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Zebu cows: Breakthrough > Google's Zero-Shot Translation & new LANGUAGE Inter-lingua > How to add the remaining 7,097 known living languages minus Google's 103 languages = 6,994 languages ~ to the WUaS_Universal_Translator, "Zero-Shot Translation with Google’s Multilingual Neural Machine Translation System," (From the TV show from the 1970s'"Mission Impossible" - "Your job should you chose to accept it ... " :) And how best to build this in to developing World University newly in Wikidata / Wikiversity beginning with Wikipedia's 358 languages?, It's kind of a question too for what I'm calling ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy and re a STEM centric realistic virtual earth and as class room too ...

Next: Chocolate tang - Acanthurus pyroferus: Wiktionary in 358 languages' expansion with Artificial Intelligence - Conceptually, Using AI, Google group video Hangouts' conversations with speakers of each language recorded to Youtube transposed into text, with words that are lacking moved into Wikitionary in all languages; Ask anthropology and linguistic students to travel to people in all 358 languages to develop their academic research too, Wikisource - an AI generated book page for every book (in each language), Developing Wikispecies with A.I., Creating A.I. generated Wiki News' articles (like Paper.li), eeking too to develop a WUaS COURSE TEMPLATE (based on http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/SUBJECT_TEMPLATE) in Wikiversity as "front end" - with a) WUaS Idea- and Academic Resources and b) WUaS Navigation below each MIT OCW course (e.g. https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/economics/14-462-advanced-macroeconomics-ii-spring-2004) - - and with each MIT OCW course (in all 7 languages) in Wikidata, each with a Wikidata Q-item number as a kind of "back end".
Previous: Mallard: California School of Poetry at WUaS?, or "West Coast School of Poetry aka the COW school" for California, Oregon and Washington, Would like to help further create California School of Poetry with my upcoming book of poetry tentatively entitled "Haiku-ish and Other Loving Hippie Harbin Poetry" (Scott MacLeod, 2017, Poetry Press at World University and School), Just found that my "Naked Harbin Ethnography" book (with poetry in it too) is listed in Google Books - https://books.google.com/books?id=84xkvgAACAAJ, See, too, these "Naked Harbin Ethnography" related web pages - http://bit.ly/HarbinBook & https://twitter.com/HarbinBook - and Author's page at Amazon.com ~ http://amazon.com/author/scottmacleodworlduniversity ~ "Alice Notley - Poetry Reading at UChicago" and much more re Alice's poetry + ...
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Breakthrough > Google's Zero-Shot Translation & new LANGUAGE Inter-lingua > How to add the remaining 7,097 known living languages minus Google's 103 languages = 6,994 languages ~ to the http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/WUaS_Universal_Translator



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https://research.googleblog.com/2016/11/zero-shot-translation-with-googles.html
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(From the TV show from 1966-1973'"Mission Impossible" - "Your job should you chose to accept it ... " :) ...

And how best to build this in to developing World University and School newly in Wikidata / Wikiversity beginning with Wikipedia's 358 languages?

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It's kind of a question too for what I'm calling ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy and re a STEM centric realistic virtual earth and as class room too ...

http://worlduniversityandschool.org

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Chocolate tang - Acanthurus pyroferus: Wiktionary in 358 languages' expansion with Artificial Intelligence - Conceptually, Using AI, Google group video Hangouts' conversations with speakers of each language recorded to Youtube transposed into text, with words that are lacking moved into Wikitionary in all languages; Ask anthropology and linguistic students to travel to people in all 358 languages to develop their academic research too, Wikisource - an AI generated book page for every book (in each language), Developing Wikispecies with A.I., Creating A.I. generated Wiki News' articles (like Paper.li), eeking too to develop a WUaS COURSE TEMPLATE (based on http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/SUBJECT_TEMPLATE) in Wikiversity as "front end" - with a) WUaS Idea- and Academic Resources and b) WUaS Navigation below each MIT OCW course (e.g. https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/economics/14-462-advanced-macroeconomics-ii-spring-2004) - - and with each MIT OCW course (in all 7 languages) in Wikidata, each with a Wikidata Q-item number as a kind of "back end".

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Wiktionary in 358 languages' expansion with Artificial Intelligence -

Conceptually, Using AI,

Google group video Hangouts' conversations with speakers of each language

recorded to Youtube transposed into text,

with words especially that are lacking moved with A.I. into Wikitionary in all languages;

Invite anthropology and linguistic students to travel to people in all 358 languages to develop their academic research too

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At the Wikidevelopers conference today in the Golden Gate Club in San Francisco's Presidio, in a workshop about adding Artificial Intelligence to MediaWiki / Wikidata and Wikipedia, I added the above idea, as well as



  • AI Name: 
    ... Wiktionary in 358 languages' expansion
  • What it does:
  • Wiktionary in 358 languages' expansion - Conceptually, Using AI, Google group video Hangouts' conversations with speakers of each language recorded to Youtube transposed into text, with words that are lacking moved into Wikitionary in all languages; Ask anthropology and linguistic students to travel to people in all 358 languages to develop their academic research too
  • Wiki thing it helps with:
  • Expand Wiktionary dramatically with AI in all 358 languages - from video conversations
  • Things that might helps us get this AI  built (optional): 
  • ... Define CC licensing re some of the already existing AI resources 
  • People who are cool with getting pulled into conversations about this:
  • Scott MacLeod - sgkmacleod@worlduniversityandschool.org



  • AI Name: ... Wikisource - an AI generated book page for every book (in each language)
  • What it does:
  • ... Wikisource - an AI generated book page for every book (think a Google book's page) for each book in each of all 358 languages, which are each CC licensed, that then become building blocks for all Wikisource libraries (if this doesn't already exist)
  • Wiki thing it helps with:
  • ... Build out with AI  Wikisources; create academic libraries re WUaS's contribution to Wikidata, for matriculating students, aggregate, too, all open online libraries re WUaS's wiki Library Reousrces' page newly in Wikisource/Wikiversity
  • Things that might helps us get this AI built (optional): 
  • ... (possibly interface with Google books, but on a CC basis
  • People who are cool with getting pulled into conversations about this:
  • Scott MacLeod - sgkmacleod@worlduniversityandschool.org - Scott_WUaS




  • AI Name: ... Developing Wikispecies with A.I.
  • What it does:
  • ...Wikispecies: with AI a) combine keying of all 3 million to 100,000 million species' with image recogniction, b) improve species' range mapping to OpenMaps, c) begin to create CC genome at cellular and atomic levels with AI for all species
  • Wiki thing it helps with:
  • ...expands wiki species to potenitally become comprehensive in a CC way - 
  • Things that might helps us get this AI built (optional): 
  • ... engage open source - e.g. NIH - National Institute for Health and similar? - data for this
  • People who are cool with getting pulled into conversations about this:
  • Scott MacLeod - sgkmacleod@worlduniversityandschool.org



  • AI Name: ... Creating A.I. generated Wiki News' articles (like Paper.li) 
  • What it does:
  • ... Create AI generated Wiki News' articles (like Paper.li) 
  • Wiki thing it helps with:
  • ...  Organizes Wikinews for this
  • Things that might helps us get this AI built (optional): 
  • ... 
  • People who are cool with getting pulled into conversations about this:
  • sgkmacleod@worlduniversityandschool.org

here. ...
https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/devsummit17-AI_wishlist-01


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Seeking too to develop a WUaS COURSE TEMPLATE (based on http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/SUBJECT_TEMPLATE) in Wikiversity as "front end" - with a) WUaS Idea- and Academic Resources and b) WUaS Navigation below each MIT OCW course (e.g. https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/economics/14-462-advanced-macroeconomics-ii-spring-2004) -
 - and with each MIT OCW course (in all 7 languages) in Wikidata, each with a Wikidata Q-item number as a kind of "back end".











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Ankole-Watusi Cow: Focusing on the music ... Very alive and interactive in engaging both the score and the musical director, Interesting how precise this was and could be too technique-wise

Previous: Chocolate tang - Acanthurus pyroferus: Wiktionary in 358 languages' expansion with Artificial Intelligence - Conceptually, Using AI, Google group video Hangouts' conversations with speakers of each language recorded to Youtube transposed into text, with words that are lacking moved into Wikitionary in all languages; Ask anthropology and linguistic students to travel to people in all 358 languages to develop their academic research too, Wikisource - an AI generated book page for every book (in each language), Developing Wikispecies with A.I., Creating A.I. generated Wiki News' articles (like Paper.li), eeking too to develop a WUaS COURSE TEMPLATE (based on http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/SUBJECT_TEMPLATE) in Wikiversity as "front end" - with a) WUaS Idea- and Academic Resources and b) WUaS Navigation below each MIT OCW course (e.g. https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/economics/14-462-advanced-macroeconomics-ii-spring-2004) - - and with each MIT OCW course (in all 7 languages) in Wikidata, each with a Wikidata Q-item number as a kind of "back end".
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Hi M,

Focusing on the music, enjoyed particularly skillful UU bass singer Robert N's singing and friendly energy the first time singing next to me. In a cheerful way, he was very alive and interactive in engaging both the score and Bruce O, the musical director.

Interesting how precise this was and could be too technique-wise. Glad to have become part of
this choir this spring it seems, too.

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Loving bliss neurophysiology musical scores {both metaphorically and actually} ...

http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Loving_Bliss_(eliciting_this_neurophysiology)

... see related blog entries here too ...

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Eubalaena: Two All-languages A.I. Projects at World University, 1) A realistic, virtual earth 2) a WUaS Universal Translator ... And both for ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy ...

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Two All-languages A.I. Projects at World University and School


1)
A realistic, virtual earth as STEM field site in all 7,097 languages and as classroom
http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/virtual%20world

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a WUaS Universal Translator
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/WUaS_Universal_Translator


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And both for ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy ... 

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Yellow tang: Realistic, VIRTUAL earth with Lego for designing, creating and making with Lego in the physical world? Like Google Streetview/Maps/Earth with Time Slider with OpenSim/SL, at cellular and atomic levels too, From virtual/digital to actual/real/physical-Designing, making, creating sea, terra & avian avatar bots from Streetview to Lego-For learning, @LEGOIdeas Yellow Submarine, From virtual/digital to actual/real-In the new Academic Press at WUaS which will lead too to new forms of publishing http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html, You can get ~ Naked Harbin Ethnography ~ (in the Academic Press at WUaS) http://bit.ly/HarbinBook http://amazon.com/author/scottmacleodworlduniversity … Read on ANY device, And especially for ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy and in all 8k languages - for STEM research and as a classroom, And with real/actual/physical gummi bears?

http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2017/01/yellow-tang-realistic-virtual-earth.html

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And re a WUaS Universal Translator ...

