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October 28, 2019

Scarlet macaw: Authentic California-style fire drill for those Cal undergrads at 8 am this morning studying in Moffitt library due to power outage - with light smoke in the air ... irony-e-e Californ-i-a * * * Am wondering about the role of psychiatry re t

Authentic California-style fire drill for those Cal undergrads at 8 am this morning studying in Moffitt library due to power outage - with light smoke in the air (.00146 particulate matter) - as PG&E installs the new $75 million circuit breaker near the Carquinez bridge, having set the fires to create the space to install the new equipment (which will take as long it takes - and so valuable for the next 1906-scale earthquake)? 'Duck & cover' practice for the next earthquake for Cal students too ... as .0014 percent of Californians go out to purchase their own power generators and earthquake emergency supplies too? (Irony-e-e-Californ-i-a :) just in time for Halloween ;)
Power's still out in Canyon 94516, ~ 24 hours since it went out. May I sit next to you this evening Patti for piano 3-4 hands and with Scottish small pipes too, since without power I haven't been able to print ludic music and don't have 12 inch tablet either? Anne-Laure Latour can play my keyboard which speakers no longer sound broken-twangy-horrendous ... and has new batteries too re outage ... have brought a GHB practice chanter since Keith Buchanan Smith is a bagpiper as well I learned. ... if they come to Open Band.
Thanks again for the House Concert!
A bientôt,Ecosse

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Electricity outage
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Scott MacLeod
Oct 28, 2019, 1:51 AM (1 day ago)
to Patti, Barbara, Peter, Janie, worlduniversityandschool, Alden, Gantt

Hi All,

Electricity is off here in Canyon 94516 - for 24 hours so far, where I live, and I can just begin to smell smoke at 1:45 am in morning.... may be emergency prepAredness power outage in part

Looks like there's a planned power outage in Berkeley tomorrow morning per -

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Published on October 28, 2019 12:20

Scarlet macaw: Authentic California-style fire drill for those Cal undergrads at 8 am this morning studying in Moffitt library due to power outage - with light smoke in the airmen ... irony-e-e Californ-i-a * * * Am wondering about the role of psychiatry r

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October 27, 2019

Giant barrel sponge (Xestospongia muta): Lego at molecular level? re best STEM CC OCW degrees in 5 langs, how to code #ar #ai #ARVRinEDU #RealisticVirtualEarth #VR #BlockchainForRoboticsSystems #RealisticVirtualEarthForLego #RealisticVirtualEarthForSTEM

Lego at molecular level? https://scientificamerican.com/article/molecular-lego-2007-09/ re
best STEM CC OCW degrees in 5 langs, how to code #ar #ai #ARVRinEDU #RealisticVirtualEarth #VR #BlockchainForRoboticsSystems
https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2018/12/rainbows-in-culture-freud-and-lacan.html #RealisticVirtualEarthForLego
#RealisticVirtualEarthForSTEM
As field sites?

Lego at molecular level? https://t.co/SPgz0xH1wZ re
best STEM CC OCW degrees in 5 langs, how to code #ar #ai #ARVRinEDU #RealisticVirtualEarth #VR #BlockchainForRoboticsSystems https://t.co/cc8FHvoo3z #RealisticVirtualEarthForLego #RealisticVirtualEarthForSTEM
As field sites?— Languages-World Univ (@sgkmacleod) October 27, 2019

https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1188558589654228992

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And how to turn this process into #GooglePoly
into #GooglePoly Lego at molecular level? https://scientificamerican.com/articl... re best STEM CC OCW degrees, how to code #ar #ai #ARVRinEDU #RealisticVirtualEarth #VR #BlockchainForRoboticsSystems https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/20... #RealisticVirtualEarthForLego#RealisticVirtualEarthForSTEM field sites?

into #GooglePoly Lego at molecular level? https://scientificamerican.com/articl... re best STEM CC OCW degrees, how to code #ar #ai #ARVRinEDU #RealisticVirtualEarth #VR #BlockchainForRoboticsSystems https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/20... #RealisticVirtualEarthForLego
#RealisticVirtualEarthForSTEM field sites?

into #GooglePoly Lego at molecular level? https://t.co/5IBbsnFNY0 re best STEM CC OCW degrees, how to code #ar #ai #ARVRinEDU #RealisticVirtualEarth #VR #BlockchainForRoboticsSystems https://t.co/UeWBTu79Xw #RealisticVirtualEarthForLego #RealisticVirtualEarthForSTEM field sites?— WorldUnivandSch (@WorldUnivAndSch) October 28, 2019

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1188612452348379136

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Lego #ActualVirtual at molecular level? https://edgerton.mit.edu/molecule-set re learning via best STEM CC OCW degrees in 5 langs #ar #ai #ARVRinEDU #RealisticVirtualEarth #VR #BlockchainForRoboticsSystems https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2018/12/rainbows-in-culture-freud-and-lacan.html … #RealisticVirtualEarthForLego #RealisticVirtualEarthForSTEM ~

Lego #ActualVirtual at molecular level?https://t.co/sx49ienWpN re learning via best STEM CC OCW degrees in 5 langs #ar #ai #ARVRinEDU #RealisticVirtualEarth #VR #BlockchainForRoboticsSystems https://t.co/UeWBTu79Xw #RealisticVirtualEarthForLego #RealisticVirtualEarthForSTEM ~— WorldUnivandSch (@WorldUnivAndSch) October 27, 2019

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1188589002196013058

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World's only open-access med+genome project
arep.med.harvard.edu/gmc from George Church
Harvard/MIT prof, DNA read/write/recode To #RealisticVirtualEarthForCRISPR #RealisticVirtualEarthForSTEM in 1 #RealisticVirtualEarth #ActualVirtual #PhysicalDigital> https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool... ~

World's only open-access med+genome projecthttps://t.co/XrrnpvaBEj from George Church
Harvard/MIT prof, DNA read/write/recode To #RealisticVirtualEarthForCRISPR #RealisticVirtualEarthForSTEM in 1 #RealisticVirtualEarth #ActualVirtual #PhysicalDigital> https://t.co/iIWly8IMIP ~— ScottMacLeod (@scottmacleod) October 27, 2019

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1188565012459089920
https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1188565227819819008

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How best to move the 'world's only open-access med+genome project'
http://arep.med.harvard.edu/gmc from George Church
Harvard/MIT prof, DNA read/write/recode into #RealisticVirtualEarthForCRISPR #RealisticVirtualEarthForLongevity in 1 #RealisticVirtualEarth re https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Longevity ~

How best to move the 'world's only open-access med+genome project'https://t.co/oeSWfTxTtQ from George Church
Harvard/MIT prof, DNA read/write/recode into #RealisticVirtualEarthForCRISPR #RealisticVirtualEarthForLongevity in 1 #RealisticVirtualEarth re https://t.co/jR50v1SlcK ~— Languages-World Univ (@sgkmacleod) October 27, 2019

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1188565842088214529
https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1188566017447993347
https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1188567396673445888

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giant_barrel_sponge
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Published on October 27, 2019 17:29

Scarlet macaw: Authentic California-style fire drill for those Cal undergrads at 8 am this morning studying in Moffitt library due to power outage - with light smoke in the airmen ... irony-e-e Californ-i-a

Authentic California-style fire drill for those Cal undergrads at 8 am this morning studying in Moffitt library due to power outage - with light smoke in the air (.00146 particulate matter) - as PG&E installs the new $75 million circuit breaker near the Carquinez bridge, having set the fires to create the space to install the new equipment (which will take as long it takes - and so valuable for the next 1906-scale earthquake)? 'Duck & cover' practice for the next earthquake for Cal students too ... as .0014 percent of Californians go out to purchase their own power generators and earthquake emergency supplies too? (Irony-e-e-Californ-i-a :) just in time for Halloween ;)
Power's still out in Canyon 94516, ~ 36 hours since it went out. May I sit next to you this evening Patti for piano 3-4 hands and with Scottish small pipes too, since without power I haven't been able to print ludic music and don't have 12 inch tablet either? Anne-Laure Latour can play my keyboard which speakers no longer sound broken-twangy-horrendous ... and has new batteries too re outage ... have brought a GHB practice chanter since Keith Buchanan Smith is a bagpipe as well I learned. ... if they come to Open Band.
Thanks again for the House Concert!
A bientôt,.Ecosse

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scarlet_macaw
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wildlife_of_Costa_Rica

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October 25, 2019

Linckia (common comet starfish): how does google maps use machine learning? 'search' eg can learn complex French street signs * * * Scientific experimentation in realistic virtual reality search * * * Charlotte @C_M_Stuart! Hearty congratulations on compl

how does google maps use machine learning? 'search'
eg can learn complex French street signs
https://ai.googleblog.com/2017/05/updating-google-maps-with-deep-learning.html?m=1
-https://www.infoq.com/news/2017/06/google-maps-deep-learning-street/
-https://geoawesomeness.com/google-maps-goes-deep-learning-diet-update-addresses/amp/
-https://stackshare.io/stackups/google-maps-vs-tensorflow
-https://www.altoros.com/blog/analyzing-satellite-imagery-with-tensorflow-to-automate-insurance-underwriting/
-https://in.pcmag.com/google-maps-for-mobile/114355/google-maps-gets-a-dose-of-machine-learning?amp=1 > #RealisticVirtualEarthForSTEM ~

how does google maps use machine learning? 'search'
eg can learn complex French street signshttps://t.co/mRXT2YxMzT
-https://t.co/iA1KBfQQzi
-https://t.co/qlYo2anbYm
-https://t.co/0llpscAqd8
-https://t.co/N4p7DJ7CKP
-https://t.co/Z5szSiIhsP > #RealisticVirtualEarthForSTEM ~— WorldUnivandSch (@WorldUnivAndSch) October 24, 2019

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1187427234618855425
https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1187427848308445184
https://twitter.com/WUaSPress/status/1187428848209580032
https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1187429252972478465
https://twitter.com/HarbinBook/status/1187429394677035008
https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand/status/1187429729483161600

