Wednesday, February 26, 2020

Anagallis arvensis: "Tour U.S. National Parks in Google Earth," Virtual hiking or walking? Am seeking to facilitate a #RealisticVirtualEarthForHiking incl. #VirtualHiking from HOME in #GoogleStreetView * Virtual hiking or walking? Am seeking to facilitate a #RealisticVirtualEarthForHiking incl. #VirtualHiking from HOME in #GoogleStreetView https://twitter.com/rmbyrne/status/1232048856831078402?s=20. Visit Harbin Springs' gate - http://tinyurl.com/p62rpcg #RealisticVirtualHarbin and "walk" down Harbin road "4 miles"to Middletown * * the idea of hikers and hillwalkers WIKI-contributing their own experiences in video and photos (via Google Glass Enterprise, for example) into something like Google Street View with time slider / Maps / Earth (with AllTrails)



Tour U.S. National Parks in Google Earth http://ow.ly/e0jg30qejnA

https://twitter.com/rmbyrne/status/1232048856831078402

http://edtechfitness.com/tour-u-s-national-parks-in-google-earth/


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https://twitter.com/wareFLO/status/1203452418719133696?s=20…
https://twitter.com/CelebinsR/status/1212398336998809601?s=20…
https://twitter.com/TheHealthcareI1/status/1212747009246937088?s=20… ~
https://twitter.com/WUaSPress/status/1214617372264284160?s=20


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https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1224018799067721728?s=20


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Virtual hiking or walking? Am seeking to facilitate a #RealisticVirtualEarthForHiking incl. #VirtualHiking from HOME in #GoogleStreetView https://twitter.com/rmbyrne/status/1232048856831078402?s=20. Visit Harbin Springs' gate - http://tinyurl.com/p62rpcg #RealisticVirtualHarbin and "walk" down Harbin road "4 miles"to Middletown


https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1232529272528502785?s=20
https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1232529490481299456?s=20
https://twitter.com/HarbinBook/status/1232530151751110657?s=20



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Virtual hiking or walking? Am seeking to facilitate a #RealisticVirtualEarthForHiking incl. #VirtualHiking from HOME in #GoogleStreetView https://twitter.com/rmbyrne/status/1232048856831078402?s=20. visit Harbin Springs' gate http://tinyurl.com/p62rpcg 1 #RealisticVirtualEarth & "walk" down Harbin road "4 miles"> town

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1232529969227522048?s=20
https://twitter.com/HarbinBook/status/1232530212224561153?s=20




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Hi Lukas,

I just updated this blog entry - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2017/11/peak-district-bill-gates-and-steve-jobs.html - with your information.

Do you have a LinkedIn profile? (Mine is https://www.linkedin.com/in/scottgkmacleod/)
In the meantime, it's with regards to the idea of hikers and hillwalkers WIKI-contributing their own experiences in video and photos (via Google Glass Enterprise, for example) into something like Google Street View with time slider / Maps / Earth (with AllTrails) that could make all the hikes  that 10 Adventures offers accessible by other people, including disabled people (and created in part, too, by your hikers). (I'm calling this process of wiki-adding to a virtual world ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy, eg see https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2015/11/waters-36-slides-from-uc-berkeley-talk.html - and see the 'label' for this in my blog too). It would be great to communicate further about how some of this could work.  It might be something 10 Adventures could even reach out to prospective hikers for your organized trips with - the opportunity via a kind of community service to help create the hikes you offer virtually. Hikers might love this, - and spread out all over the globe doing this (including esp. on 10 Adventures' trips).
Kind regards, Scott

PS some related recent Tweets:

Virtual hiking or walking? Am seeking to facilitate a #RealisticVirtualEarthForHiking incl. #VirtualHiking from HOME in #GoogleStreetView https://twitter.com/rmbyrne/status/1232048856831078402?s=20. visit Harbin Springs' gate> http://tinyurl.com/p62rpcg #RealisticVirtualHarbin & "walk" down Harbin road "4 miles"> town


https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1232529272528502785?s=20
https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1232529490481299456?s=20
https://twitter.com/HarbinBook/status/1232530151751110657?s=20

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Virtual hiking or walking? Am seeking to facilitate a #RealisticVirtualEarthForHiking incl. #VirtualHiking from HOME in #GoogleStreetView https://twitter.com/rmbyrne/status/1232048856831078402?s=20. visit Harbin Springs' gate http://tinyurl.com/p62rpcg 1 #RealisticVirtualEarth & "walk" down Harbin road "4 miles"> town

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1232529969227522048?s=20
https://twitter.com/HarbinBook/status/1232530212224561153?s=20



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Lukas Saville
9:27 AM (26 minutes ago)
to me

Hey Scott,

Thanks for getting back to me. So firstly, the Veggie Vegabonds isn't me :) I have had a chat with them some time ago, but those are two different entities on the web. Mine is 10Adventures.com. I use the .co email as I email a lot, and I use the .com one just for internal stuff mainly.

This is actually the link I was hoping you might want to have a look at https://www.10adventures.com/hikes/peak-district-national-park/. And I was hoping you might want to link to it. This would be a huge help to boost this region higher on Google.

