Monday, April 30, 2018

Night-blooming cereus: Robotics for All - From Lego WeDo 2.0 to Scratch drag & drop programming to Mindstorms to internships, "Celebrating Scratch," World University and School seeks to create large number of internships in all 7,097 living languages ... Matriculated students from poor countries especially may get these Lego WeDo 2.0 and then Mindstorms EV3 robotics' kits in the mail, as part of a high school or eventually college degree program ... It's the makey-makey creativity in learning and play which ties this all together ... playing into internships ... (Connect this "ROBOTICS IN PEOPLE'S HOMES" with a realistic virtual earth - think Google Street View with time slider / Maps / Earth / Brain - and the creative, and even architectural, programming robotics' potential, is amazing)


Robotics for All - From Lego WeDo 2.0 to Scratch drag & drop programming to Mindstorms to internships


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It's the makey-makey creativity in learning and play which ties this all together ... playing into internships ...

And from people's homes ... so this is robotics for all and via the internet in a distributed way ...

(Connect this "ROBOTICS IN PEOPLE'S HOMES" with a realistic virtual earth - think Google Street View with time slider / Maps / Earth / Brain - and the creative, and even architectural, programming robotics' potential, is amazing).


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Check out the Robotics' wiki subject - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Robotics - for open teaching and learning at worlduniversityandschool.org - as well as the CC-4 MIT OCW course - https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/experimental-study-group/es-293-lego-robotics-spring-2007/ ~


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Funnest robotics to do with Lego WeDo 2.0 ... 

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LEGO Education WeDo 2.0 Core set – Ultimate Review by RoboCAMP


https://www.robocamp.eu/en/lego-education-wedo2-review/

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8 best Lego WeDo 2.0 Projects images on Pinterest | Lego wedo ...
https://www.pinterest.com/ttelep/lego-wedo-20-projects/

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HALLOWEEN WeDo 2.0 PARTYBOT


https://youtu.be/uHoiPoWcQb8
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Lego Wedo 2.0 Santa claus


https://youtu.be/UcHn8eXR3a4



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Celebrating Scratch


https://youtu.be/_q2RgQMc96k

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Funnest robotics to do with Scratch 3.0

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New Idea for the Extensions! - Dot and Dash Robots - Discuss Scratch

https://scratch.mit.edu/discuss/post/2863137/



Scratch 3.0 | scratch and more | Makeblock Shop News blog

https://makeblockshop.eu › News › Scratch 3.0


Blockly VS Scratch: What's best for me? - RobotLAB

https://www.robotlab.com/blog/blockly-vs-scratch-whats-best-for-me



Scratch 3.0 - Scratch Wiki

https://en.scratch-wiki.info/wiki/Scratch_3.0


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What will you make with Robus and Scratch 3.0? Pollen Robotics #16


https://youtu.be/mQu4XUifCJU


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Funnest robotics to do with Mindstorms EV3 ...

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Search Results

5 Amazing Lego Mindstorms EV3 Projects | CoderZ Blog

gocoderz.com/blog/5-amazing-lego-ev3-projects/

Best of Lego Mindstorms EV3 Robotics Projects | Into Robotics

https://www.intorobotics.com/best-lego-mindstorms-ev3-robotics-projects/

6 Fun Ideas LEGO® MINDSTORMS® Education EV3 - WeAreTeachers

https://www.weareteachers.com/6-fun-ideas-lego-mindstorms-education-ev3/


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How to Build the Best EV3 Sumo Robot - 6 Tips for Success


https://youtu.be/v4PIHuzWJe0

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To internships ...

World University and School seeks to create large number of internships in all 7,097 living languages ...


Matriculated students from poor countries especially may get these Lego WeDo 2.0 and then Mindstorms EV3 robotics' kits in the mail, as part of a high school or eventually college degree program ...

People interested in World University and Schools' bookstore / computer store / robotics' stores, in each of 200 countries' official and main languages, first online, may begin with these Lego WeDo 2.0 and then Mindstorms EV3 robotics' kits, then move to the stores, either online or on-the-ground.

... again in all 7,097 living languages, and in all ~200 countries ...