* scientific experimentation in realistic virtual reality search https://ocean.sagepub.com/blog/virtual-reality-the-future-of-experimental-social-research …
-https://link.springer.com/article/10.3758/s13428-019-01242-0 …
-https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/01/160127141950.htm …
-https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-04997-2 …
-https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/30222166/ …
>https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Experimentation …
-https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Clinical_Trials_at_WUaS_(for_all_languages) …
-https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Subjects @WorldUnivAndSch ~

scientific experimentation in realistic virtual reality searchhttps://t.co/GBuiyoW8Hb
-https://t.co/25IzNTZuSG
-https://t.co/O0sSYnNXhY
-https://t.co/Hys9pEH02V
-https://t.co/LpIQVIGs0T
>https://t.co/Mhr0FyJ7o1
-https://t.co/hCDiPYVzUD
-https://t.co/rxewstJae3 @WorldUnivAndSch ~— HarbinBook (@HarbinBook) October 25, 2019

https://twitter.com/HarbinBook/status/1187723273070510082
https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1187723426871439360
https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1187722740230320130

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Charlotte @C_M_Stuart! Hearty congratulations on completing your PhD experiment https://twitter.com/C_M_Stuart/status/1185588055685652482 … How could it be replicated re the #PhysicalDigital #ActualVirtual? (http://scottmacleod.com, http://worlduniversityandschool.org, @WorldUnivAndSch & MITOCW-centric https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Brain_and_Cognitive_Sciences …)

Charlotte @C_M_Stuart! Hearty congratulations on completing your PhD experiment https://t.co/9LNTsHtIsF How could it be replicated re the #PhysicalDigital #ActualVirtual? (https://t.co/6fX1I0QO1E, https://t.co/m36MJTqBWo, @WorldUnivAndSch & MITOCW-centric https://t.co/SudcVqJEvZ)— ScottMacLeod (@scottmacleod) October 24, 2019

https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1187517311529312256

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Google Sketchup with Legos Brick Street View STREET VIEW IN SKETCHUP with Placemaker Tours https://youtu.be/SyA8r_tpyLc Brick Street View renders Google Maps in Lego https://www.wired.co.uk/article/lego-google-streetview … Einar Öberg http://www.inear.se/2015/05/brick-street-view/ … ~#RealisticVirtualEarth ~ #RealisticVirtualEarthForLego !

Google Sketchup with Legos Brick Street View
STREET VIEW IN SKETCHUP with Placemaker Tourshttps://t.co/r2FCQCrfSY
Brick Street View renders Google Maps in Legohttps://t.co/a6uBdoCkhn
Einar Öberghttps://t.co/wefkB2DN9u ~#RealisticVirtualEarth ~ #RealisticVirtualEarthForLego !— ScottMacLeod (@scottmacleod) October 22, 2019

https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1186690736588120064

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Einar Öberg @inear Greetings & thnx for Brick Street View! Re 2nd half
https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/10/passiflora-world-univ-sch-seeks-to.html in what ways could BSV code Lego Robotics WeDo 2.0 in Google StreetView for building virtual #LegoRobotics in StreetView/Maps/Earth with TensorFlow? #RealisticVirtualEarthForRobotics ~

Einar Öberg @inear Greetings & thnx for Brick Street View! Re 2nd halfhttps://t.co/PjPq1A7H2U in what ways could BSV code Lego Robotics WeDo 2.0 in Google StreetView for building virtual #LegoRobotics in StreetView/Maps/Earth with TensorFlow? #RealisticVirtualEarthForRobotics ~— ScottMacLeod (@scottmacleod) October 23, 2019

https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1187034863305539584

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Environmental Insights Explorer (EIE) is a tool that uses #EarthEngine and @googlecloud to analyze carbon emissions in our cities. This data can help cities strategize climate action plans: https://insights.sustainability.google

Environmental Insights Explorer (EIE) is a tool that uses #EarthEngine and @googlecloud to analyze carbon emissions in our cities. This data can help cities strategize climate action plans: https://t.co/Fz5Op98S3y pic.twitter.com/2Ut0PXcqdU— Google Earth (@googleearth) October 25, 2019

https://twitter.com/googleearth/status/1187750423383494659

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Am developing new social science theory/method ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy
https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy & in creation of single #RealisticVirtualEarth for STEM & ethnography @HarbinBook re #ActualVirtual #PhysicalDigital
comparison in GoogleStreetView re @david_arditi "Dialectic"?

Am developing new social science theory/method ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphyhttps://t.co/v3gVpAEY1l & in creation of single #RealisticVirtualEarth for STEM & ethnography @HarbinBook re #ActualVirtual #PhysicalDigital
comparison in GoogleStreetView re @david_arditi "Dialectic"? https://t.co/394IgamjBb— ScottMacLeod (@scottmacleod) October 24, 2019

https://twitter.com/david_arditi/status/1173955731323682816

https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1187454248662917120

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Efra, how can we INSPIRINGLY move this into #RealisticVirtualEarthForSTEM with Google Poly (am thinking Google StreetView/Maps/Earth/TensorFlow at cell & atom levels too)? >"Biology has been traditionally taught based primarily on textbooks" & re best OCW https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Molecular,_Cellular_and_Developmental_Biology~

Efra, how can we INSPIRINGLY move this into #RealisticVirtualEarthForSTEM with Google Poly (am thinking Google StreetView/Maps/Earth/TensorFlow at cell & atom levels too)? >"Biology has been traditionally taught based primarily on textbooks" & re best OCW https://t.co/6Itn2Z9OhG~ https://t.co/7hlCSUmV4j— WorldUnivandSch (@WorldUnivAndSch) October 26, 2019

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1188151772012933120

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linckia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linckia_laevigata
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linckia_guildingi

https://toistudent.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/news/features/5-animals-that-can-regenerate-body-parts/3471.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starfish

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October 24, 2019

Scintillant hummingbird: Minutes for World Univ & Sch - WUaS Monthly Business Meeting 19 Oct 2019

Minutes for Saturday October 19, 2019 World University & School / WUaSMonthly Business Meeting

Minutes:
- https://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2019/10/minutes-for-world-univ-sch-monthly.html

- https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/10/scintillant-hummingbird-minutes-for.html

Present:
- Larry Viehland (World Univ & Sch Board Chair, and CFO)
- Scott MacLeod (President, CEO, Professor, Founder, Presiding Clerk +)

(Agenda from 10/17/19:
- https://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2019/10/agenda-for-oct-19-2019-world-university.html
- https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/10/bright-eyes-catharanthus-roseus-agenda.html)

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The World University and School Annual Meeting will meet on Saturday, November 16, 2019 (at the next online open WUaS Monthly Business Meeting) at 9am PT.

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World University and School is seeking our 2nd online undergraduate class of 500-2000 students for 2020 as we begin BPPE licensing for online free-to-students’ CC-4 OCW best STEAM Bachelor potentially with students from all ~200 countries around the world - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/You_at_World_University - and who will be able to register and apply here - worlduniversityandschool.org

WUaS plans to develop information technology for this further in Google Education/WUaS Miraheze MediaWiki/Wikidata ... and with licensing and accreditation facilitating becoming listed in / on USA high schools' college counseling resources / web sites.

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World Univ & Sch has a part time fund raiser position available. Please contact - info@worlduniversityandschool.org - if interested.

And World Univ and Sch continues to seek funding for first licensing with CA’s BPPE for the fees, as well as for accreditation fees, including committed funding over years. WUaS is a 501 (c) 3 tax exempt charity - https://www.guidestar.org/profile/27-3105368 - and welcomes your donations (see, too: https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/World_University_Foundation).

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NEW WUaS Livestream page - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHof-u-dlkA - accessible from
- worlduniversityandschool.org - and which records to - https://www.youtube.com/user/WorldUnivandSch.

World Univ and Sch is also now streaming WUaS Q & A and News on Mondays at 10 am PT via LightStream video conferencing platform which records to Youtube - https://youtube.com/user/WorldUnivandSch. If you'd like to join the conversation here (about research, about academics, about becoming a student, etc.), please let me know at info@worlduniversityandschool.org ... WUaS announces these with this #Hashtag - https://twitter.com/hashtag/WorldUnivAndSchNewsQandA?src=hashtag_click - here - https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch.

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WUaS has inquired with Google Director of AI Peter Norvig about coding CC-4 MIT OCW for students at World Univ & Sch, keeping student’s time in mind, and in so many other ways.

ii.WUaS has recently heard back from Laurence Moroney, Lead of AI Developer Relations at Google / Artificial Intelligence Advocate at Google, and responded:
Dear Laurence,

Thanks so much for your email. I had included you with Denny Vrandecic, Peter Norvig, John Hennessy, Houcemeddine Turki, Wikidatans and all, and with regards to CC-4 MIT OCW-centric wiki World University and School, because you are Lead of AI Developer Relations at Google / Artificial Intelligence Advocate at Google, - and World Univ & Sch had included you in the agenda (item 4ii) for WUaS monthly business meeting (3rd Saturdays at 9am PT) - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/10/bright-eyes-catharanthus-roseus-agenda.html - recenlty too. FYI, World Univ & Sch donated ourselves to Wikidata in 2015 for co-development and received WUaS Miraheze MediaWiki in 2017 as a consequence, but they're not yet interoperable. (And Wikidata is in ~300 languages, and Denny Vrandecic is its founder). WUaS is also seeking to develop our 'You at WUaS' - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/You_at_World_University - for all 7.5 billion people on the planet, each a Wikidata Q-item - and with TensorFlow - and, for example, for A) avatar bot electronic medical records, B) possible universal basic income experiments, and for C) matriculating students in all 200 countries, and Universitians in all 7111 known living languages (like Wikipedians) ... and in planning for 7.5 billion open wiki teachers and learners at WUaS too.
In World University and School seeking to become major online research universities in each of ~200 countries' official/main languages - and with TensorFlow - the University of Sfax in Tunisia, which is developing with Wikidata / Wikibase, seems like a good place to start (and in the Arabic language as well) for WUaS to begin to collaborate and develop.
Here too are the beginnings of online MIT OCW-centric WUaS Medical Schools - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/World_University_Medical_School - with online teaching hospitals - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Hospital - in all ~200 countries' main languages (and potentially with Project Baseline, Stanford / Duke Universities, and Project ECHO eventually too).
Thank you. How might WUaS further best communicate about TensorFlow and developing World University and School's "front end" (WUaS Miraheze MediaWiki) and "back end" (Wikidata / Wikibase structured knowledge database) with you - and for Universitians in 7,111 known living languages - and with regard to Sfax Medical Student Houcemeddine Turki's new "Data Engineering and Semantics" research unit in Tunisia?
Sincerely, Scottworlduniversityandschool.org
World University and School - https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1184919293248454656
Scott MacLeod's Twitter - https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1184920692652826624
Languages - World Univ: https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1184921167041187840
WUaS Press / Corporation https://twitter.com/WUaSPress/status/1184921622123175936

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World Univ & Sch has recently updated our web site - worlduniversityandschool.org - with updated logo as well as our 'WUaS Livestream' page - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHof-u-dlkA ...