As for your ideas, I do like the idea of being able to experience the whole trail in VR. Or just to walk it on the screen. I think it would help people who want to know what to expect. It might not be suitable for those who like surprises. My wife has a fear of exposure and sometimes we don't know if she can go on a hike as sometimes we read comments about exposure but we don't know how bad it is. So there's a risk to get stuck on trails that way. But, saying that, on 10Adventures, each route has been created by real people. That's actually what we are promoting. Instead of putting the routes together by looking at google or other maps, sitting at home, never doing them ourselves, the collaborators we found and the guys at 10Adventures personally have hiked these routes and recorded the GPS. So in a way, I think your idea is useful, but then it also allows everyone to appear as an expert for all the trails, without any real knowledge about the real deal.

An example is Alltrails.com. The route descriptions are autogenerated. And they rely completely on the comments of people who update the route information. But not all routes are popular or have even been walked by someone. this means, if you pick a route on that website, you rely on someone creating the route (possibly auto-creating the GPS too) and auto-created text about the terrain. This might not be the most reliable way of hiking, especially talking about the more difficult trails.

But, I do imagine your idea would be great. I imagine it would be awesome to have for each route, so people could do a test walk on their computer before choosing to do that trail.

Well, please let me know what you think about the Peak District guide. I would really appreciate it, and it would really help me a lot if you'd link to it. But I will fully understand if you are not interested.

Looking forward to hearing from you.

Kind regards,
Lukas
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Feb 25, 2020, 8:45 PM (13 hours ago)
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Hi, Lukas,

Thanks for your email. Is this you - https://veggievagabonds.com/yosemite-national-park-hiking-trails/? Photos in my daily blog posts are sometimes related to their content, sometimes not. Am happy to add a link to your guide to this blog post (but I don't think the post has that many readers). Please send the link and I'll add it.

With regard to your '10adventures.co' hillwalking project - https://www.10adventures.com/our-contributors/#lukass - am curious what you're observing about virtual hiking or walking. Am seeking to facilitate a realistic virtual earth for everything including virtual hiking from home, for example, and with regards to, for example, Google Street View - https://twitter.com/rmbyrne/status/1232048856831078402?s=20. Will we be able to hike all 2650 miles of the Pacific Crest Trail or through the Peak District on an elliptical, and from home, in a digital mask? To be seen ... (Much of this emerges from my actual-virtual, physical digital Harbin Hot Springs' ethnographic project, and visit the Harbin Hot Springs' gate here ~ http://tinyurl.com/p62rpcg ~ and "walk" down the road "4 miles" to Middletown, CA (accessible from https://twitter.com/HarbinBook ~ http://bit.ly/HarbinBook ~).

And will hikers be able to add to this developing realistic virtual earth (think Google Street View with time slider, Maps, Earth +) with something like Google Glass Enterprise (see below).

Regards, and cheers,
Scott

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https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1214226795123232777?s=20
https://twitter.com/WUaSPress/status/1214227509476118532?s=20
https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1214227727626096640?s=20
https://twitter.com/HarbinBook/status/1214228600401973248?s=20
https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1214229500227022848?s=20
https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand/status/1214229965274632192?s=20


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Feb 25, 2020, 11:42 AM (22 hours ago)
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Hi Scott,

I am writing to you regarding your article "Peak District: Bill Gates and Steve Jobs were pretty good friends", which I have found here: http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2017/11/peak-district-bill-gates-and-steve-jobs.html. I thought it's great.

In this article, you have mentioned The Peak District. I have actually written a detailed and accurate region guide about The Peak District, that I would love to show to you. I think it has all the information about each trail, thorough route guides, and even GPS coordinates anyone can download for free.

I was hoping you might be interested in seeing it. And I also wanted to ask, is there anything I could do that would make you consider linking to my guide about The Peak District?

Looking forward to hearing from you.

Regards,
Lukas
10Adventures.com




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Hey Candace, (Alden, Dieter and Lukas/Mindaugas),

How are you, Candace? And where are you- and after all your perambulations? Am thinking further about virtual National Park hiking, or virtual hiking, and especially after further talking with Alden Smith ' 07 at a Thirsty Thursday in SF (thanks, too, to Dieter '01 above for convening this). Are you the head of the National Park Service, Candace '96, and based out of Death Valley NP, by any chance? :) ... or right up there at least :)

I just came across Maine-r Richard Byrne's "How to Measure Distance & Share Views in Google Earth" - https://youtu.be/zwDmWFOYc4o - on Twitter ... "Tour U.S. National Parks in Google Earth" - https://twitter.com/rmbyrne/status/1232048856831078402?s=20  (https://www.blog.google/products/earth/visit-us-national-parks-google-earth/ and http://edtechfitness.com/tour-u-s-national-parks-in-google-earth/) - and it made me wonder further about your and my conversation concerning virtual hiking in Death Valley NP, - and even for the benefits of movement on elliptical machines etc. from home. Alden had mentioned the word "effort" regarding what's involved in visiting places (re tourism), as we talked at the Reed College Thirsty Thursday, and I find this interesting since one definition of tourism per MacCannell, p.42, relates to "For the purposes of this paper, tourism can be defined as visiting marked sites, often involving travel, or more specifically, following offsite markers to onsite markers" - http://scottmacleod.com/anth250v.htm (and https://www.academia.edu/15259682/Gazing_at_the_Box_Tourism_in_the_Context_of_the_Internet_and_Globalization_Internetity_ ). So if one explores further, regarding a kind of social theory of tourism, the idea of effort as part of visiting places, and in lieu of traveling even, it seems possible to generate effort from home on elliptical machines. If one were viewing sites in a digital mask, or the back of one's glasses, I'd posit that this is a touristic experience as well. So how to generate such virtual touristic experiences further - and from the field?

