Thursday, June 30, 2016

Yellow-winged darter: Very small nano and neuronal DIAPERS for brain research at the Google Street View level to explore neural firing re Brain and Cognitive Science wiki subject at WUaS, Wow ... and re ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy as explored previously in this blog, "Google Earth can now render the surface of our planet in 700 trillion individual pixels" ... and at the nano (atomic) and neuronal levels? ... How best to add film-realistic avatars/people to this?, How best too to be creative in creating major online CC universities in all countries' main languages at WUaS, and to be creative in developing a film-realistic interactive virtual earth/cosmos/Harbin with time slider in all 8k languages ... ?, Applying for a junior faculty position at the MIT Media Lab


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https://www.ted.com/talks/ed_boyden_baby_diapers_inspired_this_new_way_to_study_the_brain
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Wow, here's the beginning of Google Earth/Street View, with time slider, and for interactive film-realism ... and re ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy as explored previously in this blog - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy ...


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WUaS plans to develop all 7,943+ languages as data rocket, and for brain science, and in a film-realistic virtual earth AI.

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Astatotilapia: The idea is for YOU eventually to be able to click through INTO the virtual Harbin in Google Street View that is 3D, interactive and film-realistic, and soak in the Harbin warm pool, but especially to be able to talk with Ishvara or Heartsong or other Harbin residents, for example, mostly through film-realistic, 3D, increasingly interactive and realistic scripted avatar bots, that eventually develop their own agency, but also potentially in person, such as in OpenSim or in Second Life and even, as virtual visitor, or tourist, do your own ethnographic field work, University of California Professors Emeriti Dean MacCannell and Nelson Graburn, I hope virtual worlds especially a mature and sophisticated Google Street View with OpenSim in all 7,097 languages will become an important new generative text/source for STEM research, Going back to the previous working title for my Harbin book, with its redundancy but clarity re the key concept of "virtual"

https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2016/03/astatotilapia-burtoni-idea-is-for-you.html

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How best to be creative in creating major online CC universities in all countries' main languages at WUaS, and to be creative in developing a film-realistic interactive virtual earth/cosmos/Harbin with time slider in all 8k languages ... ?


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High Sierra Lake: Content is still king on the web, WUaS Achievements, Successes and Accomplishments re applying for a junior faculty position at MIT, a kind of "brag letter"



http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2016/06/high-sierra-lake-content-is-king-on-web.html


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Wednesday, June 29, 2016

Nudibranch: Walking over the little corner of a Pride sticker stuck to the stone floor among the grime under a BART gate ///


Walking over the
little corner of a
Pride sticker
stuck to the stone floor
among the grime
under a BART gate,
at Civic Center,
a few days after this year's
LGBTQ celebration
(seems all vaguely bonobo)
in San Francisco,
I wondered how
that dirty rainbow
would fare
years ahead
in this city of
some resistance,
a little dissent,
differentness, otherness,
queerness even -
and explorations,
culturally,
counter-culturally, too.

As I came out up
the escalator
at the corner of
8th and Market Streets,
I saw a man
with a feather, and
a technological device
on an upright stick
on his forehead, and
perhaps a headband too.
Was it a little camera,
or a third eye?
A person of color
with not too long hair,
was this a modern day
techno-hippy,
in this Applee-computer
city, this metropolis
of techno-social-media-hood-ville,
this gritty urban
northern-most peninsula-tip
of SF's do-it-yourselfness,
and information technologically, too?

I walked on to the
AFSC/Quaker Meeting in SF
on 9th Street, not far from Ananda Fuara's
vegetarian restaurant, and to
World University and School's
Hive Meeting Space there -
to write this poem.


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Tuesday, June 28, 2016

Orange-winged amazon: MIT Technology Review 50 Smartest Companies 2016 based on business model with companies with Voice technologies topping the list, and with Amazon as No.1, https://www.technologyreview.com/lists/companies/2016/, In addition, if I'm able to get a MIT Media Lab junior faculty position, networking/collaborating with MIT itself for developing our academic and academic commercial sides of our business plan (as well as collaborating with Wikidata), may help to make WUaS a very smart company, per this MIT article too


MIT Technology Review

"50 Smartest Companies 2016"

MIT Technology Review 50 Smartest Companies 2016 based on business model

https://www.technologyreview.com/lists/companies/2016/

Interesting to see that many of the companies that top this list have successful beginning Voice AI technologies, and with Amazon as No.1.