(And also the WUaS Corporation / WUaS Press Web site - see below)

Thanks much to Peter Bothe for both the updated Logos, as well as the files for LightStream, and the Youtube WUaS Livestream channel background image and set up.

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WUaS Medical Schools - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/World_University_Medical_School - and online teaching hospitals - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Hospital - are planned in ~200 countries' official languages (both online).

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WUaS is glad to have communicated recently in these regards with University of Sfax medical student Houcemeddine Turki in Tunisia, and WUaS has written a letter of support for their "Data Engineering and Semantics" research unit:

World University and SchoolLike MIT OCW with Wikipedia

http://worlduniversityandschool.org ( a) MIT is not affiliated with, and does not endorse, World University and School b) MIT does not offer credit to WUaS students, and c) All MIT OpenCourseWare materials are available for free through http://ocw.mit.edu ) Thursday, 24 October 2019 To the Tunisian Ministry of Higher Education,

Greetings from the San Francisco Bay Area, California.I’m writing with a letter of support for the University of Sfax’s new "Data Engineering and Semantics" research unit. This will be administered from the Computer Science and Communications Department, Faculty of Sciences of Sfax, University of Sfax in Tunisia. The group will be led by Dr. Mohamed BEN AOUICHA. The University of Sfax needs this new "Data Engineering and Semantics" research unit to facilitate the work of Wikimedia Researchers at the university, as part of its official research structure. The main goal of the unit is to promote and monitor research efforts about Data Engineering and Semantic Technologies within the University of Sfax. Data Engineering and Semantic Technology research is needed to improve the usage and processing of knowledge databases including wikis. Effectively, this University of Sfax group will work to develop tools to make better the quality of the linked data of Wikidata, and to use and develop Wikidata there for a variety of purposes including clinical decision support, Natural Language Processing and Education. They will also analyze the output of wikis, identify deficiencies and work to solve them. As president of the research university, the (MIT OCW-centric wiki) World University and School (and planning online major research universities in all ~200 countries) I’m writing in support of this project.

Sincerely, Scott GK MacLeodScott GK MacLeod- Scott MacLeod - Founder, President & Professor- World University and School- http://worlduniversityandschool.org - PO Box 442, Canyon, CA, 94516- 415 480 4577- http://scottmacleod.com

- CC World University and School - like CC Wikipedia with best STEM-centric CC OpenCourseWare - incorporated as a nonprofit university and school in California, and is a U.S. 501 (c) (3) tax-exempt educational organization.

See, too: https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/10/arundina-bamboo-orchid-wiki-medicine.html

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Dear Houcemeddine (and Mossab),

Here's the brand new Tunisia World University and School - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Tunisia - a major research university planned in Arabic and French, and potentially other of the ~300 Wikipedia languages as well, (but not yet the Medical School at Tunisia World University and School or the Law School at Tunisia World University and School).
Sincerely, Scott
Have Minuted a number of related items here for World Univ & Sch's open Monthly Business Meeting on 19 Oct 2019: - https://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2019/10/minutes-for-world-univ-sch-monthly.html- https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/10/scintillant-hummingbird-minutes-for.html

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WUaS Law Schools - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/World_University_Law_School - are planned in ~200 countries' official languages online.

WUaS continues to seek to collaborate and build on:

iCodeX: The Stanford Center for Legal Informatics -https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL48E61C121CAD0E1B

iiUniversity Of Denver,Sturm College Of Law (September 26-28, 2019):Online & Hybrid Learning Pedagogy in Legal Education Conference - https://law.du.edu/online-learning-conference/conference-schedule

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UC Berkeley Anthropology

Scott MacLeod will give another talk/paper in the UC Berkeley Anthropology department in March 2020, tentatively entitled - "Harbin Hot Springs, Music and Ethno-Wiki-Virtual-World-Graphy" at the Sorbonne and University of Geneva's UC Berkeley TOURISM AND MUSICAL IMAGINARIES' Conference http://campaign.r20.constantcontact.com/render?m=1103050552852&ca=46c4af21-fddf-466e-ac95-de8df705dced (See Scott's previous 4-5 Harbin Anthropology talks (at UC Berkeley TSWG) here - http://www.scottmacleod.com/ActualVirtualHarbinBook.html).

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Scott MacLeod is planning too to teach newly a course entitled "Virtual Harbin" (Anthropology), in addition to "Society, Information Technology and Global University" (Sociology) - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/InfoTechNetworkSocGlobalUniv.html - in 2020 or 2021.

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In World Univ & Sch's active ethics' and legality investigation with the Stanford Faculty Senate into Stanford University, the WUaS Chairman of the Board, Larry Viehland, observes that the administration makes the decisions there, and that the Stanford Senate is likely to play an advisory role.

World Univ & Sch seeks to begin to grow our WUaS faculty, and then explore related WUaS governance questions, and how to address ethics' questions as well.

12
World Univ & Sch will join a Reed College conference call on November 1, 2019, and has asked to add an agenda item about WUaS hiring Reedie interns to help begin grow World University and School. World University and School is also seeking Ph.D. student applicants from Reed College to study online for best STEM CC-4 OpenCourseWare Ph.D. degrees (as WUaS licenses for this with BPPE as well).

See, too:
From the microorganisms in your gut to the chemistry of smog, Reed students tackle questions that lie at the cutting edge. Check out this video of students presenting their research:
https://twitter.com/Reed_College_/status/1187110322403823616

13
WUaS Financial report
World Univ & Sch has $1,347.55 in our non-profit bank account, and hasn't begun financial operations.

(See attached financial reports).

14
Multi-lingual wiki schools at WUaS:

i)
WUaS will explore collaborating
Stanford Center for Latin America's Cafecito's holds classes in Quechua and Spanish, as well as English, and some online - see: https://mailchi.mp/stanford.edu/first-cafecito-quechua-happening-tonight?e=94f78f5eea? …

ii)The beginning of Tunisia World University and School, planned in Arabic language, as well as French and English - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Tunisia -

(but not yet the Medical School at Tunisia World University and School or the Law School at Tunisia World University and School)

iii)
Thanks too to WUaS Board Member, Kyle Wagner, for the recent Twitter conversation - https://twitter.com/hashtag/transformschoolchat?src=hashtag_click ...
#transformschoolchat ... around conditions for self-directed learning
- applicable in many languages.
See: https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/10/arundina-bamboo-orchid-wiki-medicine.html

and, for example:
https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1186438523932438528?s=20
- and -
https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1186439432963944448?s=20

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World Univ & Sch is in communications with the university on a ship, Semester at Sea (and which is not yet in a realistic virtual earth, for example, that WUaS knows of).

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Minutes for September 21 2019, 2019 WUaS Corporation Board Meeting

A
WUaS and facilitating a single cryptocurrency backed by some central banks and distributed via universal basic income experiments to all 7.5 billion people each a Wikidata Q item

Glasgow hospital as example for finding families that could benefit from Universal Basic Income UBI experiments - https://twitter.com/lthomas_pg/status/1186467201408212992?

B
"To the Dance or the Pools ~ Virtually?: How Different it is to Soak at Harbin, than to Realize it in Virtual Reality,"

the next Academic Press at World University and School book is due this autumn –

http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html -

... but not yet in a realistic virtual earth

C
WUaS Press web site updates with updated logo and upcoming book title here

http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html

Thanks again much to Peter Bothe for both the updated Logos (as well as the files for LightStream, and the Youtube WUaS Livestream channel background image and set up).

D
WUaS Corporation finances

The parallel legal entity, the WUaS Corporation has .01, and also hasn't begun financial operations; see the WUaS Corporation section below.

E
Could Google's TensorFlow generate a daily stock price for the WUaS Corporation (and any other corporation that works with Alphabet / Google) in each of all ~200 countries' stock markets eventually - and potentially based on the dollar, the local currency, or a single cryptocurrency with blockchain backed by some number of ~200 countries' central banks (and distributed via UBI experiments?

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Scintillant hummingbird: Minutes for World Univ & Sch Monthly Business Meeting 19 Oct 2019

1
World University and School is seeking our 2nd online undergraduate class of 500-2000 students for 2020 as we begin BPPE licensing for online free-to-students’ CC-4 OCW best STEAM Bachelor potentially with students from all ~200 countries around the world - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/You_at_World_University - and who will be able to register and apply here - worlduniversityandschool.org

2
World Univ and Sch continues to seek funding for first licensing with CA’s BPPE for the fees, as well as for accreditation fees, including committed funding over years. WUaS is a 501 (c) 3 tax exempt charity - https://www.guidestar.org/profile/27-3105368 - and welcomes your donations (see, too: https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/World_University_Foundation).

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NEW WUaS Livestream page - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHof-u-dlkA - accessible from
- worlduniversityandschool.org - and which records to - https://www.youtube.com/user/WorldUnivandSch.

World Univ and Sch is also now streaming WUaS Q & A and News on Mondays at 10 am PT via LightStream video conferencing platform which records to Youtube - https://youtube.com/user/WorldUnivandSch. If you'd like to join the conversation here (about research, about academics, about becoming a student, etc.), please let me know at info@worlduniversityandschool.org ... WUaS announces these with this #Hashtag - https://twitter.com/hashtag/WorldUnivAndSchNewsQandA?src=hashtag_click - here - https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch.