See, too -
http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/language

Zebu cows: Breakthrough > Google's Zero-Shot Translation & new LANGUAGE Inter-lingua > How to add the remaining 7,097 known living languages minus Google's 103 languages = 6,994 languages ~ to the WUaS_Universal_Translator, "Zero-Shot Translation with Google’s Multilingual Neural Machine Translation System," (From the TV show from the 1970s'"Mission Impossible" - "Your job should you chose to accept it ... " :) And how best to build this in to developing World University newly in Wikidata / Wikiversity beginning with Wikipedia's 358 languages?, It's kind of a question too for what I'm calling ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy and re a STEM centric realistic virtual earth and as class room too ...

http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2017/01/zebu-cows-breakthrough-googles-zero.html





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Mediterranean moray: WUaS January 14, 2017 monthly business meeting - Agenda

Next: Camellia japonica: How best to add the remaining 6,994 known living languages, Jeff - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2017/01/zebu-cows-breakthrough-googles-zero.html - and as what I'm calling as a new method "ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy" ?, "Jeff Dean via Google+1 month ago - Shared publicly Zero-shot translations: translate Korean->Japanese without ever seeing Korean->Japanese training data," re the World University and School Universal Translator with Google Translate / Zero Shot, Stanford Law Codex presentation and Language / Translation strategies?, Harvard Law JuryX course with Professor Charles Nesson, Stanford Law China Guiding Cases Project, In what ways could World University bring together legal translation with Stanford Law Codex re a high bar for generating excellent text versions in other languages, and from HarvardX video too?
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Dear Universitians and friends,

Please join us at our open (hour-long) World University and School monthly business meeting this Saturday, January 14, at 9am Pacific Time, electronically by letting info@worlduniversityandschool.org know you'd like to participate. 


News and Agenda

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WUaS seeks students for this autumn 2017, first in English for free CC best STEM OCW bachelor degrees (accrediting on CC MIT OCW in 7 languages and CC Yale OYC)

 - and for this we need a better web site. 

Seek a group of matriculating WUaS 17 year old students through the 
  • Quaker I.B. Ramallah School and Joyce Ajlouny there (whom I've met in Palo Alto Friends Meeting in person), among others including too other Quaker schools, re a Quaker I.B. school partly in Arabic (importantly, since MIT OCW is only in Persian and Turkish of the large languages in the Middle East)?
  • John Palfrey at Phillips Academy Andover?
  • India high schools (since many speak English in India)?
... as if applying to, getting into and matriculating at MIT itself.

B
Develop accreditation plan - perhaps first with FAHE / Quakers and then WASC senior

C
World University and School again is proceeding to file for-profit legal papers (WUaS.com?) with the state of California and the US government, FORKING in the process to complement our current 501 c 3 Non-Profit status (WUaS.org > WUaS.edu) into a parallel organization with a separate board. WUaS's forking will take shape around these 14 Planned Revenue Streams - http://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2016/01/14-planned-wuas-revenue-streams.html. WUaS is planning to become CC Universities on its non-profit wing ((WUaS.org/worlduniversityandschool.org > WUaS.edu)) in all ~200 countries' main and official languages - the "Harvards of the Web."

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How best to incorporate the for-profit WUaS wing legally, such that, hypothetically and exploration-wise, WUaS.com could work with / merge with an organization like Global Education Holdings and could work with its Chair Tom Kalinske: Building Gaming and Entertainment Companies in this Stanford business talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kr7_lJ7J6T8

 .. while WUaS.org > WUaS.edu develops in a parallel way as a Creative Commons' 501 c 3 non-profit, also in all ~200 countries / territories online?

E
File for-profit papers and develop this side too of WUaS - and perhaps re Wikidata affiliates

F
Develop WUaS newly in Wikidata / Wikibase / MediaWiki

G
There were no changes in WUaS finances since last month's statement of 12/28/16

H
Communicate further with MIT Dean C d'O in their Office of Digital Learning, who was helpful this past spring

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Sign up for Grants.gov

Write grants to Foundations: 
  • Apply to / inquire with Sunlight Foundation is one first step, for example. 
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Discussion of a personnel issue

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Closure


Universitians: 

Thank you for joining the World University and School team. WUaS invites you to participate in our open, hour-long, monthly, business meeting on Saturday, January 14th, beginning at 9 a.m., Pacific Time / 12 noon ET. 
I'd like to invite you to WUaS's monthly business meeting this Saturday, January 14th at 9am PT (2nd Saturdays of the month, hour-long and electronically mediated) if you'd like to learn further how WUaS makes decisions, plans and works, and participate in this process. 

This month please join us at our open (hour-long) World University and School monthly business meeting electronically by letting info@worlduniversityandschool.org know you'd like to participate. - at 9am Pacific Time.

The agenda for the upcoming Saturday, January 14th, 2017 WUaS, monthly, business meeting is here - http://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2017/01/wuas-january-14-2017-monthly-business.html.

World University and School is looking for a new, Board member, for example, to focus on fundraising, and to actually bring in significant monies for WUaS.org, the Non-Profit wing. 

The next, open, hour-long, WUaS, monthly business meeting is on Saturday, February 11th, 2017. And this month I'll continue to send out a second email after business meeting with WUaS Minutes. 

You'll also find some previous monthly business meetings (conducted electronically in the manner of F/friends) as examples in Google Hangouts here - http://scottmacleod.com/papers.htm. WUaS's active blog with past monthly business information is here - http://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com

For people on the sporadic, somewhat frequent, WUaS, email list, or who wish to be, WUaS is posting actively to both the WUaS Google Group (world-university-and-school@googlegroups.com), and the WUaS Yahoo Group (worlduniversityandschool@yahoogroups.com), both of which allow for daily and weekly digests. Please join these groups for daily and weekly digests.  

Concerning this WUaS team email list, we'll generally send out business meeting emails twice a month. If you'd like to receive more frequent, sporadic, WUaS emails, please reply to this email telling me so. If you could, please REPLY with UNSUBSCRIBE, or an alternative email address, if you wish NOT to receive WUaS's emails, or receive them in a different email account, - and WUaS would be very grateful. 

World University and School is planning to become the MIT / Harvard / Yale / Stanford / Oxbridge of the Internet, and in all 7,097+ known living languages and 206+ countries (in recent Olympics), with online, Creative Commons' licensed MIT OCW-centric university degrees in large languages.

Free, Creative Commons' licensed, online, wiki WUaS, like Wikipedia with MIT OCW, is planned for all 3,000-8,000 languages and for around 204 countries, with free degrees accrediting on C.C. MIT OpenCourseWare in 7 languages and C.C. Yale OYC+, - and will help many, many people.   

Thank you again for your generous donations in helping grow World University and School.  

Sincerely, 
Scott

http://worlduniversityandschool.org 
https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch




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Camellia japonica: How best to add the remaining 6,994 known living languages, Jeff - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2017/01/zebu-cows-breakthrough-googles-zero.html - and as what I'm calling as a new method "ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy" ?, "Jeff Dean via Google+1 month ago - Shared publicly Zero-shot translations: translate Korean->Japanese without ever seeing Korean->Japanese training data," re the World University and School Universal Translator with Google Translate / Zero Shot, Stanford Law Codex presentation and Language / Translation strategies?, Harvard Law JuryX course with Professor Charles Nesson, Stanford Law China Guiding Cases Project, In what ways could World University bring together legal translation with Stanford Law Codex re a high bar for generating excellent text versions in other languages, and from HarvardX video too?

Next: Florisuga mellivora: Translation Strategies for Legal Texts in all 200 countries' main languages at WUaS - and with a peace and social justice focus too?, Simply having law schools in all countries under the WUaS Creative Commons' licensed umbrella with translation would be a step in the right direction toward peace and social justice-focused law schools, given WUaS's Stanford and Quaker foci, The Stanford Law China Guiding Cases Project could be a model for both translation as well as for questions about justice - see, for example - http://worldjusticeproject.org/opportunity-fund/china-guiding-cases-project-5, But Friends/Quakers (peace, liberty and justice thinking-groups) and other legal thinking might add many further focuses on peace and social justice issues especially in the information age, But what could inform the actual artificial intelligence of a hypothetical Google Translate / Google Neural Machine Translation (GNMT) / Zero Shot - and re WUaS's all-languages (7,097 living languages) focus in terms of strategies for legal text translation? Perhaps making certain texts available soon in other languages for matriculated law students?
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In a thread with Jeff Dean's main post, who is a senior engineer at Google, and whom I've met at Stanford, I asked the following question here - https://research.googleblog.com/2016/11/zero-shot-translation-with-googles.html - re the World University and School Universal Translator with Google Translate / Zero Shot http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/WUaS_Universal_Translator ...

How best to add the remaining 6,994 known living languages, Jeff - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2017/01/zebu-cows-breakthrough-googles-zero.html - and as what I'm calling as a new method "ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy" ?


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https://plus.google.com/+JeffDean/posts/Q4XSDrPpfLF





Jeff Dean via Google+

1 month ago  -  Shared publicly
Zero-shot translations: translate Korean->Japanese without ever seeing Korean->Japanese training data.

One of the very interesting aspects of our recent work on neural machine translation is that we can train a single, multi-lingual model that is able to translate between many language pairs (say, English->Japanese, English->Korean, Japanese->English, and Korean->English). This often is able to improve quality for many of the language pairs, and also simplifies many production aspects of the system. However, a really interesting property is that a system trained on these language pairs is actually able to do a reasonable job of translating between language pairs where it has never seen training data before (say, Korean->Japanese).

This blog post gives the high level details:

https://research.googleblog.com/2016/11/zero-shot-translation-with-googles.html

Our Arxiv paper has details about this approach:

https://arxiv.org/abs/1611.04558

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Zebu cows: Breakthrough > Google's Zero-Shot Translation & new LANGUAGE Inter-lingua > How to add the remaining 7,097 known living languages minus Google's 103 languages = 6,994 languages ~ to the WUaS_Universal_Translator, "Zero-Shot Translation with Google’s Multilingual Neural Machine Translation System," (From the TV show from the 1970s'"Mission Impossible" - "Your job should you chose to accept it ... " :) And how best to build this in to developing World University newly in Wikidata / Wikiversity beginning with Wikipedia's 358 languages?, It's kind of a question too for what I'm calling ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy and re a STEM centric realistic virtual earth and as class room too ...

https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2017/01/zebu-cows-breakthrough-googles-zero.html

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Hi Bernard (and Roland and Susan), 

Thanks very much for your Stanford Law Codex presentation just now, which I heard from Stanford. Here's the Harvard Law JuryX course with Professor Charles Nesson - https://www.edx.org/course/juryx-deliberations-social-change-harvardx-hls3x-0 - if you're interested; its videos with a history of the jury process are still available for a while. And here's the beginning CC World University and School online law school - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/World_University_Law_School - planned in all countries' main languages (since the 10 other beginning law schools part way down), accrediting on CC MIT OCW for Bachelor and Ph.D. degrees (before we move into a new wiki emerging from Wikipedia's database, Wikidata in 358 languages). 

Best, Scott 

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Hi Daniel, Roland, Susan (Mei and Bernard), 

Thanks very much for your timely and topical Stanford Codex presentation just now, Daniel, which I heard from Stanford. I asked the question about your language strategy thus far re http://congressionaldata.org/ and your https://twitter.com/allcrsreports

Would all of you like to explore developing a CC legal language and translation strategy together and also re World University and School's online law schools, emerging from Wikipedia / Wikidata, and potentially with Google's new Zero Shot translation (https://research.googleblog.com/2016/11/zero-shot-translation-with-googles.html) with WUaS's planned universal translator (for all 7,097 known living languages)? 

Here's the beginning CC World University and School online law school - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/World_University_Law_School (before we move into a new wiki emerging from Wikipedia's database, Wikidata in 358 languages) - planned in all countries' main languages (see the 10 other beginning law schools part way down), accrediting on CC MIT OCW in 7 languages and CC Yale OYC for CC Bachelor and Ph.D. degrees.

