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1 #+title: Big List O' Ideas
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2 #+author: Robert McIntyre
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3 #+email: rlm@mit.edu
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4 #+description: list of ideas from the last ~ 7 years
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5 #+keywords: aurellem ideas half-baked random
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10 * Ideas
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11 # :PROPERTIES:
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12 # :HTML_CONTAINER_CLASS: ideas
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13 # :END:
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14
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15 This is a list of *Every* idea I've written down
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17 #+begin_quote
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18 There's no end to what a man can accomplish if he doesn't care about
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19 getting credit.
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20 #+end_quote
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21
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22 - blockchain based experential memory ::
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23
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24 - a hidden world of early life :: I imagine that the bridge form the
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25 first life forms to even very simple single celled organisms was
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26 probably very interesting and a lot more diverse than we give it
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27 credit for. Unfortunately, I doubt that we're going to find any
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28 good evidence for such creatures, since they don't seem like the
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29 type of organisms that would preserve well. All sorts of really
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30 neat delf replicating molecules and assemblies of molecules, and
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31 we'd have no record of any of them. The only way to get an idea
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32 of these types of life will be to make them again in the lab.
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33
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34 - brain insurance :: for the preserved brain
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35
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36 - remote control ants / pidgeons :: train/evolve them to want to
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37 follow an EM gradient or magnetic field. put a camera on.
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38
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39 - musical neural inversion :: get a simple model of emotional and
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40 auditory circuits, "invert" the model based on sound input, and
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41 generate music with constrating satisfaction. Might find some
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42 music that's simultaneously "alien" (lacking a top-down design)
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43 yet still deeply emotionally coherent and satisfying.
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44
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45 - simulated fire :: for those who say that simulated water can't get
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46 you wet, just see what happens if you attach your nerves to
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47 simulated output of FIRE. I gaurantee you're going to have a bad
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48 time.
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49
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50 - use lasers to cut large plasticized brains ::
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51
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52 - gravity telescope the size of the solar system ::
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53
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54 - information bearing layer :: to find the spatial / logical scale of
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55 the main information containing layer of an information storage
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56 device, look at where correlated change happens, and then to see
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57 if it's digital, look beyond that and see if the changes are
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58 uncorrelated.
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59
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60 - sperm fitness correlation :: it's evolutionary advantageous for a
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61 species' sperm to fail to function exactly when the fetus they
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62 would create would fail. But it's really hard to make this
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63 functoinal correlation happen because the sperm cell only
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64 expresses a small subset of the genome. To the extent that thei
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65 correlation effect exists, we can reverse it to find
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66 "interesting" genes. My guess --- look for genes physiccally
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67 next to sperm coding genes.
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68
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69 - spinal repeater/relay :: a VERY fine mesh of directional paths,
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70 much finer than the width of a spinal axon, which can connect a
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71 bundle of nerves that has been cut together.
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73 - auto book ::handwritten by machine; illuminated. Like old medieval
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74 books. Use a model of handwriting so the letters are different.
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75
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76 - url resolver :: pick the longest vaid url that's a rooted substring
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77 of the requested URL. unambigupously corrects for links that
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78 have things like periods and ending parens at the end of a link.
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79
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80 - soul black marble :: for existential threats, what if solu magic
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81 was true, and undertale whatever, destroy the world
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82
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83 - heart preservation + heart bypass to allow time for healing :: you
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84 cryopreserve a heart, then "recondition" it inside the patient
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85 while under bypass to allow time for it to heal.
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86
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87 - intelligent microwave osmium perfusion w/ CAT scan ::
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88
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89 - assembling new word-sounding words by concatenation and random deletion ::
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90
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91 - amber brain preservation? :: would this work, without having to do
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92 the heavy metal bits? Maybe chemical fixation with aldehydes
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93 followed by hot amber and then high pressure for several months?
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94
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95 - zappy fat ::
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96
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97 - electrocaloric effect :: see
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98 https://dx.doi.org/10.1146%2Fannurev-matsci-062910-100341,
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99 [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrocaloric_effect][wikipedia article]]
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101 - albino fruit ::
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102
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103 - cryoprotectant that increases the nutritional value fo food ::
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104
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105 - faucet enerty :: how much power do you get from an average faucet
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106 compared to the wall socket?
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107
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108 - high pressure fixation :: could this defeat the "myelin unraveling"
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109 problem? Maybe -- if the "unraveling" is actually BUBBLES like
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110 you might get during the bends, caused by the fixation reaction!
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111
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112 - eat fixed tissue :: can you EAT glutaraldehyde preserved tissue, if
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113 you wash away all the free aldehydes and make sure that the
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114 reaction is complete? Can you also cook the tissue? Maybe it
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115 would be good!
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116
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117 - intelligence sorting ::
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118
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119 - hyperbaric fixation :: apparently with divers with the "bends", you
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120 get bubbles in the myelin in particular. Maybe hyperbaric
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121 fixation would be able to eliminate these bubbles!
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122
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123 - blood + cryoprotectant :: might be more gentle than normal things?
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124 Why not use it? (b/c you might need extracellular ion
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125 concentrations), also zeta potentials! But you could filter the
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126 blood, and get a lot from a slaughterhouse perhaps.
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127
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128 - the matrix has a "lord of space" and a "muse of time" ::
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129
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130 - ultra fast fluorocarbon cooling :: perfuse brain w/ cryoprotectant,
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131 cool to -20°C. Then clear out everything w/ fluorocarbon (or
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132 something else that doesn't interact w/ cells and has very low
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133 viscosoty at low temperatures), and then immediately switch to
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134 fluorocarbon at around -135°C. Should very quickly cool the
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135 brain (even faster than persufflation!) and would also avoid the
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136 dehydration problems associated w/ persufflation. Even better,
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137 you have a mechanism for rapidly warming the brain --
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138 immediately switch to warm fluorocarbon. Everything is always
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139 still liquid and pressurized. Should buy you a couple % decrease
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140 in CPA toxicity.
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141
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142 - gameboy IR link over wifi through emilation ::
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143
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144 - living memory is the start of history :: the natural dividing line
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145 is between living and dead history, and is created retroactively
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146 with the advent of brain preservation technology and then
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147 realized by mind uploading. It can still creep forward from
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148 death of individuals. We're still living in pre-history!
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149
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150 - the memory of God is the soul :: mind-uploading + christian
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151 theology ==> the soul falls out nicely from omniscience.
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152
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153 - alternating stir plate :: a magnetic stir bar that alternates back
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154 and forth. Is it more efficient?
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155
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156 - rsync with md5 (or whatever) database :: Now if you're rsync'ing
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157 something over to the server, if the file matches something
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158 already on the server, then it gets copied over from wherever it
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159 is on the server (then each block's signature is checked like
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160 with normal rsync, so that you get exactly the same behaviour).
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161
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162 - mvln :: uses a backing database to gaurantee that when you move a
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163 folder, that all the links that point to it can remain
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164 consistent across your system.
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165
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166 - centrifugal drinking :: spin the bottle around and tubes from the
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167 bottom convey drink up to the top. (don't know why I came up
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168 with this one...)
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169
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170 - DRACOS at single cell stage :: you splice the genes for DRACOS into
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171 a single human cell at the first stage of development. Then all
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172 the cells of the person that cell will eventually become will
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173 automatically produce DRACOS (and the DRACOS will be recognized
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174 as "self" by the immune system. This creates a powerful
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175 secondary immune system which will make the person immune to
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176 almost all viruses.
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177
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178 - toilet + fume hood :: because it's dumb to have the entire bathroom
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179 be a sort of fume hood.
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181 - wind speed force :: two wind socks one weighted. The angle between
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182 them tells you the force of the wind.
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183
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184 - sshfs to mount root :: you can mount your own root filesystem
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185 somewhere else using sshfs. Sort of "normalizes" file
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186 permissions without having to use root, and is weird. Could also
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187 bypass rm =--preserve-root= restrictions and delete entire
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188 filesystem.
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189
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190 #+BEGIN_SRC sh
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191 sshfs root@localhost:/ my-root
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192 #+END_SRC
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194 - not even a nop of damage :: nop == no-op
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196 - twittwe vibratoe ::
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197
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198 - value of cancer :: what of value is lost with an easy cancer-cure?
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199
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200 - blood :: blood is the "wires" that connect organs to each other and
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201 impedance match the services that organs provide to other
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202 organs. A heart, per se, does not need blood but instead access
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203 to the filtering powers of a kidney; blood just connects the
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204 kidney cells to the heart cells. That's why "perfusing w/ blood"
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205 is entirely missing the point.
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206
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207 - armored helmet :: use fiber-optics to re-route vision and get better
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208 shield for eyes. curved plates, kozilek style.
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209
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210 - open source contributions :: way to make them public on your website easily.
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211
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212 - active opto-glove :: for ENHANCED touch! It's a magnyfing glass for
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213 your fingers!
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214
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215 - glove screen :: for driving directions, etc. Better than a watch!
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216
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217 - osmium + sugar as a histo stain :: the suger interacts with the
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218 osmium and retards its progress. you can see details on slices in
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219 a light microscope without any more staining, and the EMs are not
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220 adversely affected.
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221
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222 - encryption camera :: use public key on memory card. The camera
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223 writes files encrypted with this public key.
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224
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225 - immaculate AIDS acquisition ::
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226
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227 - minds and lightspeed :: fastern minds have to deal with lightspeed
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228 limitations in their own cognitive architectures.
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229
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230 - kill with fire :: guy A fires fire blast, with a spell circle to
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231 maintain the magic. Opponent B just GRABS the magic and pulls MORE
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232 fire. Guy A's circle goes out of control and all his life force
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233 gets sucked out to supply more fire. B grabs the magic, crushes
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234 it, fires a concentrated red lightning bolt, and eats the
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235 rest. "You think that you can kill me, WITH FIRE!?"