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i.
WUaS has inquired with Google Director of AI Peter Norvig about coding CC-4 MIT OCW for students at World Univ & Sch, keeping student’s time in mind, and in so many other ways.

ii.WUaS has recently heard back from Laurence Moroney, Lead of AI Developer Relations at Google / Artificial Intelligence Advocate at Google, and responded:
Dear Laurence,

Thanks so much for your email. I had included you with Denny Vrandecic, Peter Norvig, John Hennessy, Houcemeddine Turki, Wikidatans and all, and with regards to CC-4 MIT OCW-centric wiki World University and School, because you are Lead of AI Developer Relations at Google / Artificial Intelligence Advocate at Google, - and World Univ & Sch had included you in the agenda (item 4ii) for WUaS monthly business meeting (3rd Saturdays at 9am PT) - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/10/bright-eyes-catharanthus-roseus-agenda.html - recenlty too. FYI, World Univ & Sch donated ourselves to Wikidata in 2015 for co-development and received WUaS Miraheze MediaWiki in 2017 as a consequence, but they're not yet interoperable. (And Wikidata is in ~300 languages, and Denny Vrandecic is its founder). WUaS is also seeking to develop our 'You at WUaS' - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/You_at_World_University - for all 7.5 billion people on the planet, each a Wikidata Q-item - and with TensorFlow - and, for example, for A) avatar bot electronic medical records, B) possible universal basic income experiments, and for C) matriculating students in all 200 countries, and Universitians in all 7111 known living languages (like Wikipedians) ... and in planning for 7.5 billion open wiki teachers and learners at WUaS too.
In World University and School seeking to become major online research universities in each of ~200 countries' official/main languages - and with TensorFlow - the University of Sfax in Tunisia, which is developing with Wikidata / Wikibase, seems like a good place to start (and in the Arabic language as well) for WUaS to begin to collaborate and develop.
Here too are the beginnings of online MIT OCW-centric WUaS Medical Schools - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/World_University_Medical_School - with online teaching hospitals - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Hospital - in all ~200 countries' main languages (and potentially with Project Baseline, Stanford / Duke Universities, and Project ECHO eventually too).
Thank you. How might WUaS further best communicate about TensorFlow and developing World University and School's "front end" (WUaS Miraheze MediaWiki) and "back end" (Wikidata / Wikibase structured knowledge database) with you - and for Universitians in 7,111 known living languages - and with regard to Sfax Medical Student Houcemeddine Turki's new "Data Engineering and Semantics" research unit in Tunisia?
Sincerely, Scottworlduniversityandschool.org
World University and School - https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1184919293248454656
Scott MacLeod's Twitter - https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1184920692652826624
Languages - World Univ: https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1184921167041187840
WUaS Press / Corporation https://twitter.com/WUaSPress/status/1184921622123175936

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6
World Univ & Sch has recently updated our web site - worlduniversityandschool.org - with updated logo as well as our 'WUaS Livestream' page - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHof-u-dlkA -

(And also the WUaS Corporation / WUaS Press Web site - see below)

7
WUaS Medical Schools are planned in ~200 countries' official languages online, and glad to have communicated recently in these regards with medical student Houcemeddine Turki in Tunisia:

https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/10/arundina-bamboo-orchid-wiki-medicine.html

8
WUaS Law Schools are planned in ~200 countries' official languages online:
WUaS continues to seek to collaborate and build on:

CodeX: The Stanford Center for Legal Informatics -https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL48E61C121CAD0E1B

University Of Denver,Sturm College Of Law (September 26-28):Online & Hybrid Learning Pedagogy in Legal Education Conference - https://law.du.edu/online-learning-co...

9
UC Berkeley Anthropology

Scott MacLeod will give another talk/paper in the UC Berkeley Anthropology department in March 2020, tentatively entitled - "Harbin Hot Springs, Music and Ethno-Wiki-Virtual-World-Graphy" at the Sorbonne and University of Geneva's UC Berkeley TOURISM AND MUSICAL IMAGINARIES' Conference http://campaign.r20.constantcontact.com/render?m=1103050552852&ca=46c4af21-fddf-466e-ac95-de8df705dced (See Scott's previous 4-5 Harbin Anthropology talks (at UC Berkeley TSWG) here - http://www.scottmacleod.com/ActualVirtualHarbinBook.html)

10
Scott MacLeod is planning too to teach newly a course entitled "Virtual Harbin" (Anthropology), in addition to "Society, Information Technology and Global University" (Sociology) - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/InfoTechNetworkSocGlobalUniv.html - in 2020 or 2021.

11
In World Univ & Sch's active ethics' and legality investigation with the Stanford Faculty Senate into Stanford University, the WUaS Chairman of the Board, Larry Viehland, observes that the administration makes the decisions there, and that the Stanford Senate is likely to play an advisory role.

WUaS seeks to begin to grow our faculty, and then explore related WUaS governance questions and how to address ethics' questions as well.

12
World Univ & Sch will join a Reed College conference call on November 1, 2019, and has asked to add an agenda item about WUaS hiring Reedie interns to help begin grow World University and School. World University and School is also seeking Ph.D. student applicants from Reed College to study online for best STEM CC-4 OpenCourseWare Ph.D. degrees (as WUaS licenses for this with BPPE as well).

See, too:
From the microorganisms in your gut to the chemistry of smog, Reed students tackle questions that lie at the cutting edge. Check out this video of students presenting their research:
https://twitter.com/Reed_College_/status/1187110322403823616

13
WUaS Financial report
World Univ & Sch has $1,347.55 in our non-profit bank account, and hasn't begun financial operations.

(See attached financial reports).

14
Multi-lingual wiki schools at WUaS:
WUaS will explore collaborating
Stanford Center for Latin America's Cafecito's holds classes in Quechua and Spanish, as well as English, and some online - see: https://mailchi.mp/stanford.edu/first...? …

15
World Univ & Sch is in communications with the university on a ship, Semester at Sea (and which is not yet in a realistic virtual earth, for example, that WUaS knows of).

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WUaS Corporation / WUaS Press

A
WUaS and facilitating a single cryptocurrency backed by some central banks and distributed via universal basic income experiments to all 7.5 billion people each a Wikidata Q item

Glasgow hospital?

B
"To the Dance or the Pools ~ Virtually?: How Different it is to Soak at Harbin, than to Realize it in Virtual Reality,"

the next Academic Press at World University and School book is due this autumn –

... but not yet in a realistic virtual earth

C
WUaS Press web site updates with updated logo and book title:

http://worlduniversityandschool.org/A...

D
WUaS Corporation finances
The parallel legal entity, the WUaS Corporation has .01, and also hasn't begun financial operations; see the WUaS Corporation section below.

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Arundina (bamboo orchid): '[Wiki-Medicine] Seeking a letter of support from research institutions' ... Email to Laurence Moroney, Lead of AI Developer Relations at Google / Artificial Intelligence Advocate at Google * * * Appreciating how this shapes (play

Thursday, October 24, 2019

World University and SchoolLike MIT OCW with Wikipedia

http://worlduniversityandschool.org ( a) MIT is not affiliated with, and does not endorse, World University and School b) MIT does not offer credit to WUaS students, and c) All MIT OpenCourseWare materials are available for free through http://ocw.mit.edu )

Thursday, 24 October 2019

To the Tunisian Ministry of Higher Education,

Greetings from the San Francisco Bay Area, California.I’m writing with a letter of support for the University of Sfax’s new "Data Engineering and Semantics" research unit. This will be administered from the Computer Science and Communications Department, Faculty of Sciences of Sfax, University of Sfax in Tunisia. The group will be led by Dr. Mohamed BEN AOUICHA. The University of Sfax needs this new "Data Engineering and Semantics" research unit to facilitate the work of Wikimedia Researchers at the university, as part of its official research structure. The main goal of the unit is to promote and monitor research efforts about Data Engineering and Semantic Technologies within the University of Sfax. Data Engineering and Semantic Technology research is needed to improve the usage and processing of knowledge databases including wikis. Effectively, this University of Sfax group will work to develop tools to make better the quality of the linked data of Wikidata, and to use and develop Wikidata there for a variety of purposes including clinical decision support, Natural Language Processing and Education. They will also analyze the output of wikis, identify deficiencies and work to solve them. As president of the research university, the (MIT OCW-centric wiki) World University and School (and planning online major research universities in all ~200 countries) I’m writing in support of this project.

Sincerely, Scott GK MacLeodScott GK MacLeod- Scott MacLeod - Founder, President & Professor- World University and School- http://worlduniversityandschool.org - PO Box 442, Canyon, CA, 94516- 415 480 4577- http://scottmacleod.com

- CC World University and School - like CC Wikipedia with best STEM-centric CC OpenCourseWare - incorporated as a nonprofit university and school in California, and is a U.S. 501 (c) (3) tax-exempt educational organization.

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Dear Sir,I thank you for your answer. This is absolutely kind. I just ask if you can remove the addendums and the hypertext link to the Google Scholar profile of Dr. Mohamed Ben Aouicha and if you can add your signature at the end of the letter. The Ministry of Higher Education only accepts one-page length letters of support.Yours Sincerely,Houcemeddine Turki (he/him)Medical Student, Faculty of Medicine of Sfax, University of Sfax, TunisiaGLAM, Research and Education Coordinator, Wikimedia TN User GroupMember, Wiki Project MedMember, WikiIndaba Steering CommitteeMember, Wikimedia and Library User Group Steering Committee____________________+21629499418

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De : Scott MacLeod <sgkmacleod@worlduniversityandschool.org>
Date : 2019/10/23 20:37 (GMT+01:00)
À : Wiki Medicine discussion <wikimedia-medicine@lists.wikimedia.org>, Denny Vrandečić <vrandecic@gmail.com>, Lydia Pintscher <lydia.pintscher@wikimedia.de>, Larry Viehland <viehland@chatham.edu>, Peter Norvig <pnorvig@google.com>, Katherine Maher <kmaher@wikimedia.org>, Stephen LaPorte <slaporte@wikimedia.org>, lmoroney@gmail.com, Peter Bothe <peter.bothe@kabelmail.net>, John Hennessy <hennessy@stanford.edu>, Info WorldUniversity <info@worlduniversityandschool.org>, Scott MacLeod <worlduniversityandschool@gmail.com>, "Scott McLeod (worldunivandsch@scottmacleod.com)" <worldunivandsch@scottmacleod.com>, Léa Lacroix <lea.lacroix@wikimedia.de>, Markus Krötzsch <markus@semantic-mediawiki.org>, abdelwaheb turki <turkiabdelwaheb@hotmail.fr>, ld4-wikidata@googlegroups.com, wikidata@lists.wikimedia.org, jelabra@gmail.com, John Erling Blad <jeblad@gmail.com>, James Heald <jpm.heald@gmail.com>
Objet : Re: [Wiki-Medicine] Seeking a letter of support from research institutions