WUaS would like to build translation and a language/translation strategy (hiring graduate students in many languages to teach the AI in such an Universal Translator) into WUaS in Wikidata as we facilitate translation of CC MIT OCW courses (again now in 7 languages) into all countries' main languages, and for online law schools, too. WUaS would also like to explore collaborating in this with Stanford Law's 5-10 international projects, such as the Stanford Law China Guiding Cases Project (with just the Beijing Supreme Court's ~ 56 cases ). 

How best to bring this project forward - demand progress? - re Stanford Codex, CC WUaS and Congressional Data? 

Thank you.

Best, Scott 

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In what ways could World University bring together legal translation with Stanford Law Codex re a high bar for generating excellent text versions in other languages, and from HarvardX video too?

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Florisuga mellivora: Translation Strategies for Legal Texts in all 200 countries' main languages at WUaS - and with a peace and social justice focus too?, Simply having law schools in all countries under the WUaS Creative Commons' licensed umbrella with translation would be a step in the right direction toward peace and social justice-focused law schools, given WUaS's Stanford and Quaker foci, The Stanford Law China Guiding Cases Project could be a model for both translation as well as for questions about justice - see, for example - http://worldjusticeproject.org/opportunity-fund/china-guiding-cases-project-5, But Friends/Quakers (peace, liberty and justice thinking-groups) and other legal thinking might add many further focuses on peace and social justice issues especially in the information age, But what could inform the actual artificial intelligence of a hypothetical Google Translate / Google Neural Machine Translation (GNMT) / Zero Shot - and re WUaS's all-languages (7,097 living languages) focus in terms of strategies for legal text translation? Perhaps making certain texts available soon in other languages for matriculated law students?

Previous: Camellia japonica: How best to add the remaining 6,994 known living languages, Jeff - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2017/01/zebu-cows-breakthrough-googles-zero.html - and as what I'm calling as a new method "ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy" ?, "Jeff Dean via Google+1 month ago - Shared publicly Zero-shot translations: translate Korean->Japanese without ever seeing Korean->Japanese training data," re the World University and School Universal Translator with Google Translate / Zero Shot, Stanford Law Codex presentation and Language / Translation strategies?, Harvard Law JuryX course with Professor Charles Nesson, Stanford Law China Guiding Cases Project, In what ways could World University bring together legal translation with Stanford Law Codex re a high bar for generating excellent text versions in other languages, and from HarvardX video too?
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Translation Strategies for Legal Texts in all 200 countries' main languages at WUaS - and with a peace and social justice focus too?

Simply having law schools in all countries under the WUaS Creative Commons' licensed umbrella with translation would be a step in the right direction toward peace and social justice-focused law schools, given WUaS's Stanford and Quaker foci.

The Stanford Law China Guiding Cases Project - translating the Beijing Supreme Court's 56 guiding cases into English and then giving feed back about this back into Chinese (https://law.stanford.edu/china-guiding-cases-project/) - could be a model for both translation as well as for questions about justice - see, for example - http://worldjusticeproject.org/opportunity-fund/china-guiding-cases-project-5.


But Friends/Quakers (peace, liberty and justice thinking-groups) and other legal thinking might add many further focuses on peace and social justice issues especially in the information age.

See, too -
Peace and Social Justice Studies -
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Peace_and_Social_Justice_Studies

and -
WUaS Universal Translator -
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/WUaS_Universal_Translator

But what could inform the actual artificial intelligence of a Google Translate / Google Neural Machine Translation - and re WUaS's all-languages (7,097 living languages) focus in terms of strategies for legal text translation? Perhaps making certain texts available soon in other languages for matriculated law students?

And highest quality professional machine translation could perhaps curiously also contribute to justice in legal education as well as to international practice of law.

See, too -
Translators at WUaS -
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Translators_at_WUaS

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Camellia japonica: How best to add the remaining 6,994 known living languages, Jeff - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2017/01/zebu-cows-breakthrough-googles-zero.html - to the 103 languages in Google Translate with the new GNMT, - and as what I'm calling as a new method "ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy"?, Jeff Dean via Google+ - "Zero-shot translations: translate Korean->Japanese without ever seeing Korean->Japanese training data," re the WUaS Universal Translator with Google Translate / Zero Shot?, Stanford Law Codex presentation and Language / Translation strategies?, Harvard Law JuryX course with Professor Charles Nesson, Stanford Law China Guiding Cases Project, In what ways could World University bring together legal translation with Stanford Law Codex re a high bar for generating excellent text versions in other languages, and from HarvardX video too?

http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2017/01/camellia-japonica-how-best-to-add.html




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Polesia, Eastern Europe: Wikipedia's Birthday Party in SF yesterday, Met and talked with an interesting Belarusan yesterday at the Wikimedia Foundation SF where I also gave a Lightning Talk (the third I've given) about World University, Check out the Harbin gate in the link below and "walk" down the road in both 2012 and 2007 concurrently in this emergent 3D world :), Trying to create an augmented reality light show version around me of Tart to Tart in Berkeley's Cafe Roma - to join you, but there aren't the special MIT Media Lab 4 lights in the corners of this room to illuminate this reality virtually ... so that we could even actually read magazines from the basket in that cafe while visiting together virtually

Next: Aurora: Life size interactive augmented reality avatars of you and me - in "AUGMENTED REALITY LIGHT SHOW" in 15 foot cubed space around us? How will ethnography / anthropology work?, Think something like what I'm calling "MIT Media Lab light bulbs" (which don't exist that I know of), and perhaps WUaS will have to invent these, Building out out of Google Streetview / Maps / Earth with TIME SLIDER with OpenSim/SL for avatars and group building, " [Air-L] Facebook Post Content Analysis," By way of comparison, you might find this helpful re content analysis: Ethnographic and Qualitative Research on Twitter by Alice E. Marwick, I'd also suggest a kind of Manuel Castellian contextualization to these questions re the course you were in with me, Alice Marwick's thinking in a NYTs' book review of her "STATUS UPDATE: Celebrity, Publicity, and Branding in the Social Media Age" (Yale University Press 2013). She's a Foucauldian, So how would "returning from the field" of a 15 foot cubed "AUGMENTED REALITY LIGHT SHOW" as anthropological field site, emerging from web pages (HTML 5 currently) approach such realistic and fantastical avatars (which would be you and I, as well as our own creations via 3D animations) ethnographic data-wise?, Excited too for how this will emerge into online libraries in all languages from all times with time slider too
Previous: Florisuga mellivora: Translation Strategies for Legal Texts in all 200 countries' main languages at WUaS - and with a peace and social justice focus too?, Simply having law schools in all countries under the WUaS Creative Commons' licensed umbrella with translation would be a step in the right direction toward peace and social justice-focused law schools, given WUaS's Stanford and Quaker foci, The Stanford Law China Guiding Cases Project could be a model for both translation as well as for questions about justice - see, for example - http://worldjusticeproject.org/opportunity-fund/china-guiding-cases-project-5, But Friends/Quakers (peace, liberty and justice thinking-groups) and other legal thinking might add many further focuses on peace and social justice issues especially in the information age, But what could inform the actual artificial intelligence of a hypothetical Google Translate / Google Neural Machine Translation (GNMT) / Zero Shot - and re WUaS's all-languages (7,097 living languages) focus in terms of strategies for legal text translation? Perhaps making certain texts available soon in other languages for matriculated law students?
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Hi M, 
Met and talked with an interesting Belarusan yesterday at the Wikimedia Foundation SF for Wikipedia's Birthday - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/SF/Wikipedia_Day_2017 - where I also gave a Lightning Talk (the third I've given)
about World University.
- worlduniversityandschool.org
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Hi Brit, 

I enjoyed your Lightning Talk yesterday at Wikipedia's birthday, and sorry I couldn't attend your edit-a-thon, but I enjoyed a long conversation with Eugene from Belarus about Wikidata and World University and School anyway. Maybe he'll also help develop WUaS newly in Wikidata / MediaWiki - and partly in the Belarusan language. (I also went to UC Santa Barbara - and liked living in Isla Vista with its amazing beach).

Your talk on photographing while on walking tours to add pictures to Wikicommons is such a great idea - and with Google Maps. How can I be in this loop again please?

I'm interested in a creating a realistic virtual earth for what I'm calling a new STEM method "ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy" (gave a talk with slides about this at UC Berkeley in November) and partly to create a realistic virtual Harbin Hot Springs field site for actual-virtual comparison - in something like Google Streetview/Maps/Earth with TIME SLIDER with OpenSim/SL and in all 8k languages, so STEM researchers can add their data. I just opened the Harbin Gate in Streetview - https://www.google.com/maps/@38.785948,-122.6518103,3a,75y,3.07h,90t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1skXZe6uuplnYW7LbqZZcawQ!2e0!7i13312!8i6656!6m1!1e1 - and saw for the first time, re your photographic tours for Wikicommons, that one can see both the 2012 photos of walking down the Harbin Road toward Middletown 4 miles away at the same time that one can view the 2007 photos of this same "journey" in this beginning realistic virtual world. Per the question I asked you after your presentation, I'm curious how further Google Street View could use Wikicommons photos, and if/how Google Cars could contribute to Commons too. Shall we explore bringing Wikimedia and Google together further - with Google, since you're already using both in a sense? 

This Harbin gate URL is also on my recent book's web site - http://bit.ly/HarbinBook (see, too https://twitter.com/HarbinBook) as are the slides to the Berkeley talk. 

Cheers, Scott

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Scot, Ants and Koh,

Let's meet with our digital masks on Sunday and visit the Harbin warm pool virtually while listening to a MLK speech or going to a new Year's Eve Grateful Dead show while in the Boulangerie (bath tub from home would be better) eventually with our avatars mingling in with MLK or the Grateful Dead musicians themselves via something like
OpenSim/Second Life in Google Earth ... :)

Check out the Harbin gate in the link below and "walk" down the road in both 2012 and 2007 concurrently in this emergent 3D world :)

Happy MLK day!

Scott

To a friend earlier today:

I'm interested in a creating a realistic virtual earth for what I'm calling a new STEM method "ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy" (gave a talk with slides about this at UC Berkeley in November) and partly to create a realistic virtual Harbin Hot Springs field site for actual-virtual comparison - in something like Google Streetview/Maps/Earth with TIME SLIDER with OpenSim/SL and in all 8k languages, so STEM researchers can add their data. I just opened the Harbin Gate in Streetview -
https://www.google.com/maps/@38.785948,-122.6518103,3a,75y,3.07h,90t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1skXZe6uuplnYW7LbqZZcawQ!2e0!7i13312!8i6656!6m1!1e1
- and saw for the first time, re your (Brit's) photographic tours for Wikicommons, that one can see both the 2012 photos of walking down the Harbin Road toward Middletown 4 miles away at the same time that one can view the 2007 photos of this same "journey" in this beginning realistic virtual world. Per the question I asked you after your presentation, I'm curious how further Google Street View could use Wikicommons photos, and if/how Google Cars could contribute to Commons too. Shall we explore bringing Wikimedia and Google together further - with Google, since you're already using both in a sense?

This Harbin gate URL is also on my recent book's web site - http://bit.ly/HarbinBook (see, too https://twitter.com/HarbinBook) as are the slides to the Berkeley talk.


Landed at Tart-to-Tart near UCSF ...