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236
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237 - magic ekiga ::
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238
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239 - edible crayons ::
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240
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241 - library chaining ::
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242
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243 - hypnosis + that drug that makes you loose continuity :: can the
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244 hypnosos plant things during this time?
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245
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246 - forgotten services :: use "ovbilion" somehow. Some sleeping drugs
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247 make you forget the hour or so before you go to bed. Use this to
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248 create forgotten services.
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249
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250 - dibenzelene -- mike darwin ::
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251
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252 - sleepy perfusion :: if brains naturally expand / contract depending
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253 on resting / awake state, we should investigate the EMs of brains
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254 fixed during "sleep" mode and those fixed during "awake"
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255 mode. (while still using anesthetic of course).
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256
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257 - shit flavored dog treats :: because dogs would probably like them.
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258
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259 - fume hood incense :: so make sure the fume hood is working
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260
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261 - infinity coin :: s.f. concept -- billions are uploaded by using
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262 osmium as a "mind uploading catalyst". osmium is put ino the
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263 brain, they brain is scanned, and the osmium is recycled. Then
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264 you make coins out of the osmium that has gone through billions
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265 of these cycles.
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266
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267 - mamilian dive reflex as a method of preparing organs for cryopreservation ::
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268
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269 - spinal encryption :: like an X server, except your body parts each
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270 run these servers. You all have clocks, and you have to sign your
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271 muscle commands with your private key in order to control your
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272 body.
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273
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274 - suicide note as a mental excercise :: from NPR, ted talk, teenagers, etc.
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275
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276 - microscope clamp magnet ring thing ::
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277
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278 - cup that fills from the bottom ::
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279
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280 - pronouncaeble liscense plates ::
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281
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282 - instant-awake vs natural awakening :: cognitive behavioural
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283 difference tells you important things about the waking process.
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284
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285 - asethetics and personal identity :: if you go to germany, you're not
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286 the same person anymore.
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287
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288 - arch linux diff cache :: should only download differences between
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289 the new package and the most rcent archive file. Can
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290 precalculate. Would make mirrors/upgrading so much faster.
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291
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292 - low gravity perfusion :: then you can use cappaliary action. From
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293 this: http://www.wired.com/2015/01/coffee-cup-designed-let-astronauts-sip-espresso-space/
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295 - rational advertiting :: a new criteria for advertisting -- given
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296 same ad structure for two different produces, what structure
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297 leads to the most people picking the "optimal" choice.
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298
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299 - autoclone bootstrapping :: to breed male with self: you make a clone
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300 of the male that's broken, male and female, the bootstrap with
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301 those gametes
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302
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303 - position independent numbers :: like latin for numbers. You'd use
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304 color, endings, relative size, etc to determine what place the
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305 number has. Very convientnt for order or magnitude calculations.
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306
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307 - dead man switch activated linux user account ::
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308
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309 - embowlement :: condencending reference to embodiment
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310
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311 - water staff :: drinksy walking staff w/ water
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312
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313 - melanin transfection ::
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314
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315 - retention of neurotransmitters / other small molecules during fixation by use of an extracellular polymer such as PVP ::
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316
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317 - machines :: Knowing we are machines does not diminish us; instead it
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318 opens our minds to the awe-inspiring complexity that is the human
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319 mind. Those who prefer to attribute consciousness to a "soul" or
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320 other metaphysical process are the ones who diminish man to a
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321 mere cartoon caricature.
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322
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323 - why does glut change osmotic setpoints in cells :: perhaps either 1)
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324 It makes the membrane permeable to small molecules or 2)
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325 crosslinking proteins means less colagative effects.
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326
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327 - Hemocyanin based blood washout solution :: for artificial blood, it
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328 can be hard to carry enough oxygen because haemoglobin needs to
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329 be in RBCs in order to effectively carry oxygen. However,
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330 hemocyanin, a copper based oxygen carrying protein, doesn't have
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331 this restriction, so it might make particurally good artificial
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332 blood. Might also be great for making oxygenated fixative
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333 solutions! In fact, hemocyanin is more efficient than hemoglobin
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334 for carrying oxygen at low temperatures, perfect for
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335 cooling/blood washout! Hemocyanin could also serve to establish
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336 oncotic pressure in a blood washout solution since it weighs 75
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337 kilodaltons.
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338
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339 - osmotic buffer :: polymer which polymerizes / splits apart in order
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340 to maintain the osmolality of a solution.
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341
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342 - shoes w/ embedded computers :: and have little clickey things you
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343 operate with your big toe.
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344
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345 - gb codec ::
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346
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347 - ultrasonic cell disruptor to make foor ::
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348
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349 - particle accelarator asd an awesome electron microscop ::
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350
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351 - tolouadine blue pen :: use biological stains as dyes for ink pens?
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352
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353 - clock stop explination :: you have a "visual buffer" which needs to
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354 fill up whenever you switch out from one scene to another. This
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355 is the clock stop illusion.
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356
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357 - coffee ad space :: Your coffee stock was brought to you by google,
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358 the only company that brings you comfort and love in your harsh
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359 and heartless corporate world. This is majestic guerrila
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360 marketing.
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361
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362 - geo-synchro browsing :: you get a bunch of proxy servers, and then
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363 you visit websites and synchronize the views from each of these
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364 proxies into one view. Then you can see the differences by
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365 conutry/region. This is a way to experience the "neutral"
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366 internet by averging the effects of ip-tracing.
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367
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368 - periodic table of genders :: arrange people by bahaviour, particular
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369 what sort of bonds they can form with other people.
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370
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371 - ice cream protein synthesis ::
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372
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373 - colored EM :: different heavy metals might possibly have different
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374 intensities for different electron acceleration voltages. So this
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375 could be the basis for colored EM images!
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376
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377 - expansion microscopy dual :: this would be a process where you
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378 define a molecular scale object using larger microscopic
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379 components. Then nanotechnology goes through and replaces each
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380 "atomic macro block" with the appropriate atomic construct. That
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381 way you can use microscopic 3D printing and a special purpose
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382 form of nanotechnolical assembler to create any molecular
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383 arrangement.
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384
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385 - anoxic glut :: what happens when you try to fix tissues in an
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386 environment completely devoid of oxygen?
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387
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388 - copper+EG :: if RBCs are rendered impermeabale to EG when Cu is
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389 present, then maybe you can destroy RBCs by a mixture of EG and
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390 Cu?
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391
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392 - qualia intuition explained :: let's say that you lacked the sense of
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393 smell. How could you learn what "acrid" means without it. How
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394 could you explain it to someone, without analogy to other
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395 smells. We mind-project this real linguistic separation into
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396 reality and get qualia.
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397
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398 - spinal relay :: you have a small air-gapped repeater built into your
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399 spine in order to help with spinal injury, connect with
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400 prosthetics, and to monitor/control your body. Also, you could
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401 add the ability to save "macros"!
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402
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403 - human cysts :: there should be communities of people with varying
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404 enforced separations from the rest of society in order to gaurd
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405 against various catastrophies.
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406
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407 - bioelectric synthesis :: have a device which stores a lot of energy,
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408 and processes blood by creating sugar from waste produces over
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409 the day. You still need water, vitamins, minerals, etc, but this
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410 can handle the bulk of your energy demands and be recharged from
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411 the wall.
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412
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413 - chelation as a method to improve cryoprotectant permeability ::
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414
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415 - transgender fruit analogy :: like tomatoes
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416
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417 - video game controllers as actual controllers :: console controlers
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418 like the n64 trident are excellent, durable tools for fine
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419 control. We should use them to control all sorts of things like
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420 robots by default. You should use it for your projects, since
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421 it's unlikely you'll be able to come up with something
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422 better. Compared to console controllers, the ones we use for
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423 robots/RC stuff are hopelessly clunky.
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424
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425 - bubble computers :: bubble duality, bubble computing
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426
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427 - dark blood bag :: blood bags in hospitals should be dark colored to
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428 protect the blood from damage from light.
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429
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430 - chimeric homozygous sex chromosomes :: chimeric organism with XX and
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431 XX patterns from two males and two females. On average, it has
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432 the correct methylation pattern. Would it work?
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433
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434 - horseshoe blood fixative :: would it work as a washout?
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435
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436 - fixed protein packets :: group of fixed proteins in a network which
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437 is used as medicine. Hemoglovin, maybe?
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438
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439 - prove hauntings :: website where you enter your pgp signed encrypted
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440 file and swear by all the gods that you'll haunt me with the
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441 password when you die, along with whatever other messages you
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442 have. protocol -- I video, throw rock, get password.
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443
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444 - earth air water :: probably all intelligent species name their
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445 planet "dirt" in their language, unless the're aquatic or flying,
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446 then they'd name it "water" and "air" respectively.
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447
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448 - ethylene glycol alt name :: icebane
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449
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450 - overflow hiaku :: a hiku about buffer overflos, with garbage C code
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451 inside.
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452
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453 - white knight :: his sword is named "Privledge" (an inherited family
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454 sword) he rides along the land, defending the code of
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455 chivralirary and keeping the orthodozy of society from fading
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456 from the realm.
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457
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458 - technological deflation :: even the richest robber baron from the
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459 1920's could not afford a cardiac bypass surgery, even with
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460 literally all the money they had. As technology advances, the
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461 price of bread may go up, but the capabilities which money gives
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462 you also dramatically increase.
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463
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464 - cure for color blindness :: could it be possible to administer some
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465 retroviruses via direct injection to the retina, to cause some of
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466 the cells in the retina to begin expressing different color
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467 pigments? The brain ought to easily sort out the rest and enable
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468 color vision. Furthremore, could we add some more colors to
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469 baesline human eyes? Theory -- people who are color blind have
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470 better color spatial accuity for the colors they can see, because
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471 this it the tradeoff here involved with the retrovirus
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472 therapy. Re-purposing color detectors to see new colors at the
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473 expense of spatial acuity for the old set of colors.
