Browne grandiceps: Stanford - The Future of Energy - Dear Profs. Sally Benson and Arun Majumdar, The possibility of developing a realistic virtual earth to address all of the questions you touched upon, "Valentin's sharpnose puffer: Thnx @MITChemE Richard Braatz ... OMNI-SCALE SIMULATION question?, Moving MIT Chemical Engineering Labs into Google Street View at the atomic and cellular levels too, MIT Professor John Dolhun ... ,""Earth: Lithium-Ion battery innovation ... and Energy Resource Engineering ... A) Stanford ERE - Control Engineers: The Unsung Heroes of Battery Technology, * * * B) Does anyone know of interesting projects/publications that integrate ethnography with big data? ...,""Rainbows in culture: freud and lacan compared "Enunciation: In psychoanalytic theory the distinction ...," Appreciating the pragmatic and constitutive focus on language use, speech and ENUNCIATION (almost as part of a conversation) in Lacanian psychoanalytic theory * * * Updated: my home page - http://scottmacleod.com - with: New Book ~ Winding Road Rainbow: Harbin, Wandering & the Poetry of Loving Bliss ...,""Double-flowered: World Univ & Sch's Live Hangout on Air 10.22.18: A) Actual-Virtual Lego Robotics & B) Twin Studies, both in a Realistic Virtual Earth https://youtu.be/RJGEeU0Eo5c A) https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Robotics & B) https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Twin_Studies > #RealisticVirtualEarthForLego & #RealisticVirtualEarthForCRISPR, How might we best develop a #RealisticVirtualEarth, as #RealisticVirtualEarthForGeology for geology & environmental safety+, a #RealisticVirtualEarthForHistory ... "

Dear Profs. Benson and Majumdar, 

Thanks for your far-reaching conversation yesterday on 'The Future of Energy' at Stanford - https://events.stanford.edu/events/818/81888/. And very nice to meet you in passing at the close of this. I asked about the possibility of developing a realistic virtual earth to address all of the questions you touched upon - and even as a kind of engine. Am thinking conceptually of Google Street View with TIME SLIDER, Maps, Earth with TensorFlow+.

What I have in mind might be summed up in this Tweet to MIT Prof Richard Braatz, after his Stanford ERE talk:

Thnx @MITChemE Richard Braatz https://events.stanford.edu/events/800/80002/… OMNI-SCALE SIMULATION question? Limitations to adding your talk to StreetView wTensorFlow at atom level for lithium ion batteries machine learning w  equations, first-principles in #RealisticVirtualEarth for #PhysicalDigital?

Thnx @MITChemE Richard Braatz https://t.co/yfScp5BXL2 OMNI-SCALE SIMULATION question? Limitations to adding your talk to StreetView wTensorFlow at atom level for lithium ion batteries machine learning w equations, first-principles in #RealisticVirtualEarth for #PhysicalDigital?

— WorldUnivandSch (@WorldUnivAndSch) October 8, 2018

- https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1049430808954454016 - and in this blog entry too:

Valentin's sharpnose puffer: Thnx @MITChemE Richard Braatz ... OMNI-SCALE SIMULATION question?, Moving MIT Chemical Engineering Labs into Google Street View at the atomic and cellular levels too, MIT Professor John Dolhun ... https://ocw.mit.edu/high-school/chemistry/ 1. Great Expectations | ChemLab Boot Camp, Here's another starting place ... Stanford Online High School, Moving hypothetical Stanford Medical School into Google StreetView at atomic & cellular levels too for actual clinical care https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Hospital laboratory research work & with machine learning? probably need to get working on the #FilmTo3D and photography-to-3D applications

  http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2018/10/valentins-sharpnose-puffer-thnx.html.

And in a related vein in conversation with some other Stanford Li-Ion talks -

Earth: Lithium-Ion battery innovation ... and Energy Resource Engineering ... A) Stanford ERE - Control Engineers: The Unsung Heroes of Battery Technology, * * * B) Does anyone know of interesting projects/publications that integrate ethnography with big data?, * * * C) Stanford-Harvard Latin America conference, * * * D) [Wikimedia-l] Wikipedia in an abstract language, * * * E) Map of the countries w Euro & without ... Eurozone (many languages), Finland Interview about #UniversalBasicIncome, WUaS /Banking_and_Money, /Machine_Learning, /Europe @WorldUnivAndSch Distribute #UniversalCryptoCurrency backed by ~200 countries' central banks via #UniversalBasicIncome?, Seeking to add with machine learning est. 4 billion people w/o addresses into 1 #RealisticVirtualEarth for #UniversalBasicIncome, conceptually, & the other 3.5 billion people as AVATAR BOTS in Google StreetView for SOCIAL MEDIA & STEM research

https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2018/12/earth-lithium-ion-battery-innovation.html - and with my interest in figuring out how to model the Lego WeDo2 robotics' SmartHub (as well as Lego Mindstorms EV3's Brick) with its batteries and computer chip especially into a single realistic virtual earth (thinking Google Street View +) for further engineering and play potentials. 