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Trying to create an augmented reality light show version around me of Tart to Tart in Berkeley's Cafe Roma - to join you, but there aren't the special MIT Media Lab 4 lights in the corners of this room to illuminate this reality virtually ... so that we could even actually
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Aurora: Life size interactive augmented reality avatars of you and me - in "AUGMENTED REALITY LIGHT SHOW" in 15 foot cubed space around us? How will ethnography / anthropology work?, Think something like what I'm calling "MIT Media Lab light bulbs" (which don't exist that I know of), and perhaps WUaS will have to invent these, Building out out of Google Streetview / Maps / Earth with TIME SLIDER with OpenSim/SL for avatars and group building, " [Air-L] Facebook Post Content Analysis," By way of comparison, you might find this helpful re content analysis: Ethnographic and Qualitative Research on Twitter by Alice E. Marwick, I'd also suggest a kind of Manuel Castellian contextualization to these questions re the course you were in with me, Alice Marwick's thinking in a NYTs' book review of her "STATUS UPDATE: Celebrity, Publicity, and Branding in the Social Media Age" (Yale University Press 2013). She's a Foucauldian, So how would "returning from the field" of a 15 foot cubed "AUGMENTED REALITY LIGHT SHOW" as anthropological field site, emerging from web pages (HTML 5 currently) approach such realistic and fantastical avatars (which would be you and I, as well as our own creations via 3D animations) ethnographic data-wise?, Excited too for how this will emerge into online libraries in all languages from all times with time slider too

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Life size interactive augmented reality avatars of you and me - in "AUGMENTED REALITY LIGHT SHOW" in 15 foot cubed space around us? How will ethnography / anthropology work? Building out out of Google Streetview / Maps / Earth with TIME SLIDER with OpenSim/SL for avatars and group building.

As examples of what could become the technologies/boxes for the light shows, see - 




but think something like what I'm calling "MIT Media Lab light bulbs" (which don't exist that I know of), and perhaps WUaS will have to invent these. 

See, too, yesterday's blog post - 


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Dear all,

I am preparing to deliver a workshop about how to analyze and interpret the content of a *Facebook post*, specifically from an anthropological perspective.

I've come across quite a bit of literature about the significance of Facebook and social media for contemporary social science research, but little in the way of actual methods and techniques for interpreting data once you return from the field.

If you have any literature recommendations about this I would be very grateful. A focus on anthropology would be great, but of course I'm interested in learning more about how other internet researchers go about this.

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Hi Jessika and AoIR friends,

By way of comparison, you might find this helpful re content analysis:

Ethnographic and Qualitative Research on Twitter by Alice E. Marwick
http://www.tiara.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/Marwick_Ethnographic-and-Qualitative-Research-on-Twitter_2013.pdf

I'd also suggest a kind of Manuel Castellian contextualization to these questions re the course you were in with me -
http://worlduniversityandschool.org/InfoTechNetworkSocGlobalUniv.html .

Best,
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Hi Jessika and AoIRs,

Here's a helpful, succinct overview of Alice Marwick's thinking in a NYTs' book review of her "STATUS UPDATE: Celebrity, Publicity, and Branding in the Social Media Age"
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/03/books/review/alice-e-marwicks-status-update.html
(Yale University Press 2013). She's a Foucauldian. Developing questions from her analytical terms could provide helpful approaches to developing related methods and techniques for interpreting data, where the social media "field" (as place?) at this point is still web pages.

Best,
Scott

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch
https://twitter.com/HarbinBook
https://twitter.com/scottmacleod

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Thanks very much Scott, helpful as always.

best wishes,

Jessika

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Hi Jessika,

I hope this finds you well. How are you?

A few further related resources re Alice Marwick's thinking:

https://cyber.harvard.edu/interactive/events/luncheon/2011/03/marwick

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uh1znqW5MRs

Best,
Scott

scottmacleod.com

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This is great stuff!

I'm doing well. Still hacking away at the old dissertation and now revisiting methods to get deeper into analyzing my data. How are you?

Jessika

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Thanks for your email.

Glad to have published my actual-virtual Harbin ethnography - and created a new Academic Press at World University and School in the process (planned for all languages with machine translation)!

Scott

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So how would "returning from the field" of a 15 foot cubed  "AUGMENTED REALITY LIGHT SHOW" as anthropological field site, emerging from web pages (HTML 5 currently) approach such realistic and fantastical avatars (which would be you and I, as well as our own creations via 3D animations) ethnographic data-wise?

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Previous: Aurora: Life size interactive augmented reality avatars of you and me - in "AUGMENTED REALITY LIGHT SHOW" in 15 foot cubed space around us? How will ethnography / anthropology work?, Think something like what I'm calling "MIT Media Lab light bulbs" (which don't exist that I know of), and perhaps WUaS will have to invent these, Building out out of Google Streetview / Maps / Earth with TIME SLIDER with OpenSim/SL for avatars and group building, " [Air-L] Facebook Post Content Analysis," By way of comparison, you might find this helpful re content analysis: Ethnographic and Qualitative Research on Twitter by Alice E. Marwick, I'd also suggest a kind of Manuel Castellian contextualization to these questions re the course you were in with me, Alice Marwick's thinking in a NYTs' book review of her "STATUS UPDATE: Celebrity, Publicity, and Branding in the Social Media Age" (Yale University Press 2013). She's a Foucauldian, So how would "returning from the field" of a 15 foot cubed "AUGMENTED REALITY LIGHT SHOW" as anthropological field site, emerging from web pages (HTML 5 currently) approach such realistic and fantastical avatars (which would be you and I, as well as our own creations via 3D animations) ethnographic data-wise?, Excited too for how this will emerge into online libraries in all languages from all times with time slider too
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The year is 2055 and you're about 120 (not 220 yet) and going strong in good health, and I'm about 93 years old, have 3 kids and 2 grandkids. We still meet on Cuttyhunk every year over the 10 weeks of summer when I'm mostly there. World University is a flourishing wiki knowledge conversation in all 7,097 living languages (but the number will have changed) and especially flourishing with artificial intelligemce and machine translation ~ http://worlduniversityandschool.org

World University and School has also become major universities in all countries' main and official languages - each with much autonomy, like Quaker Yearly Meetings (in many countries and languages), but also still very CC MIT OCW, CC Yale OYC and Stanford-centric. Hippies have come and gone, except in pockets around the world, such as still at Harbin Hot Springs {http://bit.ly/HarbinBook}, and Unitarian Universalist churches and unprogrammed Quaker Meetings still exist. 

I can't say whether the oceans have risen or not, due to global warming climate change (with massive loss of land and real estate), but poverty has mostly been eliminated and the urban-agrarian divide of today is a little more urban, yet agricultural land has been significantly preserved in all countries (thanks much to information technologies). A basic universal income has been working for about 35 years now. 

Some peoples are still living the beautiful ethnographic science fiction vision of Ursula Le Guin's wondrous book (informed by the '60s)  "Always Coming Home" (which takes place 400 years in the future).

And we're still writing and communicating electronically, anticipating another grandkid in 2056 (from my eldest) and a few further grandkids over the next 5 years.

I'm Bay Area Rapid Transit heading into the American Friends Service Committee / SF Quaker Meeting to hold a WUaS hive meeting space. Making honey ...

How are you? What are you up to today?

L,
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California sea lion: "How Equal Temperament Ruined Harmony (and Why You Should Care)", Singing Harmony for Happiness?, And now for something completely different, yet related, speaking of tuning ~ The Curious World of Great Highland Bagpipe Tuning, Piobaireachd, Barber_Shop_Quartet_Singing, Virtual Choir, World University Music School, Singing Harmony, Singing Descant

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"How Equal Temperament Ruined Harmony (and Why You Should Care)"

is a book by Ross Duffin about why it is impossible to be perfectly in tune when playing a keyboard instrument.  It helps explain why Bruce sometimes tells us to tune a little higher or lower than the pitch we get from the piano.

It ends, after 160 pages, with this quote:

"Do not be afraid to be out of tune with the piano.  It is the piano that is out of tune.  The piano with its tempered scale is a compromise in intonation." -- Pablo Casals.

Anyway, I picked it up awhile back at the Friends of the Library book sale, and would be happy to share.  It will be in my slot when I remember to bring it in.

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Thanks, Robert, and Hi, All, :)

And now for something completely different, yet related, speaking of tuning ~

The GHB bagpipe in tuning hovers around B flat in mixolydian mode (where the 7th is natural).  But, curiously, Great Highland Bagpipers play the A written on sheet music (both low A & high A) as B flats. (To say it slightly differently, Great Highland Bagpipers would play the As on this "The Desperate Battle" Piobaireachd sheet music, which I've attached somewhere around a B flat). I think this emerges out of bagpiping culture over centuries. (I now only play the Scottish small pipes which is in A mixolydian).

For your interest, I'm attaching the sheet music for the Piobaireachd (Pibroch) "The Desperate Battle" published by the Piobaireachd Society Book 7 in Glasgow in 1938 - for the Great Highland Bagpipe. It's a classical piece of GHB pipe music also called Ceol Mor which complements GHB light music or Ceol Beag. Have fun with exploring singing it in voice, if you'd like :) 

If you'd like to hear the Piobaireachd piping "idiom" with its very unique timing and 9 note scale, there are three great versions played by great pipers here - 
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Pibroch,_Piobaireachd_or_Ce%C3%B2l_M%C3%B3r (at World University and School's Pibroch page before WUaS, of which I'm the founder, moves into a new wiki; there's also a "Virtual Choir" wiki subject and other choral resources too). 

And the book you mentioned, Robert, "How Equal Temperament Ruined Harmony (and Why You Should Care)" is available in the growing online "Open Library" - https://openlibrary.org/works/OL8062063W/How_equal_temperament_ruined_harmony_(and_why_you_should_care) - but not yet as an eBook. 

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I wonder if this is related to the fact that, in the baroque period, the pitch of A was roughly 432 Hertz, as opposed to today's 440.  In fact, some orchestras (especially French ones) use up to A 443 for a "brighter sound".

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Perhaps, Steve, 

I just googled this definition (for my own clarity)""An equal temperament is a musical temperament, or a system of tuning, in which every pair of adjacent notes is separated by the same interval."

So be inventive hertz by hertz riffing equal temperament-wise relative to the piano when exploring harmony, perhaps (I might explore in these ways)?

In the GHB piping world (with relative little exploration of harmony within the mixolydian mode of a B flat scale), I hypothesize that GHB pipers in their separate world of playing mostly only with drums over the centuries went a half step higher, from A - to B flat because it sounded brighter (or sharper) to pipers in the aggregate / as a collective culture ... and all over the world ... but this hypothesis would be impossible to prove musicologically - and isn't explaining questions about equal temperament or harmony.  A famous Grade 1 Pipe Band in 1996, Shotts and Dykehead, was supposed to have won "The Worlds" (a main piping competition in Glasgow in August) playing with their As tuned to 496, where GHB pipers' A these days, now with tuning devices, are often around 466 (which I think is b flat) - taste for tunings takes some getting used to ... But the GHB scale is an interest reference scale relative to the piano's equal temperament.  

Pitch is rising, rising, rising perhaps ... But I continue to ask myself what series or tones, and harmony-wise - and in which tuning modalities - can generate the greatest happiness neurophysiologically in our brains / my brain ... ? 

Happy MLK jr day!

