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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 Post</a>, and

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

    60 		Vice News</a></br></br>

    61 

    62 	      <a class="list"

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

    64 		to Aldehyde-Stabilized Cryopreservation (ASC)

    65 		&raquo;</a>

    66 

    67 	      <a class="list"

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

    69 		Questions &raquo;</a>

    70 

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

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

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    74 	      <a class="list"

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

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

    77 

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

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

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

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

    83 

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

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

    86 

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

    88 	      research company &raquo;</a>

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

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

    94 	    <p class="description">

    95 	      My MEng thesis at

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

    97 		<em>Recognizing Actions using Embodiment and

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

    99 	      Jennifer Johnson Thesis Award for best EE/CS MEng

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

   101 	      embodied cognition, the idea that our intelligence is

   102 	      deeply connected to our bodies and experience of the

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

   104 	      recognize other worms performing various actions like

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

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

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

   108 	      own previous experience. All code and text for the

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

   116 	</p></td></tr>

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

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

   121 	    <p class="description">

   122 	      Just by buying and rearranging certain items and

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

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

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

   126 	      kind, and it won tasvideos.com's

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

   128 	      2012 Gameboy TAS of the year</a>

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

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

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

   132 		on Youtube&raquo;</a>

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

   134 		the Pok&eacute;mon Yellow total control hack

   135 		&raquo;</a>

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

   137 	      Submission &raquo;</a>

   138 	      <a class="list"

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

   140 	      (GPL) &raquo;</a>

   141 	    </p></td></tr>

   142 

   143 	<tr>

   144 	  <th>Small Projects</th>

   145 	  <td>

   146 	    <ul>

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

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

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

   151 	      

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

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

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

   155 

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

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

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

   159 	      

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

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

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

   163 

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

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

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

   167 	      	      

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

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

   170 		  recommended reading</a></li>

   171 	      

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

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

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

   175 

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

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

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

   179 		  work)</a></li>

   180 	      	      

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

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

   183 		  background subtraction with top-down

   184 		  vision </a></li>

   185 	      

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

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

   188 		  Journal of Artificial Intelligence

   189 		   </a></li>

   190 	      

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

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

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

   194 	      

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

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

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

   198 

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

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

   201 		  effective Pokemon types using linear

   202 		  optimization </a></li>

   203 	      

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

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

   206 		  without parentheses</a>

   207 	      </li>

   208 	    </ul>

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

   216 	  <td>

   217  	    <ul>

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

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

   220 	      </li>

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

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

   223 	      </li>

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

   225 		  mit-scheme (from MIT's 6.945

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

   227 	      </li>

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

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

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

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

   232 		  Jun</div></a>

   233 	      </li>

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

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

   236 		  Dec</div></a>

   237 	      </li>

   238 

   239 	    </ul>

   240 	  </td>

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   242 	<tr>

   243 	

   244 	<tr>

   245 	  <th>Essays</th>

   246 	  <td>

   247 	    <ul>

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

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

   250 	      </li>

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

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

   253 		  Oct</div></a>

   254 	      </li>

   255 	    </ul>

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   264 	  <th>Links</th>

   265 	  <td>

   266 	    <ul>

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

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

   269 	      </li>

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   273 	    </ul>

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date	Fri, 12 Feb 2016 21:12:51 -0800
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