And in what ways, Candace, might we explore hikers in Death Valley NP, and even with Google Glass Enterprise, with the TensorFlow chip (semiconductor) for images and working with Google TensorFlow AI software, while hiking and streaming video and images into Google Street View with time slider from the field? (Am currently emailing about this with 10 Adventures' Lukas Savella, originally from Lithuania, as well).

And in a related vein, brainstorming-wise, could we combine the above with keying flower species biologically with an App like this - in Death Valley NP:

Could this App that 'helps the visually impaired identify surroundings' with voice https://twitter.com/Paula_Piccard/status/1231771870514384896?s=20 be beginnings of 1 #RealisticVirtualEarth for DATA -& in recognizing hibiscus, labradors & pineapple & fruit, keying ALL 3-100mil. SPECIES  #RealisticVirtualEarthForSpecies?



https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1232413162747523072?s=20

Reed best regards, Scott



Alden, 

Explored about "home movement," or "effort" to use your word, for example, when virtually travelling in Google Street View in a digital mask, in 2018, and regarding elliptical machines, treadmills etc here - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2018/12/ceres-dwarf-planet-thanks-astroedlu-for.html - but am further interested in, as we talked, about particularly the researching meditation in the Harbin warm pool from home virtually. 

More soon in an email to Candace. 

Nice to meet and talk with you at the Reed Thirsty Thursday recently. 

Regards, Scott




National Parks of the United States
How to connect the dots, and invite travellers to help connect the dots with data from their journey?

Where's your itinerary taking you next, Candace?

Reed regards, Scott



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Hi Scott,

thank you for adding the link, I really appreciate it.

This is my Linkedin profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mindau/. Don't get confused by the name, I use Lukas as, sadly, more people reply to that than my original name. I have sent you an invite on Linkedin.

I start to see a clearer picture of what you meant. I do find your idea interesting. 

Would you have a source with more explanation on that, so I could share it with the team? I would like to share this with my CEO and some contributors. I want to see if this is something that would interest us to participate in. As it's not entirely up to me to decide. 

Looking forward to hearing from you.

Regards,

Lukas


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Info WorldUniversity info@worlduniversityandschool.org

11:57 AM (14 minutes ago)
to mindaugas.savela, Lukas
Mindaugas/Lukas,

Thanks for your email, and LinkedIn. Currently these are just ideas (with much in my blog, but not organized around a business - and orchestrating the Google Glass Enterprise into Google Street View isn't 'there' yet that I know of), but will get back to you as soon as possible. 

Scott

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When did you, Mindaugas, leave Lithuania (what year and how old were you)?  



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Tuesday, February 25, 2020

Centaurea cyanus (Bachelor's button): plans for long-term stock market in California - LTSE ... and WUaS? * * How might 'compliance courses for lawyers et al.,' regulating, hypothetically, the Pi cryptocurrency which is available "off the shelf" (from the Google Play Store) be regulated by the GDPR in the EuroZone ... and potentially regarding, Distributed Ledger Technologies (DLT), which are Blockchain ledger distributed systems, European Union currency law, and Law Pilot courses - and in WUaS Law Schools in each of all 28 EU countries - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/World_University_Law_School.



This blog post combines some resources on Digital Cryptocurrencies with Blockchain Ledger, or Distributed Ledger Technologies, with some thoughts about a new California stock exchange, called the Long Term Stock Exchange or LTSE, and MIT OCW-centric wiki World University and School plans to code for all 7.5 billion people on the planet as wiki teachers and learners, but also as potentially digital currency users. WUaS seeks to explore how to alleviate poverty by distributing a single crypto currency backed by some number of central banks via Universal Basic Income experiments. 



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Sweden's Central Bank Finally Embraces DLT, but Only in Simulation Mode - CoinDesk https://paper.li/WorldUnivAndSch/1474335977?read=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.coindesk.com%2Fswedens-central-bank-finally-embraces-dlt-but-only-in-simulation-mode > https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Banking_and_Money #WUaSUniversalBasicIncomeExperiments #UBIexperiments @WUaSPress Countries' languages > @sgkmacleod @WorldUnivAndSch ~


(Not sure where this Tweet went - since Twitter says they're unavailable)
https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1231786409683382273?s=20


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Distributed Ledger Technologies - DLT - are Blockchain ledger distributed systems - and regarding digital currency or cryptocurrencies ...


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What is Pi cryptocurrency?