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474
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475 - mental integrity test :: if your brain starts to decay, you might
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476 not notice the damage until it's too late. This would be a mental
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477 integrity test that you take every few weeks that measures your
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478 performance and compares it to a baseline. The tests are all
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479 designed to catch the early signs of degenerative brain
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480 diseases. For example, you might use performamce on a
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481 smell-memory assoaction test to detect early-onset Alzheimer's.
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482
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483 - mind bank :: (in contrast to "brain bank")
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484
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485 - Passion of the Christ missed opportunity :: in the Passion of the
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486 Christ, they do the entire show using Latin, Aramaic, etc, with
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487 subtitles. They should have had a part where Jesus does the
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488 sermon on the mount, he turns to the camera, and starts speaking
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489 in English, with no subtitles. It would have been 1.) biblically
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490 accurate and 2.) awesome. It would have been such a powerful
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491 example of Jesus' divinity, and it felt like they were setting up
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492 for it the entire movie, and they missed it!
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493
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494 - scientist online paper reviews ::
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495
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496 - binary feedback ::
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497
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498 - xenobiotic methalation rewriting ::
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499
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500 - trolley cryonics :: change the cryonics protocol around so that the
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501 death occurs in a non-primary action loop.
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502
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503 - binary metric :: you make up new unit names for "2 centimeters", "4
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504 centimeters", "16 centimeters", etc. Then no one will be happy!
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505 BUT, it helps solve metric's problem of intermediate units. (a
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506 centimeter is too small, a meter is too large!)
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507
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508 - physical pgp signatures :: someone should put together the
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509 technologies so that you can digitally sign actual pieces of
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510 paper -- some combination of signing a photograph of the
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511 contract using pgp, printing a barcode or OR code on the page
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512 which links to a website with the signed image, and a web of
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513 trust model so that people can authenticate as themselves. All
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514 this totally exists already, it's just not convienent.
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515
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516 - meta eye :: you wire in a third optical input to the human brain,
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517 but it doesn't tranduce light form the real world, bus instead is
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518 connected to the "internet of things" and shows you metadata
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519 about things you are looking at // serves as an interface to your
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520 own mind and body. Then eventually simply real things without
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521 metadata seem flat and fake compared to the objects in cities and
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522 other annotated areas. This third eye doesn't occupy any of your
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523 normal visual field but actually EXPANDS your visual field.
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524
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525 - do it once -- upload ::
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526
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527 - a simple merge procedure for uploads ::
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528
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529 - limits of monogamy ::
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530
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531 - dream rewinding :: how to record a complete dream without disturbing
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532 it or modifying your brain? you need to be an upload: split
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533 yourself, and one of you stays awake whike the other sleeps. then
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534 you detect a dream in progress by monotoring rapid eye movememt
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535 in your sleeping self, and you wake yourself up every few minutes
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536 and tell yoursef about the dream. Then sleeping-your restarts the
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537 dream, continuation passing style, forgetting everything that was
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538 just said, and you repeat this process until the dream is
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539 over. Then awake-you and sleeping-you merge each other by taking
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540 sleeping-you and replaying the memories of awake-you, and you
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541 write a final report on the dream using the "saccade" reports to
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542 jog your memory.
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543
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544 - denser than osmium :: do the "misicibility" thing with an osmium
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545 alloy to get something even more dense.
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546
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547 - AI hypnosis :: hypnosis might be good for studying AI, becuse it
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548 might probide a "debugger" for ananlyzing the human mind. I
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549 briefly tried this while at MIT, but it needs MUCH more work to
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550 be properly evaulated.
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551
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552 - becomming alive :: upload faces challenges to grow into they type of
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553 person that can join the greater society -- a god. They have to
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554 go though quests that replicate all the things that humanity had
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555 to accomplish, like going to the moon, by themselves, in a
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556 virtual world where they cannot die and never get tired.
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557
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558 - population distorted map of USA :: to see states sizes in terms of #
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559 of people. (already exists!
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560 http://www-personal.umich.edu/~mejn/cart/doc/)
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561
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562 - butterfly drone :: if big butterflies used to exist, then maybe we
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563 could make butterfly-inspired drones!
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564
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565 - methylation sex symmetry breaking :: So, human cells have
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566 methylation patterns that encode male/female origin. If you
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567 combine two male patterns, the fetus grows "too fast" and
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568 dies. Two female patterns causes the fetus to enter a "vegatable"
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569 state and fail to develop. Evolutionary biologists will say that
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570 this reflects the asymmetry of energy investement for creating
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571 offspring. If that's true, then species that cast-spawn will lack
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572 this symmetry, and give clues about how to remove it in
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573 humans. If even cast spawners like sea urchins have it, then that
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574 means there's something deeper going on!
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575
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576 - reverse cannulation perfusion :: you put the organ you want to
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577 perfuse in an airtight chamber with a pool of the stuff you want
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578 to perfuse. You cannulate some veins and lead tubes form to
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579 outside of the chamber. You pump in air and perfusate, and the
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580 increasing air pressure in the chamber forces perfusate through
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581 the organ. For times when you don't want to cannulate the inputs
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582 -- they can be ragged, or there can be many of them. You still
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583 have to guide the veins to the outside of the chamber, but
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584 depending on the use case this might be far easier than
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585 tradational cannulation.
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586
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587 - very slow physiological pressure perfusion :: less extreme example
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588 of the "pausing" trick -- just keep the perfusion running and
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589 don't put the perfusion target into the liquid as deep.
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590
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591 - whole brain perfusion embedding :: Do the standard EM embedding
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592 protocol, but skip the osmium step, and use the "perfusion
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593 pausing" method to prevent overextraction during the dehydration
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594 and embedding steps. I think that you CAN perfuse resins into the
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595 brain, simply because you CAN perfuse viscous rubber when doing
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596 vascular casts.
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597
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598 - perfusion pausing :: (Turns out this won't actually work!) One
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599 problem with doing perfusion is that if you STOP the perfusion,
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600 you rapidly loose pressure in the organ as your perfusate leaks
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601 out. You can prevent this by submerging the organ/head/rat
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602 whatever in FLUID at the appropriate level. Use something inert
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603 like flurocarbon to avoid problems. You would have to slowly
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604 decrease the flow rate while simultaneously lowering the
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605 perfusing object into the fluid. To start again, reverse the
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606 process -- reengage the peristaltic pump slowly while removing
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607 the organ from the fluid.
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608
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609 - evoultionary textbook mimiricy :: as surgery becomes more common,
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610 there develops a distinct selective pressure for individuals
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611 organ layout to look more like the medical textbooks! :P
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612
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613 - transparent skin :: temporary / permament transparent skin. Allows
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614 for examination of organs / muscles and visual prevention of
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615 disease and detection or abnormalities / good things
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616 eg. excercise.
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617
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618 - sweet information :: candy with a whole book written in it. Eat a
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619 book!
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620
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621 - targeted immunosuppressant :: just kill off the B-cells and friends
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622 that would cause problems in a organ-transplant / other
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623 situation. AIDS is good at killing these cells -- maybe make it
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624 just target the ones that will cause problems. Then you can
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625 premptively kill off that part of someone's immune system before
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626 a transplant. ALSO, you can kill off everyone's defenses against
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627 other blood types and make people effectively type AB+ w.r.t
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628 blood transfusions. Actually, why not give babies this treatment
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629 so that they're automatically compatable with all blood types?
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630 The immune system has this already when it's first growing; maybe
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631 it can be "retrained" to accept new things, or the mechanism of
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632 immune cell death be co-opted for these purposes.
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633
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634 - fuck you tetris :: tetris that actively gives you the worst possible piece.
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635
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636 - pockets :: more things should have them!
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637
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638 - colored shower head :: a shower head add on that measures the temp
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639 of the water and changes the color of the water streams w/ an LED
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640 to show you the temperature. That way you can align to the color
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641 you want and see the temperature without feeling it.
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642
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643 - giant dragonflies :: we could rapidly MAKE giant dragonflies by
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644 evolving modern dragonflies in an very oxygen rich environment!
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645
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646 - anesthetic surgery courtesty video :: as a matter of courtesy,
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647 whenever you go under anesthetic, the doctors should provide you
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648 with a video of the surgery / recovery after you are concious
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649 again. The recording should begin about 3 minutes before
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650 anesthetic, and continue until both you and the docor agree to
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651 stop recording, or you leave the hospital.
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652
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653 - whirlpool of light :: shine a laser out into space. But the planet
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654 is spinning! What you get is a spiral or light! And as this
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655 signal expands, does it eventually reveal it's wuantized nature?
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656
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657 - perfusion coking :: EOM
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658
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659 - timestamp verification :: you sign your message, and it has a
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660 timestamp at the top, with a +- percision number. Then you send
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661 it over to the public timestamp server, which only signs the
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662 message if it gets the message within the timestamp window. Or
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663 the computer just signs the message but puts a timestamp at the
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664 beginning. So if everyone trusts the timestamp server, you can
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665 get reliable timestamps, and prove priority on ideas, etc.
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666
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667 - the great computing slow-down :: in general, our computers are
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668 getting faster and faster. However, eventually our brains will be
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669 made of the same stuff our computers are made of! This has very
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670 interesting consequences -- I can add 2+2 and get four in about a
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671 second. Since my neurons actually work at around 10-60 hertz in
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672 parallel, this means that it takes me around 10-30 operations to
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673 do this addition. That's actually not bad in terms of computing
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674 time. If my neurons were as fast as the latest transitors, then
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675 most calculators would be SLOWER than me at adding numbers. Only
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676 the newest, most optimized calculators would be faster, and then
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677 only about 10 times faster! This means that once we begin to
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678 think at the speed of our technology, that technology will
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679 suddenly seem pitifully slow in comparison to how it seems
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680 now. And no amount of technical progress will remedy it, because
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681 that same progress will also make us all think faster. We'll
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682 either have to settle with living in "slow time" to do some
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683 computations, or learn to make smarter hardware with special
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684 optimizations. But this is actually really hard, because we'll be
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685 working with machines that will appear to us about as fast as
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686 MECHANICAL computers. So, in the future, all the cool parties
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687 will be in cyperspace at vastly accelerated speeds compared to
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688 how we exist now. But at these parties, the computers will SUCK!
