student per year in the poorest countries (or in Morocco, Africa, per a previous conversation with a prospective PhD student in chemistry) - all from Departments of Education in all ~200 countries (and eventually even from their counties' departments of education or similar). In reaching out to the department of education in Cameroon, Africa - and WUaS doesn't know anyone there - and with WUaS prospective Bachelor degree student Mwende Evande there 'piloting' the CC-4 licensed "CS First withGoogle at World Univ & Sch" course (learning the Scratch language), WUaS also seeks to receive reimbursement potentially for Lego Robotics' kits for matriculating WUaS engineering majors and minors in a WUaS Home Robotics program from its departments of education (and Cameroon is a lower to middle income country of 26 million people). 

To this end, and as an official reseller of Lego Robotics' kits in the USA and online - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html - WUaS would seek to develop further both our online CC-4 MIT OCW-centric Bachelor and PhD degree CS curriculum, Degrees, and courses in WUaS Google Workspace for Education formerly G Suite for Education, which Google Education WUaS has been in since around 2015. And with the recent opening of the Physical-Virtual Google NYC store, WUaS would seek to also develop our online WUaS Educational Services' Robotics and Bookstores  - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html - somehow in WUaS Google Workspace for Education extended, and in Cameroon too, both physically and online. 

But I'm not sure from your helpful emails how to reach out further in Google in all of these regards. In that you mentioned Scratch - and "CS First with Google at WUaS" seems to be collaborating with Scratch, - (and CC-4 MIT OCW is freely sharable in the same way as CC-4 CS First withGoogle presumably) and in that WUaS hasn't heard back from Lego Education's Leanna Prater, and (Lego's I think) Stanford Fellow and General? Counsel lawyer from Denmark Soren Jorgensen (who possibly could have authorized WUaS becoming an official reseller of Lego in the USA, and whom I've met once in person in SF), over probably nearly 3 months now to a number of WUaS email inquiries to Lego about becoming an official reseller of Lego Robotics' kits in all (200 countries) and in all of the ~13 Gulf of Guinea, Africa, countries, with potentially thousands, and 10s of thousands, of WUaS Bachelor and PhD students, I'm very grateful, on behalf of World Univ & Sch, for your detailed responses, and wonder how best to communicate further with Google about all of this at this point. 

What might you suggest? Invite Lego Education via Leanna Prater (since all the other Lego email addresses I have from when WUaS became an authorized reseller no longer work, since I think those Lego employees have moved on) to develop a "Python Language with Lego Robotics' Spike Prime kits" computer science curriculum course, adapting the CC-4 licensed "CSFirst withGoogle at WUaS" course, and partly by adapting these CC-4 licensed courses from MIT OCW - 
Lego Robotics

Introduction to Computer Science and Programming in Python
https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-computer-science/6-0001-introduction-to-computer-science-and-programming-in-python-fall-2016/ ? 

I don't think Lego would have the coding skills to do this, and I don't think I'd hear back yet further from Leanna Prater (or Soren Jorgensen) if I were to ask this of Lego. 

One course at a time, seeking at World Univ & Sch to build out a 120 credit unit WUaS Computer Science Bachelor degree, and PhD degree CS curriculum, with WUaS Google Workspace for Education, "that makes coding easy to teach and fun to learn" potentially with also "WUaS Home Robotics." I wonder if I should email Peter and Sundar about this too (but while I have Peter's email address, I don't have Sundar's). I'll explore writing an email to Lego's Leanna Prater, and to see if she could initiate developing a "Python Language with Lego Robotics' Spike Prime kits" computer science course, building on chargeable CC-4 licensed resources, and see what she says, or if she responds. Thanks again much, Brendan.   

Thanks, 
Scott
WUaS has explored some of these questions further and regarding Leanna And Soren here in the 
'2/19/22 WUaS Agenda and News' - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2022/02/otter-sea-enhydra-lutris.html?m=0 - https://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2022/02/21922-agenda-news-for-open-world-univ.html - and in recent months, and I wonder if an email to both her, Soren and Peter Norvig might lead to some further possibilities for World Univ & Sch and these remarkable CS curriculum growth opportunities. Thank you, Brendan, so much! Would welcome any further ideas you'd care to share in brief. 
Appreciatively, Scott
New Computer Science label in daily blog here - 


On Tue, Feb 22, 2022 at 8:26 AM Brendan Chan <brendanchan@google.com> wrote:
Hi Scott -

I've attempted to respond to your questions below in blue, but I think generally, I should emphasize that the role that my team and I play is focused on what you see on the official CS First website and related properties like our Help Center. 