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In addition, if I'm able to get a MIT Media Lab junior faculty position, networking/collaborating with MIT itself for developing our academic and academic commercial sides of our business plan (as well as collaborating with Wikidata) - and hiring such graduate students in many languages - may help to make WUaS a very smart company, per this MIT article too.

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Monday, June 27, 2016

Tilia: German capital votes to divest from fossil fuels for the climate, Brexit - A de facto European "dictatorship" is falling with this British vote?, Bitcoin and Wikidata / Wikimedia/Wikipedia/Wikidata and BitCoin and Blockchain beginnings ... possible implications for the above rumblings in Europe/Britain?, Thanks @Vanguard_Group >previous Tweet To http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Europe & http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Economics & http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Nation_States … Each a WUaS University in its Language



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Interesting take on Brexit - awesome ... A de facto European "dictatorship" is falling with this British vote? ... is this the dictatorship of a money-centric EU (and re Yonatan Zunger's post below) ... and re identity questions in an information technology world ...

https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand/status/746426005867233280 ...
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European SUPERSTATE to be unveiled: EU nations 'to be morphed into one' post-Brexit

http://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/683739/EU-referendum-German-French-European-superstate-Brexit
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Angela Merkel surprised by massive protest march against TTIP in Berlin


http://www.businessinsider.com/r-hundreds-of-thousands-protest-in-berlin-against-eu-us-trade-deal-2015-10?r=UK&IR=T
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Britain Votes to Leave the European Union
https://twitter.com/jpalfrey/status/746192089805819910
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Hi B,
Here are some takes on the complexities of Brexit - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2016/06/tilia-german-capital-votes-to-divest.html - re my interpreting ...
Thanks for the heads up about Brexit when we last met! :)
I hope WUaS can slip in with major online Universities in each of those Western European countries and languages even as these nation states seem to engage in a form of statism to the EU's federalism ... or is it all about Anglophone identity (English) .... with an England-Canada (among many) transatlantic song finding new trading form for example? :) And will Scotland be able to veto Brexit or will there be a new referendum soon turning Brexit on its head. Vanguard Mutual Funds' take was interesting as well (see my paraphrase on this in the blog:).