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689 Of course, this is one of the few things that can save us from AI
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690 risk, because those AI's won't seem so scary when the're build
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691 out of rickety mechanical parts form our perspective.
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692
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693 - unitary reverse evolution of chaos+minds :: Chaotic systems diverge
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694 exponentially in state space. Do you get anything interesting
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695 when part of the physical system associated with the chaotic
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696 system is a object that performs some sort of computation? Is it
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697 possible for the computational system to play a
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698 percision-enabling role in determining the final/initial
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699 conditions of the chaotic system, just by tracing out thoughts in
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700 its decision paths? This is probably too vague of an idea right
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701 now, I just wanted to write it down.
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702
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703 - microwave time :: the cooking time you enter on most microwaves is
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704 insane. It's expressed in what I call a "hybrid base", a
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705 combination of base 10 and base 60. You can get absurd things
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706 like 100 < 61, and 120 == 80! I wonder if these hybrid base
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707 systems could be very useful for some purposes!
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708
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709 - three-eyes :: if you had three eyes, would you still draw cubes like
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710 we currently draw them? Or would all 2D-representations of 3D
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711 space always look hopelessly fake?
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712
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713 - visual taste/smell assay :: get a grid of bacteria, each expressing
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714 a human taste/smell receptor linked to some sort of fluorscent
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715 activity or ion pump. Use a camera / electrical grid to transduce
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716 the smell / taste signal into bits!
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717
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718 - carabiner mushroom lock :: you can take a trapazodial carabiner and
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719 make it so that a chain link is caught between the wide end of
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720 the carabiner and another chain attached to the carabiner.
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721
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722 - children's tool shop :: I think that kids should be provided with
|
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723 tool shops -- these would be nice sheds with a good collection of
|
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724 tools to do various things -- circuit components and soldering
|
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725 irons, wires, a small lathe, drill press, belt sander, a
|
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726 centrifuge, microscope, and telescope, etc. The idea is that the
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727 kid can now think, "I could use X to do this thing that I'm
|
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728 thinking about" -- the building becomes an extension of the kid's
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729 body & mind.
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730
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731 - fluid display :: like the previous idea about matching refractances
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732 between glass and liquid, except you make a lot of
|
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733 switchable glass tubes in various patterns in the
|
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734 glass, and actively pump colored liquid through the
|
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735 tubes (the tubes have glass-like fluid in them by
|
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736 default.) The result is that you can cause the
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737 tubes to appear and dissappear, and vary their
|
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738 colors as well!
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739
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740 - immunoincompatibility :: take the human genome, and refactor it so
|
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741 that it doesn't use a particular codon at all. Then remove the
|
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742 support from our ribosomes for that codon. What does this do for
|
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743 us? It makes us immune to almost all viruses!
|
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744
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745 - life cycle :: it's called a cycle, right? So, the thing that repeats
|
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746 itself over and over, right? Not much of a cycle if
|
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747 you don't come back after you die, if you ask me!
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748
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749 - car with no blind spots :: use some cameras in the back of the car
|
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750 to augment the rear-view mirror so that you never have to turn
|
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751 around in order to lane change.
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752
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753 - partial cell death :: you freeze a set of cells using some cryo
|
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754 protocol and 60% survive. How can this be explained? It seems to
|
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755 me that if the cells are the same, and the conditions
|
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756 homogoneous, then all the cells should either die or
|
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757 live. However, suppose that there is a metabolic cycle that needs
|
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758 to be in a certain phase for the cell to survive. If the cells
|
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759 are asynchronous, then you might end up with some cells dying
|
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760 because there were in the wrong part of their cycle. This implies
|
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761 that you might be able to cryoprotect cells by causing them to
|
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762 enter a certain metabolic mode before freezing.
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763
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764 - cryonics color appeal :: perfusate used by cryonics companies should
|
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765 have red food coloring in it. It's just a nice touch so that the
|
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766 cryonics patient looks more life-like than with clear CPAs, and
|
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767 hopefully might get treated with more respect.
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768
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769 - paramagnetic CPA :: you take a CPA that can be influenced by
|
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770 magnetic fields so that its degrees of freedom are limited. Then,
|
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771 you release the field, instantaly increasing the size of the
|
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772 state space of the system and dramatically decreasing the
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773 temperature enough to plunge the system past homogenous
|
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774 nucleation temperature and directly to the glass transition
|
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775 temperature, creating a doubly unstable glass at much lower CPA
|
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776 concentrations than possible at conventional CPA concentrations.
|
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777
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rlm@137
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778 - room temp noodles :: how does the physics of cooking noodles work?
|
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779 Could you use a vacuum instead of heat to force water into the
|
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780 noodle?
|
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781
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782 - personal carbon offset :: feel bad about contribuiting to global
|
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783 warming by using electricity / driving a car? Forget trying to
|
rlm@137
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784 "conserve" or "minimize your carbon footprint". Follow the
|
rlm@137
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785 Platinum rule -- make the world BETTER off than you found it!
|
rlm@137
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786 This would be a small, self contained system that sucks C02 out
|
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787 of the air. It uses electricity, but it's so efficient at
|
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788 removing CO2 that it more than offsets the CO2 produced by even a
|
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789 coal plant to produce that electricity. This way, you can still
|
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790 drive even a gas guzzler, but have a net negative carbon
|
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791 footprint! Maybe something cool could be done with the carbon as
|
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792 well. Use as much electricity as you want, but negate the damage
|
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793 to the enviroment with more technology.
|
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794
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795 - undoing spermogenesis :: with enough sperm, you can derive the
|
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796 donor's entire genome. You gain more confidence in the alleles
|
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797 for a particular gene the more sperm you have. Each additional
|
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798 sperm gives you the same sort of information you'd get flipping a
|
rlm@137
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799 coin and trying to decide whether the coin is H/T of H/H. Is
|
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800 there enough sperm in the the average load for you to be as
|
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801 confident as mitosis?
|
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802
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803 - mars life :: we could engineer life that could survive on mars
|
rlm@136
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804 (probably some non-vascular photosynthetic
|
rlm@136
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805 poikilohydric creature like a lichen) by taking an
|
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806 extremophile from Antarctica and evolving it in
|
rlm@136
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807 increasingly Martian conditions. This could be an easy
|
rlm@136
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808 start to a terraforming process.
|
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809
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rlm@134
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810 - problem with Aubrey de Grey's ideas :: Aubrey de Grey says that we
|
rlm@134
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811 might be able to live forever by continually repairing our bodies
|
rlm@134
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812 at the cellular level -- he details 7 different mechanisms of
|
rlm@134
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813 damage and says that if all of them are dealt with /together/
|
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814 that it would stop aging. (You can't miss even one because
|
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815 they're all fatal.) However, it doesn't take into account that
|
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816 we are also beings of information and that there is a very real
|
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817 software component to our existence. Even if our biological
|
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818 chassies can be maintained forever, I think it is unlikely that
|
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819 our minds will operate well far outside of the design constraints
|
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820 that we've evolved to handle. Say I programmed a webserver with
|
rlm@134
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821 the express goal of it being able to serve webpages for month on
|
rlm@134
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822 some stock server. I'll do fairly rigorous testing to make sure
|
rlm@134
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823 that it can handle the expected load then then some. Now say that
|
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824 you want to keep a particular instance of this webserver running
|
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825 indefinitely. (The program instance is like your mind and the
|
rlm@134
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826 computer it's running on is like your body). You might very well
|
rlm@134
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827 be able to keep the physical computer infrastructure running for
|
rlm@134
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828 forever by replacing hard drives / ram / CPUs, etc. However,
|
rlm@134
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829 since I designed the webserver to work for a month, it probably
|
rlm@135
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830 has memory leaks, rare stochastic bugs, or other built in limits
|
rlm@134
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831 / constraints (think log files or some date rollover shenanigans)
|
rlm@135
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832 that will ultimately kill the webserver even with eternally
|
rlm@134
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833 perfect hardware. Do you really expect that a webserver
|
rlm@135
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834 engineered to work for 1 month will run for 10 years without
|
rlm@135
|
835 catastrophically crashing? Not even Apache can do this! In fact,
|
rlm@135
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836 if I put in the extreme effort to make it that robust, I've
|
rlm@135
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837 wasted time that I could have spent on other projects by pursuing
|
rlm@135
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838 an unnecessary engineering goal. Likewise, human minds have only
|
rlm@134
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839 ever run for at most 122 years before they are destroyed due to
|
rlm@134
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840 hardware degradation. Fixing the hardware doesn't change any
|
rlm@134
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841 software bugs that are almost certainly present in the human
|
rlm@134
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842 mind. Think of all the pathological things that can go wrong with
|
rlm@134
|
843 a webserver, multiply it by a million, and that likely how
|
rlm@134
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844 evolution has designed our minds. For example, consider memory :
|
rlm@134
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845 why should you expect that we have evolved the ability to
|
rlm@134
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846 coherently organize memories past say 150 years? There's been
|
rlm@134
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847 absolutely no selective pressure for this ability, so you can bet
|
rlm@134
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848 that if there's any fitness to be gained from not having
|
rlm@134
|
849 unlimited memory potential (such as better metabolic efficiency),
|
rlm@134
|
850 we have it! You might think that maybe we would just forget
|
rlm@134
|
851 things the same way that we sort of forget things that happen
|
rlm@134
|
852 earlier in our lives, but complicated information processing
|
rlm@134
|
853 systems don't have to fail gracefully when they're pushed far
|
rlm@134
|
854 past their design constraints. A 150 year old person is just as
|
rlm@134
|
855 likely to suffer a catastrophic psychosis due to software
|
rlm@134
|
856 limitations associated with memory as he is to do something with
|
rlm@134
|
857 all those memories we might consider reasonable. More likely, in
|
rlm@134
|
858 fact, since there are so very many ways for a complicated
|
rlm@134
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859 software system to break and so few ways for it to run
|
rlm@134
|
860 successfully. Therefore, I think Aubrey de Grey's "hardware-only"
|
rlm@134
|
861 approach is missing a very important component of longevity
|
rlm@134
|
862 science, and any successful effort to make people live orders of
|
rlm@134
|
863 magnitude longer than they do naturally will need to deal with
|
rlm@134
|
864 people's software as well as their hardware.