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On the wiki side of World University and School, perhaps pathways from this robotics' play into other kinds of internships online will emerge ...


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Robotics for all ...

It's the makey-makey creativity in learning and play which ties this all together ... "playing" into internships ...




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Sunday, April 29, 2018

Hibiscus rosa-sinensis - "Example: a query for DBpedia URIs for all countries," How about for all languages?, Stanford: "Film Screening & Livestream Q&A: Human Flow, A Film by Ai Weiwei" about the worldwide refugee crisis, "How could US citizen's help refugees with online education in all ~200 countries? (and in the refugees main languages)?", Check out the Taoism wiki subject for open teaching and learning @WorldUnivAndSch ~ https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Taoism & re this new translation of The Tao Te Ching here


Hi Paris Writers' News/PWN, Markus, and Wikidatans, 

Based on your example (http://tinyurl.com/yahwql2n), Markus, I'm seeking to learn how to do a similar query for all languages. 

In Wikidata I found a Q item # for "language" - Q34770 (https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q34770) - and plugged this into your query, replaced the word "countries" with "languages," etc. but didn't get a result, where your query yields 209 countries, Markus. 

In a parallel way, how would one compute them from the names of the articles in Wikipedia?

Thanks, 
Scott


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Hi,

(English) DBpedia URIs are basically just (English) Wikipedia URIs with the first part exchanged. So one can compute them from the names of the articles. Example: a query for DBpedia URIs for all countries:

http://tinyurl.com/yahwql2n

"""
SELECT ?dbpediaId
WHERE
{
  ?item wdt:P31 wd:Q6256 . # for the example: get IDs for all countries
  ?sitelink schema:about ?item ;
            schema:isPartOf <https://en.wikipedia.org/> .

BIND(URI(CONCAT("http://dbpedia.org/resource/",SUBSTR(STR(?sitelink),31))) as ?dbpediaId)
}
"""

Of course, depending on your use case, you can do the same offline (without requiring SPARQL to rewrite the id strings for you).

In theory, one could use federation to pull in data from the DBpedia endpoint, but in practice I could not find an interesting query that completes within the timeout (but I did not try for very long to debug this).

Best regards,

Markus


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About DBpedia:
http://dbpedia.org/page/DBpedia


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Hi Ki,

Thanks for connecting on Twitter just now (@scottmacleod).

I'm heading to Ai Weiwei's film "Human Flow" at Stanford tomorrow afternoon,, and have already RSVPed.

Any interest in seeing this - https://events.stanford.edu/events/768/76849/ - and perhaps meeting beforehand?

Cheers,
Scott

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Film Screening & Livestream Q&A: Human Flow, A Film by Ai Weiwei

Sunday, April 29, 2018
1:45 pm
Geology Corner, Building 320, Room 105
Sponsored by:
This event is co-sponsored by Handa Center for Human Rights & International Justice, Haas Center for Public Service, Center for Innovation in Global Health, Stanford Refugee Research Project, and The Markaz: Resource Center.
    Over 65 million people around the world have been forced from their homes to escape famine, climate change and war in the greatest human displacement since World War II. Human Flow, an epic film journey led by the internationally renowned artist Ai Weiwei, gives a powerful visual expression to this massive human migration. The documentary elucidates both the staggering scale of the refugee crisis and its profoundly personal human impact.
    Captured over the course of an eventful year in 23 countries, the film follows a chain of urgent human stories that stretches across the globe in countries including Afghanistan, Bangladesh, France, Greece, Germany, Iraq, Israel, Italy, Kenya, Mexico, and Turkey. Human Flow is a witness to its subjects and their desperate search for safety, shelter and justice: from teeming refugee camps to perilous ocean crossings to barbed-wire borders; from dislocation and disillusionment to courage, endurance and adaptation; from the haunting lure of lives left behind to the unknown potential of the future. Human Flow comes at a crucial time when tolerance, compassion and trust are needed more than ever. This visceral work of cinema is a testament to the unassailable human spirit and poses one of the questions that will define this century: Will our global society emerge from fear, isolation, and self-interest and choose a path of openness, freedom, and respect for humanity?

