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    15 	<author><a href="aurellem/html/about-rlm.html">

    16 	    Robert L. McIntyre</a>'s blog</author></span>

    17       <h1>au<em>r</em>e<em>l</em>le<em>m</em>.org</h1>

    18       <h2>science, programming, ideas</h2> 

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    23 	<tr>

    24 	  <th><a href="./thoughts/html/good-ideas.html">Big List O'

    25 	  Ideas</a></th>

    26 	  <td>

    27 	    <p class="description">All the ideas I've had that I felt

    28 	      like writing down for the past ~ 8 years. Some of them

    29 	      could be practical inventions and are "just" waiting for

    30 	      that 95% perspiration to bring them to fruition, some

    31 	      are ideas for science fiction, and some are simple

    32 	      observations.

    33 	    </p>

    34 	    <a class="list" href="./thoughts/html/good-ideas.html">Go

    35 	    to the Ideas Page &raquo;</a>

    36 	  </td>

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    39 	<tr><th>Major Projects</th><td>

    40 	    <h2><a id="ASC" href="./ASC/html/ASC-introduction.html">Aldehyde-Stabilized

    41 	    Cryopreservation (2015)</a></h2>

    42 	    <p class="description">

    43 	      A brain-banking technology that can preserve all of the

    44 	      synaptic connections in a whole mammalian brain for

    45 	      longer than a

    46 	      century. <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cryobiol.2015.09.003">Published

    47 	      in Cryobiology</a>

    48 	      and <a href="http://www.brainpreservation.org/small-mammal-announcement">winner</a>

    49 	      of the

    50 	       <a href="http://www.brainpreservation.org/asc_rabbit_fulleval">Brain

    51 	      Preservation Prize</a>. Mentioned in

    52 	      <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/13/us/cancer-immortality-cryogenics.html">the

    53 	      New York Times</a>,

    54 	      <a href="http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/can-our-minds-live-forever/">Scientific

    55 		American</a>,

    56 	      <a href="http://gizmodo.com/brain-preservation-breakthrough-could-usher-in-a-new-er-1758022181">

    57 		Gizmodo</a>,

    58 		and <a href="http://motherboard.vice.com/read/a-rabbit-brain-has-been-cryonically-preserved-and-recovered-brain-preservation-prize">

    59 		Vice News</a></br></br>

    60 

    61 	      <a class="list"

    62 		href="./ASC/html/ASC-introduction.html">Introduction

    63 		to Aldehyde-Stabilized Cryopreservation (ASC)

    64 		&raquo;</a>

    65 

    66 	      <a class="list"

    67 		href="./ASC/html/ASC-FAQ.html">Frequently asked

    68 		Questions &raquo;</a>

    69 

    70 	      <!-- <a class="list" href="./ASC/html/ASC-images.html">Images -->

    71 	      <!-- of brains preserved with ASC &raquo;</a> -->

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    73 	      <a class="list"

    74 		 href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cryobiol.2015.09.003">

    75 		Journal article in Cryobiology &raquo;</a>

    76 

    77 	      <!-- <a class="list" href="./ASC/html/ASC-motivations.html"> -->

    78 	      <!-- 	Motivations behind ASC &raquo;</a> -->

    79 

    80 	      <!-- <a class="list" href="./ASC/html/ASC-limitations.html"> -->

    81 	      <!-- Limitations of ASC &raquo;</a> -->

    82 

    83 	      <!-- <a class="list" href="./ASC/html/ASC-full-protocol.html"> -->

    84 	      <!-- 	Detailed ASC protocol &raquo;</a> -->

    85 

    86 	      <a class="list" href="https://nectome.com">Nectome, ASC

    87 	      research company &raquo;</a>

    88 	</p></td></tr>

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    91 	    <h2><a href="./cortex/thesis/rlm-cortex-meng.pdf">