|
rlm@134
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865
|
rlm@133
|
866 - validating neurocryopreservation :: Problem : you want to test
|
rlm@133
|
867 whether a brain is functionally preserved through vitrification,
|
rlm@133
|
868 but you don't want to figure out how to preserve all the other
|
rlm@133
|
869 organs in the animal. It might be possible to keep the rest of
|
rlm@133
|
870 the body at almost 0C and vitrify just the head for only a few
|
rlm@133
|
871 minutes. Induce hypothermia, then separate out the head's blood
|
rlm@133
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872 supply from the rest of the body, then just cryoptotect and
|
rlm@133
|
873 vitrify the head. Might need some sort of thermal guard to keep
|
rlm@133
|
874 the outer head / neck from becoming too cold. You leave the
|
rlm@133
|
875 spinal cord intact! Then you devitrify to 0C, remove
|
rlm@133
|
876 cryoprotectant, and then reattach the blood supply. You can
|
rlm@133
|
877 determine brain preservation using behavioral assays!
|
rlm@133
|
878
|
rlm@133
|
879 - freezing water purifier :: you slowly freeze water, but also run
|
rlm@133
|
880 liquid water over the frozen mass. This takes away basically all
|
rlm@133
|
881 impurities and creates "washed ice" then you melt the ice. Maybe
|
rlm@133
|
882 you could re-use the heat from creating the ice to melt the ice?
|
rlm@133
|
883
|
rlm@133
|
884 - ultra strength :: allow a person to visualize their muscle
|
rlm@133
|
885 recruitment patterns. Give them adrenaline and let
|
rlm@133
|
886 them feel what it's like to have the normal limits
|
rlm@133
|
887 removed. See if they can replicate the effects.
|
rlm@133
|
888
|
rlm@133
|
889 - phone names :: make a PX record for domain names that's like the MX
|
rlm@133
|
890 record, except that it is a phone number instead of
|
rlm@133
|
891 an IP address. That way, you can use the domain name
|
rlm@133
|
892 registration system to provide names for phone
|
rlm@133
|
893 numbers. Then, as long as you control the domain, you
|
rlm@133
|
894 can point people to your current phone number by
|
rlm@133
|
895 updating that record.
|
rlm@133
|
896
|
rlm@133
|
897 - edible flowers :: Edible white flowers that you put in a colored
|
rlm@133
|
898 solution with flavor. When the flower turns the
|
rlm@133
|
899 right color, it is also flavored and ready to eat!
|
rlm@133
|
900
|
rlm@131
|
901 - suicide cryonics :: according to [[http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/06/magazine/06suicide-t.html][this]], people who commit impulsive
|
rlm@131
|
902 suicides have a newfound sense of the importance of life. Perhaps
|
rlm@131
|
903 they are good cryonics targets.
|
rlm@131
|
904
|
rlm@131
|
905 - lead bone :: Could you fill in all the empty spaces in a bone with
|
rlm@131
|
906 lead? Might be cool.
|
rlm@131
|
907
|
rlm@131
|
908 - the quest for life :: Every stupid story has the "immortal who
|
rlm@131
|
909 wants to become mortal" or some other such idea. I want to story
|
rlm@131
|
910 where the protagonist loses their immortality and feels /angry/
|
rlm@131
|
911 and ashamed about losing something that's so absolutely crucial
|
rlm@131
|
912 to their identity. A reverse of "death makes life worth living",
|
rlm@131
|
913 they feel that living forever is what makes life worth
|
rlm@131
|
914 living. Now they've "lost their sunrise" or their "connection to
|
rlm@131
|
915 the timeless universe" or something. So they go on a quest to get
|
rlm@131
|
916 it back, learning about themselves along the way, and regaining
|
rlm@131
|
917 the precious thing they lost in the beginning.
|
rlm@131
|
918
|
rlm@130
|
919 - world-map :: take a small table and paint the continents in
|
rlm@130
|
920 toothpaste on the table. Make a slightly raised barrier
|
rlm@130
|
921 around the table. Slowly pour water onto the table, and
|
rlm@130
|
922 it will form the oceans!
|
rlm@130
|
923
|
rlm@95
|
924 - stage magic rituals :: rituals should incorporate elements of stage
|
rlm@95
|
925 magic. Foe example in Teller's tempest, they have a scene where
|
rlm@95
|
926 they levitate a crown in front of someone, then put it on his
|
rlm@95
|
927 head. They also have a wedding ceremony where they levitated the
|
rlm@95
|
928 bride as well. Actual weddings and other ceremonies should
|
rlm@95
|
929 incorporate stage magic as an enhancement.
|
rlm@95
|
930
|
rlm@95
|
931 - isotope time dilation :: use a cyclotron to speed up rare isotopes
|
rlm@95
|
932 developed in nuclear fusion experiments. The relativistic time
|
rlm@95
|
933 dilation will stop the isotopes from decaying, and allow time to
|
rlm@95
|
934 study them. This is based on radioactive isotopes that fall
|
rlm@95
|
935 through the earth's atmosphere that take hundreds of times
|
rlm@95
|
936 longer to decay than normal.
|
rlm@95
|
937
|
rlm@95
|
938 - marsupial stimulation :: You take a freshly pouched marsupial baby,
|
rlm@95
|
939 and show it videos and other interactive things while it matures
|
rlm@95
|
940 in the pouch. What mental effects would this have?
|
rlm@95
|
941
|
rlm@135
|
942 - dynamic re-keying :: Some older ways of tuning instruments sound
|
rlm@95
|
943 better, but we use the even-tempered scale today because it makes
|
rlm@95
|
944 it easier to switch keys. With electronic music, why not make
|
rlm@95
|
945 key-annotations and dynamically re-tune the piece to sound good
|
rlm@135
|
946 in the current key? Could be done as a midi+annotation -> midi
|
rlm@95
|
947 compiler for experimentation.
|
rlm@95
|
948
|
rlm@95
|
949 - death always implies damage :: is is possible for a corpse to differ
|
rlm@95
|
950 from a living person only in the fact that one is dead and the
|
rlm@95
|
951 other is alive? NO! A corpse must always have some sort of
|
rlm@95
|
952 molecular damage which causes the loss of function!
|
rlm@95
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953
|
rlm@95
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954 - inner eye :: Surgically install a bunch of tiny cameras inside a
|
rlm@95
|
955 person. Then, you can activate them all and get a
|
rlm@95
|
956 picture of your internal organs for diagnostic
|
rlm@95
|
957 purposes.
|
rlm@95
|
958
|
rlm@135
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959 - chaos rails :: should make a visualization of the homoclinic tangle,
|
rlm@95
|
960 it's truly beautiful.
|
rlm@95
|
961
|
rlm@95
|
962 - context gobbler :: this would be in "inside-out macro" that takes
|
rlm@95
|
963 the context (like you use for things like error, continuations,
|
rlm@95
|
964 and friends) and transforms it to something else. Maybe useful?
|
rlm@95
|
965
|
rlm@91
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966 - cryonics middle ages :: some people say that cryonics is an
|
rlm@91
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967 experiment and that it is foolish to wait until we have revived a
|
rlm@91
|
968 human. There is a middle ground where the procedure has a dismal
|
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969 success rate on humans, say 1 in 20, so that you'd be a fool to
|
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970 try revival. Nonetheless, this very risky procedure could be the
|
rlm@91
|
971 legal proof of concept needed to create a new class of life
|
rlm@91
|
972 between "living" and "dead": "stasis".
|
rlm@91
|
973
|
rlm@91
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974 - philosophy of the mirror :: neat thought experiment -- if you take a
|
rlm@91
|
975 mirror of someone by actually reversing a person's chirality
|
rlm@94
|
976 molecule by molecule, then will the only be able to read mirror
|
rlm@91
|
977 writing? The answer is yes, by analogy to a purely mechanical
|
rlm@94
|
978 scan-tron device. This is one of the only interesting transforms I
|
rlm@91
|
979 know that can take a human brain and change it in subtle,
|
rlm@91
|
980 non-destructive ways. It's also an argument against dualism.
|
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981
|
rlm@91
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982 - biosphere in a bottle :: There are around 15 million species. 15
|
rlm@91
|
983 million stem cells will fill only a tiny size, far less than a cubic
|
rlm@91
|
984 inch. Preserve a single cell from every species on earth in this
|
rlm@91
|
985 small space, and you will have a record of our current biosphere
|
rlm@91
|
986 that can be protected. "Hold the genetic data of all species in
|
rlm@92
|
987 your hand!"