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    In some ways, this film was quite Taoist ... and quite a change in representation of refugees from the last century ... there aren't many horrors portrayed in this film, I'm glad to say.

    The film begins along a shore/beach on Lesvos, Greece, not far from Turkey, - and on a part of Lesvos which is quite close to Angela & Victor's Yoga Hall in Eftalou, which I've visited a number of times. Nice to see this familiar stretch of the road and beach in Eftalou.


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    Ai Weiwei's new film "Human Flow" about the worldwide refugee crisis:

    Thanks for posting this, Kiernan! ...


    "When there is nowhere to go, nowhere is home"

    #HumanFlow

    @PrimeVideo: http://bit.ly/HumanFlowPrime



    https://twitter.com/KiernanHaggarty/status/990585898793340928

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    The refugee crisis is real, global and urgent. Watch @aiww's ground-breaking documentary #HumanFlow now on @PrimeVideo: http://bit.ly/HumanFlowPrime



    https://twitter.com/HumanFlowMovie/status/964683914056011776


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    I asked in Slide.com in the live Q&A with Ai Weiwei himself in Chicago (since this was live streamed to many universities in the US):

    How could US citizen's help refugees with online education in all ~200 countries? (and in the refugees' main languages)?


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    seeking #Harmony? ------> http://www.with.org/tao_te_ching_en.pdf

    The Tao Te Ching

    (read as: #Answer)



    https://twitter.com/KiernanHaggarty/status/990617338461458432


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    Check out the Taoism wiki subject for open teaching and learning @WorldUnivAndSch ~ https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Taoism & re The Tao Te Ching ~ https://twitter.com/KiernanHaggarty/status/990617338461458432 … (thanks for this great version) ... & #Harmony (& #Answer too) :)



    https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/990631451950333952








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    Saturday, April 28, 2018

    Black-necked stilt: Google Virtual Reality and CRISPR Gene Editing? "Follow CRISPR Gene Editing in Virtual Reality," "How CRISPR lets us edit our DNA | Jennifer Doudna," CRISPR Gene Editing in Google Expeditions for coral reefs?, ... and re CRISPR gene editing, while scuba diving, and for actual < > virtual gene editing in a realistic virtual earth at cellular and atomic levels too (think Google Street View with TIME SLIDER / Maps / Earth brain cellular and atomic levels too) ... "Harvard scientists are revealing how one cell builds an entire organism http://hrvd.me/patht336e5" ... and especially for realistic virtual earth with species' GENERATION!, Cool ... what is this? ... could it become a flight simulator in your car windshield? ... with actual - virtual correspondence (i.e. actual flight in plane in Yosemite valley < > virtual flight in car thanks to windshield), Would love to be able to walk down @HarbinBook road with Google Glass or Cardboard &, in a REALISTIC VIRTUAL EARTH (think Google Street View w TIME SLIDER/Maps/Earth/Brain), key a flower species, identify a bird, or build out this VIRTUAL UNIVERSE w data from video anyone makes ~ giving new meaning to ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy & @WUaSPress Publishing, fascinating re-making of the Antikythera mechanism & first computer from ancient Greece, Actual<>Virtual first computer?


    Google Virtual Reality and CRISPR Gene Editing?


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    Follow CRISPR Gene Editing in Virtual Reality


    https://youtu.be/fv2ax4NSR-8

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    How CRISPR lets us edit our DNA | Jennifer Doudna


    https://youtu.be/TdBAHexVYzc

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    CRISPR Gene Editing in Google Expeditions for coral reefs?
    https://edu.google.com/intl/en_uk/expeditions/#get-started


    https://youtu.be/np_NRNILyvI

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    https://edu.google.com/expeditions/#how-it-works

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    https://support.google.com/edu/expeditions/answer/7375176?hl=en


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    CRISPR used to genetically edit coral

    In a proof-of-principle study, Stanford scientists and their colleagues used the CRISPR-Cas9 gene-editing system to modify genes in coral, suggesting that the tool could one day aid conservation efforts.
    http://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2018/04/crispr-used-to-genetically-edit-coral.html?linkId=51047726



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    A Blueprint for Genetically Engineering a Super Coral

    Why some researchers are proposing a drastic measure to save a threatened ecosystem

    https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/blueprint-engineering-super-coral-180964309/

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    crispr cas9 & cas12 differences?