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When I was in graduate school, I started singing in a chorus that sang Renaissance music.  The conductor taught us to sing in pure (or Pythagorean) temperament: the frequency ratio of a fifth was exactly 2:1, of a third was exactly 5:4.  It was actually not that hard to learn to do that, because the sound of the pure intervals was quite distinctive when we got it right.

I believe that part of the Beach Boys' sound is partly that they were singing pure intervals.  And I've been told that some barbershop quartets aim for pure intervals as well.  It truly is a fascinating area.

The composer Harry Parch  (Sp?) once "operated on" a reed organ and tuned it to his own system of tuning (I seem to recall it had 51 tones per octave).  I heard a concert of his music once, and it was strangely beautiful (he made many of his own instruments).

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(re-sending this to choir friends, S, B, R, P, and J) ... and re equal temperament and tuning too ...

Looking forward to singing with you on Thursday, 1/19. I'm writing because I won't, however, sing with you Sunday morning, 1/22, (since I'm heading to the SF Quaker Meeting where I'm a member, for a SF Friends School breakfast, and for networking for partly Friendly-informed CC MIT OCW-centric World University and School, which is planning I.B. high school degrees, in addition to university degrees). I would however, like to RSVP to your event Sunday evening, 1/29, Jack (which I've just noticed is in about 11 days, and not this Sunday). 

Have, or are there, any UU Choir barbershop quartet spinoffs happened/happening? I'm particularly interested in eventual real, real music making online re World University and School partly in an exploratory way potentially via Google or similar (e.g. http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Barber_Shop_Quartet_Singing and http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Virtual_Choir and http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/World_University_Music_School) - and re singing for generating happiness neurophysiologically and explicitly.

Thanks too for your great email (below) re equal temperament and harmony, Steve. I'm interested in learning further about perfect harmony. And singing harmony, Beach Boys and Barbershop could be a great way to explore this. 

Warm regards, Scott

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Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument: How best to add the remaining 6,994 known living languages, and as what I'm calling as a new method "ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy" ? Thanks!, World University and School's language "localization" strategy, Google Translate with Wikipedia then building out with ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy

Next: Pacific Remote Islands Marine National Monument: Interest in the Anthropology of Information Technology, Recent book focuses on this - bit.ly/HarbinBook - and - https://twitter.com/HarbinBook, New Academic Press at World University and School, planned for all 7,097 living languages with machine translation eventually, Realistic virtual Harbin as field site for actual virtual comparison, "14 Planned WUaS Revenue Streams" re A) the CC 501 c 3 non-profit side and vis-a-vis B) the upcoming for-profit side, as a schema, WUaS is planning a CC Universal Translator on (A) the CC non-profit side (fundraising and making financial arrangements for this with great universities in all languages for all 8k languages) while on the (B) for-profit side WUaS planning to commercialize machine translation for an Academic Press, which machine translation should/could become "professional" in the next few years with AI (and graduate / undergrad students in many languages will hopefully teach the Universal Translator AI too), To to GAMIFY CC MIT OCW re Quaker-informed World University and School ... stay tuned "), 'Twould be great however if WUaS could advertise learning MIT OCW being more fun than video games, and have kids vote for this with their mouse clicks
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Hi Tayl, 

I wanted to reply to you yesterday afternoon from Stanford, but I unusually didn't have wireless access there in the afternoon. Apologies for the delay. 

World University and School's language "localization" strategy, conceptually, goes something like this. Having donated CC WUaS to CC Wikidata (CC Wikipedia's database developing with AI, machine learning and machine translation in its 358 languages) in October of 2015, and hoping to have a new wiki WUaS site working many months ago, and also since WUaS has Google Education, and is somewhat Google-centric, since their "ecosystem" with TensorFlow and Google Neural Machine Translation (GNMT) / Translate, for example, is in 103 languages, and is far-reaching, WUaS plans to develop a Universal Translator - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/WUaS_Universal_Translator - in all 7,097 known living languages (Ethnologue) / 7,943 entries in languages (Glottolog). (I gave an IBM CSIG talk on a Universal Translator). Since learning recently of advances with GNMT, WUaS's goal would be therefore to explore adding Wikipedia's remaining languages to Google Translate (or explore interoperating these) - which amounts roughly to 208 further languages - and by also engaging a new anthropological method which I'm calling ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy, planned in all languages (living, extinct and invented), and then wiki-build out from this total of ~358 languages, hypothetically in Google Translate, to all 7,943 entries under languages in Glottolog, each a WUaS wiki subject page for open teaching and learning in this language to begin. 

To give you an idea of CC World University and School (http://worlduniversityandschool.org - check out the ~12 main WUaS areas here), in brief, including its business side, here's CC MIT OpenCourseWare-centric (in 7 languages) and CC Yale OYC-centric World University's "14 Planned WUaS Revenue Streams" - http://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2016/01/14-planned-wuas-revenue-streams.html - on both WUaS's 501 c 3 non-profit and upcoming for-profit wings, - with both planned in all ~200 countries' main and official languages as major Universities (i.e. "Harvards of the Web" offering Bachelor, Ph.D., Law and M.D. degrees as well as I.B. high school degrees, - again in all countries' main and official languages), and also in all 7,097+ known living languages (each too as language, book store and academic press markets to help grow smallest languages, and knowledge resources about them). 

And here's a recent WUaS monthly business meeting agenda - http://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2017/01/wuas-january-14-2017-monthly-business.html - and see also - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2017/01/mediterranean-moray-wuas-january-14.html - and the rest of this latter blog - /label/global%20university - for further WUaS planning (including, for example, a universal translator, with A.I., machine translation and machine learning - also around CC MIT OCW in 7 languages +). See this blog too re ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy . 

So combining Google Translate's 103 languages with Wikidata/Wiktionary/MediaWiki's 358 languages (less 103) as a "localization strategy" offers both relatively robust, open, Google infrastructure (as a kind of metaphorical extended set of APIs) potentially with the Creative Commons' licensed and Wiki resources of the Wikimedia Foundation/Wikipedia, - and potentially all emerging out of Wikidata/Wikibase (which is a far-reaching CC developing database that's ~ four years' old) either as a WUaS / Wikimedia Foundation based application separate from their "Content Translation" (my preference) or with their "Content Translation" program developed explicitly for Wikipedia articles only. This localization approach would include engaging the WMF's CC Wiktionary for lexemes and the wiki volunteer process, too.

I haven't yet looked to see if Kinyaranda, which language I think you know Tayl, is a "Google" or "Wikipedia" language, but in what ways could you see possibly further collaborating? World University and School's first priority currently is to get a new wiki web site emerging from Wikdata probably into MediaWiki (which is the front-end basis for Wikipedia too) working, and also develop a "course catalog" and "You at WUaS" web pages so students from around the world, first in English, could apply to and matriculate online at WUaS this autumn for free, CC, MIT OCW-centric (eventually in its 7 languages) and CC Yale OYC-centric Bachelor / undergraduate degrees at WUaS. Graduate student instructors would be teaching to CC MIT and CC Yale faculty in video for accreditation planning purposes, but such graduate students might also be able to help with the coding of all of this (and eventually all languages too).

How best might we further develop this collaboration conversation? What's Curious's localization strategy? In what ways could a wiki Google / Wikidata centric WUaS universal translator be added to Curious's tablets for learning which you so interestingly shared with us yesterday in your IBM CSIG presentation. Looking forward to talking. Thank you.

Best regards, 
Scott

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Hi Tayl, 

Thanks for your email as well. World University and School is also MIT OCW-centric in its 7 languages - https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/translated-courses/ - which include Chinese and Korean, Portuguese and Spanish, and Persian and Turkish. These will be central as WUaS develops its online universities in countries' main languages, our localization strategy, and our developing translator project. Looking forward to being in touch potentially in 6 months about this. 

What are you thinking about these days re your anthropology degree focus  - and also with regard to Curious? 

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Pacific Remote Islands Marine National Monument: Interest in the Anthropology of Information Technology, Recent book focuses on this - bit.ly/HarbinBook - and - https://twitter.com/HarbinBook, New Academic Press at World University and School, planned for all 7,097 living languages with machine translation eventually, Realistic virtual Harbin as field site for actual virtual comparison, "14 Planned WUaS Revenue Streams" re A) the CC 501 c 3 non-profit side and vis-a-vis B) the upcoming for-profit side, as a schema, WUaS is planning a CC Universal Translator on (A) the CC non-profit side (fundraising and making financial arrangements for this with great universities in all languages for all 8k languages) while on the (B) for-profit side WUaS planning to commercialize machine translation for an Academic Press, which machine translation should/could become "professional" in the next few years with AI (and graduate / undergrad students in many languages will hopefully teach the Universal Translator AI too), To to GAMIFY CC MIT OCW re Quaker-informed World University and School ... stay tuned "), 'Twould be great however if WUaS could advertise learning MIT OCW being more fun than video games, and have kids vote for this with their mouse clicks

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Tayl, re our correspondence yesterday (from which I only include what I wrote) - 

http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2017/01/papahanaumokuakea-marine-national.html

I've long had an interest in the Anthropology of Information Technology, and my recent book focuses on this - bit.ly/HarbinBook - and - https://twitter.com/HarbinBook - and comes into conversation, in a sense, with Tom Boellstorff's "Coming of Age in SL." I really enjoy visiting Harbin Hot Springs as field site - with its own interesting psychology. Although my actual-virtual Harbin ethnography is a big book (354 pages on 8.5 x 11 paper), I'm ambivalent about writing ethnography as well as selling an ethnographic book. 

I'm glad however that it emerged in a new Academic Press at World University and School, planned for all 7,097 living languages with machine translation eventually. It also focuses on creating a realistic virtual Harbin as field site for actual virtual comparison, which I hope to do in another Harbin ethnographic book some years hence. This realistic virtual earth/(Harbin) would also have a universal translator as part of it - think Google Streetview/Maps/Earth with TIME SLIDER with OpenSim/SL, and scalable to the cellular and atomic levels for STEM (and brain) research and as a classroom. 

If you look at the "14 Planned WUaS Revenue Streams" - http://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2016/01/14-planned-wuas-revenue-streams.html - re A) the CC 501 c 3 non-profit side and vis-a-vis B) the upcoming for-profit side, as a schema, WUaS is planning a CC Universal Translator on (A) the CC non-profit side (fundraising and making financial arrangements for this with great universities in all languages for all 8k languages) while on the (B) for-profit side WUaS planning to commercialize machine translation for an Academic Press, which machine translation should/could become "professional" in the next few years with AI (and graduate / undergrad students in many languages will hopefully teach the Universal Translator AI too). How WUaS will develop this re Google Translate, Wikidata and similar is a question that's still open ... and for software as well. 

Conceptually, how could a Google Translate help your Curious software ? 

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Thanks, Alan, for the update about your two eldest teenage sons, Lachlyn and Scott's career planning (http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Career_counseling) at this stage of life and re (free MIT) Uni  ... just exploring / looking to bring on a very experienced Video Gaming CEO (see this great recent Stanford talk from Tom Kalinske -  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kr7_lJ7J6T8 -) to GAMIFY CC MIT OCW re Quaker-informed World University and School ... stay tuned ") 

(... and to my blog post tomorrow - scott-macleod.blogspot.com ... re free CC MIT I.B. high school potentially emerging from the SF Friends K-8 school ...) 

I'm meeting with Tom in person on Tuesday nearby in Redwood City. 

