Old man’s weed (Centipeda cunninghamii): Laptops * * * Ethics of the Digital Transformation Harvard Law panel with the President of Germany * * * Some 'big idea' recent Tweets at World Univ & Sch

Scott MacLeod <sgkmacleod@gmail.com>9:08 AM (25 minutes ago)to Andrew, edX, Peter
Hallo Peter,
Maybe at the same time you could explore VIRTUALLY making the first PC ever from 1974 from a kit, the Altair 8800 (named after the dog or a stellar destination in the Star Trek TV show), and which I teach about in my course - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/InfoTechNetworkSocGlobalUniv.html
Searched on
Popular Mechanics 1974 article Altair 8800
Found, but not the article itself yet -
https://dayintechhistory.com/dith/december-19-1974-altair-kit/
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altair_8800
https://forwardthinking.pcmag.com/none/330529-the-altair-8800-the-machine-that-launched-the-pc-revolution?amp=1
https://www.wired.com/2008/12/dec-19-1974-build-your-own-computer-at-home/amp
I've put in hard drives and RAM into MacBook's before, but never any further self-computer building.
Searched too via Google online for build your own laptop, but nothing professional came up.Who makes your computer kit / DIY computer? Is it a laptop? Is the manual with which to build your computer a booklet, or is it online? Are there design-manual simulations we could develop in a realistic virtual earth - as a virtual design manual with 1-1 physical-digital correspondence potential?
Another WUaS idea ...
Shall we
eventually get such CR-rated top laptop  computers at WUaS for distribution to English-speaking German students for autumn 2020+ and via the WUaS bookstore, refurbished to start? ... brainstorming wise 
Cheers,
Scott
Some 'big idea' recent Tweets:

MIT Bio IoT https://t.co/2DhuVOoh3x Great way of conceiving #RealisticVirtualEarthForSTEM & potentially #RealisticVirtualEarthForEvolution into #GooglePoly (library of virtual objects) & re #ActualVirtual ~ #RealisticVirtualEarth for everything as #IoT > https://t.co/T7HwvLAqFl ~— WorldUnivandSch (@WorldUnivAndSch) November 10, 2019

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1193334221084872706

In Google Poly (library of virtual objects in Google's ecosystem, & with TensorFlow machine learning software too) CONCEPTUALLY, how to code for BIOELECTRICAL PLANT signals to Robots re https://t.co/NqqQlUfvpn & the Internet of Things re MIT https://t.co/Om6FPh5bYg at cell level?— WorldUnivandSch (@WorldUnivAndSch) November 10, 2019

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1193324689461891073

Print from #RealisticVirtualEarth (eg Google Street View, text in the sidebar) into BOOK #RealisticVirtualEarthForPublishing re this 'Paper Phone,' https://t.co/35J3XliNsj RE-ENVISIONING the BOOK @WUaSPress
https://t.co/OIGk3sUZbW @sgkmacleod in all 7111 known living languages— WorldUnivandSch (@WorldUnivAndSch) November 9, 2019

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1193235952056991744Did you see this Ethics of the Digital Transformation Harvard Law panel video - https://youtu.be/83zjx0k2fTw - with the President of Germany - 

Ethics of the Digital Transformation (Webcast)https://t.co/vdE9tbm4sF
Jeanette Hofmann,
Matthew Liao,
Melissa Nobles,
Wolfgang Schulz,
Eva Weber-Guskar,
Frank-Walter Steinmeier,
Urs Gasser,
Crystal S. Yang, Harvard Law/BKC & Governance of Artificial Intelligence Initiative— ScottMacLeod (@scottmacleod) November 1, 2019

https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1190284741502631936 ? I blogged a little about this here in this ethics' post - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/11/kea-where-are-object-database-systems.html - and may blog further about it soon-ish (other 'big ideas').


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Peter (Public)1:57 AM (7 hours ago)to meHello Scott,

Thanks for the list. I have already ordered computer parts, as I will build my own computer this time.