Pi Network Review: Mobile Mining (MinePi)

https://youtu.be/C89s3_UsuFA



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Dear Larry,

Just looked up further ... 'plans for long-term stock market California - LTSE' - the so-called Silicon Valley stock exchange

Could the WUaS Press be a founding company on this stock exchange ?  Since I think WUaS is very long term oriented investing-wise re a kind of index investing (and socially responsible too, in a Friendly sense) approach, it seems like an opening.

Looks like:

"U.S. regulators approve new Silicon Valley stock exchange"
https://mobile.reuters.com/article/amp/idUSKCN1SG21K

https://ltse.com

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long-Term_Stock_Exchange

Here's an interview with Eric Ries, the LTSE's founder - https://youtu.be/x6DYUanRdGE ...

https://www.investopedia.com/new-silicon-valley-stock-exchange-approved-by-sec-4687018

WUaS being in California could open legal possibilities re the state of California in these regards.

Sincerely, Scott


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Am curious too how this would dovetail with a developing single cryptocurrency in some number of ~200 countries and their official languages ...


PPS
And regarding US presidential candidate Andrew Yang's legacy ... regarding even ... UBI experiments ... and potentially 1 digital currency post Euro and Dollar?

Here's a Swiss article on digital taxes and OECD (in German - https://translate.google.com/)?

"Digital tax: The OECD as a modern tax steward"
https://www.nzz.ch/meinung/die-oecd-als-moderner-steuervogt-ld.1535748

And how would regulating the Pi cryptocurrency, for example, in the Google Play Store in Europe with online law classes teaching about this re GDP there - (about which we talked in WUaS MBM, and I touched on in the Minutes - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/02/eclectus-parrot-minutes-for-sat-feb-15.html) ?

Much more about where Andrew Yang brought the US conversation about UBI here -

https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/02/hippeastrum-world-univ-schs-monday-news.html.


And WUaS Annual Meeting minutes here - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/11/arabian-sand-gazelle-minutes-for-annual.html - with regards to UBI and planning for 7.5 billion people.



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Scott MacLeod sgkmacleod@worlduniversityandschool.org

3:08 PM (4 minutes ago)
to Larry, Philipp, Roland, maevemacglinchey
Hi Philipp (Law Pilot), Roland (Stanford Law CodeX) and Maeve, (and Larry),

This article just appeared yesterday in World Univ & Sch's daily Twitter Newsletter (via Paper.li), which I don't control or edit (and am not sure who or what chooses the daily article and photo+) - 

Sweden’s Central Bank Finally Embraces DLT, But Only in Simulation Mode
https://www.coindesk.com/swedens-central-bank-finally-embraces-dlt-but-only-in-simulation-mode

I was able to create a Twitter post that connects this article with the WUaS Twitter newspaper here - 

I think Riksbank is Sweden's central bank: 
"The Riksbank is Sweden's central bank. We ensure that money retains its value and that payments can be made safely and efficiently. We also issue banknotes ... " per https://www.riksbank.se/en-gb/.

Am curious how WUaS Law Schools in all ~200 countries' official languages, and potentially in collaboration with Stanford Law CodeX and Law Pilot regarding its GDPR compliance courses could explore what's developing here - and in terms of courses, law schools, as well as WUaS plans for, brainstorming-wise, a Wikidata PIN # for each of all 7.5 billion people on the planet and regarding UBI experiments, partly to DISTRIBUTE a single digital currency backed by some number of ~200 countries' central banks (with the Euro in 19 out of 28 countries being a building block here).

Part of the question here is how might 'compliance courses for lawyers et al.,' regulating, hypothetically, the Pi cryptocurrency which is available "off the shelf" (from the Google Play Store) be regulated by the GDPR in the EuroZone ... and potentially regarding, Distributed Ledger Technologies (DLT), which are Blockchain ledger distributed systems, European Union currency law, and Law Pilot courses - and in WUaS Law Schools in each of all 28 EU countries - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/World_University_Law_School. 

All the best, Scott

Am including an email below to the chair of the WUaS Board, Larry Viehland, which I sent last night regarding this and much more (and will blog about this tomorrow probably - and in the UBI label).


Dear Larry,

Just looked up further ... 'plans for long-term stock market California - LTSE' - the so-called Silicon Valley stock exchange

Could the WUaS Press be a founding company on this stock exchange ?  Since I think WUaS is very long term oriented investing-wise re a kind of index investing (and socially responsible too, in a Friendly sense) approach, it seems like an opening.

Looks like:

"U.S. regulators approve new Silicon Valley stock exchange"



Here's an interview with Eric Ries, the LTSE's founder - https://youtu.be/x6DYUanRdGE ...


WUaS being in California could open legal possibilities re the state of California in these regards.

Sincerely, Scott


PS 
Am curious too how this would dovetail with a developing single cryptocurrency in some number of ~200 countries and their official languages ...


PPS
And regarding US presidential candidate Andrew Yang's legacy ... regarding even ... UBI experiments ... and potentially 1 digital currency post Euro and Dollar?

Here's a Swiss article on digital taxes and OECD (in German - https://translate.google.com/)?

