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15 <author><a href="aurellem/html/about-rlm.html">
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16 Robert L. McIntyre</a>'s blog</author></span>
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17 <h1>au<em>r</em>e<em>l</em>le<em>m</em>.org</h1>
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18 <h2>science, programming, ideas</h2>
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19 </div>
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21 <div class="atmosphere"></div>
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22 <table class="toc">
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23 <tr>
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24 <th><a href="./thoughts/html/good-ideas.html">Big List O'
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25 Ideas</a></th>
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26 <td>
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27 <p class="description">All the ideas I've had that I felt
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28 like writing down for the past ~ 8 years. Some of them
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29 could be practical inventions and are "just" waiting for
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30 that 95% perspiration to bring them to fruition, some
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31 are ideas for science fiction, and some are simple
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32 observations.
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33 </p>
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34 <a class="list" href="./thoughts/html/good-ideas.html">Go
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35 to the Ideas Page »</a>
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36 </td>
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38
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39 <tr><th>Major Projects</th><td>
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40 <h2><a id="ASC" href="./ASC/html/ASC-introduction.html">Aldehyde-Stabilized
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41 Cryopreservation (2015)</a></h2>
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42 <p class="description">
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43 A brain-banking technology that can preserve all of the
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44 synaptic connections in a whole mammalian brain for
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45 longer than a
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46 century. <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cryobiol.2015.09.003">Published
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47 in Cryobiology</a>
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48 and <a href="http://www.brainpreservation.org/small-mammal-announcement">winner</a>
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49 of the
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50 <a href="http://www.brainpreservation.org/asc_rabbit_fulleval">Brain
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51 Preservation Prize</a>. Mentioned in
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52 <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/13/us/cancer-immortality-cryogenics.html">the
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53 New York
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54 Times</a>, <a href="http://www.popsci.com/researchers-have-preserved-an-entire-rabbit-brain">Popular
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55 Science</a>,
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56 <a href="http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/can-our-minds-live-forever/">Scientific
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57 American</a>,
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58 <a href="http://gizmodo.com/brain-preservation-breakthrough-could-usher-in-a-new-er-1758022181">
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59 Gizmodo</a>, <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/fully-intact-brain-frozen_us_56bb942ae4b0b40245c51654?4tic0udi">
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60 the Huffington
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61 Post</a>, <a href="https://www.newscientist.com/article/2077140-mammal-brain-frozen-and-thawed-out-perfectly-for-first-time/">
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62 New Scientist</a>, and
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63 <a href="http://motherboard.vice.com/read/a-rabbit-brain-has-been-cryonically-preserved-and-recovered-brain-preservation-prize">
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64 Vice News</a></br></br>
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66 <a class="list"
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67 href="./ASC/html/ASC-introduction.html">Introduction
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68 to Aldehyde-Stabilized Cryopreservation (ASC)
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69 »</a>
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72 href="./ASC/html/ASC-FAQ.html">Frequently asked
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73 Questions »</a>
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74
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75 <!-- <a class="list" href="./ASC/html/ASC-images.html">Images -->
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76 <!-- of brains preserved with ASC »</a> -->
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79 href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cryobiol.2015.09.003">
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80 Journal article in Cryobiology »</a>
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81
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82 <!-- <a class="list" href="./ASC/html/ASC-motivations.html"> -->
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83 <!-- Motivations behind ASC »</a> -->
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84
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85 <!-- <a class="list" href="./ASC/html/ASC-limitations.html"> -->
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86 <!-- Limitations of ASC »</a> -->
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87
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88 <a class="list" href="./ASC/html/ASC-full-protocol.html">
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89 Detailed ASC protocol »</a>
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91 <a class="list" href="https://nectome.com">Nectome, ASC
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92 research company »</a>
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95 <tr><th></th><td>
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96 <h2><a href="./cortex/thesis/rlm-cortex-meng.pdf">
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97 CORTEX: a virtual world for sensate AI (2014)</a></h2>
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98 <p class="description">
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99 My MEng thesis at
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100 MIT, <a href="http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/91697">
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101 <em>Recognizing Actions using Embodiment and
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102 Empathy</em></a>. It won the 1st Place
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103 2014 <a href="http://studentlife.mit.edu/electrical-engineering-computer-science-2">Charles
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104 and Jennifer Johnson Thesis Award</a> for best EE/CS
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105 MEng thesis! <code>CORTEX</code> is an exploration of
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106 embodied cognition, the idea that our intelligence is
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107 deeply connected to our bodies and experience of the
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108 world. In the thesis, I teach a simulated worm how to
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109 recognize other worms performing various actions like
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110 wiggling and curling by giving it a sense of empathy:
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111 the worm imagines what it would feel like to be the
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112 other worm, and then recognizes the actions based on its
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113 own previous experience. All code and text for the
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114 thesis is freely licensed under the GPL.<br/><br/>
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115 <a class="list" href="./cortex/thesis/rlm-cortex-meng.pdf">
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116 Thesis »</a>
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117 <a class="list" href="./cortex/html/index.html">Online Thesis Notes
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118 »</a><br/>