|
rlm@91
|
988
|
rlm@90
|
989 - chaos lock :: The "arrow of time" points in the direction of
|
rlm@90
|
990 increasing entropy. The time evolution of chaotic
|
rlm@90
|
991 systems depend exquisitely on their initial state. If
|
rlm@90
|
992 you take a measurement of a chaotic system at any
|
rlm@90
|
993 given point of time, you can evolve that system
|
rlm@90
|
994 backwards or forwards based on your measurement. So
|
rlm@90
|
995 let's say you start the chaotic system in a VERY low
|
rlm@90
|
996 entropy state, then let it run for a while, then take
|
rlm@90
|
997 a measurement with some uncertainty. Your
|
rlm@90
|
998 measurement is pretty good, but obviously not
|
rlm@90
|
999 PERFECT. If you evolve the chaotic system back in
|
rlm@90
|
1000 time, then you will see that you don't really reach
|
rlm@90
|
1001 a state with low entropy an hour before (the entropy
|
rlm@90
|
1002 is easy to measure with surrogates like alignment,
|
rlm@90
|
1003 etc). So use this technique to SEARCH for a more
|
rlm@90
|
1004 accurate measurement! This potentially can give you
|
rlm@90
|
1005 many more orders of magnitude than you could get alone
|
rlm@90
|
1006 just using an instrument. Sometimes it will give you
|
rlm@90
|
1007 bad results, the the odds of it doing that are
|
rlm@90
|
1008 infinitesimal, and you can just measure a couple of
|
rlm@90
|
1009 times.
|
rlm@90
|
1010
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rlm@90
|
1011 - cryo-evolution :: perhaps there would be a way to rapidly evolve a
|
rlm@90
|
1012 symbiotic bacterial organism that could protect
|
rlm@90
|
1013 human tissues from freezing damage.
|
rlm@90
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1014
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rlm@87
|
1015 - suicide parasite :: sometimes, people kill themselves for no good
|
rlm@87
|
1016 reason. We often explain this with things like "hidden
|
rlm@87
|
1017 depression" or we say that they had something like chronic jaw or
|
rlm@87
|
1018 back pain. I think that smells of rationalization. I don't buy
|
rlm@87
|
1019 it. I propose that in many suicide cases there is a disease that
|
rlm@88
|
1020 causes the suicidal behavior. We already know that certain
|
rlm@87
|
1021 parasites have mind-bending properties in other animals, even
|
rlm@87
|
1022 mammals like mice. It's not much of a stretch to imagine a
|
rlm@88
|
1023 parasite that causes suicides in humans. Some problems:
|
rlm@87
|
1024 - What does the suicide parasite get out of it? :: This might be
|
rlm@87
|
1025 answered by the whole thing being a glitch caused by
|
rlm@87
|
1026 cross-species contamination. Toxoplasma works this way.
|
rlm@88
|
1027 - What predictions does a disease model make :: suicide should
|
rlm@88
|
1028 be more common among people who share a contagion
|
rlm@88
|
1029 vector. There should be suicides that don't make any
|
rlm@87
|
1030 sense : people who weren't really depressed, who had no
|
rlm@87
|
1031 reason to kill themselves. People who have killed themselves
|
rlm@87
|
1032 should have a higher incidence of some unknown parasite in
|
rlm@87
|
1033 their brains.
|
rlm@86
|
1034
|
rlm@89
|
1035 - domestic insects :: People should eat more bugs because they're much
|
rlm@89
|
1036 more efficient, so why not do some major domestication research
|
rlm@94
|
1037 to make very appealing bugs? Beetles, in particular, seem to be
|
rlm@94
|
1038 excellent targets for domestication because they have extreme
|
rlm@94
|
1039 levels of genetic malleability.
|
rlm@87
|
1040
|
rlm@87
|
1041 - birth-clones :: What if each person was intentionally split at birth
|
rlm@87
|
1042 into a normal embryo and a few "backup" cells which
|
rlm@87
|
1043 is then frozen. The backup cells are created just
|
rlm@87
|
1044 the same way as natural identical twins. The backups
|
rlm@88
|
1045 can be used to regenerate organs. etc. Also, it
|
rlm@87
|
1046 would be a good sci fi concept, because you could
|
rlm@87
|
1047 have a culture where people reward people who were
|
rlm@87
|
1048 especially awesome are "reborn" from their
|
rlm@88
|
1049 backups. Imagine having a young Bach every
|
rlm@87
|
1050 generation, etc.
|
rlm@86
|
1051
|
rlm@94
|
1052 - pronunciation guide :: a simple webpage where you type in a word and
|
rlm@94
|
1053 it returns a simple, English sentence describing exactly how to
|
rlm@84
|
1054 pronounce the word. For people who don't want to learn IPA.
|
rlm@86
|
1055
|
rlm@87
|
1056 - cortex-search :: use the repertoire of actions learned to limit the
|
rlm@87
|
1057 search space of possible actions.
|
rlm@87
|
1058
|
rlm@83
|
1059 - learning to teleport :: scifi idea, this is a story about a person
|
rlm@83
|
1060 who is struggling with his/her society's ideas about
|
rlm@83
|
1061 teleportation. It's considered a fundamental part of being a
|
rlm@83
|
1062 member of that society (after all, the difference between animals
|
rlm@83
|
1063 and humans is that humans are creatures of pure information while
|
rlm@83
|
1064 animals are burdened with base matter, "that's how you travel the
|
rlm@83
|
1065 stars, etc") Humans are born normally, grow up, and then
|
rlm@83
|
1066 eventually transcend via destructive upload. Analogies to jumping
|
rlm@83
|
1067 off a diving board into a pool (which I simply /could not do/ for
|
rlm@83
|
1068 a long time), etc.
|
rlm@83
|
1069
|
rlm@87
|
1070 - no-float-ice :: cup that has cross beams at the bottom where ice
|
rlm@87
|
1071 forms. Then when you drink liquid from the glass,
|
rlm@87
|
1072 the ice stays at the bottom and doesn't hit your
|
rlm@87
|
1073 lips. For bars and fancy things.
|
rlm@87
|
1074
|
rlm@82
|
1075 - bitcoins for immigrants :: A common case with Mexican immigrants
|
rlm@82
|
1076 (illegal or not) is that they want to send money they've earned
|
rlm@82
|
1077 in the US back to their families in Mexico. They currently do this
|
rlm@82
|
1078 through things like Money Gram or Western Union, and they get
|
rlm@82
|
1079 fleeced in the process with fees. Bitcoin could greatly reduce
|
rlm@82
|
1080 the cost of sending money from America to Mexico, but I don't
|
rlm@82
|
1081 believe that it's currently used for that among Mexican
|
rlm@82
|
1082 immigrants currently due to lack of knowledge. I bet you could
|
rlm@82
|
1083 set up physical locations like those obnoxious Western Union huts
|
rlm@82
|
1084 in places like Texas, Arizona, etc, and greatly undercut
|
rlm@82
|
1085 them. Or, perhaps some educational seminars about bitcoin might
|
rlm@82
|
1086 be in order. There's some money to be made there because there is
|
rlm@82
|
1087 great demand, and it's a good thing to boot!
|
rlm@82
|
1088
|
rlm@81
|
1089 - reverse eye-tracking :: A painting that is actually a digital screen
|
rlm@82
|
1090 with a camera. It records people's eye tracks permanently. It's
|
rlm@81
|
1091 "artistic" because paintings are normally these things that you
|
rlm@81
|
1092 look at without changing, but this one is changed the second you
|
rlm@81
|
1093 look at it, recording where /you/ looked forever for others to
|
rlm@81
|
1094 see. Make it be a painting of a woman and see the trolling as the
|
rlm@81
|
1095 breasts and groin area light up with interest from all the males
|
rlm@81
|
1096 passing by.
|
rlm@81
|
1097
|
rlm@80
|
1098 - smart toilets :: Instead of using indirect measures like infrared
|
rlm@80
|
1099 detectors of the presence of a person, use computer
|
rlm@80
|
1100 vision to directly measure whether the toilet needs
|
rlm@80
|
1101 to be flushed. I think a lot of things will end up
|
rlm@80
|
1102 going this way as we get better computer vision.
|
rlm@80
|
1103
|
rlm@77
|
1104 - validate chemopreservation :: chemopreservation is difficult to
|
rlm@77
|
1105 validate because it destroys the functionality of a brain, and
|
rlm@77
|
1106 brain simulation will take a long time to mature as a
|
rlm@77
|
1107 technology. However, one very powerful way to validate
|
rlm@77
|
1108 chemopreservation would be to have a person/animal learn
|
rlm@77
|
1109 something with high complexity such as a number or the solution
|
rlm@80
|
1110 to a maze, or a flashbulb memory. Then you preserve their brain
|
rlm@80
|
1111 chemically, slice it up, and read /that specific memory/ from the
|
rlm@77
|
1112 detailed brain scan. Much more difficult, but much more doable.
|
rlm@77
|
1113
|
rlm@75
|
1114 - candy screw :: edible candy screw with candy nuts that you can screw
|
rlm@75
|
1115 as well.
|
rlm@76
|
1116
|
rlm@74
|
1117 - better bibliography :: when writing a thesis or paper, have the
|
rlm@80
|
1118 bibliography not just be an opaque list of resources, but have it
|
rlm@74
|
1119 be a list of /summaries/ and /qualities/ that each paper has in
|
rlm@80
|
1120 the context of the paper being written. When examining a
|
rlm@80
|
1121 bibliography, I want to know if reading the papers in the
|
rlm@74
|
1122 bibliography are worth my time, and I also am probably also
|
rlm@74
|
1123 interested in exactly the things that are being discussed in the
|
rlm@74
|
1124 paper I'm reading. The bibliography is the perfect place to
|
rlm@74
|
1125 provide information about the referenced papers from the
|
rlm@80
|
1126 author's perspective. I will use this biographic form in my own
|
rlm@74
|
1127 thesis.
|
rlm@74
|
1128
|
rlm@73
|
1129 - digital inter-library loan :: libraries at universities already do
|
rlm@80
|
1130 inter-library loans for books, so why not do the same for access
|
rlm@73
|
1131 to stupid paywalled digital papers? All the universities could
|
rlm@73
|
1132 allow access to articles for registered students to all the files
|
rlm@73
|
1133 available through any participating university. This could be
|
rlm@73
|
1134 achieved by sending requests through proxies at participating
|
rlm@73
|
1135 universities. Each university would decide who at the university
|
rlm@73
|
1136 can access the proxy network. Access to the proxy network could
|
rlm@73
|
1137 be made easy using something like http://libx.org/.