"Digital tax: The OECD as a modern tax steward"

And how would regulating the Pi cryptocurrency, for example, in the Google Play Store in Europe with online law classes teaching about this re GDP there - (about which we talked in WUaS MBM, and I touched on in the Minutes - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/02/eclectus-parrot-minutes-for-sat-feb-15.html) ?

Much more about where Andrew Yang brought the US conversation about UBI here - 



And WUaS Annual Meeting minutes here - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/11/arabian-sand-gazelle-minutes-for-annual.html - with regards to UBI and planning for 7.5 billion people. 


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What is GDPR?

General Data Protection Regulation
The General Data Protection Regulation (EU) 2016/679 (GDPR) is a regulation in EU law on data protection and privacy in the European Union (EU) and the European Economic Area (EEA). It also addresses the transfer of personal data outside the EU and EEA areas.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Data_Protection_Regulation




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Sweden's Central Bank Finally Embraces DLT, but Only in Simulation Mode - CoinDesk https://paper.li/WorldUnivAndSch/1474335977?read=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.coindesk.com%2Fswedens-central-bank-finally-embraces-dlt-but-only-in-simulation-mode > https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Banking_and_Money #UniversalBasicIncomeExperiments #UBIexperiments @WUaSPress #SingleCryptoCurrency? #UBI ~200 countries' languages > @sgkmacleod @WorldUnivAndSch ~


(Not sure where this Tweet went - since Twitter says they're unavailable)
https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1231789381926547458?s=20




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Wednesday, February 26, 2020


Google, which World University and School is in - in Google Education, for ex. - just emailed this, including:

"As the United Kingdom (UK) is leaving the European Union (EU), Google LLC will be the service provider for end users in your domain that are based in the UK. Google LLC will be responsible for all user information and data in Additional Services, and for complying with applicable privacy laws. ..."


I think this could have many implications for the "Pi" cryptocurrency, as an App especially (and created by Stanford Ph.D.s and graduate students), and regarding it being available 'off the shelf' from the online Google Play Store, and in Britain, with different laws governing corporations (as well as regarding the deregulation & economic liberalization there beginning in the lat 1980s and into the 1990s), differentially from Europe.






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Your end users will be notified about this update. Nothing about your users’ experience in using Additional Services will change.

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Monday, February 24, 2020

Teak: 24 Feb 2020 World Univ & Sch Q & A and News - Minutes from 15 Feb '20 open Monthly Business Meeting * * * 'In case of emergency (was: Electricity outage)' ... this thread about a major earthquake in CA, or Coronavirus / COVID 19 or newly MERS coronavirus (MERS-CoV) or SARS (re genes) * * Harvard Tweet is a remarkable opportunity: "Scientists from Harvard will join forces with colleagues from China to improve coronavirus diagnostics, and develop vaccines to prevent new infections and antiviral therapies to treat existing ones" * * Here's Kaiser Permanente's web page on this (which health care provider is in 8 US states) which points to the CDC - Center for Disease Control (https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus ) - for information


World Univ & Sch Livestream ... https://www.youtube.com/user/WorldUnivandSch ... https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch ... https://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2020/02/minutes-for-sat-feb-15-2020-world.html ... https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/02/eclectus-parrot-minutes-for-sat-feb-15.html ...


24 Feb 2020 World Univ & Sch Q & A and News - Minutes from 15 Feb '20 open Monthly Business Meeting

https://youtu.be/5obDUslRXbg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5obDUslRXbg
https://www.youtube.com/user/WorldUnivandSch



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https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch


https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1231769812268765184?s=20



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Library Resources - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Library_Resources
All libraries in all 7,111 known living languages as wiki pages (and also in Google Street View with time slider, Maps, Earth, TensorFlow, Translate, etc.)


Museums - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Museums
All libraries in all 7,111 known living languages as wiki pages (and also in Google Street View with time slider, Maps, Earth, TensorFlow, Translate, etc.)


Hardware Resource Possibilities - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Hardware_Resource_Possibilities



Educational Software -
https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Educational_Software - in all ~200 countries' main languages


Foundation at WUaS -
https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/World_University_Foundation


Research at WUaS
Best STEM & Humanities' CC-4 OpenCourseWare-centric
https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Research



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Pi is a new digital currency being developed by a group of Stanford PhDs.

https://youtu.be/MsOaC61cR3U




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'In case of emergency (was: Electricity outage)' ... 
this thread about a major earthquake in CA, or Coronavirus / COVID 19 or newly MERS coronavirus (MERS-CoV) or SARS (re genes) 

MacLeod sgkmacleod@gmail.com

1:03 PM (1 hour ago)
to edX, David, David, Dean, Gabrielle, Caleb, Brig, Jerry, Karen, Tym, Patti, Barbara, Peter, Janie, Alden, Gantt, Ed, Bruce, David, Heather, Ann, Alex, Jonathan, Linda, lovell, Byron, JoAnne, Scott, Jane, Bruce, Nancy, Michael, GLORY
Hi All, 

New thread here: 'In case of emergency (was: Electricity outage)' re numerous outages in Canyon 94516 ... but this thread could be about a major earthquake in CA, or Coronavirus / COVID 19 or newly MERS coronavirus (MERS-CoV) or SARS (re genes) ...

