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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

    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 2014 Charles and

   103 	      Jennifer Johnson Thesis Award for best EE/CS MEng

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

   105 	      embodied cognition, the idea that our intelligence is

   106 	      deeply connected to our bodies and experience of the

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

   108 	      recognize other worms performing various actions like

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

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

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

   112 	      own previous experience. All code and text for the

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

   120 	</p></td></tr>

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

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

   125 	    <p class="description">

   126 	      Just by buying and rearranging certain items and

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

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

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

   130 	      kind, and it won tasvideos.com's

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

   132 	      2012 Gameboy TAS of the year</a>

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

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

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

   136 		on Youtube&raquo;</a>

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

   138 		the Pok&eacute;mon Yellow total control hack

   139 		&raquo;</a>

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

   141 	      Submission &raquo;</a>

   142 	      <a class="list"

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

   144 	      (GPL) &raquo;</a>

   145 	    </p></td></tr>

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   147 	<tr>

   148 	  <th>Small Projects</th>

   149 	  <td>

   150 	    <ul>

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

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

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

   155 	      

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

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

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

   159 

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

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

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

   163 	      

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

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

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

   167 

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

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

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

   171 	      	      

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

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

   174 		  recommended reading</a></li>

   175 	      

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

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

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

   179 

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

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

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

   183 		  work)</a></li>

   184 	      	      

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

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

   187 		  background subtraction with top-down

   188 		  vision </a></li>

   189 	      

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

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

   192 		  Journal of Artificial Intelligence

   193 		   </a></li>

   194 	      

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

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

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

   198 	      

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

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

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

   202 

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

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

   205 		  effective Pokemon types using linear

   206 		  optimization </a></li>

   207 	      

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

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

   210 		  without parentheses</a>

   211 	      </li>

   212 	    </ul>

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   216 	</tr>

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   218 	<tr>

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

   220 	  <td>

   221  	    <ul>

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

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

   224 	      </li>

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

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

   227 	      </li>

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

   229 		  mit-scheme (from MIT's 6.945

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

   231 	      </li>

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

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

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

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

   236 		  Jun</div></a>

   237 	      </li>

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

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

   240 		  Dec</div></a>

   241 	      </li>

   242 

   243 	    </ul>

   244 	  </td>

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   246 	<tr>

   247 	

   248 	<tr>

   249 	  <th>Essays</th>

   250 	  <td>

   251 	    <ul>

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

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

   254 	      </li>

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

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

   257 		  Oct</div></a>

   258 	      </li>

   259 	    </ul>

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   268 	  <th>Links</th>

   269 	  <td>

   270 	    <ul>

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

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

   273 	      </li>

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   277 	    </ul>

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date	Sat, 13 Feb 2016 13:42:35 -0800
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