    Evolution and classification of the CRISPR-Cas systems

    https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3380444/



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    Harvard ...

    ... and re CRISPR gene editing, while scuba diving, and for actual < > virtual gene editing in a realistic virtual earth at cellular and atomic levels too (think Google Street View with TIME SLIDER / Maps / Earth brain cellular and atomic levels too) ...

    "Harvard scientists are revealing how one cell builds an entire organism http://hrvd.me/patht336e5"




    https://twitter.com/Harvard/status/990305973108723712

    ... and especially for realistic virtual earth with species' GENERATION!


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    Cool ...



    ... what is this? ... could it become a flight simulator in your car windshield? ... with actual - virtual correspondence (i.e. actual flight in plane in Yosemite valley < > virtual flight in car thanks to windshield)

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    Would love to be able to walk down @HarbinBook road with Google Glass or Cardboard &, in a REALISTIC VIRTUAL EARTH (think Google Street View w TIME SLIDER/Maps/Earth/Brain), key a flower species, identify a bird, or build out this VIRTUAL UNIVERSE w data from video anyone makes

    https://twitter.com/WUaSPress/status/990355715284848640

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    Would love to be able to walk down @HarbinBook road w Google Glass or Cardboard &, in a REALISTIC VIRTUAL EARTH (think Google Street View wTIME SLIDER/Maps), key a flower species
    https://twitter.com/HarbinBook/status/990354309639356416 giving new meaning to ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy & @WUaSPress Publishing




    https://twitter.com/WUaSPress/status/990355957908627456

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    Would love to be able to walk down @HarbinBook road w Google Glass or Cardboard &, in a REALISTIC VIRTUAL EARTH (think Google Street View w TIME SLIDER/Earth), key a flower species
    https://twitter.com/HarbinBook/status/990354309639356416 … giving new meaning to ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy & @WUaSPress Publish




    https://twitter.com/HarbinBook/status/990355097795280896


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    fascinating re-making of the Antikythera mechanism & first computer from ancient Greece http://www.openculture.com/2017/01/how-the-worlds-oldest-computer-worked-reconstructing-the-2200-year-old-antikythera-mechanism.html … (and partly even in Lego) https://twitter.com/openculture/status/990245754894565376 … How could World Univ & Sch best add 7k different languages to first video's 2 languages? > https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Computing_History … :)




    https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/990306898829234176


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    Actual<>Virtual first computer & re - https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/990306898829234176 ? &
    re re-making of
    Antikythera mechanism from ancient Greece http://www.openculture.com/2017/01/how-the-worlds-oldest-computer-worked-reconstructing-the-2200-year-old-antikythera-mechanism.html
    (and partly even in Lego) - which might interest you
    (https://twitter.com/openculture/status/990245754894565376)>
    https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Computing_History :) https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/990307771458310144 ~




    https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/990359427776626688


    Would love to be able to walk down @HarbinBook road w Google Glass or Cardboard &, in a REALISTIC VIRTUAL EARTH (think Google Street View w TIME SLIDER/Earth), key a flower species
    https://twitter.com/HarbinBook/status/990354309639356416 … giving new meaning to ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy & @WUaSPress Publish




    https://twitter.com/HarbinBook/status/988875202816720896



    See, too:

    Would love to be able to walk down @HarbinBook road with Google Glass or Cardboard &, in a REALISTIC VIRTUAL EARTH (think Google Street View w TIME SLIDER/Maps/Earth/Brain), key a flower species, identify a bird, or build out this VIRTUAL UNIVERSE w data from video anyone makes




    https://twitter.com/HarbinBook/status/990354309639356416

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    Would love to be able to walk out my door with Google Glass or Cardboard &, in a REALISTIC VIRTUAL EARTH @HarbinBook (think Google Street View w TIME SLIDER/Maps/Earth/Brain), key a flower species, identify a bird, or build out this VIRTUAL UNIVERSE w data from video anyone makes




    https://twitter.com/HarbinBook/status/990354104495960064






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