I'm sure we/WUaS/ Tom-if-he-helps with our startup won't be able to make MIT OCW more fun than video games. And we for sure won't be able to make instruction about candy making more fun either ... (but we might be able to help with a course of study developing great candy as an international product ...) 

'Twould be great however if WUaS could advertise learning MIT OCW being more fun than video games, and have kids vote for this with their mouse clicks (soon to be brainwave headsets in part, in all likelihood :)

Looking forward to "Music Playing Spaces" together after some weeks ...

Off to play a small pipes' gig shortly ... and re a Scot (whose parents were of the "wee folk" - a sociological "grouping/people" I'd posit, from before mid 20th century ... probably had something in common with gypsies too) who has lived in Marin for decades ...

I'll keep on the outlook for teenagers who might want to really enjoy free CC MIT college online from the comfort of their own homes - whether that be in NZ or the Shetlands (first in English!:)


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Previous: Pacific Remote Islands Marine National Monument: Interest in the Anthropology of Information Technology, Recent book focuses on this - bit.ly/HarbinBook - and - https://twitter.com/HarbinBook, New Academic Press at World University and School, planned for all 7,097 living languages with machine translation eventually, Realistic virtual Harbin as field site for actual virtual comparison, "14 Planned WUaS Revenue Streams" re A) the CC 501 c 3 non-profit side and vis-a-vis B) the upcoming for-profit side, as a schema, WUaS is planning a CC Universal Translator on (A) the CC non-profit side (fundraising and making financial arrangements for this with great universities in all languages for all 8k languages) while on the (B) for-profit side WUaS planning to commercialize machine translation for an Academic Press, which machine translation should/could become "professional" in the next few years with AI (and graduate / undergrad students in many languages will hopefully teach the Universal Translator AI too), To to GAMIFY CC MIT OCW re Quaker-informed World University and School ... stay tuned "), 'Twould be great however if WUaS could advertise learning MIT OCW being more fun than video games, and have kids vote for this with their mouse clicks
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Hi Am, Bo and Davi, 

Looking forward to sharing Meeting with you at SF Quaker Meeting. Looking forward too to further networking with SF Friends' School at the SFFS-SFFM breakfast. (I'm singing these days in the UU Church of Palo Alto choir on Sunday mornings - it's fun to sing with friends). I'm writing also to explore further some collaboration possibilities based on recent WUaS developments and Friendly leadings. 

Am, having met with former head of school Cath Hunt at SFFS a few years ago for about 30 minutes re possible collaborations between SFFS and Friendly-informed World University and School and re a CC MIT OCW-centric online free CC International Baccalaureate high school with diplomas, eventually in all countries' main and official languages (think the I.B. Friends' School in Ramallah, for example, in two languages, but which isn't online), I'm writing to inquire if we could explore this idea further, since you are now an established Board member there. In this scenario, SF Friends' School 8th graders would have the opportunity/option to begin studying from home in an online Quaker free CC MIT OCW-centric high school, first in English, and emerging out of SF FS itself - again for free, since the CC MIT OCW resources have a non-commercial licensing attribute (monies to be raised otherwise from governments and by fundraising etc. per student per year for revenue).

Concurrently, having met with 3 Quaker Earthlight Bookstore people (T and S F, E S, as well as C F, and B R - at the F's home) a few years ago re collaboration with WUaS's planned online bookstore (eventually in all 7,097 living languages and with WUaS Academic Press with machine translation), conceptually in Intuit / Quickbooks Multi-store / Quicken / TurboTax with Intuit's multiple languages/nation states' tax codes - planned on WUaS's upcoming for-profit wing, I'm writing to explore how we might further explore developing both an online Quaker MIT OCW-centric high school (all countries' main languages) as well as Bookstore / Publisher (all languages, each a market) together and at the same time. Both of the above are potential Quaker opportunities, - for sharing Friends' education, as well as potentially commercially. 

How best to explore bringing the SF Quaker Meeting / SF Friends School further into opportunities (including jobs), I'm wondering?  

I just heard back from Tom Kalinske this morning within 30 minutes of my email to him
- see his recent Stanford talk - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kr7_lJ7J6T8 - inviting me to meet with him at Global Education Learning HQs in Redwood City this Tuesday, which I'm planning to do. It would be great if Tom could become the CEO of WUaS's for-profit wing planned in all 200 countries' main languages; he's now the Chair of GEL, has experience as CEO's of multiple large companies, and could significantly help gamify MIT OCW, as WUaS wikifies MIT OCW. 

And I was glad last Thursday to have attended a Stanford Sparks' talk by Tim Connors and Mark Leahy on fundraising (in the Business School), with Tim afterward inviting me to reach out to him. He's a MicroVC and seems great; he also has the money to lend, Mark Leahy said. I've asked if Tim could join the upcoming for-profit WUaS Board, and Mark WUaS's existing non-profit Board. 

If all of these opportunities come together, one of the main questions for Tom Kalinske (https://twitter.com/ThomasTkalinske) and Tim Connors (https://twitter.com/TimC) might be how fast could WUaS file the for-profit wing's papers, getting a revenue-generating Board together in the process, to head for an IPO (again on WUaS's for-profit side re http://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2016/01/14-planned-wuas-revenue-streams.html ). 

I'm wondering too, Bo, if you could possibly please help with filing these for-profit papers - with the Nolo Press link here http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2016/08/monarch-butterfly-migration-wuas-in.html - (while, for example, Stanford Law Codex's Roland Vogl possibly helps to begin the CC OCW WUaS law schools in all countries' languages and eventually hiring Stanford Law students as graduate student instructors). SF Quaker Meeting would stand to benefit financially if it could help file these for-profit papers in conjunction with your thinking, Bo, - re the WUaS Bookstore and Academic Press. 

If some of these potential Quaker growth and financial opportunities are realizable, Am, I wonder, if as a SFFS Board member, whether you could potentially also please explore helping with developing SF Friends' School infrastructure for WUaS's high school in a collaboration - for example with helping develop some staffing for possibly 10 hours / week office-related work there - and again to begin an online free I.B. high school for SF Friends' School kids on the CC MIT OCW non-profit side re Friendly informed WUaS - but not with the for-profit book store with Quaker Earthlight Books / Quickbooks' Multi-store, (but with Wikidata book/document number Q-items in all 358 languages, since WUaS's bookstore can't emerge out of MIT OCW since for-profit Amazon.com is already linked to MIT OCW's books per communication with MIT Dean Cecilia d'Oliveira in March-April 2016 ... and anticipating machine translation as well?) For growing the Friendly-informed WUaS bookstore in collaboration with Earthlight Books (which brings books to Quarterly and Annual Meetings), WUaS might seek to grow with T and S F, E.S., as well as C.F., and B. R., and other f/Friends from Meeting.

Davi and Am, could you also possibly please help set up the initial Intuit infrastructure (anticipating all languages, but first United Nations, MIT OCW and other large languages) for all of this - and perhaps with B R and E S? 

How best to communicate further about this? Looking forward to sharing in Meeting with you tomorrow

Friendly regards, 
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Next: Big wave surfing: VIRTUAL SURFING & and its women's culture - and in a realistic virtual earth too?, Check out the Harbin Hot Springs' gate here in Google Streetview/Maps/Earth - https://twitter.com/HarbinBook - where you can "walk" down the road 4 miles to Middletown - but can't yet go into Harbin, which my Harbin book explores re "Naked Harbin Ethnography: Hippies, Warm Pools, Counterculture, Clothing-Optionality & Virtual Harbin" : ), But I'm interested in Surfing emerging from the interesting times in California / Hawaii + in the 1960s / 1970s especially, See the Watsu wiki subject - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Watsu_-_water_shiatsu - which started at Harbin), Libraries in all ~8k languages in a realistic virtual earth like Google Streetview/Maps/Earth with TIME SLIDER, so that one will be able to pull books off the shelf from the Free Boston Public Library in the year 1900 and today
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And now for something completely different ... by VIRTUAL REALITIZING & GAMIFYING to measure enjoyment, greatest happiness, even loving bliss in learning at the University and High School levels, in countries' main and official languages?

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Hi all,
I am Kshitiz Verma and I wish to enroll in a course on VR as a part of series on computational law and legal informatics available at https://law.mit.edu/Computational-Law-Course, more info available here. There is a requirement for two more team members for data VR module and it starts on Mondaysharp 2 PM at MIT Media labs.
Kindly reply back if you are interested in joining me.
Thanks 
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Hi Kshitiz, 

Thanks. I wonder how well this would dovetail with CC MIT OCW-centric wiki CC World University and School's planned online law schools in all countries' main languages. Please tell me more. 


Here, for example, are World University and School's beginning ...

Law Schools at WUaS (planned in main languages in them):








(Stanford already has a number of related countries' legal projects, and WUaS would love to "house" them under one roof, e.g. https://cgc.law.stanford.edu/. And the edX-HarvardX-JuryX course I'm currently in, taught by Harvard Law School Emeritus Professor Charlie Nesson could possibly even bring juries in MIT UnHangouts to countries like Afghanistan, and to all countries' which might like to explore this type of legal justice process). 

And see, for example, here in the World University Law School -  http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/World_University_Law_School - the "Select Links" to wiki pages / subjects part way down, including CC Law, Copyright, Patenting, IP, Maritime Law and much more. WUaS is planning to create these wiki subject pages in all countries' main languages (and anyone can create a related wiki subject page in a something they are interested in), and connect them with law schools in each of their "Nation States" - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Nation_States - each of which will become a major online university offering CC Bachelor, Ph.D., law, M.D., as well as I.B. high school diplomas (accrediting on CC MIT OCW in 7 languages and CC Yale OYC), and as "Harvards/Oxfords of the Internet." WUaS is Creative Commons' licensed on our non-profit side, and very CC MIT OCW-centric & CC Yale OYC-centric.

And as an example of another country's WUaS, here is India World University and School - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/India - not yet in Hindi or any of the other 21 official languages there (before World University moves to a new wiki emerging from Wikidata, which is Wikipedia's 4 year old database with its 358 languages, and developing with AI, machine learning and machine translation).  

World University and School's faculty - beginning with graduate student instructors in all countries' main languages - will teach developing law for their countries with regards to the information technology age, and in accrediting law schools. 


Friendly greetings from the SF Bay Area, 
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Hi Scott,
I will read your ideas in detail and get back to you. Right now I am trying my best to participate in the course at MIT.
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Hi Kshitiz,

Thanks very much for your reply. I'm interested in observing / auditing this course, since 

a) I can't participate on Tuesday at 2pm Eastern Time (2-3pm - Talks and Tutorials - https://docs.google.com/document/d/1reljPcEXQR1CSgwPci0iwTRM7o9CDqnBJIpsKA8hxRY/pub ) - due to meeting with a potential CEO of one wing of startup CC World University and School which I'm developing, with its planned law schools in all countries' main languages, and 

b) I have another online meeting on Tuesday at 5 pm ET (5:00-5:50pm -  Project Presentations and Feedback) - which is an online Harvard Law talk with the chair of the Federal Communication Commission, (but which may also be recorded).

c) I don't have the right computer equipment per - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2qTVJiuEwU . 

Hence, I might not necessarily be a very good team member. But I'm interested in the course nevertheless - and I would try to do my best given these constraints.