    92 		CORTEX: a virtual world for sensate AI (2014)</a></h2>

    93 	    <p class="description">

    94 	      My MEng thesis at

    95 	      MIT, <a href="http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/91697">

    96 		<em>Recognizing Actions using Embodiment and

    97 	      Empathy</em></a>. It won the 1st Place 2014 Charles and

    98 	      Jennifer Johnson Thesis Award for best EE/CS MEng

    99 	      thesis! <code>CORTEX</code> is an exploration of

   100 	      embodied cognition, the idea that our intelligence is

   101 	      deeply connected to our bodies and experience of the

   102 	      world. In the thesis, I teach a simulated worm how to

   103 	      recognize other worms performing various actions like

   104 	      wiggling and curling by giving it a sense of empathy:

   105 	      the worm imagines what it would feel like to be the

   106 	      other worm, and then recognizes the actions based on its

   107 	      own previous experience. All code and text for the

   108 	      thesis is freely licensed under the GPL.<br/><br/>

   109 	      <a class="list" href="./cortex/thesis/rlm-cortex-meng.pdf">

   110 		Thesis &raquo;</a> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;

   111 	      <a class="list" href="./cortex/html/index.html">Online Thesis Notes

   112 		&raquo;</a><br/>

   113 	      <a class="list" href="./cortex/releases/cortex-1.0.0.tar.bz2">

   114 		Source Code (cortex-1.0.0.tar.bz2) &raquo;</a>

   115 	</p></td></tr>

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   118 	    <h2><a href="./vba-clojure/html/total-control.html">

   119 		Pok&eacute;mon Yellow Total Control Hack (2013)</a></h2>

   120 	    <p class="description">

   121 	      Just by buying and rearranging certain items and

   122 	      pressing certain buttons in Pok&eacute;mon Yellow, you

   123 	      can get the game into a state where you can completely

   124 	      reprogram it from the inside. It's the first hack of its

   125 	      kind, and it won tasvideos.com's

   126 	      <a href="http://tasvideos.org/Awards/2012.html#tas_gameboy_12">

   127 	      2012 Gameboy TAS of the year</a>

   128 	      and <a href="http://tasvideos.org/Awards/2012.html#tas_glitchy_12">2012

   129 	      Glitchy TAS of the year</a>. <br><br>

   130 	      <a class="list" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5T81yHkHtI">Watch

   131 		on Youtube&raquo;</a>

   132 	      <a class="list" href="./vba-clojure/html/total-control.html">Guide to

   133 		the Pok&eacute;mon Yellow total control hack

   134 		&raquo;</a>

   135 	      <a class="list" href="http://tasvideos.org/2187M.html">TASvideos

   136 	      Submission &raquo;</a>

   137 	      <a class="list"

   138 	      href="http://hg.bortreb.com/vba-clojure">Source Code 

   139 	      (GPL) &raquo;</a>

   140 	    </p></td></tr>

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   142 	<tr>

   143 	  <th>Small Projects</th>

   144 	  <td>

   145 	    <ul>

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   147 	      <li><a href="../papers/html/papers.html">

   148 		  <div class="date">2015 Jul</div>Cryobiology and

   149 		  Electron Microscopy reading list</a></li>

   150 	      

   151 	      <li><a href="../hardware-hacking/html/hardware-hacking.html">

   152 		  <div class="date">2015 Mar</div>Building a

   153 		  web-controlled Gameboy</a></li>

   154 

   155 	      <li><a href="../aurellem/html/organ-preservation-alliance-victory.html">

   156 		  <div class="date">2015 Feb</div>VICTORY at the

   157 		  Global Organ Banking Summit</a></li>

   158 	      

   159 	      <li><a href="../cold-storage/html/cold-storage.html">

   160 		  <div class="date">2015 Jan</div>Preserving a DVD

   161 		  with Liquid Nitrogen</a></li>

   162 

   163 	      <li><a href="../water-loss-kinetics/html/water-loss-kinetics.html">

   164 		  <div class="date">2014 May</div>Modeling water loss

   165 		  from a cell during freezing</a></li>

   166 	      	      

   167 	      <li><a href="../thoughts/html/sussman-reading-list.html">

   168 		  <div class="date">2014 May</div>Professor Sussman's

   169 		  recommended reading</a></li>

   170 	      

   171 	      <li><a href="../marble-paintings/html/marble-paintings.html">

   172 		  <div class="date">2014 Jan</div> Painting on broken

   173 		  marble with acrylic paints</a></li>

   174 

   175 	      <li><a href="../minsky">

   176 		  <div class="date">2013 Sep</div> Marvin Minsky's

   177 		  "Society of Mind" (mostly "Dylan Holmes'