Cheers,

Peter

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Thursday, November 7, 2019

Scott MacLeod <sgkmacleod@gmail.com>Thu, Nov 7, 4:00 PM (3 days ago)to PeterHallo Peter, 
Hier sind 'ratings' mit Preisen fuer 12-13 inch Laptops von Consumer Reports, zu Deiner Information und als Referenz: 
Apple MacBook Pro 13-inch With Touch Bar (2019, Core i5) 80/100 - $2000
LG Gram 13 8th Gen79/100 - $1,120
Apple MacBook Air 13-inch (2019, MVFH2LL/A) 73/100 - $1,100
Apple MacBook Air 13-inch72/100 - $900
Microsoft Surface Pro 6 (Core i7)70/100 - $1,335
Microsoft Surface Laptop 2 (Core i7)69/100 - $1,300
Samsung Notebook 9 Pro (2019)69/100 - $1,100
Dell XPS 13 (XP S9380 - 7066SLV)68/100 - $1,860
HP Spectre Folio68/100 - $1,400
Microsoft Surface Pro 6 (Core i5)68/100 - $800
Asus ZenBook UX331UA-AS5168/100 - $800
MSMSMSX LenovoX Samsung
There are a couple further categories of computer ratings (eg 14 inch Laptops etc) in this December 1, 2019 issue of CR. 

But for a view from America's west coast (and CR is based in NY, and we all own it), and if one chooses one of these machines from a few years ago, one often can find good value. 
I got a refurbished 2014 Apple MacBook Air 13-inch laptop some years ago, and it works fine, and is so far very reliable. Vielleicht hast du bereits einen neuen Computer bekommen.
Cheers, Scott


- Scott MacLeod- http://scottmacleod.com 



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WUaS - World University and School <worlduniversityandschool@gmail.com>9:24 AM (12 minutes ago)to JimHi Jim,

Here's the actual video of the Harvard panel:

Ethics of the Digital Transformation (Webcast)
https://youtu.be/83zjx0k2fTw
https://cyber.harvard.edu/events/ethics-digital-transformation-webcast
J Hofmann,
M Liao,
M Nobles,
W Schulz,
E Weber-Guskar,
Frank-Walter Steinmeier,
Urs Gasser,
CS Yang,
Harvard Law/BKC & Governance of Artificial Intelligence Initiative > /Ethics

Ethics of the Digital Transformation (Webcast) https://t.co/VUaP2TpNnVhttps://t.co/IH0yhjxgBW
J Hofmann,
M Liao,
M Nobles,
W Schulz,
E Weber-Guskar,
Frank-Walter Steinmeier,
Urs Gasser,
CS Yang,
Harvard Law/BKC & Governance of Artificial Intelligence Initiative > /Ethics— WorldUnivandSch (@WorldUnivAndSch) November 10, 2019

- https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1193573034667327488 
- https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Ethics
- https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Artificial_Intelligence
Am curious with regard to this Harvard panel about the QUALITY of translation and re "Z inspection ..." ... Translation quality would have significant impact in any hypothetical "Z-inspection ... " (but although I understood Frank-Walter Steinmeier's live presentation in German, I can't compare here because there's an overdub in English) ... and cross-ecosystem (a Roberto Zicari idea ...) ...
And re my IBM CSIG Universal Translator talk - https://youtu.be/f48b0Z4VffQ - re World Univ & Sch plans for translation - 05 May (2016)Scott MacLeod“A Universal Translator as a Cognitive System, beginning as a Guidebook with Test”World University and SchoolSlidesRecor http://cognitive-science.info/community/weekly-update/ - (between Wikidata's 300 languages and between all 7111 known living languages), focusing on quality for such hypothetical ethics' AI questions (and 'inspections' !) would be potentially valuable. 
With this example -

Gerd Moe-Behrens
@GerdMoeBehrens
Uber self-driving car involved in fatal crash couldn't detect jaywalkers

Uber self-driving car involved in fatal crash couldn't detect jaywalkers https://t.co/Ea9aq5GFdG— Gerd Moe-Behrens (@GerdMoeBehrens) November 6, 2019

  https://twitter.com/GerdMoeBehrens/status/1192200486021144582

... how would a hypothetical retroactive "Z inspection ... " work?

Here again is my blog entry soon after Roberto Zicari's recent IBM CSIG talk - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/11/kea-where-are-object-database-systems.html .

Best, Scott








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