Have been aggregating some information sources re Coronavirus / COVID 19, beginning here - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/02/easter-island-chile-rapa-nui-report-all.html on Feb 12, 2020, where I think it begins data-wise around 23 Jan 2020.

Here's Kaiser Permanente's web page on this (which health care provider is in 8 US states) - https://healthy.kaiserpermanente.org/alerts/p1/2019-novel-coronavirus-feb-2020 - which points to the CDC - Center for Disease Control (https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/index.html) - for information.

Am wary of "Orientalism" (a kind of racism) in the representations of all this data, and here too - Coronavirus COVID-19 Global Cases by Johns Hopkins CSSE
 ... https://gisanddata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/bda7594740fd40299423467b48e9ecf6 (where it's big red circles presently center on Wuhan China, South Korea, Italy, and Iran) - but am also appreciative of all these new amazing opportunities for access to information!

Just learned of a new Coronavirus:
'MERS coronavirus (MERS-CoV)
Middle East respiratory syndrome-related coronavirus'

from searching and finding this Google map -
https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?msa=0&hl=en&ie=UTF8&t=h&z=2&vpsrc=1&mid=15GjG9LJ3K4LTOcdYPuu2zjJoAPg&ll=29.482620294255913%2C132.57207391774304
(and this and SARS are all mentioned in the CDC website).

In German, here's a recent article on Coronavirus Covid-19 emerging in Italy:
https://www.fr.de/panorama/coronavirus-italien-riegelt-dutzend-staedte-zr-13533315.html (and as an alternative news' source, here are German national newspapers - https://www.deutschland.de/en/topic/knowledge/national-newspapers - https://translate.google.com/ - but search for information online in Google especially). And here's another article regarding Germany's health minister - https://www.faz.net/aktuell/wirtschaft/spahn-auch-deutsche-orte-koennten-abgeriegelt-werden-16649531.html - which suggests that quarantines could happen; and another regarding that the WHO wants the world to prepare for a Pandemic: https://www.welt.de/vermischtes/live205334991/Coronavirus-WHO-will-Welt-auf-moegliche-Pandemie-vorbereiten.html .

I also found the tone of this recent PBS NewsHour LIveStream responsible, informative and helpful:
WATCH LIVE: NewsHour answers your questions on novel coronavirus
Streamed live on Feb 21, 2020
- https://youtu.be/0jcT1Ui3Hmc

And here's the World Health Organization's web site: https://www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/novel-coronavirus-2019

And the web site of:
European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control
An agency of the European Union
https://www.ecdc.europa.eu/en/covid-19/interactive-map

Per this 1/12/20 blog entry again, am thinking / planning for avatar bot electronic medical records for all 7.5 billion people could help in this COVID-19 situation -

"Easter Island, Chile (Rapa Nui): . . . Genes . . . Report ALL cases of Coronavirus into a #RealisticVirtualEarthForGenetics in #AvatarBotElectronicMedicalRecords planning for all 7.5 billion people on planet in all ~200 nation states' WUaS Univs & in a SINGLE #RealisticVirtualEarth - and in the ~200 online WUaS teaching hospitals ..."
 https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/02/easter-island-chile-rapa-nui-report-all.html - and per Harvard and MIT Professor of Genetics' George Church's recent Tweet (in blog post too) -

https://link.medium.com/7zL63vauY3    Thanks Ed. Rapid response capabilities needed: molecular diagnostics, vaccines, neutralizing antibodies, and homes easily converted to off-the-grid full-recycling quarantine-biospheres. Not just for this epidemic, but the next one.

> https://twitter.com/geochurch/status/1227150486320615424?s=20 too.

How to parse all this remarkable information as this situation develops - and between all of us in communication with experts (presumably creating these web site updates)? What information sites would you suggest looking at?

And about CA earthquake preparedness too?

Regards, Scott
https://twitter.com/scottmacleod

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Hi, Byron, Ed, MDs, All,  

Ongoing thinking and communicating about this impending CoronaVirus COVID-19 virus here - 
- and I think that the following Harvard Tweet is a remarkable opportunity: 

"Scientists from Harvard will join forces with colleagues from China to improve coronavirus diagnostics, and develop vaccines to prevent new infections and antiviral therapies to treat existing ones" - 

And from other countries' presses:
'Drohender Ausbruch:
Deutschland bereitet sich auf Covid-19 vor'
"Impending outbreak:
Germany is preparing for Covid-19"
https://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/medizin/coronavirus-wie-sich-deutschland-auf-covid-19-vorbereitet-a-b5739916-9993-4f2b-93d9-8f5a8a8bd884

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_newspapers_in_Germany


"CDC sounds warning, says people should start preparing for coronavirus spreading in US" -
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/02/25/metro/cdc-says-people-should-start-preparing-coronavirus-spreading-us/


I still think the risks of COVID-19 are place-specific, and from what I've read and heard are very very low, and was seeking a bell curve or graph of peak of deaths so far, but couldn't find this. This Johns Hopkins model suggests that 87,000 cases have been confirmed, 2,705 people have died thus far, and 28,000 people have recovered - https://gisanddata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/bda7594740fd40299423467b48e9ecf6 .  