|
rlm@73
|
1138
|
rlm@72
|
1139 - chess visual :: to show the vast size of the game trees considered
|
rlm@72
|
1140 by computers, show two people playing chess in a
|
rlm@72
|
1141 void. They are floating in space, and there is a
|
rlm@72
|
1142 simple chess board between them. Then, as they play,
|
rlm@72
|
1143 the game tree's they are considering are drawn
|
rlm@72
|
1144 behind him. The root of the tree starts centered in
|
rlm@72
|
1145 their heads or whatever they use to think, and the
|
rlm@72
|
1146 tree grows out from behind, never crossing the
|
rlm@72
|
1147 dividing plane between the two players. Each
|
rlm@72
|
1148 player's tree is a different color. As they grow,
|
rlm@72
|
1149 there are animations for pruning, etc. Eventually,
|
rlm@72
|
1150 they look like the hemispheres of a brain, wings,
|
rlm@72
|
1151 etc. A human's tree might occasionally have a long
|
rlm@72
|
1152 chain, while the computer tree would be more
|
rlm@72
|
1153 uniform. You could compare deep blue and a modern
|
rlm@72
|
1154 laptop. Use actual data when fighting two computers!
|
rlm@72
|
1155
|
rlm@71
|
1156 - time verification :: some standard way to verify that some piece of
|
rlm@71
|
1157 data was recorded at a specific time. Might involve a time
|
rlm@73
|
1158 server, a key for each time period, something like that.
|
rlm@71
|
1159
|
rlm@70
|
1160 - tamper proof gold bars :: [[http://www.tungsten-alloy.com/gold-plated-tungsten-alloy-bar.html][this site]] offers gold plated tungsten bars
|
rlm@70
|
1161 as "novelty" items. One reason to prefer coins is because they
|
rlm@70
|
1162 are much harder to counterfeit because there is less surface area
|
rlm@70
|
1163 to mass ratio. However, gold bars are still a great design
|
rlm@70
|
1164 because they can hold a lot of value in a small space. A gold bar
|
rlm@70
|
1165 could be given the same protections (and more) that gold coins
|
rlm@70
|
1166 have to offer by changing it into a "gold book", which would have
|
rlm@70
|
1167 hundreds of "pages" of gold bound together. This could be
|
rlm@70
|
1168 implemented with multiple steel rods going through the book which
|
rlm@70
|
1169 can be removed, or some more classier mechanism for holding the
|
rlm@70
|
1170 pages. The point is that the bar can be EASILY subdivided (and
|
rlm@70
|
1171 people would perform this test before buying), thus guaranteeing
|
rlm@70
|
1172 it's authenticity.
|
rlm@70
|
1173
|
rlm@68
|
1174 - aurellem shirt :: I should make an aurellem star symbol tee-shirt.
|
rlm@68
|
1175
|
rlm@86
|
1176 - touch vision :: inspired by GelSight, I want to reexamine cortex and
|
rlm@86
|
1177 see if I could implement touch as a very low range
|
rlm@86
|
1178 form of vision.
|
rlm@86
|
1179
|
rlm@67
|
1180 - high school science :: this is a lesson in scientific ethics. The
|
rlm@67
|
1181 goal is to calculate /g/, the local gravitational
|
rlm@67
|
1182 acceleration. The students are told that the textbook says it's
|
rlm@67
|
1183 /exactly/ 9.81 before they start the experiment. See how they
|
rlm@67
|
1184 doctor their results to get closer to the textbook value. It's
|
rlm@67
|
1185 neat because for any given school, /g/ is probably *not* exactly
|
rlm@67
|
1186 equal to 9.81, because that is just an average!
|
rlm@67
|
1187
|
rlm@67
|
1188 - opencourseware subtitles :: there are ladies who type up lectures
|
rlm@67
|
1189 while they are being given. These recordings should be kept and
|
rlm@67
|
1190 given to OCW for subtitles. If the timestamps of keys are
|
rlm@67
|
1191 recorded, then it is easy to make subtitles.
|
rlm@67
|
1192
|
rlm@66
|
1193 - screen locking timing :: you use your computer camera to see if you
|
rlm@66
|
1194 are sitting in front of the computer. If you are, then the screen
|
rlm@66
|
1195 will never lock. If you are, then the screen will lock with a
|
rlm@67
|
1196 30-40 second timeout. It's an extension of using inactivity to
|
rlm@66
|
1197 initiate the countdown, just with more information.
|
rlm@66
|
1198
|
rlm@66
|
1199 - mirror toilet :: a toilet with a square basin made or mirror instead
|
rlm@67
|
1200 or porcelain. That way, you can see how good of a
|
rlm@66
|
1201 wipe job you have done / watch how your excretion
|
rlm@66
|
1202 system works.
|
rlm@66
|
1203
|
rlm@80
|
1204 - test dummies :: why don't we clone anencephalic humans and use then to
|
rlm@62
|
1205 test /in vivo/ human organ systems and drugs? It
|
rlm@62
|
1206 would be ethical as long as there are women who are
|
rlm@62
|
1207 willing to host the clones, and it would be a
|
rlm@67
|
1208 tremendous resource for studying the human body. I
|
rlm@62
|
1209 see nothing wrong with it morally, since no one is
|
rlm@67
|
1210 suffering, and it stands to save many lives throughout
|
rlm@62
|
1211 more advanced technology.
|
rlm@62
|
1212
|
rlm@62
|
1213 - X-ray telepresence :: given that a doctor is operating on a patient
|
rlm@62
|
1214 via telepresence, one cool things you can do is shine X-rays into
|
rlm@62
|
1215 the patient to view the insides during real time. If the system
|
rlm@80
|
1216 was coupled with a Bayesian model of the layout of the structure,
|
rlm@67
|
1217 and the x-rays were only fired whenever the uncertainty of the
|
rlm@62
|
1218 model reached a certain threshold, then the radiation damage
|
rlm@62
|
1219 and surgery risk could be minimized.
|
rlm@62
|
1220
|
rlm@62
|
1221 - superfluid vascular system :: I wonder what would happen if you
|
rlm@62
|
1222 replaced the blood in a human with a superfluid. What would the
|
rlm@62
|
1223 physical dynamics be? Would the superfluid flow through the
|
rlm@62
|
1224 vasculature, or would it ignore it and travel through the cells,
|
rlm@62
|
1225 or something else entirely. Since superfluids need to be cold to
|
rlm@62
|
1226 retain their superfluidity, how would the dynamics change during
|
rlm@62
|
1227 perfusion of a superfluid, where the fluid gains and looses
|
rlm@62
|
1228 superfluidity as it goes deeper into the body and is cooled by
|
rlm@67
|
1229 superfluid from upstream. In summary there are two things to
|
rlm@62
|
1230 simulate 1.) replace all blood in human with superfluid
|
rlm@62
|
1231 instantly. 2.) perfuse superfluid into human.
|
rlm@51
|
1232
|
rlm@59
|
1233 - projective guessing :: I think that we read and see things by
|
rlm@67
|
1234 making a really good guess about what we're expecting to see,
|
rlm@59
|
1235 and then searching for our guess in what we see. If it really
|
rlm@59
|
1236 doesn't match, then we start to make more guesses / analyze the
|
rlm@59
|
1237 image from first principles, but most stuff is projective
|
rlm@59
|
1238 guessing.
|
rlm@59
|
1239
|
rlm@67
|
1240 - Intestinal flora maintenance :: why not inoculate babies at birth
|
rlm@59
|
1241 with "ideal" gut flora instead of whatever bullshit they
|
rlm@59
|
1242 naturally get, thus giving them optimal digestive/nutrient
|
rlm@67
|
1243 extraction capabilities. Might also be able to make their farts
|
rlm@94
|
1244 not stink for life, too. MORE IMPORTANTLY, might help to
|
rlm@91
|
1245 preventatively stop some forms of /colic/, which affects 1 in 5
|
rlm@94
|
1246 babies and causes constant screaming and pain for about 5 weeks.
|
rlm@59
|
1247
|
rlm@56
|
1248 - server culture : mirrors :: make a distributed system where people
|
rlm@56
|
1249 can mirror the websites of people they like -- essentially cover
|
rlm@56
|
1250 the server costs of favored websites. This could make popular
|
rlm@56
|
1251 websites run at no cost. The system would require that the
|
rlm@56
|
1252 mirrored content be the same as the official source. Sort of like
|
rlm@67
|
1253 bit-torrent for websites.
|
rlm@56
|
1254
|
rlm@56
|
1255 - map programming :: one problem with functional programming is that
|
rlm@56
|
1256 in order to remain functional, you have to pass up arguments up
|
rlm@67
|
1257 into each calling function to get the full range of behavior
|
rlm@56
|
1258 from the lower level functions. Normally people come to a
|
rlm@67
|
1259 compromise involving abstraction and sparing use of dynamic
|
rlm@67
|
1260 variables to configure runtime behavior. What would be the
|
rlm@56
|
1261 advantages of making a programming language where every function
|
rlm@67
|
1262 receives one argument, a map, which contains all the symbol
|
rlm@56
|
1263 bindings it would ever need? This map is passed on to all
|
rlm@56
|
1264 subordinate functions. This way, you could replace functions on
|
rlm@56
|
1265 the fly, and arrange for there to be sensible defaults,
|
rlm@56
|
1266 etc. Might cause more harm than good but is an interesting idea.