Dear Houcemeddine Turki, Denny Vrandecic, Lydia Pintscher, Peter Norvig, Laurence Moroney, Wikidatans and All,

Please find attached a letter (as PDF) of support on behalf of your "Data Engineering and Semantics" research unit project at the University of Sfax, Tunisia, from World University and School (and in GDocs - "Sfax Letter of Support from World Univ & Sch Oct 2019").
Sincerely, Scott GK MacLeodworlduniversityandschool.org

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Dear Houcemeddine, (Mina and Mossab),

Thank you for your email, Houcemeddine. I have made the updates to the MIT OCW-centric World University and School letter of support for the University of Sfax’s new "Data Engineering and Semantics" research unit per your request -
"remove the addendums and the hypertext link to the Google Scholar profile of Dr. Mohamed Ben Aouicha and if you can add your signature at the end of the letter. The Ministry of Higher Education only accepts one-page length letters of support."I have done this in a new GDoc (Sfax Letter of Support from World Univ & Sch 24 Oct '19) and attached a new PDF.
I have also added the licensing clarifications and endorsements that CC-4 MIT OpenCourseWare (in its 5 languages) has provided World University and School, when WUaS uses MIT's name.
Please remember that World University and School seeks to create an online Tunisia World University and School in the Arabic language (and French as well), and to offer to Tunisians and other Arabic speakers - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Arabic_language - (in the 26-27 Arabic language countries out of ~200 countries in the world) online Bachelor, Ph.D., Law, M.D. and I.B. high school, e.g. https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/World_University_Medical_School - and as WUaS develops further in Wikidata / Wikibase for this.
Thank you.
Sincerely, ScottScott GK MacLeod
https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Nation_States https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Languages

-- - Scott MacLeod - Founder, President & Professor
- World University and School- http://worlduniversityandschool.org
- 415 480 4577- http://scottmacleod.com
- CC World University and School - like CC Wikipedia with best STEM-centric CC OpenCourseWare - incorporated as a nonprofit university and school in California, and is a U.S. 501 (c) (3) tax-exempt educational organization.

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Thursday, October 24, 2019
Dear Laurence,

Thanks so much for your email. I had included you with Denny Vrandecic, Peter Norvig, John Hennessy, Houcemeddine Turki, Wikidatans and all, and with regards to CC-4 MIT OCW-centric wiki World University and School, because you are Lead of AI Developer Relations at Google / Artificial Intelligence Advocate at Google, - and World Univ & Sch had included you in the agenda (item 4ii) for WUaS monthly business meeting (3rd Saturdays at 9am PT) - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/10/bright-eyes-catharanthus-roseus-agenda.html - recenlty too. FYI, World Univ & Sch donated ourselves to Wikidata in 2015 for co-development and received WUaS Miraheze MediaWiki in 2017 as a consequence, but they're not yet interoperable. (And Wikidata is in ~300 languages, and Denny Vrandecic is its founder). WUaS is also seeking to develop our 'You at WUaS' - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/You_at_World_University - for all 7.5 billion people on the planet, each a Wikidata Q-item - and with TensorFlow - and, for example, for A) avatar bot electronic medical records, B) possible universal basic income experiments, and for C) matriculating students in all 200 countries, and Universitians in all 7111 known living languages (like Wikipedians) ... and in planning for 7.5 billion open wiki teachers and learners at WUaS too.
In World University and School seeking to become major online research universities in each of ~200 countries' official/main languages - and with TensorFlow - the University of Sfax in Tunisia, which is developing with Wikidata / Wikibase, seems like a good place to start (and in the Arabic language as well) for WUaS to begin to collaborate and develop.
Here too are the beginnings of online MIT OCW-centric WUaS Medical Schools - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/World_University_Medical_School - with online teaching hospitals - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Hospital - in all ~200 countries' main languages (and potentially with Project Baseline, Stanford / Duke Universities, and Project ECHO eventually too).
Thank you. How might WUaS further best communicate about TensorFlow and developing World University and School's "front end" (WUaS Miraheze MediaWiki) and "back end" (Wikidata / Wikibase structured knowledge database) with you - and for Universitians in 7111 known living languages - and with regard to Sfax Medical Student Houcemeddine Turki's new "Data Engineering and Semantics" research unit in Tunisia?
Sincerely, Scottworlduniversityandschool.org
World University and School - https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1184919293248454656
Scott MacLeod's Twitter - https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1184920692652826624
Languages - World Univ: https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1184921167041187840
WUaS Press / Corporation https://twitter.com/WUaSPress/status/1184921622123175936

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Dear Houcemeddine,

Have blogged about this here - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/10/arundina-bamboo-orchid-wiki-medicine.html (in the first part of yesterday's blog entry). Avatar Bot Electronic Medical Records, as you may read about above, in my email to Laurence Moroney (Lead of AI Developer Relations at Google / Artificial Intelligence Advocate at Google, where Google's Denny Vrandecic, Peter Norvig head of Google AI, and Laurence all work together), may emerge with Google's TensorFlow machine learning software, and planning for all 7.5 billion people on the planet, each a Wikidata Q-item number.
I'll seek to develop soon the beginnings of MIT OCW-centric wiki Tunisia World University and School, a research university, soon from here - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Nation_States - first in English, and planned in the Arabic language - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Arabic_language - as well as French, and English - and where eventually WUaS's "front end" here will be connected to WUaS's "back end" in Wikidata's 300 languages (e.g. https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Clinical_Trials_at_WUaS_(for_all_languages)). CC-4 MIT OpenCourseWare in English has ~2500 courses online - https://ocw.mit.edu - but MIT doesn't have a medical or law school, so hopefully WUaS Medical School in Tunisia in Arabic, and online, will emerge from Stanford Medicine or similar for OCW. I hope your Wikidata project and World Univ & Sch can work further together in these regards.
Can you think of any Tunisians who may be interested in an online- free-to-students' MIT OCW-centric Bachelor's degree in English, beginning in the autumn of 2020?
Thank you again for you emails, Houcemeddine, and you're welcome, and great to Skype video conference with you last year in 2018 (I think), as well.
Sincerely, Scott- https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch- https://twitter.com/WUaSPress - https://twitter.com/scottmacleod - Languages-World Univ: https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod

*Wednesday, October 23, 2019
Scott MacLeod <sgkmacleod@worlduniversityandschool.org> Attachments

12:37 PM (8 hours ago)

to Denny, Lydia, Larry, Peter, Katherine, Stephen, lmoroney, Peter, John, Info, Scott, Scott, Léa, Markus, Wiki, abdelwaheb, ld4-wikidata@googlegroups.com, wikidata@lists.wikimedia.org, jelabra@gmail.com, John, James

Dear Houcemeddine Turki, Denny Vrandecic, Lydia Pintscher, Peter Norvig, Laurence Moroney, Wikidatans and All,

Please find attached a letter (as PDF) of support on behalf of your "Data Engineering and Semantics" research unit project at the University of Sfax, Tunisia, from World University and School (and in GDocs - "Sfax Letter of Support from World Univ & Sch Oct 2019").
Sincerely, Scott GK MacLeodworlduniversityandschool.org

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World University and School

Wednesday, 23 October 2019

To the Tunisian Ministry of Higher Education,

Greetings from the San Francisco Bay Area, California.

I’m writing with a letter of support for the University of Sfax’s new "Data Engineering and Semantics" research unit. This will be administered from the Computer Science and Communications Department, Faculty of Sciences of Sfax, University of Sfax in Tunisia. The group will be led by Dr. Mohamed BEN AOUICHA (https://scholar.google.ca/citations?user=XPVUu-gAAAAJ&hl=fr). The University of Sfax needs this new "Data Engineering and Semantics" research unit to facilitate the work of Wikimedia Researchers at the university, as part of its official research structure. The main goal of the unit is to promote and monitor research efforts about Data Engineering and Semantic Technologies within the University of Sfax. Data Engineering and Semantic Technology research is needed to improve the usage and processing of knowledge databases including wikis. Effectively, this University of Sfax group will work to develop tools to make better the quality of the linked data of Wikidata, and to use and develop Wikidata there for a variety of purposes including clinical decision support, Natural Language Processing and Education. They will also analyze the output of wikis, identify deficiencies and work to solve them.

As president of the research university, the (MIT OCW-centric wiki) World University and School (and planning online major research universities in all ~200 countries) I’m writing in support of this project.

Sincerely, Scott GK MacLeod

- Scott MacLeod - Founder, President & Professor

- World University and School- http://worlduniversityandschool.org

- 415 480 4577- http://scottmacleod.com

- CC World University and School - like CC Wikipedia with best STEM-centric CC OpenCourseWare - incorporated as a nonprofit university and school in California, and is a U.S. 501 (c) (3) tax-exempt educational organization.

Addendums

Addendum 1:

Scott MacLeod

Sat, Oct 19, 1:25 PM (4 days ago)to Denny, Lydia, Larry, Peter, Katherine, Stephen, lmoroney, Peter, John, Info, Scott, Scott, Léa, Markus, Wiki, ld4-wikidata@googlegroups.com, wikidata@lists.wikimedia.org, jelabra@gmail.com, John, James

Dear Houcemeddine Turki, Denny Vrandecic, Lydia Pintscher, Peter Norvig, Laurence Moroney, Wikidatans and All,

CC-4 MIT OCW-centric wiki World University and School as a research university (and planning online major research universities in all ~200 countries) will write a letter of support for this project. (And as you may all know WUaS donated itself to Wikidata for co-development in 2015 and received WUaS Miraheze MediaWiki in 2017 as a consequence but they're not yet interoperable in any of Wikidata's ~300 languages yet).