What do people think? 

Scott

Am learning on Twitter, and Tweeting some about this as well:




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Hi, Ed, Byron, David, All, 

I've also added these two emails to my blog post from yesterday, FYI - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/02/teak-24-feb-2020-world-univ-sch-q-and.html ...

I'm curious how George Church's 'molecular diagnostics' into electronic medical records would work, and as one approach to deal with the possibility of PREPARING for a global pandemic (and not just a US one) per:


@geochurch
Feb 11
https://link.medium.com/7zL63vauY3    Thanks Ed. Rapid response capabilities needed: molecular diagnostics, vaccines, neutralizing antibodies, and homes easily converted to off-the-grid full-recycling quarantine-biospheres. Not just for this epidemic, but the next one.
- https://twitter.com/geochurch/status/1227150486320615424?s=20

And if everyone on the planet had a potential Wikidata PIN # (like a Wikidata Q-item #) - all 7.5 billion people - in what ways could health workers orchestrate response capabilities in all ~200 countries and their official/main languages (and per https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/You_at_World_University and https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Nation_States and https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Languages)? Build out even of the KP system? 

Thoughts, questions, observations? 

Best regards, Scott



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Wednesday, February 26, 2020 

Byron, Ed, Cindy, Maitreyi, Caleb, John, Rob, Robert, MDs, and All, 

Am following up on CoronaVirus COVID-19 developments, which appear to be place-based, and with relatively few deaths outside Wuhan, China, yet there are some confirmed cases in California and Boston appearing here - "Coronavirus COVID-19 Global Cases by Johns Hopkins CSSE" ... https://gisanddata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/bda7594740fd40299423467b48e9ecf6. 

Here's how the CoronaVirus test works:
"Test for COVID-19 often carried out alongside others to determine illness" 
https://youtu.be/n7rsP-gNAuw (Test for Covid-19 vs Dengue re Singapore) 

And here, in a San Francisco twist - 
"SF Mayor
London Breed
declares state of emergency over coronavirus" -
https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/SF-mayor-London-Breed-declares-state-of-emergency-15083811.php

Looks like there are a few confirmed cases of COVID-19 appearing in California on the Johns Hopkins' University mapping web site, if you click on the left by city/state/province at the bottom: 

2 confirmed cases in San Benito, CA
2 confirmed cases in San Diego county
2 confirmed cases in Santa Clara, CA

1 confirmed case in 
Humboldt County, CA
Los Angeles, CA
Orange, CA
Sacramento, CA

No reported deaths yet in the US ...
(out of 39.56 million people in California presently per Google)

1 confirmed case in Boston, MA too ... 

It's difficult to assess the veracity of this data, re consistency of testing processes and data reporting - caveat emptor (buyer beware) ... and skepticism has merit - and yet preparedness makes much much sense. 

Am appreciating Harvard and MIT Professor of Genetics' Tweet in an ongoing way in all of these regards (with a Johns Hopkins' map image): 

George Church @geochurch
Feb 11, 2020
https://link.medium.com/7zL63vauY3    Thanks Ed. Rapid response capabilities needed: molecular diagnostics, vaccines, neutralizing antibodies, and homes easily converted to off-the-grid full-recycling quarantine-biospheres. Not just for this epidemic, but the next one.
> https://twitter.com/geochurch/status/1227150486320615424?s=20
DNA
noun Biochemistry
"deoxyribonucleic acid, a self-replicating material which is present in nearly all living organisms as the main constituent of chromosomes. It is the carrier of genetic information." (Apple dictionary)
It's the self-replicating aspect of DNA / genes that makes pandemics or epidemics such a challenge. 

Do you know of other informative models or mappings, besides on the CDC and WHO web sites that might be helpful here? Thoughts, questions, suggestions?

With best regards, Scott

Am adding these emails, and our conversation, here - 


PS Can we get an electron microscope on a smartphone for molecular diagnostics in the field going - soon? And transmit this data in Avatar Bot Electronic Medical Records, and beginning in Wuhan China?  (And can we even plan for 7.5 billion people in these regards, each a Wikidata PIN # regarding Wikidata's 300 languages - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Hospital - and build out of Kaiser Permanente's Electronic Medical Records in its 8 US states)?





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On Wed, Feb 26, 2020 at 4:48 PM WUaS - World University and School <worlduniversityandschool@gmail.com> wrote:
Dear friends, David, Byron, Ed, and all, 

Some further CoronaVirus COVID-19 followups here - 

From the NY Times at top of front page: 
"Here’s how you can prepare for a possible outbreak"
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/25/health/prepare-for-coronavirus.html

And, for getting around Pay Walls, like the NYT's and the Boston Globe's to follow, I've found the 
"Tor Browser - The Tor Project" which you can download from the Google Play Store - https://play.google.com/ - successful so far. 

And here's the Boston Globe here saying more than 600 cases have been monitored so far, as one information source, plus many more related articles ... 

Y ...



Y ... 

These resources are growing here - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/02/teak-24-feb-2020-world-univ-sch-q-and.html. Thoughts, questions, suggestions, ideas, communications? I'd be interested in learning of further great or best information sources as well.