Cheers,
Scott



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[14:04] <jzerebecki> a retrospective on a grave security bug
[14:04] <robla> gwicke felt like the first couple of steps of this RFC are really clear, but believes subsequent steps deserve more discussion (gwicke, please correct me if I have that right)
[14:05] robla looks at jzerebecki's link
[14:05] <jzerebecki> "The issue went undetected during pre-merge review. To avoid situations like this in the future, we are concentrating on development of more comprehensive automated testing. Our verification tests now perform a series of additional security checks,"
[14:05] == mhurd has changed nick to mhurd_afk
[14:05] <jzerebecki> " We have also taken the opportunity to introduce stronger image validation during the system image build process, automatically flagging packages with reported security issues. We will also ensure that security-related changes are accompanied by appropriate tests."
[14:06] <gwicke> the first steps of the CSP RFC are low consequence preparations / information gathering, which I think are pretty uncontroversial
[14:06] <robla> jzerebecki: oops, I only just figured out you were talking about postmortems.  Excellent, thank you!  :-)  I thought you were talking about the CSP one, and I suspect gwicke is commenting on that.
[14:07] <jzerebecki> ah yes that CSP seems like a worthwhile thing on first look is pretty uncontroversial
[14:07] <TimStarling> where should the reports go?
[14:07] robla gets his 6-digit numbers confused
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[14:07] <bawolff> TimStarling: The CSP violation reports?
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[14:08] <TimStarling> sorry, I am one RFC behind, the retrospective reports for security incidents
[14:08] <robla> TimStarling: I'm not sure.  I could be convinced of either wikitech.wikimedia.org or mediawiki.org
[14:08] <bd808> TimStarling: I think that's a good question. I'm a bit concerned that the current logging pipeline may melt with them being processed by an action api endpoint.
[14:08] bd808 is on the wrng topic
[14:08] <TimStarling> yeah, I'm sure it was a good comment for any RFC
[14:08] robla fails at chairing
[14:09] <robla#topic T123753
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[14:09] <stashbot> T123753: Establish retrospective reports for #security and #performance incidents - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T123753
[14:09] <brion> :)
[14:09] <bawolff> I actually have a response to that question, but I'll wait until we get to that rfc
[14:09] <robla> (we'll spend no more than 10-15 minutes on this one, and then move to the CSP one)
[14:09] <brion> ok do we need things like: where do the reports go ;), how long before they get made, etc
[14:10] <robla#action robla propose a location for where reports go
[14:10] <Platonides> I think wikitech
[14:10] <brion> and if a report falls behind, do we need a fallback path?
[14:10] <Platonides> some would be suited for mediawiki too, but others will be wmf-specific
[14:10] <brion> eg who gets poked until it gets done ;)
[14:10] <brion> or who does the poking, alternately
[14:11] <jzerebecki> I think the most controversial thing on security incidents or even incidents reports in general is how to ensure that the actionables are done, as in being funded.
[14:11] <robla> brion: I think it's sort of a percentage score thing.  Some reports may never get done, and that's ok
[14:11] <bawolff> What sort of actionables do you have in mind?
[14:11] <brion> jzerebecki: ah for 'next steps to prevent this crap from getting worse' vs just 'and here's what we did to fix it so far'?
[14:12] <jzerebecki> brion: yes
[14:12] <bawolff> There's a big difference between - introduce automated testing for this type of security issue, vs fix the XSS in particular
[14:12] <bawolff> *this particular xss
[14:12] <bawolff> or whatever the issue is
[14:12] <robla> I think postmortems are still useful even if we don't have anyone slavishly enforcing "strict adherance" to the process
[14:13] <gwicke> the thing I keep wondering about when I look at this RFC is how security and performance post-mortems should differ from regular outage / incident post-mortems
[14:13] <robla> gwicke: they should probably be more same than different
[14:13] <Scott_WUaS> (@jzerebecki and security-oriented Wikidatans - what planning is occurring in terms of MIT-informed bitcoin and blockchain and in all countries' main and official languages - and re code security ... as well as, to re-construe the word "security" a kind of financial security for WMF and Wikdiata, for example?)
[14:14] <bawolff> what?
[14:14] <gwicke> robla: would it make sense to rephrase it as a refinement on post-mortem policies in general?
[14:14] <jzerebecki> bawolff: robla i agree that postmortems are useful anyway
[14:14] <gwicke> what works well / what doesn't, proposed changes etc
[14:14] <robla> I think we've really handled as much of this topic as we should.  Let's take further discussion back to Phab on T123753, and discuss CSP
[14:14] <stashbot> T123753: Establish retrospective reports for #security and #performance incidents - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T123753
[14:15] robla goes to find the CSP task num
[14:15] <robla> T135963
[14:15] <stashbot> T135963: Add support for Content-Security-Policy (CSP) headers in MediaWiki - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T135963
[14:15] <robla#topic T135963
[14:15] <Scott_WUaS> (@bawolff - Is there any planning with the WMF Foundation for possible engagement with MIT's Bitcoin and Blockchain - and re security?)
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[14:15] <stashbot> T135963: Add support for Content-Security-Policy (CSP) headers in MediaWiki - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T135963
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[14:15] <robla> Scott_WUaS: probably not a great topic for this meeting
[14:15] <SMalyshev> re CSP, is this supposed to be configured somehow in wiki settings?
[14:16] <Scott_WUaS> (@robla - thanks)




