Scott MacLeod's Anthropology of Information Technology & Counterculture

To a global, virtual, free, open, {future degree- & credit-granting}, multilingual University & School for the developing world and everyone, as well as loving bliss ~ scottmacleod.com

Wednesday, May 25, 2016

Ethiopian Highlands: Berkeley Bowl mini-ethnography here, hippy humor?, See, the person at the cash register back at the Bowl is from Ethiopia, part of the large Amharic-speaking community in the East Bay ... , Here's a beginning startup online Amharic language University - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Amharic_language - not yet in Amharic ... And here's the beginning Ethiopia World University and School, not yet in Amharic or other languages there ... Open Band (Berkeley) musical flower opens from 8-10 pm on Mondays As a musician bee I co-pollinate this wee flower ... Some related Berkeley Bowl posts

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Berkeley Bowl mini-ethnography here, hippy humor? ... Kai, (who grew up in Berkeley and went to Reed College in Portland, Oregon, like I...
Tuesday, May 24, 2016

Marine habitats: Stanford talk, Jeff Dean, on "Deep Learning for Text Understanding and Information Retrieval," In what ways could WUaS possibly co-develop parallel projects with Google Brain/AI/Search which would further support your interesting projects and help develop the WUaS Universal Translator, and in a realistic virtual earth as well?, In what ways could WUaS become a co-developer? WUaS is planning to facilitate each countries' main language creating their own major research university with free CC accrediting degrees (e.g. on http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/translated-courses/)

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Hi Jeff (and Chris and Pandu),  Thanks for your fascinating Stanford talk, Jeff, on "Deep Learning for Text Understanding and Inf...
Monday, May 23, 2016

Hathor: Excellent Stanford talk - "Embodying the Goddess: Revealing the Practice of Tattooing in Ancient Egypt," Thanks to your talk, I may in subsequent Harbin books I write seek to make distinctions about questions of culture - e.g. "religious culture" and "culture more generally," How will all of this emerge digitally and for "publishing" Harbin in a film-realistic, 3D, interactive, group build-able, wiki with avatars, and in all 8K languages, and for later research are fascinating questions for me ...

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Hi Anne, I enjoyed your excellent "Embodying the Goddess: Revealing the Practice of Tattooing in Ancient Egypt" -  http://even...
Sunday, May 22, 2016

Arctic hare: Re Freud's "Jenseits des Lustprinzips" ("Beyond the Pleasure Principle"), much appreciating John Money's Concepts of Determinism+, In reading the Yale summary: while "Freud (1st edition cover) doesn't provide a language whatsoever for the eliciting of loving bliss neurophysiology in a biological way, I'll riff a little with his translated title into English, Cover to Karl Marx's 1st edition of "Das Kapital," Probably heading to Stanford today and will try to set some goals in getting my Harbin ethnography index done yet after Stanford's Anne Austin's talk on Friday evening, and re creating a 1st edition, I have further reasons to finish my Harbin index, Hope to develop further research approaches and clinical approaches to the medical practice of online psychiatry at World University out of the above and multi-lingually, and re eliciting loving bliss biology

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Re Freud's Jenseits des Lustprinzips https://modernism.research.yale.edu/wiki/index.php/Beyond_the_Pleasure_Principle much appreciatin...
Saturday, May 21, 2016

Takin: Wiki universities & schools in each of all of Myanmar, Bhutan, Bangladesh and Kazakhstan's countries' languages at World University, China World University in Chinese

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Hi June and Xiangyan, Great to meet you at Stanford, June at - "The New Great Game: China And South And Central Asia In The Era Of ...
Friday, May 20, 2016

Roseate spoonbill: Google Brain re Artificial Intelligence and language at Stanford, Thanks Jeff Dean, Developing computational neuronal modeling in a co-constituting relationship with actual neurons, Brainwave headsets, ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy and a virtual Harbin/virtual earth as Classroom and re Google Classroom for which WUaS is Google-verified, An online WUaS Teaching Hospital in all countries' main languages, Interesting possible angles for focusing brainwave research with digital media: "Moran Cerf: This scientist can hack your dreams"

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Hi Aldis (Dianne, Jim and Nancy at IBM),  Your email came just as I was heading to a Stanford talk with Jeff Dean, a Senior Fellow and ...
Thursday, May 19, 2016

Sunflower: Two possible directions I see here in terms of translating "the courses into Chinese," 1) One would involve translating my Harbin Hot Springs' ethnographic book - http://www.scottmacleod.com/ActualVirtualHarbinBook.html - (for which Nelson has written the Foreword, as well as some text for the back of my book) into Chinese, 2) The other involves translating from some of the ~2,300 CC MIT OCW courses here in English here - http://ocw.mit.edu/ - into Traditional Chinese MIT OCW here - http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/translated-courses/traditional-chinese/

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Hi Scott, Thank you for letting me know this [i.e. Stanford Law China Guiding Cases Project, MIT OCW in Chinese, ethno-wiki-virtual-worl...
Wednesday, May 18, 2016

Victoria amazonica: !) Thanks for your contributions on a fascinating "Peace with Justice or Peace Versus Justice in Colombia: The Role of Amnesty in Colombian Peace Negotiations" panel yesterday, May 17, 2016, at Stanford Law, 2) Thanks for a fascinating Constitutional Law and Big Data talk yesterday

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Dear Doug, José Miguel, and Jim,  Thanks for your contributions on a fascinating "Peace with Justice or Peace Versus Justice in C...
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Scott's an anthropologist of #PhysicalDigital Harbin Hot Springs' Heart Consciousness Church @HarbinBook (on #TwitterX), as ethnographic field site - https://goo.gl/maps/7gSsSTweRCBo9gf87 - who is currently writing "Society, Info Tech & the Global Univ", who also finds fascinating the internet, ideas, poetry, sociology, art, science, genetics of aging reversal & extreme longevity drug therapies emerging (with FDA approval), philosophy, history, music, love and life ~ as well as the anthropology of info tech & counterculture :) - scottmacleod.com; Am also the president or head of, and professor at, best STEAM CC OCW wiki World Univ & Sch & Academic @WUaSPress, planned in 7,159 living languages with machine translation, (aka the WUaS Corp) planning free online degrees in ~200 countries & in their main languages, where you can #WikiTeach, or #WikiLearn, or #WikiCreate - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Subjects (See too "Yoga Notations": http://www.scottmacleod.com/yoganotations.html). Identity-wise, a Nontheist f/Friendly Quaker - a NtF or NtQ - with Unitarian Universalist sympathies as well, and a player of Scottish bagpipes, & an academic
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