When I tried to add this email address - Scott MacLeod <worlduniversityandschool@gmail.com> - here - https://law.mit.edu/Computational-Law-Course - I also didn't have the option to enter it completely, and thus I couldn't "Request form for permission to enroll in the 2017 MIT/IAP Computational Law course". 

In your seeking of team members, could you possibly please add me to this somehow so I can audit / observe - and possibly partly as a team member? Thank you.

See you online in about 3 hours? 

Do you happen to know MIT Professors Anant Agarwal or Sandy Pentland?

Thank you. 

Regards, 
Scott


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Hi Kshitiz (and Dazza and Amadeo), 

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Big wave surfing: VIRTUAL SURFING & and its women's culture - and in a realistic virtual earth too?, Check out the Harbin Hot Springs' gate here in Google Streetview/Maps/Earth - https://twitter.com/HarbinBook - where you can "walk" down the road 4 miles to Middletown - but can't yet go into Harbin, which my Harbin book explores re "Naked Harbin Ethnography: Hippies, Warm Pools, Counterculture, Clothing-Optionality & Virtual Harbin" : ), But I'm interested in Surfing emerging from the interesting times in California / Hawaii + in the 1960s / 1970s especially, See the Watsu wiki subject - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Watsu_-_water_shiatsu - which started at Harbin), Libraries in all ~8k languages in a realistic virtual earth like Google Streetview/Maps/Earth with TIME SLIDER, so that one will be able to pull books off the shelf from the Free Boston Public Library in the year 1900 and today

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Hi M, 

Nice to meet you at TSWG, and thanks for the invitation to the fundraiser in Pacifica on Saturday evening. (My Scottish small pipes' gig in Marin went well). It doesn't look like there's a TSWG this Friday, so I'm emailing you from here too. 

What do you think of the first image in Wikivoyage "Surfing" of this woman -


(was - https://en.m.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Surfing#/media/File%3ASurfer_SealBeach-01.jpg ) - as emblematic of what you're interested in - https://en.m.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Surfing - and wiki surfing-wise too? How could we wiki-create this further in great new ways (and in many languages - an interest of mine)?


I'm curious how surfing will grow in a realistic virtual earth as this develops, such as in Google Streetview. Check out the Harbin Hot Springs' gate here in Google Streetview/Maps/Earth - https://twitter.com/HarbinBook - where you can "walk" down the road 4 miles to Middletown - but can't yet go into Harbin. This virtual experience will improve toward virtual realism and much more with time probably ... and I'm curious how folks, and women surfers, will come to enjoy surfing in dramatically great new ways, virtually, co-creating surfing life online too.

Singing as surfing ? 

Cheers,
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Hi Scott,

Thanks for emailing. It was good chatting with you on Friday. My event was great on Sat. hope you had a good set.

Glad you liked the interview on Lady Days and my little surf story. And you checked out my Flickr...I shoot bands, but don't play an instrument. You probably saw photos of my partner's bands on there.

Wikivoyage seems interesting. When I research a story or a topic, I tend to stick to books and libraries so I don't know much about the Wiki-world. The surfing links, to me, don't seem to represent the sport very accurately. Matt Warshaw is a surf historian, but writes from completely male perspective (so not very accurate either, in my opinion).

Are you familiar with vox.com? I'm not, but I read this great article yesterday that is discussing some of shortcomings of new information platforms (maybe similar to wikivoyage?) https://thebaffler.com/salvos/explanation-for-what-johnson The 2 main issues with some platforms that resonated with me in the article are the severe lack of diversity in the writers and content developers and the ways in which opinion is masquerading as fact. I looked up Portugal on Wikivoyage – a place I visited last summer – and found the content to read as bias and opinionated rather than factual and neutral. Not sure if that is what wikivoyage is going for or not?

As for virtual surfing, I don't even like wave pools (a hot new craze in the surfing world), so I doubt I'll be much into the virtual experience. But who knows, I'm open! And I know I could certainly learn much more about, well, virtual everything. So, looking forward to your presentation at TSWG. 

See you next meeting,
M

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Hi M, 

Thanks for your email as well. Glad your Saturday event was great!

I'd like for World University and School to create online libraries in all ~8k languages in a realistic virtual earth like Google Streetview/Maps/Earth with TIME SLIDER, so that one will be able to pull books off the shelf from the Free Boston Public Library in the year 1900 and today, for example, and read them. (Google Translate is in 103 languages and newly with Google Neural Machine Translation +) ... and even from within augmented reality around us in a 15' cube as light show eventually. 

I haven't tuned into Wikivoyage very much at all, but WUaS and I are quite Wikipedia-centric focused, especially as it grows with structured data and Wikidata in its 358 languages. I think we'll then begin to see some beneficial developments in Wikivoyage that parallel those we may be seeing in Wikipedia editorially these days. And WUaS donated itself to Wikidata, Wikipedia's database in October 2015, and will emerge newly from there soon-ish. So perhaps your students will be able to help develop Wikivoyage at some point - and re Surfing - as well as WUaS, and even for free CC MIT OCW-centric university degrees. 

WUaS's and Wikipedia's a) volunteer wiki editor focus, as well as b) eventually graduate students at WUaS in all 8 k languages may well help develop editorial diversity at WUaS +. 

Online sports are and have been a big thing ... curious to see how they evolve experience wise along the actual - virtual conversation (which my Harbin book explores re Naked Harbin Ethnography: Hippies, Warm Pools, Counterculture, Clothing-Optionality & Virtual Harbin : ) But I'm interested in Surfing emerging from the interesting times in California / Hawaii + in the 1960s / 1970s especially.

Let's start a "Surfing" wiki subject page for open teaching and learning at World University - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Subjects (and to give you an idea of how anyone can create a wiki subject at WUaS with an academic or a creative focus +. For example, see the Watsu wiki subject - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Watsu_-_water_shiatsu - which started at Harbin) - but perhaps after WUaS moves to the new wiki emerging from Wikidata, and thus in many languages.

See you next meeting. 

Cheers, 
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Previous: Big wave surfing: VIRTUAL SURFING & and its women's culture - and in a realistic virtual earth too?, Check out the Harbin Hot Springs' gate here in Google Streetview/Maps/Earth - https://twitter.com/HarbinBook - where you can "walk" down the road 4 miles to Middletown - but can't yet go into Harbin, which my Harbin book explores re "Naked Harbin Ethnography: Hippies, Warm Pools, Counterculture, Clothing-Optionality & Virtual Harbin" : ), But I'm interested in Surfing emerging from the interesting times in California / Hawaii + in the 1960s / 1970s especially, See the Watsu wiki subject - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Watsu_-_water_shiatsu - which started at Harbin), Libraries in all ~8k languages in a realistic virtual earth like Google Streetview/Maps/Earth with TIME SLIDER, so that one will be able to pull books off the shelf from the Free Boston Public Library in the year 1900 and today
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Hi Tanya, 

Very nice to meet and talk with you. 

Here are some of the links for CC OCW courses you might explore taking as a matriculated student at Friendly-informed WUaS toward a free CC MIT OCW-centric and CC Yale OYC-centric degree: 

If you're interested in an English major, these Yale courses may make most sense as a start - 
http://oyc.yale.edu/courses

This "ENGL 291: THE AMERICAN NOVEL SINCE 1945" Yale OYC course, which we glanced at, looks interesting - http://oyc.yale.edu/english/engl-291 - and especially with its video!

And here are the CC MIT OCW ~2300 courses in English -

And, as an example or a main area at WUaS, here's the "Library Resources' wiki subject page before move into a new wiki - 

http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Library_Resources (planned in all 8k languages, each a wiki page to begin) - 

for, for example, https://openlibrary.org/

(We spoke of a job she was applying for where she had to sell water in an online video. I shared with her this example, as a model as I see it for smart marketing,Tom Kalinske's example of a great Sega ad he did in the 1990s - 

Let's explore further how we can further generate a far-reaching culture of Friendly flourishing knowledge generation in group video (learning from Stanford's and MIT's).

Looking forward to talking further about this. 

Friendly regards, 
Scott




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I met with a woman today at AFSC / SF Quaker Meeting, Tanya S. Bergamot (above), whom I had met on Sunday at SF Quaker Meeting, (from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and the Quaker Meeting there), who would like to matriculate as an undergraduate student at World University this autumn 2017. She doesn't have bachelor's degree (and wants one), is smart and loves to learn. (She also owns some houses in Pittsburgh, so has enough money to live on). This is wonderful interest and news, and it helps focus WUaS's planning. That she wants to be a WUaS student - and possibly go on to the planned WUaS law school in English is especially great news. A free CC MIT OCW-centric and CC Yale OYC accrediting WUaS degree taking courses from this Course Catalog - 

Courses at World University for credit - 


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will help so many people and with their careers, especially. Now, as she said, she'll be able to write on job applications, after she graduates in around 2021, that she has a bachelor's Degree, and may head on for a WUaS law degree. 



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Next: Engadin: World University and School's learning in online courses, accrediting on CC MIT OCW in 7 languages and CC Yale OYC, will be very different from MIT & Stanford's on-the-ground courses (with their remarkable STEM and creative/innovative ethoses/cultures) due to a) recording classes, seminars and conferences, in Youtube, for example, b) to the at least two channels for communication - 1) voice and 2) group text chat - and c) to creating major universities in all countries in each of their main and official languages - and d) to the WUaS wiki schools in all 7,097 known living languages, with conversations in Google group video Hangouts, for example, and e) to WUaS being WIKI universities and schools - so that many people will be able to create and teach, as well as learn at WUaS (again in all languages) f) to WUaS hiring graduate students from great universities who are learning to become faculty in all 8k languages
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Christoph (and Haluk), 

Thank you!

Thanks for your excellent presentation in this new Swiss Alliance for Data Intensive Services. Since Switzerland has 4 official languages, and your presentation is in excellent English, how are you planning for / thinking of languages in terms of innovation service science / value creation / data services and planning for developments in Switzerland? (I ask in developing CC wiki World University and School - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/ - accrediting for CC university degrees in all countries' official languages on CC MIT OCW in its 7 languages to start and CC Yale OYC)? Are you developing courses, for example, in all 4 Swiss languages? Which languages are you developing courses for, for example, in conjunction with your member universities? Or are English and Swiss German the de facto main languages, for example? (In a similar vein, how would you invited Swiss 17 year old students to apply for online CC OCW university bachelor degrees at WUaS, first in English)?

Scott

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Dear Scott,

good question. Yes, we have the language problem in Switzerland. However, within the network, we use English as working language, and most people are very used to it (academics anyway, but this also holds for a big part of our industry, as Switzerland is such a small country that most companies are forced to make business on an international level, and thus have to speak English on a regular basis).

The education courses (we are focusing on continued education, supporting directly the employees of companies) are typically in one of the country’s languages. So, in Geneva, you would have those courses in French, and in Zurich in German, and in Lugano in Italian. We are seeing a trend in using more and more English, and at the classical university programs (bachelor, master, and PhD level) there is a quite substantial part of the lectures given in English, but this is not yet very common in continued education. So for the 17 year old Swiss student, an English program is something that he has to deal with anyway.

Just for you to get a better understanding how we do it: The network itself as an organization will not create much of own courses – we rather let the universities use their courses and let them offer those courses in the framework of the network (which increases the attractiveness because they are basically free for the members, already paid for by the membership fee). So we don’t have an own strategy on both content and languages. But we’ll see – I guess that if we are coming into the situation of creating our own education courses, they will be in English.

