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

    58 		the Huffington

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

    60 		New Scientist</a>, and

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

    62 		Vice News</a></br></br>

    63 

    64 	      <a class="list"

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

    66 		to Aldehyde-Stabilized Cryopreservation (ASC)

    67 		&raquo;</a>

    68 

    69 	      <a class="list"

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

    71 		Questions &raquo;</a>

    72 

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

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

    75 

    76 	      <a class="list"

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

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

    79 

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

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

    82 

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

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

    85 

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

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

    88 

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

    90 	      research company &raquo;</a>

    91 	</p></td></tr>

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

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

    96 	    <p class="description">

    97 	      My MEng thesis at

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

    99 		<em>Recognizing Actions using Embodiment and

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

   101 	      Jennifer Johnson Thesis Award for best EE/CS MEng

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

   103 	      embodied cognition, the idea that our intelligence is

   104 	      deeply connected to our bodies and experience of the

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

   106 	      recognize other worms performing various actions like

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

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

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

   110 	      own previous experience. All code and text for the

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

   118 	</p></td></tr>

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

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

   123 	    <p class="description">

   124 	      Just by buying and rearranging certain items and

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

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

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

   128 	      kind, and it won tasvideos.com's

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

   130 	      2012 Gameboy TAS of the year</a>

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

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

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

   134 		on Youtube&raquo;</a>

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

   136 		the Pok&eacute;mon Yellow total control hack

   137 		&raquo;</a>

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

   139 	      Submission &raquo;</a>

   140 	      <a class="list"

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

   142 	      (GPL) &raquo;</a>

   143 	    </p></td></tr>

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   145 	<tr>

   146 	  <th>Small Projects</th>

   147 	  <td>

   148 	    <ul>

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

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

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

   153 	      

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

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

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

   157 

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

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

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

   161 	      

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

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

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

   165 

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

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

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

   169 	      	      

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

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

   172 		  recommended reading</a></li>

   173 	      

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

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

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

   177 

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

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

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

   181 		  work)</a></li>

   182 	      	      

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

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

   185 		  background subtraction with top-down

   186 		  vision </a></li>

   187 	      

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

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

   190 		  Journal of Artificial Intelligence

   191 		   </a></li>

   192 	      

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

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

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

   196 	      

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

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

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

   200 

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

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

   203 		  effective Pokemon types using linear

   204 		  optimization </a></li>

   205 	      

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

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

   208 		  without parentheses</a>

   209 	      </li>

   210 	    </ul>

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   215  	

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

   218 	  <td>

   219  	    <ul>

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

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

   222 	      </li>

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

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

   225 	      </li>

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

   227 		  mit-scheme (from MIT's 6.945

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

   229 	      </li>

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

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

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

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

   234 		  Jun</div></a>

   235 	      </li>

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

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

   238 		  Dec</div></a>

   239 	      </li>

   240 

   241 	    </ul>

   242 	  </td>

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   244 	<tr>

   245 	

   246 	<tr>

   247 	  <th>Essays</th>

   248 	  <td>

   249 	    <ul>

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

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

   252 	      </li>

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

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

   255 		  Oct</div></a>

   256 	      </li>

   257 	    </ul>

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   266 	  <th>Links</th>

   267 	  <td>

   268 	    <ul>

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

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

   271 	      </li>

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   275 	    </ul>

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author	Robert McIntyre <rlm@mit.edu>
date	Sat, 13 Feb 2016 11:32:52 -0800
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