Anything outside of that is done either needs to be discussed with other organizations you name (for example, you've mentioned Lego and Scratch and MIT in your emails, but those are separate entities from Google, so you'd need to contact them if you have questions about their work or a proposal to collaborate with them). Otherwise, anything done with CS First by other organizations or individuals is done based on the licensing and terms listed on our website and typically without our assistance.

I hope this helps! And I'm afraid that I won't be able to respond in this level of detail moving forward, so best of luck.

Thanks,
Brendan


Brendan Chan (he/him) | Sr. Program Manager, CS Education | brendanchan@google.com | 650-396-9665



On Fri, Feb 11, 2022 at 9:22 AM Info WorldUniversity <info@worlduniversityandschool.org> wrote:
Hi Brendan, 

Thanks so much for your reply again - and the further information. Three 'asks,' please, and in seeking to keep these simple:

A course in May for learning Python and via Lego Robotics' Spike Prime kits, in Cameroon, and in the USA (all 50 states), and potentially in all ~200 countries, and for a hypothetical Mwende Evande in Cameroon, and many other Cameroonian, as well as Gulf of Guinea countries' students? 
CS First is exclusively built on top of Scratch and is unrelated to Python or Lego, so I don't think we can help you with anything here. You're welcome to use CS First content for educational purposes per the licensing and terms listed on our website, but you'd need to do all of that without the assistance of our team.

Additionally, adapt ~3 introductory courses from CC-4 OCW.MIT.EDU to CS First withGoogle at World Univ & Sch, for engagement, also for a hypothetical Mwende Evande, and another 3 beginning in term 3 in September (re 4 month terms at WUaS - September-December, based on 15-16 week long MIT OCW courses)? And similarly, adapt ~3 introductory courses from CC-4 OCW.MIT.EDU to CS First withGoogle at the PhD level for September? 
If you have questions about MIT's OpenCourseWare, you would need to talk to the team at MIT. The CS First team does not work with them.

Begin to list the 2-3 Lego Robotics' Kits on "CSFirst withGoogle at World University and School" courses, available potentially in Cameroon Africa (if their departments of Education can reimburse for this). For your information, the WUaS Educational Services' Store is an authorized reseller of 3 Lego Robotics' kits in the USA, and online. Was glad to have seen 'kits' listed (regarding not printing paper for lessons at CSFirst withGoogle at WUaS recently). Thanks so so much!
CS First does not have any connection to Lego Robotics at this time, so I don't think we would be able to assist with anything related to this effort.

(Will inquire with the CSFirst help links you shared about an automatically generated Certificate of Completion of CSFirst withGoogle at World Univ & Sch soon - for Mwende Evande, so I don't have to write this by hand on the computer, and the 'authority' of the teacher is removed from the student-teacher interaction, thanks to CSFirst withGoogle).
Our certificates are not co-branded or auto-generated at this time. We offer a digital PDF of our certificate here and have a select set of countries where we offer physical kits (those are found on our Help Center). I don't think you'll get a different answer by contacting our team through our support channels so if you haven't reached out already, I think you're okay to skip that question or questions like it.

Thanks too for the suggestion about reaching out to Gmail, as I read you, and regarding potentially WUaS setting up language translation teams for developing courses - say CS First with Google in all 22 official languages in India - and for translation of many CC-4 licensed resources+ for WUaS courses and toward free-to-students' online CC-4 ocw.mit.edu-centric WUaS degrees. Suggestions please on whom to reach out to at Gmail in some of these regards?
I was attempting to use the Gmail team in my previous email as an analogy about the work we do as a team and was not suggesting that you contact someone on the Gmail team. Any translation related to the development of your courses would need to be done by your organization.

Thanks, Scott 
12/18/21 Minutes for World Univ & Sch / the WUaS Corp (re Lego Robotics' kits)
1/15/22 Minutes for World Univ & Sch / the WUaS Corp (re Lego Robotics' kits too)
https://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2022/01/11522-minutes-for-world-univ-sch-wuas.html - 


On Wed, Feb 9, 2022 at 2:26 PM Brendan Chan <brendanchan@google.com> wrote:
Hi Scott,

We don't have any formal engagements like what you're describing right now, so anything you did would have to be on your own without our support or engagement. As a small team, we're pretty focused on specific efforts each year and have to prioritize a bunch, but I hope that one day we can offer the ability to engage on a larger scale!

I'm not seeing anything in your email that requires direct engagement with our team. I think a good analogy might be to ask yourself how you'd interact with a team like the Gmail team at Google if you were trying to do something for your organization. They offer a tool with supporting resources and support channels, and our equivalent of a 'tool' is our curriculum and supporting resources and channels are all available on our website.

Thanks,
Brendan


Brendan Chan (he/him) | Sr. Program Manager, CS Education | brendanchan@google.com | 650-396-9665






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