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Sunday, June 26, 2016

Tierboskat: Eliciting loving bliss neurophysiology and training for this?, {Why? Because these are some of the best brain ~ body mind chemistries in life}, How? What could school and university systems do to facilitate this? Specific Musical Scores? Sports? ... seems kind of counter-intuitive to loving bliss just emerging naturally out of a (good) parents-child pair bond in the context of evolutionary biology, and then in the context of caring and being cared for, {or in Taoist (non-action or way of nature) ways}, Guidelines for Practicing Loving Bliss vis a vis a Musical Instrument letter, Eudaimonia letter, Loving Bliss (eliciting this neurophysiology) at WUaS, Grateful Dead, Raga - your favorite music ... as one avenue for your experimentation, Loving bliss "musical scores", Training for loving bliss eliciting, like training at preparatory school in sports, as well as in academics ... how to train as a form of learning?, Researching then training for loving bliss eliciting at a Stanford, MIT and Harvard ...the "New Qualities of Loving Bliss Brain Chemistry" course, updated regularly, and wiki-updated often ...


Eliciting loving bliss neurophysiology and training for this?, {Why? Because these are some of the best brain ~ body mind chemistries in life} How? What could school and university systems do to facilitate this, Specific Musical Scores? Sports? ... seems kind of counter-intuitive to loving bliss just emerging naturally in the parents-child pair bond, and then in the context of caring and being cared for, in Taoist (non-action or way of nature) ways


Guidelines for Practicing Loving Bliss vis a vis a Musical Instrument
http://scottmacleod.com/GuidelinesPracticingLovingBlissvavMusicalInstrument.htm

Eudaimonia (personal flourishing) is 'Flow' and Bliss
http://scottmacleod.com/EudaimoniaFlow.htm

Loving Bliss (eliciting this neurophysiology) at WUaS
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Loving_Bliss_(eliciting_this_neurophysiology)

Grateful Dead, Raga - your favorite music ... as one avenue for your experimentation

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Loving bliss "musical scores"

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Training for  loving bliss eliciting, like training at preparatory school in sports, as well as in academics ... how to train as a form of learning?

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Researching then training for loving bliss eliciting at a Stanford, MIT and Harvard ...the "New Qualities of Loving Bliss Brain Chemistry" course, updated regularly, and wiki-updated often ...

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what's the science of this brain chemistry?

Can we begin to replicate this brain chemistry modeling, in our own brains, and learn from it ...

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Music students in conservatory settings are always learning and performing, - how to focus a western classical repertoire for performance explicitly for eliciting loving bliss and from a variety of perspectives ...

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Focusing the science to offer ways for us to access our own on-off switches for this 8 hours per day of the next 50 years ... developing economic systems that would allow the freedom and goals for this (in ethical ways - socially conscious investing)

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Trying MDMA as biological reference experience, and spending decades in brain science learning how this works, and how to model, then how to access it naturally ...

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Writings, Art and Research

Guidelines for practicing loving bliss vis-à-vis practicing a musical instrument 


Articulating 12 Guidelines for Practicing a Musical Instrument (by Marsalis and Ma) with developing how to practice loving bliss
Friends,
Here are some practices to elicit loving bliss with which I'm beginning to articulate these 12 'how-to' guidelines below:). And here are what I think is love in some of its best senses. In the following ideas and explorations of how we might 'practice' loving bliss, as we would practice a musical instrument, I assume our bodyminds are like musical instruments. {Feel free to print, below, and add to this}. As I'm presently thinking about this, I'd love your thoughts about this ~ scott@scottmacleod.com.

INSPIRATION 
~ Keep the vision of making {loving bliss} 'music' in mind
~ Make eliciting loving bliss, as practice, enjoyable (e.g. omega-3 fatty acids, 1000 mg flax seed oil with food, 3 times per day, plus a multivitamin, may be helpful biologically)

1 Seek out private instruction. 
> ... for modeling and teaching qualities of loving bliss
> With whom?
> Might interactive media via the internet help give shape to this, without private instruction?
2 Write out a schedule, a plan with goals. (Choose pieces you enjoy playing – S.M.).
Yo-yo Ma says, never make a sound without hearing it first; hear it in your mind.
> Are there 'loving bliss' musical pieces?
> What are the skills of loving bliss?
> Develop techniques of loving bliss, such as 'tuning' {e.g. via the relaxation response},  expressiveness/
performativity, breathing, relaxing, eliciting, remembering
> Questions vis-a-vis 'flow: the psychology of optimal experience' - choose learning situations for this
> Reading and engaging 'loving bliss in its best senses'