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119 <a class="list" href="./cortex/releases/cortex-1.0.0.tar.bz2">
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120 Source Code (cortex-1.0.0.tar.bz2) »</a>
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124 <h2><a href="./vba-clojure/html/total-control.html">
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125 Pokémon Yellow Total Control Hack (2013)</a></h2>
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126 <p class="description">
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127 Just by buying and rearranging certain items and
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128 pressing certain buttons in Pokémon Yellow, you
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129 can get the game into a state where you can completely
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130 reprogram it from the inside. It's the first hack of its
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131 kind, and it won tasvideos.com's
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132 <a href="http://tasvideos.org/Awards/2012.html#tas_gameboy_12">
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133 2012 Gameboy TAS of the year</a>
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134 and <a href="http://tasvideos.org/Awards/2012.html#tas_glitchy_12">2012
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135 Glitchy TAS of the year</a>. <br><br>
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136 <a class="list" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5T81yHkHtI">Watch
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137 on Youtube»</a>
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138 <a class="list" href="./vba-clojure/html/total-control.html">Guide to
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139 the Pokémon Yellow total control hack
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140 »</a>
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141 <a class="list" href="http://tasvideos.org/2187M.html">TASvideos
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142 Submission »</a>
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143 <a class="list"
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144 href="http://hg.bortreb.com/vba-clojure">Source Code
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145 (GPL) »</a>
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149 <th>Small Projects</th>
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153 <li><a href="../papers/html/papers.html">
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154 <div class="date">2015 Jul</div>Cryobiology and
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155 Electron Microscopy reading list</a></li>
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156
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158 <div class="date">2015 Mar</div>Building a
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159 web-controlled Gameboy</a></li>
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161 <li><a href="../aurellem/html/organ-preservation-alliance-victory.html">
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162 <div class="date">2015 Feb</div>VICTORY at the
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163 Global Organ Banking Summit</a></li>
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164
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165 <li><a href="../cold-storage/html/cold-storage.html">
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166 <div class="date">2015 Jan</div>Preserving a DVD
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167 with Liquid Nitrogen</a></li>
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169 <li><a href="../water-loss-kinetics/html/water-loss-kinetics.html">
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170 <div class="date">2014 May</div>Modeling water loss
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171 from a cell during freezing</a></li>
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173 <li><a href="../thoughts/html/sussman-reading-list.html">
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174 <div class="date">2014 May</div>Professor Sussman's
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175 recommended reading</a></li>
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177 <li><a href="../marble-paintings/html/marble-paintings.html">
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178 <div class="date">2014 Jan</div> Painting on broken
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179 marble with acrylic paints</a></li>
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181 <li><a href="../minsky">
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182 <div class="date">2013 Sep</div> Marvin Minsky's
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183 "Society of Mind" (mostly "Dylan Holmes'
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184 work)</a></li>
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185
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186 <li><a href="../bbbgs/html/bbbgs.html">
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187 <div class="date">2013 Aug</div> Improving
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188 background subtraction with top-down
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189 vision </a></li>
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191 <li><a href="../cortex/html/ai-journal-review.html">
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192 <div class="date">2013 May</div>Review of the
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193 Journal of Artificial Intelligence
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194 </a></li>
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196 <li><a href="../pony-stories/html/pony-stories.html">
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197 <div class="date">2012 Aug</div>fimfinder.net, a
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198 website to search fimfiction.net </a></li>
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201 <div class="date">2011 Aug</div> Best-first
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202 search for effective Pokemon types </a></li>
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205 <div class="date">2011 Aug</div> Discovering
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206 effective Pokemon types using linear
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207 optimization </a></li>
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210 <div class="date">2011 Jul</div> Calling it quits
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211 without parentheses</a>
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223 <li><a href="../stream/html/how-to-stream.html">Share
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224 audio/video on GNU/Linux<div class="date">2016 Jan</div></a>
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225 </li>
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226 <li><a href="../free/html/ftp.html">Set up your own FTP
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227 server<div class="date">2015 May</div></a>
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228 </li>
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229 <li><a href="../6.945/html/dont-panic.html">Set up
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230 mit-scheme (from MIT's 6.945
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231 class)<div class="date">2014 Jan</div></a>
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233 <li><a href="../free/html/wiki.html">Set up your own
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234 Wiki<div class="date">2013 Sep</div></a>
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235 <li><a href="../free/html/email.html">Set up your own
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236 Personal Email Server<div class="date">2013
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237 Jun</div></a>
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239 <li><a href="../cortex/html/capture-video.html">Capture
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240 video from JMonkeyEngine3<div class="date">2011
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253 <li><a href="../thoughts/html/patents.html"> Free
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254 Culture Patents<div class="date">2013 Jul</div></a>
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255 </li>
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256 <li><a href="../thoughts/html/man-years.html"> A
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257 Universe of Human Experience<div class="date">2011
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272 <li><a href="https://logical.ai/">LOGICAL.AI</a><br/>The
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273 homepage of Dylan Holmes, who helped to make this website.
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296 ♡2012-2016 <a href="aurellem/html/about-rlm.html">Robert
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297 McIntyre</a>. Except where otherwise noted, all work on this
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