World University and School is also planning online Medical Schools with online teaching hospitals for online clinical care in ~200 countries' official/main languages, and online clinical trials in each of all 7111 known living languages - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Clinical_Trials_at_WUaS_(for_all_languages) - with remarkable career opportunities for Wikidatans.

As president of CC-4 MIT OCW-centric wiki World University and School and exploring further collaboration opportunities with Wikidata as well, CC-4 MIT OpenCourseWare-centric World University and School is developing not only our ~200 planned online Medical Schools - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/World_University_Medical_School - with ~200 online teaching hospitals - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Hospital - for online clinical care, as well as online clinical research and trials in 7,111 known living languages - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Clinical_Trials_at_WUaS_(for_all_languages) - as well as ~200 online law schools - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/World_University_Law_School - both Medical Schools and Law Schools planned in all ~200 countries - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Nation_States - and in their official languages - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Languages. World University and School is also planning great numbers of academic careers for potentially Wikidatans, in all 7111 living languages - and seeks to become the MIT / Harvard / Oxbridge of the Internet.

Perhaps this email will serve an initial letter of support for your efforts, but I look forward to learning, Houcemeddine, more specifically what kind of letter of support might be helpful.

Thank you.

All the best, Scott

In a related vein, please see Agenda items 4, 7, and 8 and other items as well from today's open MIT OCW-centric World University and School's monthly business meeting: Agenda:- https://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2019/10/agenda-for-oct-19-2019-world-university.html- https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/10/bright-eyes-catharanthus-roseus-agenda.html... with WUaS Minutes from the open Monthly Business Meeting to come on these blog sites.

Sincerely, Scott GK MacLeod

- Scott MacLeod - Founder, President & Professor

- World University and School- http://worlduniversityandschool.org- https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch

WUaS Corporation / Presshttp://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html https://twitter.com/WUaSPress

Addendum 2:

Houcemeddine A. Turki via lists.wikimedia.org

to wikimedia-medicine@lists.wikimedia.org, ld4-wikidata@googlegroups.com, wikidata@lists.wikimedia.org, jelabra@gmail.com, jeblad@gmail.com, jpm.heald@gmail.com

Dear all,I thank you for your efforts. I am honoured to inform you that we are managing to launch a research unit dealing with Data Science research in Tunisia. This research unit is named "Data Engineering and Semantics". It belongs to Computer Science and Communications Department, Faculty of Sciences of Sfax, University of Sfax. The group will be led by Dr. Mohamed BEN AOUICHA (https://scholar.google.ca/citations?u...). He was the person behind the project of University of Sfax about the use of Wikipedia and Wiktionary in semantic technologies, particularly semantic similarity measures. We need this research unit to have Wikimedia Researchers in the University of Sfax affiliated to an official research structure. The main goal of the unit is to promote and monitor research efforts about Data Engineering and Semantic Technologies in the University of Sfax. Data Engineering and Semantic Technology researches are needed to ameliorate the usage and processing of knowledge bases including wikis. Effectively, we will work in this unit to develop tools to ameliorate linked data quality of Wikidata and to use Wikidata for a variety of purposes including clinical decision support, Natural Language Processing and Education. We will also analyze the output of wikis, identify deficiencies and work to solve them. However, this will not be possible without several letters of support from several institutions. I ask if your research institution can send us a letter of support so that we can have the approval of the Tunisian Ministry of Higher Education to create our new research unit.Yours Sincerely,Houcemeddine Turki (he/him)Medical Student, Faculty of Medicine of Sfax, University of Sfax, TunisiaGLAM and Education Coordinator, Wikimedia TN User GroupMember, Wiki Project MedMember, WikiIndaba Steering CommitteeMember, Wikimedia and Library User Group Steering Committee____________________+21629499418_______________________________________________Wikimedia-Medicine mailing listWikimedia-Medicine@lists.wikimedia.orghttps://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/l...

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#transformschoolchat starts in an hour around conditions for self-directed learning.

Am listening to this Lego Education PLAY video from Harvard https://t.co/WJxF8ztwpq & think students will manage their learning/create self directed learning via PLAY #transformschoolchat WUaS is seeking to create HOME ROBOTICS with Scratch Programming https://t.co/a53n3kl75l ~— WorldUnivandSch (@WorldUnivAndSch) October 21, 2019

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1186429021921275905

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Welcome @WorldUnivAndSch! So glad you are here with us!— Evelyn McCulloch (@EvMcCulloch) October 21, 2019

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A1: A student run classroom is filled with students buzzing with learning/making/doing, set up to be collaborative, students have voice/choice, access to all tools to connect in, out, and beyond and it feels safe, exciting, and empowering! #transformschoolchat https://t.co/UK4OZppSKY— Evelyn McCulloch (@EvMcCulloch) October 21, 2019

https://twitter.com/EvMcCulloch/status/1186428803389841409

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Hi #transformschoolchat @EvMcCulloch @kwagssd3 Thanks for this conversation! @EileenCouncill @alienearbud @clegleiter @LyzBurden @LauraGilchrist4 @jhesson83 Am curious about how creating conditions that allow students to manage their own learning?" can emerge in group video! Thx! https://t.co/uzPjgC1pKW— WorldUnivandSch (@WorldUnivAndSch) October 21, 2019

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Thnx Kyle #transformschoolchat World Univ&Sch is developing toward offering online high school & college degrees as we license with CA's BPPE & building on MIT OpenCourseWare in its 5 languages. Students will be studying from home in group video, so self-directed learning is key! https://t.co/8vNG0Dq8cu— WorldUnivandSch (@WorldUnivAndSch) October 21, 2019

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1186427981863899136

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#TransformSchoolChat Unfortunately have to go. Biggest takeaways- invite wonder, exploration, use processes, make inquiry visible. Design Thinking is the bomb! PLEASE continue chat w/ @LauraGilchrist4!! LOVE to all you wonderers from one of two moderators. pic.twitter.com/bMTE5byCrK— Kyle Wagner (@kwagssd3) October 8, 2019

https://twitter.com/kwagssd3/status/1181364177736105984

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Hi #transformschoolchat @EvMcCulloch @kwagssd3 Thanks for this conversation! @EileenCouncill @alienearbud @clegleiter @LyzBurden @LauraGilchrist4 @jhesson83 Am curious about how creating conditions that allow students to manage their own learning?" can emerge in group video! Thx! https://t.co/uzPjgC1pKW— WorldUnivandSch (@WorldUnivAndSch) October 21, 2019

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1186424778699096064

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I'm Evelyn McCulloch from the Sunshine State! I work with teachers and students @ParkMaitland. I am so PUMPED to be chatting with everyone today about Self Directed Learning! #transformschoolchat— Evelyn McCulloch (@EvMcCulloch) October 21, 2019

https://twitter.com/EvMcCulloch/status/1186425195453730816

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#transformschoolchat A1: To me a self- directed classroom is one that takes a while to find the teacher. No 'front' to the classroom. Multiple activities happening simultaneously. Students move fluidly about with clear purpose and ownership.— Kyle Wagner (@kwagssd3) October 21, 2019

https://twitter.com/kwagssd3/status/1186428215541133314

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How do you create conditions that allow students to manage their own learning? Join @EvMcCulloch and I @ #transformschoolchat Mon. 7:30 pm EST/ Tues. 7:30 am HKT to discuss! @EileenCouncill @alienearbud @clegleiter @LyzBurden @LauraGilchrist4 @jhesson83 @AdamHillEDU pic.twitter.com/hZ28uSkOWr— Kyle Wagner (@kwagssd3) October 21, 2019

https://twitter.com/kwagssd3/status/1186140002624761856

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Stoked to join this #transformschoolchat chat with good friend Kyle @kwagssd3 (board member @WorldUnivAndSch @WUaSPress) & @EvMcCulloch
Scott MacLeod @scottmacleod World Univ&Sch founder, president, professor Here to learn how to develop WUaS classes where students develop agency https://t.co/BA9NajOhoR— WorldUnivandSch (@WorldUnivAndSch) October 21, 2019

Thanks so so much @kwagssd3 @EvMcCulloch #transformschoolchat Shape (play) context & provide opportunities for self-directed learning in the projects (eg building and programming a Lego robot, either individually or newly in teams:) & be model in gradual transformation, I learned https://t.co/FxeOIxN5S4— WorldUnivandSch (@WorldUnivAndSch) October 22, 2019

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1186441232114798592

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Thank you everyone for joining #TransformSchoolChat tonight! @kwagssd3 and I were blown away by all that was shared, learned, and pondered! Can't wait to see how classrooms are changed TOMORROW! Let's keep the connections and conversations going! pic.twitter.com/GlFlGemHdq— Evelyn McCulloch (@EvMcCulloch) October 22, 2019

https://twitter.com/EvMcCulloch/status/1186440820569886720

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You are so right @kwagssd3! Teacher behind the scenes prep and strategic instructional design leads to the greatest success for student driven classrooms! #TransformSchoolChat

You are so right @kwagssd3! Teacher behind the scenes prep and strategic instructional design leads to the greatest success for student driven classrooms! #TransformSchoolChat— Evelyn McCulloch (@EvMcCulloch) October 22, 2019

https://twitter.com/EvMcCulloch/status/1186437205545439232

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Thanks so much Evelyn McCulloch @EvMcCulloch & Kyle Wagner @kwagssd3 for your excellent #TransformSchoolChat 'Self Directed Learning' Twitter chat https://twitter.com/EvMcCulloch/statu...! See 2nd half of blog post abt this https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/20... ~ @scottmacleod >Online https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool...?

Thanks so much Evelyn McCulloch@EvMcCulloch & Kyle Wagner @kwagssd3
for your excellent #TransformSchoolChat 'Self Directed Learning' Twitter chat https://t.co/ySojstoBkw! See 2nd half of blog post abt this https://t.co/iTtYcsZXfe ~ @scottmacleod >Online https://t.co/rgqbYDsnar?— WorldUnivandSch (@WorldUnivAndSch) October 24, 2019

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1187443830536073217

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Arundina (bamboo orchid): '[Wiki-Medicine] Seeking a letter of support from research institutions' * * * Appreciating how this shapes (play) context & provides opportunities for self-directed learning in projects & inquiry (eg building & programming a Lego

Scott MacLeod <sgkmacleod@worlduniversityandschool.org> Attachments

12:37 PM (8 hours ago)

Wednesday, 23 October 2019
To the Tunisian Ministry of Higher Education,

Greetings from the San Francisco Bay Area, California.

