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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

    54 	      Times</a>, <a href="http://www.popsci.com/researchers-have-preserved-an-entire-rabbit-brain">Popular

    55 	      Science</a>,

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

    57 		American</a>,

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

    59 		Gizmodo</a>, <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/fully-intact-brain-frozen_us_56bb942ae4b0b40245c51654?4tic0udi">

    60 		the Huffington

    61 		Post</a>, <a href="https://www.newscientist.com/article/2077140-mammal-brain-frozen-and-thawed-out-perfectly-for-first-time/">

    62 		New Scientist</a>,

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

    64 		Vice News</a>,

    65 		and <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0747199">BBC's

    66 		Horizon</a>.</br></br>

    67 

    68 		

    69 

    70 		<a class="list"

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

    72 		to Aldehyde-Stabilized Cryopreservation (ASC)

    73 		&raquo;</a>

    74 

    75 		<a class="list" href="http://www.brainpreservation.org/small-mammal-announcement">Brain

    76 		Preservation Prize Announcement &raquo;</a>

    77 	      <a class="list"

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

    79 		Questions &raquo;</a>

    80 

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

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

    83 

    84 	      <a class="list"

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

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

    87 

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

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

    90 

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

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

    93 

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

    95 	      	Detailed ASC protocol &raquo;</a>

    96 

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

    98 	      research company &raquo;</a>

    99 	</p></td></tr>

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   102 	    <h2><a id="CORTEX" href="./cortex/thesis/rlm-cortex-meng.pdf">

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

   104 	    <p class="description">

   105 	      My MEng thesis at

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

   107 		<em>Recognizing Actions using Embodiment and

   108 	      Empathy</em></a>. It won the 1st Place

   109 	      2014 <a href="http://studentlife.mit.edu/electrical-engineering-computer-science-2">Charles

   110 	      and Jennifer Johnson Thesis Award</a> for best EE/CS

   111 	      MEng thesis! <code>CORTEX</code> is an exploration of

   112 	      embodied cognition, the idea that our intelligence is

   113 	      deeply connected to our bodies and experience of the

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

   115 	      recognize other worms performing various actions like

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

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

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

   119 	      own previous experience. All code and text for the

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

   127 	</p></td></tr>

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

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

   132 	    <p class="description">

   133 	      Just by buying and rearranging certain items and

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

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

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

   137 	      kind, and it won tasvideos.com's

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

   139 	      2012 Gameboy TAS of the year</a>

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

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

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

   143 		on Youtube&raquo;</a>

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

   145 		the Pok&eacute;mon Yellow total control hack

   146 		&raquo;</a>

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

   148 	      Submission &raquo;</a>

   149 	      <a class="list"

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

   151 	      (GPL) &raquo;</a>

   152 	    </p></td></tr>

   153 

   154 	<tr>

   155 	  <th>Small Projects</th>

   156 	  <td>

   157 	    <ul>

   158 

   159 	      <li><a href="../papers/html/cryo-em.html">

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

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

   162 	      

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

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

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

   166 

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

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

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

   170 	      

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

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

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

   174 

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

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

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

   178 	      	      

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

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

   181 		  recommended reading</a></li>

   182 	      

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

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

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

   186 

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

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

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

   190 		  work)</a></li>

   191 	      	      

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

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

   194 		  background subtraction with top-down

   195 		  vision </a></li>

   196 	      

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

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

   199 		  Journal of Artificial Intelligence

   200 		   </a></li>

   201 	      

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

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

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

   205 	      

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

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

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

   209 

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

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

   212 		  effective Pokemon types using linear

   213 		  optimization </a></li>

   214 	      

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

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

   217 		  without parentheses</a>

   218 	      </li>

   219 	    </ul>

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   223 	</tr>

   224  	

   225 	<tr>

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

   227 	  <td>

   228  	    <ul>

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

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

   231 	      </li>

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

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

   234 	      </li>

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

   236 		  mit-scheme (from MIT's 6.945

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

   238 	      </li>

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

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

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

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

   243 		  Jun</div></a>

   244 	      </li>

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

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

   247 		  Dec</div></a>

   248 	      </li>

   249 

   250 	    </ul>

   251 	  </td>

   252 	</tr>

   253 	<tr>

   254 	

   255 	<tr>

   256 	  <th>Essays</th>

   257 	  <td>

   258 	    <ul>

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

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

   261 	      </li>

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

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

   264 		  Oct</div></a>

   265 	      </li>

   266 	    </ul>

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   275 	  <th>Links</th>

   276 	  <td>

   277 	    <ul>

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

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

   280 	      </li>

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   283 

   284 	    </ul>

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author	Robert McIntyre <rlm@mit.edu>
date	Tue, 19 Apr 2016 13:46:53 -0700
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