Does this answer your questions?

Best
Christoph

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Hi Scott,

just had a short look at your website. It might make sense to have a conversation if and how we could make your program am part of data+service.

Christoph

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Dear Christoph,

Yes, thanks for your helpful answers. 

Yet Switzerland's 4 languages are an opportunity from wiki CC World University and School's perspective. (My family and I lived in Geneva for 6 months in the early 1970s -when my father was studying the health systems of 3 other European countries with a Ford Foundation grant). What is the main city of the Romansch language there?

I'll have a look at your ISSIP presentation again soon in terms of Swiss Alliance for Data Intensive Services membership, when it becomes available. (I gave an ISSIP presentation on a Universal Translator as a Guidebook with Test and as an ISSIP grand challenge; see http://www.slideshare.net/issip/world-university-and-school and http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2015/03/beluga-whale-course-in-1000-languages.html). But unfortunately World University and School's finances are basically non-existent. 

CC MIT OCW-centric wiki World University and School seeks to create major online universities (Harvards/MITs of the Web) in all ~200 countries' main and official languages building and accrediting on the ~2300 CC MIT OCW courses here - https://ocw.mit.edu/index.htm - which include all of the MIT Sloan School of Management/Business courses. While there's an open CC license to translate this CC MIT OCW (https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/translated-courses/), and they aren't in German, French or Italian (and WUaS isn't planning to offer them in Romansch for free CC Bachelor, Ph.d., law, M.D. as well as I.B. high school degrees) yet that I know of, - and WUaS would like to begin to develop Switzerland World University and School (e.g. http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Switzerland), Germany World University and School (and e.g. German language World University and School http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/German_language), France World University and School (and French World University and School), Italy World University and School (and Italian WUaS). WUaS is also planning a universal translator for all 7,097 languages probably building on Google Translate / Google Neural Machine Translation (and the Google Ecosystem - and WUaS ahs Google Education), which is STEM and course-centric. 

With WUaS's plans a) to create major CC MIT OCW-centric and Yale OYC-centric universities (building on the CC MIT OCW courseware in 7 languages) in all countries' main languages, offering CC Bachelor, Ph.D., law and M.D. degrees, as well as I.B. high school degrees, and b) to create wiki schools for open teaching and learning in all 7,097+ known living languages, and also to create nation state and language markets in all these countries, WUaS would benefit enormously from participation in your Swiss Network. 

If WUaS was able to raise the monies to become a member of Swiss Alliance for Data Intensive Services, do you think you could help find Swiss 17 year old students interested in a CC MIT OCW-centric bachelor degrees (and eventually in other MIT OCW-centric university degrees mentioned above). WUaS will seek donations from governments in all countries' for some portion of what it costs to attend MIT and Stanford on the ground per year per student, while students would attend for free due to MIT's Creative Commons' licensing. If the Swiss Alliance for Data Intensive Services were also able to find highest achieving students (say 500-1000 even) from other European countries - first for MIT and Yale courses in English - the SAfDIS could benefit membership-wise further too, and in other ways. 

I'll respond to other email soon, and thank you.

Best, Scott

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Hi Christoph, Gerold, and Paul (and Jim and Haluk),

Great. I enjoyed again your ISSIP presentation on Wednesday, Christoph. 

And looking forward to talking about World University and School's web site - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/ - with you (from the SF Bay Area) re the Swiss Alliance for Data Intensive Services, and re ISSIP too, and service science programming even. (I've glanced again at your presentation's slides - https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_JDwPQNkAwSSk9iNW1GdXUxb28/view?usp=sharing - accessible here https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B4f17psTC9fsZUg4WXVuSWg2dUU and have some questions about membership, given WUaS's nearly non-existent finances). My ISSIP presentation on an Universal Translator as a Guidebook and Test is presentation 77 (and here in my blog - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2015/03/beluga-whale-course-in-1000-languages.html - with much else about developing World University and School). 

I'd like to introduce you / us to Paul Huppertz, another ISSIP speaker (Aug 27, 2014 - http://www.slideshare.net/issip/issip-service-terminology), https://www.linkedin.com/today/author/0_3xbiC5_tu8jkxitYPUpGUs ...  https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/produktion-versus-servuktion-paul-g-huppertz-%D0%BF%D0%BE%D0%BB-%D0%B3-%D1%85%D1%83%D0%BF%D0%BF%D0%B5%D1%80%D1%82%D1%86 ? He's developed service science programming, as well as terminology for this, in far-reaching ways. I emailed some with you, Paul, around the time of your presentation. 

World University and School is particularly initially interested, in developing our WUaS web site, in building our Course Catalog (CC MIT OCW-centric in 7 languages and CC Yale OYC-centric - see http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2017/01/cocobolo-bagpipe-wood-as-matriculated.html) for student applications in a "You at World University and School" (possibly in G+ and Google Education, which WUaS has, anticipating 11 billion people in 2100 as well as all 7,097 known living languages) main page - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/You_at_World_University - to seek to get 2,000 high achieving matriculating students this autumn in English from all ~200 countries around the world. A high achieving student, as I see it, is one who would apply to and get into Harvard / Yale / MIT / Stanford, for example. 

See, too, the ~12 main areas at WUaS here - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/ - which will inform WUaS, as we seek to emerge newly from Wikidata (with its MediaWiki) Wikipedia's database for its 358 languages much around this wiki http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/SUBJECT_TEMPLATE. L.P. is Wikidata / Wikimedia Germany's Product Manager, and our contact. I've met with Lydia twice at Wikimedia Developers' conferences in San Francisco, this January 2017 and last January 2016. :) WUaS seeks to develop our 12 main areas, including ALL 8k languages, nation states/countries/territories as universities, ALL Libraries in ALL 8k languages and ALL Museums in all 8k languages - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2015/11/lions-in-trees-all-libraries-all.html plus. 

Friday, February 3, 8-10am Pacific Time (http://www.thetimezoneconverter.com/) would work best for me of the times you suggested (although the other Friday time on Feb 3 2017 is possible at this point, as well).

World University and School seeks to become a) the wiki "Harvards/MITs/Stanfords" of the web in each of all ~200 countries main and official languages (offering free CC OCW Bachelor, Ph.D., Law and M.D. degrees, as well as I.B. high school diplomas) and b) wiki schools in all 7,943 entries under languages (in Glottolog) for open teaching and learning. See, too, "14 Planned WUaS Revenue Streams" -  http://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2016/01/14-planned-wuas-revenue-streams.html - on both a) our non-profit CC wing and b) our upcoming for-profit wing (both planned in all 200 countries and 7,097 living languages as language markets). 

Thank you, and looking forward to talking, Christoph, potentially on February 3rd. 

All the best, 
Scott




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Engadin: World University and School's learning in online courses, accrediting on CC MIT OCW in 7 languages and CC Yale OYC, will be very different from MIT & Stanford's on-the-ground courses (with their remarkable STEM and creative/innovative ethoses/cultures) due to a) recording classes, seminars and conferences, in Youtube, for example, b) to the at least two channels for communication - 1) voice and 2) group text chat - and c) to creating major universities in all countries in each of their main and official languages - and d) to the WUaS wiki schools in all 7,097 known living languages, with conversations in Google group video Hangouts, for example, and e) to WUaS being WIKI universities and schools - so that many people will be able to create and teach, as well as learn at WUaS (again in all languages) f) to WUaS hiring graduate students from great universities who are learning to become faculty in all 8k languages

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World University and School's learning in online courses, accrediting on CC MIT OCW in 7 languages and CC Yale OYC, will be very different from MIT & Stanford's on-the-ground courses (with their remarkable STEM and creative/innovative ethoses/cultures) due to


A) recording classes, seminars and conferences, in Youtube, for example,

(http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Conference_Method_of_Teaching_and_Learning viz. Reed College's)


B) to the at least two channels for communication - 1) voice and 2) group text chat - and

C) to creating major universities in all ~200 countries/territories (http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Nation_States) in each of their main and official languages (http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Languages) - and

( and re - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Admissions_at_World_University_and_School - for Bachelor, Ph.D., law and M.D. degrees as well as I.B. diplomas)

D) to the WUaS wiki schools in all 7,097 known living languages, with conversations in Google group video Hangouts, for example, and

E) to WUaS being WIKI universities and schools - so that many people will be able to create and teach, as well as learn at WUaS (again in all languages)

(for ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy)

F) to WUaS hiring graduate students from great universities who are learning to become faculty in all 8k languages.


http://worlduniversityandschool.org

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Brya ebenus (Jamaican Rain Tree): Making headway with my next book - of poetry

Next: Eucalyptus deglupta (Rainbow eucalyptus): "Pipe dreams" is an interesting expression, Alan! What is this "piping energy" beyond a series of tones from a variety of specific double-bladed reeded identity-emerging Scottish instruments?, Maybe World University and School students could help figure out how to commercialize Scottish kilt and tunic making (via Industry-oriented CC MIT OpenCourseWare in its 7 languages, but not yet in Hindi, Punjabi or Urdu), and you and I could become the guinea pigs for trying experiments out?, Some "tartantry" or "tartanry" and tartan histories, "My sincerest ‘pipe dream’ --- one I’ve carried with me for some time now? Truthfully, I’m tired of the rat race, listening to people’s stories ...", Unitarians have been in Scotland for many centuries (http://www.sua.org.uk/)
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Making headway with my next book - of poetry - which should be fun. I think I'll aim for about 100 pages in a not large volume (6 x 9), with possibly 10 to 15 poems in it, and priced for a poetry market in India, as well as differently in the U.S. I'm enjoying the SoulFlash email list, of which Sivikami Velliangiri may be a founder. She was an interport lecturer on Semester at Sea, and attended UC Santa Cruz in the 1970s. I met Sivakami in Chennai in around 2005 on the Semester at Sea ship.

I'll draw on poems here -
http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/poetry.



Hi M,

I may include 25-50 poems in my upcoming poetry book (I have a few more than 100 poems in my blog, and while many are Harbin focused, some are not) ... and aim for a 100 page book ... costing perhaps $26 in the US ... not sure how much in India.

Another of my Harbin ethnographic books sold recently, and I made about $26 on this one. Nelson said at TSWG recently that he had ordered one for the UC Berkeley Anthropology Library, a separate
Anthropology library at Berkeley which is unusual these days across the country at Unis and across the world at Unis too - so maybe this explains the purchase. Nelson "needs it for his class" - helpful
language for the future. (I'll also get $13 via Amazon soon from a book that sold in December). I guess my book will now become available in inter-library loan with Unis. (I had given Nelson a proof hard copy of my book last September). Maybe I'll be able to give a book talk at Stanford too in the Continuing Ed and Anthropology departments, with their awesome Stanford bookstore selling my Naked Harbin Ethnography at each event.

My Harbin ethnography has a few of my poems in it.

I'm waiting to hear about the Wikipedia in Residence Libraries' position I applied for, and should hear something soon now at the end of January.

Will share another poem today with the SoulFlash poetry email group (and Sivakami Velliangiri), with many of these SoulFlash participants & readers and poets based in India.

Heading to a whale fest in Monterey today -
https://events.stanford.edu/events/657/65793/ - and maybe to one of two musical events at Stanford tonight on the way back, before choir also in Palo Alto tomorrow, and then a choir potluck in the evening in P.A. :)

L,
Scott





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