I’m writing with a letter of support for the University of Sfax’s new "Data Engineering and Semantics" research unit. This will be administered from the Computer Science and Communications Department, Faculty of Sciences of Sfax, University of Sfax in Tunisia. The group will be led by Dr. Mohamed BEN AOUICHA (https://scholar.google.ca/citations?user=XPVUu-gAAAAJ&hl=fr). The University of Sfax needs this new "Data Engineering and Semantics" research unit to facilitate the work of Wikimedia Researchers at the university, as part of its official research structure. The main goal of the unit is to promote and monitor research efforts about Data Engineering and Semantic Technologies within the University of Sfax. Data Engineering and Semantic Technology research is needed to improve the usage and processing of knowledge databases including wikis. Effectively, this University of Sfax group will work to develop tools to make better the quality of the linked data of Wikidata, and to use and develop Wikidata there for a variety of purposes including clinical decision support, Natural Language Processing and Education. They will also analyze the output of wikis, identify deficiencies and work to solve them.

As president of the research university, the (MIT OCW-centric wiki) World University and School (and planning online major research universities in all ~200 countries) I’m writing in support of this project.

Sincerely, Scott GK MacLeod

- Scott MacLeod - Founder, President & Professor

- World University and School- http://worlduniversityandschool.org

- 415 480 4577- http://scottmacleod.com

- CC World University and School - like CC Wikipedia with best STEM-centric CC OpenCourseWare - incorporated as a nonprofit university and school in California, and is a U.S. 501 (c) (3) tax-exempt educational organization.

Addendums
Addendum 1:

Scott MacLeod

Sat, Oct 19, 1:25 PM (4 days ago)to Denny, Lydia, Larry, Peter, Katherine, Stephen, lmoroney, Peter, John, Info, Scott, Scott, Léa, Markus, Wiki, ld4-wikidata@googlegroups.com, wikidata@lists.wikimedia.org, jelabra@gmail.com, John, James

Dear Houcemeddine Turki, Denny Vrandecic, Lydia Pintscher, Peter Norvig, Laurence Moroney, Wikidatans and All,

CC-4 MIT OCW-centric wiki World University and School as a research university (and planning online major research universities in all ~200 countries) will write a letter of support for this project. (And as you may all know WUaS donated itself to Wikidata for co-development in 2015 and received WUaS Miraheze MediaWiki in 2017 as a consequence but they're not yet interoperable in any of Wikidata's ~300 languages yet).

World University and School is also planning online Medical Schools with online teaching hospitals for online clinical care in ~200 countries' official/main languages, and online clinical trials in each of all 7111 known living languages - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Clinical_Trials_at_WUaS_(for_all_languages) - with remarkable career opportunities for Wikidatans.

As president of CC-4 MIT OCW-centric wiki World University and School and exploring further collaboration opportunities with Wikidata as well, CC-4 MIT OpenCourseWare-centric World University and School is developing not only our ~200 planned online Medical Schools - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/World_University_Medical_School - with ~200 online teaching hospitals - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Hospital - for online clinical care, as well as online clinical research and trials in 7,111 known living languages - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Clinical_Trials_at_WUaS_(for_all_languages) - as well as ~200 online law schools - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/World_University_Law_School - both Medical Schools and Law Schools planned in all ~200 countries - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Nation_States - and in their official languages - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Languages. World University and School is also planning great numbers of academic careers for potentially Wikidatans, in all 7111 living languages - and seeks to become the MIT / Harvard / Oxbridge of the Internet.

Perhaps this email will serve an initial letter of support for your efforts, but I look forward to learning, Houcemeddine, more specifically what kind of letter of support might be helpful.

Thank you.

All the best, Scott

In a related vein, please see Agenda items 4, 7, and 8 and other items as well from today's open MIT OCW-centric World University and School's monthly business meeting: Agenda:- https://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2019/10/agenda-for-oct-19-2019-world-university.html- https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/10/bright-eyes-catharanthus-roseus-agenda.html... with WUaS Minutes from the open Monthly Business Meeting to come on these blog sites.

Sincerely, Scott GK MacLeod

- Scott MacLeod - Founder, President & Professor

- World University and School- http://worlduniversityandschool.org- https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch

WUaS Corporation / Presshttp://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html https://twitter.com/WUaSPress

Addendum 2:

Houcemeddine A. Turki via lists.wikimedia.org

to wikimedia-medicine@lists.wikimedia.org, ld4-wikidata@googlegroups.com, wikidata@lists.wikimedia.org, jelabra@gmail.com, jeblad@gmail.com, jpm.heald@gmail.com

Dear all,I thank you for your efforts. I am honoured to inform you that we are managing to launch a research unit dealing with Data Science research in Tunisia. This research unit is named "Data Engineering and Semantics". It belongs to Computer Science and Communications Department, Faculty of Sciences of Sfax, University of Sfax. The group will be led by Dr. Mohamed BEN AOUICHA (https://scholar.google.ca/citations?u...). He was the person behind the project of University of Sfax about the use of Wikipedia and Wiktionary in semantic technologies, particularly semantic similarity measures. We need this research unit to have Wikimedia Researchers in the University of Sfax affiliated to an official research structure. The main goal of the unit is to promote and monitor research efforts about Data Engineering and Semantic Technologies in the University of Sfax. Data Engineering and Semantic Technology researches are needed to ameliorate the usage and processing of knowledge bases including wikis. Effectively, we will work in this unit to develop tools to ameliorate linked data quality of Wikidata and to use Wikidata for a variety of purposes including clinical decision support, Natural Language Processing and Education. We will also analyze the output of wikis, identify deficiencies and work to solve them. However, this will not be possible without several letters of support from several institutions. I ask if your research institution can send us a letter of support so that we can have the approval of the Tunisian Ministry of Higher Education to create our new research unit.Yours Sincerely,Houcemeddine Turki (he/him)Medical Student, Faculty of Medicine of Sfax, University of Sfax, TunisiaGLAM and Education Coordinator, Wikimedia TN User GroupMember, Wiki Project MedMember, WikiIndaba Steering CommitteeMember, Wikimedia and Library User Group Steering Committee____________________+21629499418_______________________________________________Wikimedia-Medicine mailing listWikimedia-Medicine@lists.wikimedia.orghttps://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/l...

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#transformschoolchat starts in an hour around conditions for self-directed learning. Please join us! @jriske @jhesson83 @saldanact @flyingmonkey13 @baltzyworld @LorenFoster @Kbahri5 @rensink_connie @csboatswain @jhesson83 @JDavidJo1 @EdHidalgoSD @Kbahri5 pic.twitter.com/YE9iaZKxoN— Kyle Wagner (@kwagssd3) October 21, 2019

https://twitter.com/kwagssd3/status/1186411547217674241

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Am listening to this Lego Education PLAY video from Harvard https://t.co/WJxF8ztwpq & think students will manage their learning/create self directed learning via PLAY #transformschoolchat WUaS is seeking to create HOME ROBOTICS with Scratch Programming https://t.co/a53n3kl75l ~— WorldUnivandSch (@WorldUnivAndSch) October 21, 2019

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1186429021921275905

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Welcome @WorldUnivAndSch! So glad you are here with us!— Evelyn McCulloch (@EvMcCulloch) October 21, 2019

https://twitter.com/EvMcCulloch/status/1186427126649630721

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A1: A student run classroom is filled with students buzzing with learning/making/doing, set up to be collaborative, students have voice/choice, access to all tools to connect in, out, and beyond and it feels safe, exciting, and empowering! #transformschoolchat https://t.co/UK4OZppSKY— Evelyn McCulloch (@EvMcCulloch) October 21, 2019

https://twitter.com/EvMcCulloch/status/1186428803389841409

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Hi #transformschoolchat @EvMcCulloch @kwagssd3 Thanks for this conversation! @EileenCouncill @alienearbud @clegleiter @LyzBurden @LauraGilchrist4 @jhesson83 Am curious about how creating conditions that allow students to manage their own learning?" can emerge in group video! Thx! https://t.co/uzPjgC1pKW— WorldUnivandSch (@WorldUnivAndSch) October 21, 2019

Thank you everyone for joining #TransformSchoolChat tonight! @kwagssd3 and I were blown away by all that was shared, learned, and pondered! Can't wait to see how classrooms are changed TOMORROW! Let's keep the connections and conversations going! pic.twitter.com/GlFlGemHdq— Evelyn McCulloch (@EvMcCulloch) October 22, 2019

https://twitter.com/EvMcCulloch/status/1186440820569886720

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October 22, 2019

Passiflora: World Univ & Sch seeks to become ginormous number of jobs' creator! :) (2.2 million jobs in ~200 countries and 7111 known living languages?) * * * Unitarian Universalist churches as care generators? - an appreciator of the love I sense UUs gen

World Univ & Sch seeks to become ginormous number of jobs' creator! :)

(2.2 million jobs in ~200 countries and 7111 known living languages?)

House is clean after Saturday party ... on with WUaS Minutes, book writing, SSP Scottish small pipes' album creation ... Twitter is an active communication sphere here ... as is blog ... with picture from party ... http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/10/red-panda-if-you-were-going-to-study.html?m=0 ... and Bachelor's Computer Science degree planning ... big web WUaS updates on Yuutube yesterday too ... Living in a very beautiful place, albeit too hot yesterday afternoon still.

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Hi Ma,

Glad you now have an interim Unitarian Universalist minister ... did you have a voice in choosing her?

I'm an appreciator of the love I sense UUs generate (as a culture), touched on in some of the videos below too.