(Glad too to have given a talk "Harbin & Avatar Bots: Robotics & Tourism" talk at UC Berkeley " on Fr 10/26/2018 -https://youtu.be/dN80Hm_db2I

Rainbows in culture: freud and lacan compared "Enunciation: In psychoanalytic theory the distinction ...," Appreciating the pragmatic and constitutive focus on language use, speech and ENUNCIATION (almost as part of a conversation) in Lacanian psychoanalytic theory * * * Updated: my home page - http://scottmacleod.com - with: New Book ~ Winding Road Rainbow: Harbin, Wandering & the Poetry of Loving Bliss * * * Could a Peter Norvig, Director of Google AI, and colleagues, help begin to code for the State of California's BPPE accreditation platform re - https://twitter.com/CaBPPE/status/1024666814989488134 - and in the process plan for peoples in all 7.097 living languages, and indeed for all 7.5 billion people up to 11 billion people ... and for a UBI with blockchain (and for matriculation at WUaS as well)? * * * "Soon, a virtual tour of railway heritage sites in trains, classrooms," Will this eventually bring Google VR and Lego together?, And looks like this is how we'll bring people into a realistic virtual earth in the Google-sphere - and with machine learning and in Google's machine learning TensorFlow ... How to bring coding #ar #ai #ARVRinEDU train in India potentially as Lego robotics' PHYSICAL train -in Google #VR (w UNESCO WHS) w MIT Robotics' Systems/Blockchain Symposium #BlockchainForRoboticsSystems?, ... What is blockchain ledger?

- http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2018/12/rainbows-in-culture-freud-and-lacan.html?m=0).

And here are some followup emails I sent to Alan Burnham after his Stanford ERE talk -

Double-flowered: World Univ & Sch's Live Hangout on Air 10.22.18: A) Actual-Virtual Lego Robotics & B) Twin Studies, both in a Realistic Virtual Earth https://youtu.be/RJGEeU0Eo5c A) https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Robotics & B) https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Twin_Studies > #RealisticVirtualEarthForLego & #RealisticVirtualEarthForCRISPR, How might we best develop a #RealisticVirtualEarth, as #RealisticVirtualEarthForGeology for geology & environmental safety+, a #RealisticVirtualEarthForHistory re images and maps from different dates & places, and for machine learning image comparison > One focus would be to find Stanford students to take the classes, who could both add photos and videos and maps to Google Street View with TIME SLIDER, and THEN to work with them with machine learning, I see a lot of potential for a comparative actual-virtual Harbin Hot Springs' project and actual-virtual Livermore oil fields project - and for STEM ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy (as a form of crowdsourcing this) - and as a Stanford starting place for building out a realistic virtual earth at the street view, cellular and atomic levels, for knowledge generation, soaking ... 

https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2018/10/double-flowered-world-univ-schs-live.html  - about approaches to developing a realistic virtual earth as STEM field sites and classrooms for oil and geothermal, (but especially for future of energy questions) ... and with a new method I'm calling STEM ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy.

What I have in mind by an editable realistic virtual earth involves not only energy questions, but also my actual-virtual ethnographic field site (think Google Street View with Second Life / OpenSim / Sansar ):

For example, visit the Harbin gate here virtually - and "walk" down the road "4 miles" to Middletown, CA, and "amble" around the streets there (accessible from: https://twitter.com/HarbinBook and http://bit.ly/HarbinBook) ... the beginnings of a realistic virtual Harbin for soaking too :) Part of my actual-virtual Harbin Hot Springs' ethnographic project, this realistic virtual Harbin - and EARTH - will get better and better with time.

Is there a way we might be able to focus some of these realistic virtual earth questions re Stanford ERE post-docs and graduate students interested in modeling and lithium ion battery developments, and perhaps Logan, too, Sally, who asked you yesterday about related machine learning questions right before I asked you about a realistic virtual earth. I've been a bit in touch about all of this with Anirudh Allam, Maartje Boon, David McColl and others in Stanford ERE. 

Arun, did you happen to meet the Maz.....s in the DC / Baltimore area when you were in the Obama administration? (https://profiles.stanford.edu/arun-majumdar). Pin Mazumdar has long worked in the federal government, and is one of my best friends from high school in Pittsburgh, PA. His parents, Mainak and Sati, are also now living in Baltimore, and I visited and stayed with them in Kolkata about 5 years ago. I was glad to stay with Sid for 2 nights in Baltimore over New Years, as well. 

Am developing startup online universities and schools - World University and School, which is like Wikipedia in ~300 languages with CC-4 MIT OCW in 5 languages - to address some of these questions as well. Here is where major online universities in each countries' main and official languages for free-to-students' online degrees - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Nation_States - will emerge. 

Thanks again for your great 'Reflections on The Future of Energy,' and very nice to meet you.  

Best regards, Scott

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