Best, Scott
Twitter #HashTag for #CoronaVirusCOVID19 is here ~ https://twitter.com/search?q=%23coronaviruscovid19&src=typeahead_click - and there are many other related #covid19 Hashtags too




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Thursday, February 27, 2020


Dear Peter, Prof. Greely, Rob Califf MD, and All, 

As a followup further on Coronavirus, it looks like from the current data here - Coronavirus COVID-19 Global Cases by Johns Hopkins CSSE ... https://gisanddata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/bda7594740fd40299423467b48e9ecf6 - that a pandemic isn't growing. 

It seems too that per MIT & Harvard Prof of Genetic's George Church's Tweet about the next epidemic - https://twitter.com/geochurch/status/1227150486320615424?s=20 - that there's much potential in "molecular diagnostics, vaccines, neutralizing antibodies" and with regards to https://twitter.com/Harvard/status/1232116756560465921?s=20.

And thanks to Stanford Prof. Hank Greely for re-Tweeting: "A quick primer on FDA's "Emergency Use Authorization" process" (https://twitter.com/pzettler/status/1232088465657008129?s=20 and https://twitter.com/HankGreelyLSJU ) in these regards.

But I am curious regarding my previous email's PS about planning for all 7.5 billion people, each a Wikidata PIN # (for its 300 languages), and this recent MIT Tech Review article this morning: 
"Coronavirus and the impact on global supply chains"
https://insights.techreview.com/coronavirus-and-the-impact-on-global-supply-chains/

how we might engage AI, new approaches to #SupplyChain with #Blockchain Ledger and in particular to develop "molecular diagnostics, vaccines, neutralizing antibodies" for all people on the planet:

MIT: Coronavirus & the impact on global supply chains  https://insights.techreview.com/coronavirus-and-the-impact-on-global-supply-chains/ Curious re HOW & WHEN in #SupplyChain article & re #Blockchain too re https://twitter.com/Harvard/status/1232116756560465921?s=20 & 'You at WUaS ' https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/You_at_World_University for 7.5 billion people how #WikidataQitem #WikidataPIN # for all could help with #CoronaVirusCovid19?

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1233064022771027968?s=20
https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1233064398593216512?s=20
https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1233064752223420417?s=20
https://twitter.com/WUaSPress/status/1233065327652552704?s=20
https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand/status/1233066396898062340?s=20
https://twitter.com/HarbinBook/status/1233069157156978688?s=20

Again, am adding these emails, and our conversation, here - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/02/teak-24-feb-2020-world-univ-sch-q-and.html and P.S. Can we get an electron microscope on a smartphone for molecular diagnostics in the field going - soon? And can we also transmit this data into Avatar Bot Electronic Medical Records for all 7.5 billion people, and beginning in Wuhan, China?  (And can we even plan for 7.5 billion people for the benefits of AI and machine learning for developing strategies for viruses, each a Wikidata PIN # regarding Wikidata's 300 languages - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Hospital - and build out of Kaiser Permanente's Electronic Medical Records in its 8 US states) - in all ~200 countries' and their languages?

All the best, Scott






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Friday, February 28, 2020


Prof. Greely, Peter, and All 

Following up further on the Coronavirus COVID-19 situation, here's a new mapping from the WHO (World Health Organization), which the named CEO of the WUaS Corp / Press (https://twitter.com/IuliuDumitrascu/status/1233448475309826048?s=20) just shared on Twitter. And it's data looks to be very similar to the Johns Hopkins' modeling: 

WHO's Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) Situation

Coronavirus COVID-19 Global Cases by Johns Hopkins CSSE
https://gisanddata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/bda7594740fd40299423467b48e9ecf6

Am wary in an ongoing way of "Orientalism" (a kind of racism) in the representations of all this data, and here too - Coronavirus COVID-19 Global Cases by Johns Hopkins CSSE ... https://gisanddata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/bda7594740fd40299423467b48e9ecf6 (where its big red circles presently center on Hubei, mainland China, South Korea, Italy, and Iran) - but am also appreciative of all these new amazing opportunities for access to information! (which I also emailed about on 24 Feb 2020 - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/02/teak-24-feb-2020-world-univ-sch-q-and.html - 

Am reminded of the Next Whole Earth Catalog's in depth exploration of the significance of mapping representations and knowledge generation in these regards. 

And am very appreciative in an ongoing way of Harvard and MIT Professor of Genetics' George Church's Tweet regarding 'CoronaVirus COVID-19' - 
https://twitter.com/geochurch/status/1227150486320615424?s=20 -
and regarding -

"It all boils down to two simple numbers: the reproduction number (R0) and the case fatality rate (CFR)" in Ed Baker's article

'Why I’m concerned about the coronavirus: applying viral growth data metrics to a growing crisis' - https://medium.com/@esbaker/why-im-concerned-about-the-coronavirus-applying-viral-growth-data-metrics-to-a-growing-crisis-7b462c9d7265 - in Tweet.
Let's avoid Orientalism as this CoronaVirus Covid-19 situation develops (the NYTs wrote yesterday as front page head line that COVID-19 could be the issue of the decade!).

All the best, 









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