3 Set goals to chart development. 
> These qualities of brain neurophysiology, then those qualities of brain neurophysiology?
> Engage a teacher for this goal charting
> Use a technology (what machines exist now that measure, or provide biofeedback about, loving bliss?)
> Use language, as a kind of technology
> Use your own inner sense of loving bliss 'response,' and then build on this
> Synthesize arts like Watsu {water shiatsu} with loving bliss, to develop ways to chart development

4 Concentrate when you practice.
Yo-yo says join feelings into your music when you feel bad, to integrate your feelings with your mind and body.
> Use feelings to integrate you as a musical instrument when you feel bad, then ~>
> Relax into the relaxation response
> Elicit the 'bubbling up' biology (bodymind releasing and welcoming) of loving bliss neurophysiology
> While listening to music
> While dancing
> While exploring positive emotions
> While eliciting loving bliss with a friend 

5 Relax and practice slowly.
> Relaxation response, breathing, eliciting, 'practices to elicit loving bliss,' with your bodymind releasing
> Find pools of warm water (like at Harbin Hot Springs, or your bathtub) in which to practice eliciting loving bliss, with ease and focus
> Find a friend to do this with

6 Practice hard parts longer.
> Go into, or release richly into, loving bliss?
> For transcendent & heightened experiences of loving bliss, focus on these often, and with depth
7 Practice expressively.
Be serious – invest yourself expressively.
> Let go into loving bliss fulsomely, imaginatively, exploratorily, performatively
> Bring emotion and 'verve' to this practice
> Engage music (especially favorite - for me the Grateful Dead, Raga and Mozart all take me there) as reference experiences

8 Don’t be too hard on yourself.
Learn from your mistakes.
> Focus, after not concentrating, - and care for yourself, while generating loving bliss

9 Don’t show off.
> A kind of Taoist approach {mask the brightness - (Feng and English 1975: #56)}?
> Don't put your loving bliss on display
> And also let your loving bliss shine out, especially when regenerative, and with friends who are also exploring this

10 Think for yourself.
Don’t become a robot, but don’t dismiss what you’re taught.
> Innovate vis-à-vis eliciting loving bliss
> Learn loving bliss techniques, as if learning Watsu (water shiatsu}, and with focus 

> Don't repeat loving bliss 'techniques' by rote (e.g. by listening to Mozart's "Magic Flute" or dancing to elicit loving bliss ~> cultivate loving bliss with relaxed intention)
> I think all of the above have quite explicit biochemical, neurophysiological correlates, that, when known, we might begin to orchestrate profoundly, - keep thinking

11 Be optimistic.
Nothing sounds worse than pessimism coming through a horn.
> Cultivate optimism with loving bliss - it might be difficult not to

12 Look for connections. (Make the social aspect of practicing regenerative - S.M.) 
Music washes away the dust of everyday life from your feet.
> Orient your mind to connecting with
  • your own neurophysiology of loving bliss
  • to other people~friends who are exploring this
  • to innovating vis-à-vis generating loving bliss
> Explore doing this in multiple networks in your life (including playing musical instruments together:)
> Let's create a remarkable & profound language and socioculture for this

Warm regards,
Scott





 Wiki for sharing ideas about eliciting loving bliss neurophysiology (at World University and School): http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Loving_Bliss_(eliciting_this_neurophysiology)

scottmacleod.com/GuidelinesPracticingMusicalInstrument.htm
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Loving Bliss Letters
Loving Bliss and Practices to Elicit This
scottmacleod.com/LovingBlissPractices.htm
Eudaimonia is Flow and Bliss
scottmacleod.com/EudaimoniaFlow.htm 
Guidelines for Practicing Loving Bliss vis-à-vis Practicing a Musical Instrument
scottmacleod.com/GuidelinesPracticingLovingBlissvavMusicalInstrument.htm







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