Thanks for your fascinating Stanford talk - https://events.stanford.edu/events/815/81585/. Let's stay in touch about developing a realistic virtual earth, and for modeling the brain at the street view, cellular and atomic levels, of all individuals and all species, conceptually. Am seeking to facilitate this out of a Google platform, and am thinking conceptually like Google Streetview with TIME SLIDER / Maps / Earth / Brain / Translate and with an all 7,097 living languages' focus - as well as with avatar bots and group build-able re Sansar / Second Life / OpenSim, but realistic. And even, conceptually, for planning for tele-robotic brain surgery (out of Stanford Medicine, for example). There are so many ways STEM researchers could develop a SINGLE realistic virtual earth for brain surgery - both out of Stanford Medicine and Google-centric even - but I'm interested in the seeds being sown by Stanford/Google's Tom Dean in these regards on the Google Brain team - see ... 

https://youtu.be/HazJ7LHihG8 (accessible from here - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2017/04/fledermaus-mouse-came-out-of-near-my.html - and where the 'brain' label offers other resources in these regards).

Not sure what role the Lafora disease would play in the development of a single realistic virtual earth for studying and modeling the brain, and disease processes, but perhaps in your talks at Stanford while here, you gleaned some insights into ways machine learning and the disease you are studying will develop, for example (ML would only be one aspect of this project; would like to be able to work with building blocks of the brain as digital objects, possibly, conceptually out of Google Poly, a VW library of digital objects). Am particularly also interested in a FilmTo3D application into Google Streetview approach which would allow researchers like MIT's Ed Boyden to video the atomic level of brain processes, after expansion microscopy, and then convert these into a 3D virtual world that would then become hypothetically editable like CRISPR gene editing technologies. Am hoping this is on the way. 

My interest in a SINGLE realistic virtual earth for brain science too emerges from my focusing on developing a realistic virtual Harbin Hot Springs for socio-cultural Anthropology research, and studying the actual-virtual, physical-digital comparatively and ethnographically, as well as for developing a new STEM and social science method I'm calling ethno-wiki-virrtual-world-graphy - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy. 

‘Step’ into this realistic virtual world here - http://tinyurl.com/p62rpcg - where you can 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 :) Part of my actual-virtual Harbin Hot Springs' ethnographic project, this realistic virtual Harbin - and EARTH -will get better and better with time.

I hope wiki MIT OpenCourseWare-centric World University and School (of which I'm the founder), which is planning online degrees and major online universities in each of all ~200 countries' official / main languages, will be able too to engage and develop such a realistic virtual earth as STEM field sites and as classrooms with time (by faculty, students and staff). See, for example, too the Brain_and_Cognitive_Sciences

 - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Brain_and_Cognitive_Sciences - and check out the MIT OCW, which students will eventually be able to take for credit, for free-to-students' online degrees, planned in all 200 countries' official languages.  

Thank you again for your knowledgable and far-reaching talk, and looking forward to staying in communication about this. 

Regards, Scott

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Thanks for your edifying Stanford "ERE Seminar: Qi Zhang, PhD, University of Minnesota — Multiscale Optimization Approaches for the Design of Integrated Energy Systems" talk - https://events.stanford.edu/events/813/81371/ - and nice to talk with you at its close. 

I asked about your developments ahead with A) machine learning, the B) possibility of robots being deployed as equipment and how that would affect the design of what you shared, as well as about a possible C) realistic virtual earth, where real time solar information might stream directly into Integrated Energy Systems model, and potentially at the atomic and the street view levels and in other ways. 

Am interested here in developing a SINGLE realistic virtual earth for everything, and am thinking conceptually of Google Streetview with time slider / Maps / Earth with TensorFlow, and for chemical engineering as well. 

Looking forward to staying in touch, and am hoping that such a project will emerge out of Stanford and Google, and potentially in collaboration with CC-4 MIT OpenCourseWare-centric World University and School, which is like Wikipedia in ~300 languages with MIT OCW in 5 languages, and planning to offer online free-to-students' degrees - Bachelor, Ph.D., law, M.D. and I.B. high school in ~200 countries' official and main languages online. English, Chinese and Spanish are some of our main initial pilot languages. 

Thanks for your talk, and looking forward to communicating further about your work, and all of this as it develops. 

Best regards, 

Scott

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