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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>, and

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

    64 		Vice News</a></br></br>

    65 

    66 	      <a class="list"

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

    68 		to Aldehyde-Stabilized Cryopreservation (ASC)

    69 		&raquo;</a>

    70 

    71 	      <a class="list"

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

    73 		Questions &raquo;</a>

    74 

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

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

    77 

    78 	      <a class="list"

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

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

    81 

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

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

    84 

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

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

    87 

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

    89 	      	Detailed ASC protocol &raquo;</a>

    90 

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

    92 	      research company &raquo;</a>

    93 	</p></td></tr>

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

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

    98 	    <p class="description">

    99 	      My MEng thesis at

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

   101 		<em>Recognizing Actions using Embodiment and

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

   103 	      2014 <a href="http://studentlife.mit.edu/electrical-engineering-computer-science-2">Charles

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

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

   106 	      embodied cognition, the idea that our intelligence is

   107 	      deeply connected to our bodies and experience of the

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

   109 	      recognize other worms performing various actions like

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

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

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

   113 	      own previous experience. All code and text for the

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

   121 	</p></td></tr>

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

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

   126 	    <p class="description">

   127 	      Just by buying and rearranging certain items and

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

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

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

   131 	      kind, and it won tasvideos.com's

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

   133 	      2012 Gameboy TAS of the year</a>

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

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

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

   137 		on Youtube&raquo;</a>

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

   139 		the Pok&eacute;mon Yellow total control hack

   140 		&raquo;</a>

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

   142 	      Submission &raquo;</a>

   143 	      <a class="list"

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

   145 	      (GPL) &raquo;</a>

   146 	    </p></td></tr>

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   148 	<tr>

   149 	  <th>Small Projects</th>

   150 	  <td>

   151 	    <ul>

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

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

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

   156 	      

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

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

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

   160 

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

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

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

   164 	      

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

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

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

   168 

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

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

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

   172 	      	      

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

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

   175 		  recommended reading</a></li>

   176 	      

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

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

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

   180 

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

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

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

   184 		  work)</a></li>

   185 	      	      

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

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

   188 		  background subtraction with top-down

   189 		  vision </a></li>

   190 	      

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

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

   193 		  Journal of Artificial Intelligence

   194 		   </a></li>

   195 	      

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

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

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

   199 	      

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

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

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

   203 

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

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

   206 		  effective Pokemon types using linear

   207 		  optimization </a></li>

   208 	      

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

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

   211 		  without parentheses</a>

   212 	      </li>

   213 	    </ul>

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   216 	  </td>

   217 	</tr>

   218  	

   219 	<tr>

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

   221 	  <td>

   222  	    <ul>

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

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

   225 	      </li>

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

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

   228 	      </li>

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

   230 		  mit-scheme (from MIT's 6.945

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

   232 	      </li>

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

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

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

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

   237 		  Jun</div></a>

   238 	      </li>

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

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

   241 		  Dec</div></a>

   242 	      </li>

   243 

   244 	    </ul>

   245 	  </td>

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   247 	<tr>

   248 	

   249 	<tr>

   250 	  <th>Essays</th>

   251 	  <td>

   252 	    <ul>

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

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

   255 	      </li>

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

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

   258 		  Oct</div></a>

   259 	      </li>

   260 	    </ul>

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   269 	  <th>Links</th>

   270 	  <td>

   271 	    <ul>

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

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

   274 	      </li>

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   278 	    </ul>

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author	Robert McIntyre <rlm@mit.edu>
date	Sun, 28 Feb 2016 22:54:13 -0800
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