Love, Scott
First a partner and begin a family, then visit Harbin again? ... virtual Harbin explorations underway in blog 'virtual Harbin' label frequently ... interesting that Harbin's a church too ... anthropologically ... (here's a blog label touching on this - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/Heart%20Consciousness%20Church?m=0 ...) ... see 'anthroplogy' label too, and 'Harbin ethnography' label as well

Haven't met many UUs that I know of at Harbin, although I have met some Quakers (which is an underlying theme in my "Naked Harbin Ethnography" book - https://www.worldcat.org/ and https://amazon.com/author/scottmacleodworlduniversity) there ... interesting

Sending love, Scott

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Methinks the ethics of Harbin Hot Springs' re my 'hippies to the hot springs' interpretation in my "Naked Harbin Ethnography" book, and nudity there especially in the pool area, and re their (Harbin Hot Springs / HCC's) observance of California law as far as I've noticed or observed ... will raise some newly possibly fascinating ethics' questions in a realistic virtual Harbin ... The only gray area re Harbin and the law could be in Harbin workshops, as I observed to my friend Ed this spring ... but I'm also not a lawyer either ... and really don't know re Harbin and the law (but may learn further with time) ... (although I did teach a course on anthropology and the law as a graduate student instructor at the University of California, Santa Barbara, many years ago). I also think that Harbin sees itself as independent, but still operates in California, and apparently with a nod to California law ...

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Hi M,

Nice to talk.

Just searched on 'Unitarians in Cambridge, England' out of curiosity, and found ...

Robert Curgenven live Unitarian Church Cambridge UK - 23 September 2013 - https://youtu.be/p0xAakvmr1U

UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST TRADITION: A SHORT HISTORY - https://www.uua.org/leadership/learning-center/governance/polity/47003.shtml ... (and its Time Machine 1648/49: The Cambridge Platform video - https://vimeo.com/343528575)

First Parish Cambridge Welcome! (in Massachusetts, however) - https://youtu.be/99esX1qxk18

Oxford Unitarians speak of their faith - https://youtu.be/-goOyv0TjKk

Unitarians, Baptists, and Quakers - https://youtu.be/WV17mlmGnnc

So this is what a Google search brought up today ... re perspectives on a religion in Cambridge England via the Internet.

Some are kinda interesting ... religion via an algorithm search via internet video and text on 10/20/19 ... what is the world coming to? !!! :)

Love, Scott

Some UU ministers:

Scotty McLennan -
The Rev. William (Scotty) McLennan is a Unitarian Universalist minister, lawyer, and educator, currently teaching ethics at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. He was the University Chaplain at Tufts for sixteen years and Dean for Religious Life at Stanford for fourteen years. (He is also the inspiration for cartoonist Gary Trudeau’s Doonesbury character, the Rev. Scot Sloan.) ... Gary Trudeau and Scotty McLennan were roommates at Yale University ...
https://www.uua.org/offices/people/scotty-mclennan

Fred Small -
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Small_(singer-songwriter)

Tim House is mentioned here -
https://www.firstchurchboston.org/social-justice

David Herndon -
https://www.uua.org/offices/people/david-herndon-minister

Connie Grant -
https://www.first-unitarian-pgh.org/our-minister.html
- https://my.uua.org/directory/people/136945

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Conversations on Compassion with Scotty McLennan

https://youtu.be/wWa40loLT4k

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Scott MacLeod
Sun, Oct 20, 5:44 PM (2 days ago)
to Ed, Janie, Larry, Scott, David, Mary, Sandy

Hi Ed, David, Mary, Jane, Sandy and Larry,

Just shared the email below with my mother ... and with regards too to my recent whistle-blowing now 4-6 times in recent years. ('Ecology' is a word I'm using for history or even kind of karma/dharma or holism - a holistic view of life - which includes issues of social justice perhaps. (Maybe Cosmic Skeptic Atheist Alex may touch on related questions re his "Do Human Rights even exist" video here - "Do Human Rights Actually Exist?" ... https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/10/new-zealands-southern-alps-world-univ.html)
Sincerely, Scott
- https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/10/hummingbird-hawk-moth-re-mutualism-in.html -

Hi Ma,

I haven't heard very much about MIT's Reif at all recently ...

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Appreciating too Stanford Lecturer in Business Ethics, and UU Minister and Lawyers, Scotty McLennan's view on love (care) as being important in business ethics re relationships ....

Scotty McLennan: Great Literature for Great Leaders
https://youtu.be/kOIRwQ0ejQ0

... but am wondering how things play out on the ground legally and ethically at Stanford these days in an ongoing way ... (given my recent 'whistle-blowing' there).

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Searched on:
'Unitarians in Sweden'

Unitarians, Universalists, and Unitarian Universalists Around the World
- https://www.uua.org/international/uus-abroad

(edit title)UUs in Sweden- https://www.thelocal.se/discuss/index.php?showtopic=12253

Swedish Unitarians reviewed- https://www.revscottwells.com/2007/06/03/swedish-unitarians-reviewed/

Sweden[edit]Inspired by the writings of Theodore Parker the Swedish writer Klas Pontus Arnoldson founded in Gothenburg in 1871 the Unitarian association Sanningssökarna ("The Truth Seekers") – later also found in Stockholm. This association also published the periodical Sanningssökaren ("The Truth Seeker"). Two other Unitarian associations were founded in 1882 (one of them in Stockholm). In 1888 Unitarians asked the Swedish King for permission to establish yet another Unitarian association in Gothenburg but was turned down because Unitarianism was not regarded as a Christian religion. Later many Unitarians turned to theosophy. In 1974 members of The Religion and Culture Association in Malmö founded The Free Church of Sweden and Rev. Ragnar Emilsen would be its pastor (ordained 1987 to Unitarian minister for Sweden and Finland and later the first to become Unitarian bishop of Scandinavia, he died February 2008). In 1999 the church changed its name to The Unitarian Church in Sweden.- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Unitarianism

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Google Sketchup with drawing software with Brick Street View in Google Street View / Maps / Earth for Lego Robotics, - all integratedVIRTUALLY, for actual-virtual, physical-digital research and creative developments? ... and for actual-virtual, physical digital Harbin Hot Springs' ethnographic and STEM research, and as virtual classrooms as well ! ...

design your own hippy van software:
How to draw your Camper Van in SketchUp
https://youtu.be/b47sF7l1yDM
Draw your Camper Van Interior in SketchUp
https://youtu.be/SoytP-XmtfI
vanspace 3D|Design the Perfect Van Conversion In Under 10 Minutes
https://youtu.be/tBKLzr1j6B4
#RealisticVirtualEarth ~

design your own hippy van software:
How to draw your Camper Van in SketchUphttps://t.co/dyprdTOsDt
Draw your Camper Van Interior in SketchUphttps://t.co/CtcwFYjubI
vanspace 3D|Design the Perfect Van Conversion In Under 10 Minuteshttps://t.co/ZucjNWYhJv #RealisticVirtualEarth~— ScottMacLeod (@scottmacleod) October 22, 2019

https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1186686801781542912

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a virtual hippy van drawing into Google SketchUp in virtual Lego bricks in virtual Google Street View with virtual Brick StreetView - ALL virtual - and then eventually with physical Lego Robotics such as WeDo2.0 and MindStorms EV3 would be very cool ... re the actual-virtual ...

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Google sketchup for Lego building
https://www.eurobricks.com/forum/index.php?/forums/topic/40676-google-sketchup-for-lego-building/
2x4 LEGO Brick SketchUp Tut.
https://youtu.be/Y8p7nbLmDOc
Sketchup Lego Brick
https://youtu.be/j-5nEs6OfXA
3D Printing Lego Bunkbeds, Modeled in SketchUp
https://youtu.be/k2Ox86r_Bwk
#RealisticVirtualEarth #RealisticVirtualEarthForLego!

Google sketchup for Lego buildinghttps://t.co/GgovA13i1k
2x4 LEGO Brick SketchUp Tut.https://t.co/IQzNKkAhpD
Sketchup Lego Brickhttps://t.co/P0wMfrZuZj
3D Printing Lego Bunkbeds, Modeled in SketchUphttps://t.co/TRgmF3EayO #RealisticVirtualEarth #RealisticVirtualEarthForLego!— ScottMacLeod (@scottmacleod) October 22, 2019

https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1186688951974686720

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Google Sketchup with Legos Brick Street View
STREET VIEW IN SKETCHUP with Placemaker Tours
https://youtu.be/SyA8r_tpyLc
Brick Street View renders Google Maps in Lego
https://www.wired.co.uk/article/lego-google-streetview
Einar Öberg
http://www.inear.se/2015/05/brick-street-view/ ~
#RealisticVirtualEarth ~ #RealisticVirtualEarthForLego !

Google Sketchup with Legos Brick Street View
STREET VIEW IN SKETCHUP with Placemaker Tourshttps://t.co/r2FCQCrfSY
Brick Street View renders Google Maps in Legohttps://t.co/a6uBdoCkhn
Einar Öberghttps://t.co/wefkB2DN9u ~#RealisticVirtualEarth ~ #RealisticVirtualEarthForLego !— ScottMacLeod (@scottmacleod) October 22, 2019

https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1186690736588120064

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Played around with VR and eye-tracking and did this little LEGO builder experiment: https://youtu.be/xHJo7-KTTp0 #tobii #vive #unity3d

Played around with VR and eye-tracking and did this little LEGO builder experiment: https://t.co/H8vuieT6DO #tobii #vive #unity3d pic.twitter.com/f16H91Psfk— Einar Öberg (@inear) February 7, 2019

https://twitter.com/inear/status/1093494080716324864

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Build LEGO in VR experiment

https://youtu.be/xHJo7-KTTp0

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Am curious with Einar Öberg's current work with digital cars - https://twitter.com/inear - in what ways his Brick Street View could begin to engage Lego Robotics' WeDo 2.0 - in Google Street View?

Am curious with your Einar Öberg @inear current work wi digital cars, in what ways your Brick Street View could begin to engage Lego Robotics' WeDo 2.0 in Google StreetView for building virtual Lego Robotics in Streetview/Maps/Earth wi TensorFlow? #RealisticVirtualEarthForLego ~

Am curious with your Einar Öberg @inear current work wi digital cars, in what ways your Brick Street View could begin to engage Lego Robotics' WeDo 2.0 in Google StreetView for building virtual Lego Robotics in Streetview/Maps/Earth wi TensorFlow? #RealisticVirtualEarthForLego ~ https://t.co/YdcFdQUKg2— WorldUnivandSch (@WorldUnivAndSch) October 22, 2019

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1186714152569462784
https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1186745009531310080

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