   178 		  work)</a></li>

   179 	      	      

   180 	      <li><a href="../bbbgs/html/bbbgs.html">

   181 		  <div class="date">2013 Aug</div> Improving

   182 		  background subtraction with top-down

   183 		  vision </a></li>

   184 	      

   185 	      <li><a href="../cortex/html/ai-journal-review.html">

   186 		  <div class="date">2013 May</div>Review of the

   187 		  Journal of Artificial Intelligence

   188 		   </a></li>

   189 	      

   190 	      <li><a href="../pony-stories/html/pony-stories.html">

   191 		  <div class="date">2012 Aug</div>fimfinder.net, a

   192 		  website to search fimfiction.net </a></li>

   193 	      

   194 	      <li><a href="../pokemon-types/html/types.html">

   195 		  <div class="date">2011 Aug</div>  Best-first

   196 		  search for effective Pokemon types </a></li>

   197 

   198 	      <li><a href="../pokemon-types/html/lpsolve.html">

   199 		  <div class="date">2011 Aug</div> Discovering

   200 		  effective Pokemon types using linear

   201 		  optimization </a></li>

   202 	      

   203 	      <li><a href="../abomination/html/no_parens.html">

   204 		  <div class="date">2011 Jul</div> Calling it quits

   205 		  without parentheses</a>

   206 	      </li>

   207 	    </ul>

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   214 	  <th>How-to Guides</th>

   215 	  <td>

   216  	    <ul>

   217 	      <li><a href="../stream/html/how-to-stream.html">Share

   218 		  audio/video on GNU/Linux<div class="date">2016 Jan</div></a>

   219 	      </li>

   220 	      <li><a href="../free/html/ftp.html">Set up your own FTP

   221 		  server<div class="date">2015 May</div></a>

   222 	      </li>

   223 	      <li><a href="../6.945/html/dont-panic.html">Set up

   224 		  mit-scheme (from MIT's 6.945

   225 		  class)<div class="date">2014 Jan</div></a>

   226 	      </li>

   227 	      <li><a href="../free/html/wiki.html">Set up your own

   228 		  Wiki<div class="date">2013 Sep</div></a>

   229 	      <li><a href="../free/html/email.html">Set up your own

   230 		  Personal Email Server<div class="date">2013

   231 		  Jun</div></a>

   232 	      </li>

   233 	      <li><a href="../cortex/html/capture-video.html">Capture

   234 		  video from JMonkeyEngine3<div class="date">2011

   235 		  Dec</div></a>

   236 	      </li>

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   238 	    </ul>

   239 	  </td>

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   242 	

   243 	<tr>

   244 	  <th>Essays</th>

   245 	  <td>

   246 	    <ul>

   247 	      <li><a href="../thoughts/html/patents.html"> Free

   248 		   Culture Patents<div class="date">2013 Jul</div></a>

   249 	      </li>

   250 	      <li><a href="../thoughts/html/man-years.html"> A

   251 		  Universe of Human Experience<div class="date">2011

   252 		  Oct</div></a>

   253 	      </li>

   254 	    </ul>

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   263 	  <th>Links</th>

   264 	  <td>

   265 	    <ul>

   266 	      <li><a href="https://logical.ai/">LOGICAL.AI</a><br/>The

   267 	      homepage of Dylan Holmes, who helped to make this website.

   268 	      </li>

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date	Tue, 09 Feb 2016 11:46:28 -0800
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