|
rlm@56
|
1267
|
rlm@55
|
1268 - rest nest :: a small EEG device you would attach to your head when
|
rlm@55
|
1269 you go to sleep at night. ML algorithms would determine
|
rlm@55
|
1270 your particular sleep cycles. This would mostly be an
|
rlm@55
|
1271 alarm clock that you could give a time range, say
|
rlm@55
|
1272 7:00AM - 7:15AM, and it would wake you up during an
|
rlm@55
|
1273 ideal time corresponding to then end of one of your 90
|
rlm@55
|
1274 min sleep cycles. You would feel much more rested upon
|
rlm@55
|
1275 waking up, and would wake up faster. There might be
|
rlm@55
|
1276 some other uses for the EEG data as well.
|
rlm@55
|
1277
|
rlm@50
|
1278 - image compression :: use a library like gimp or opencv to process an
|
rlm@50
|
1279 image to make it have less entropy, then store the reverse of
|
rlm@50
|
1280 those operations along with the compressed simpler image as a
|
rlm@80
|
1281 super-compressed image file (possibly accepting some
|
rlm@80
|
1282 losses). Trades file size for decompression time, and allows one
|
rlm@50
|
1283 to cheat by using information in gimp/opencv to compress the
|
rlm@50
|
1284 image.
|
rlm@50
|
1285
|
rlm@47
|
1286 - fixed cryopreservation :: why not use a fixative to buy enough time
|
rlm@42
|
1287 to ramp up cryoprotectants to an acceptable level at room
|
rlm@42
|
1288 temperature? Then, the whole system can be rapidly cooled and
|
rlm@42
|
1289 vitrified. This method "severs the biological link" in that the
|
rlm@47
|
1290 fixatives are highly toxic, but current vitrification procedures
|
rlm@42
|
1291 do this anyway since there can be a lot of freezing damage.
|
rlm@38
|
1292
|
rlm@67
|
1293 - dilated security camera :: a security camera that would capture
|
rlm@58
|
1294 full video footage of everything at 60fps but then decide to keep
|
rlm@58
|
1295 only every 1 frame every 5 seconds unless there's something
|
rlm@58
|
1296 "interesting" happening.
|
rlm@58
|
1297
|
rlm@40
|
1298 - bitcoin wallet :: Part of "server culture", this would be something
|
rlm@40
|
1299 like "coin.your-domain.com" which would serve as
|
rlm@40
|
1300 your personal trusted access to your own bitcoins
|
rlm@40
|
1301 from anywhere.
|
rlm@40
|
1302
|
rlm@40
|
1303 - libpay :: this would be a free library which would enable
|
rlm@40
|
1304 micro-donations to software projects and other projects,
|
rlm@47
|
1305 so that you could donate a penny to "emacs" and it would
|
rlm@47
|
1306 be automatically split up to every person who has ever
|
rlm@40
|
1307 contributed to emacs in proportion to the amount of
|
rlm@40
|
1308 community esteem, code quantity, bugs fixed, whatever the
|
rlm@47
|
1309 community decides. This might make it possible for
|
rlm@40
|
1310 programmers to live entirely off of free programming.
|
rlm@40
|
1311
|
rlm@45
|
1312 - distributed graphics :: Browser based graphics-card accelerated
|
rlm@45
|
1313 distributed computing API.
|
rlm@41
|
1314
|
rlm@40
|
1315 - pronouns :: use capital letters A-Z instead of pronouns. They solve
|
rlm@40
|
1316 pronoun referents and gender neutrality, are short to
|
rlm@40
|
1317 say, and you can encode useful information into the
|
rlm@40
|
1318 choice of letter. For example, instead of "Meetings
|
rlm@40
|
1319 shall be presided over by the president, unless she is
|
rlm@42
|
1320 absent." USE "Meetings shall be presided over by the
|
rlm@40
|
1321 president, unless P is absent." We already use this a
|
rlm@40
|
1322 little, since I and U are reserved for the subject and
|
rlm@40
|
1323 object respectively.
|
rlm@40
|
1324
|
rlm@40
|
1325 - phone DSP :: software app that inserts an audio DSP between the
|
rlm@40
|
1326 input to a phone and the output. The DSP is delicious
|
rlm@40
|
1327 and configurable, and can allow men to make their
|
rlm@40
|
1328 voices deeper, etc. The app would allow you to hear
|
rlm@40
|
1329 your own voice as others hear it. Most people hate how
|
rlm@40
|
1330 their own voice sounds. The app would also allow one to
|
rlm@47
|
1331 immediately change the parameters of the DSP using good
|
rlm@40
|
1332 presets.
|
rlm@40
|
1333
|
rlm@47
|
1334 - predestined body learning :: a good example of predestined learning
|
rlm@40
|
1335 might be the mirror neurons.
|
rlm@40
|
1336
|
rlm@47
|
1337 - restaurant receipt :: use a carbon copy receipt instead of two stupid
|
rlm@40
|
1338 copies.
|
rlm@40
|
1339
|
rlm@41
|
1340 - anti google glass :: glasses with mounted lasers and computer vision
|
rlm@41
|
1341 that targets the cameras in google glass and destroy them.
|
rlm@41
|
1342
|
rlm@40
|
1343 - wearable towel :: towel with clasp, velcro, whatever, that allows
|
rlm@40
|
1344 one to wear the towel more securely than just
|
rlm@40
|
1345 wrapping it tightly and hoping for the best.
|
rlm@40
|
1346
|
rlm@47
|
1347 - crossdressing :: Easiest way to disguise oneself as a woman is to
|
rlm@44
|
1348 wear a burka.
|
rlm@41
|
1349
|
rlm@40
|
1350 - book-mode :: intelligent color highlighting for books and
|
rlm@40
|
1351 articles. It would disambiguate pronouns and involved
|
rlm@93
|
1352 references. For example, if "Rachael" was assigned the
|
rlm@93
|
1353 color red, and "the blonde haired girl" refers to
|
rlm@93
|
1354 "Rachael", then "the blonde haired girl" would be
|
rlm@93
|
1355 colored red. Also, you could disambiguate multi part
|
rlm@93
|
1356 run-on sentences by highlighting each
|
rlm@93
|
1357 subcomponent. Maybe would also have applications to
|
rlm@93
|
1358 scientific reading.
|
rlm@40
|
1359
|
rlm@40
|
1360 - Handheld light Rain measurement :: this would be a clear, teflon
|
rlm@47
|
1361 coated plastic disk with a camera underneath the disk. You would
|
rlm@40
|
1362 be able to hold the device out and it would measure the rate of
|
rlm@40
|
1363 accumulation of water droplets from fine mists and light rain by
|
rlm@40
|
1364 using computer vision to measure the diameters of the drops.
|
rlm@40
|
1365
|
rlm@40
|
1366 - Big Brother Farming :: This would be a vision system that would
|
rlm@40
|
1367 individually monitor each plant and turn on water, etc to ensure
|
rlm@40
|
1368 maximum/uniform growth for each plant.
|
rlm@40
|
1369
|
rlm@40
|
1370 - Discrete Faucet :: A faucet with discrete ticks instead of
|
rlm@47
|
1371 continuous.
|
rlm@40
|
1372
|
rlm@40
|
1373 - Laser Circle :: take a glass microfiliment and shine a laser at one
|
rlm@40
|
1374 end at an oblique angle. It will make a perfect,
|
rlm@40
|
1375 large circle on the wall, converting a laser beam
|
rlm@47
|
1376 into a laser cone, preserving most of the energy of
|
rlm@40
|
1377 the laser.
|
rlm@40
|
1378
|
rlm@40
|
1379 - Invisible Glass :: Take a container of liquid and embed a
|
rlm@40
|
1380 glass sculpture made out of glass that has exactly the same index
|
rlm@40
|
1381 of refraction and color of the liquid. Then the sculpture will be
|
rlm@40
|
1382 totally invisible in the container, and will only be revealed
|
rlm@40
|
1383 when the liquid is drained. The container might be a fancy
|
rlm@40
|
1384 wine/spirit bottle or an hourglass.
|
rlm@40
|
1385
|
rlm@47
|
1386 - Caterpillar people :: A race of caterpillar like creatures gains
|
rlm@40
|
1387 intelligence after eons of predation by birds, etc. These
|
rlm@47
|
1388 caterpillar creatures still undergo metamorphosis into a large
|
rlm@40
|
1389 butterfly-like creature. The metamorphosis process turns the
|
rlm@40
|
1390 caterpillar's brain into mush and reforms it into a minimal,
|
rlm@40
|
1391 dumb, truly insect-like mind, completely destroying the person
|
rlm@47
|
1392 the caterpillar was. The society develops all sorts of customs and
|
rlm@40
|
1393 religious interpretations of the metamorphosis. It is viewed as
|
rlm@40
|
1394 good and natural by some since it is part of their life cycle and
|
rlm@47
|
1395 necessary to propagate the species, as only the butterflies can
|
rlm@40
|
1396 mate. Some think that the butterflies are still the same person
|
rlm@47
|
1397 because they have the same soul, even they no longer posses the
|
rlm@47
|
1398 memories or personality of the original caterpillar. Some see the
|
rlm@40
|
1399 butterfly form as the "true form" of the species, since the
|
rlm@40
|
1400 butterflies can fly, mate, and are beautiful. Many make a big
|
rlm@47
|
1401 deal out of the fact that 1-2% of the caterpillar's mind is
|
rlm@40
|
1402 actually preserved in the butterfly. Some see it as a terrible
|
rlm@47
|
1403 tragedy and argue that the caterpillars should try to stop the
|
rlm@40
|
1404 metamorphosis by technology. Practically, some very important
|
rlm@40
|
1405 members of society undergo hormone therapy and/or surgery to
|
rlm@40
|
1406 prevent metamorphosis so that they can live longer as themselves.
|
rlm@40
|
1407
|
rlm@40
|
1408 This is a continuation of Marvin Minsky's ideas about pain being
|
rlm@40
|
1409 something that preserves our bodies while destroying our minds,
|
rlm@40
|
1410 something that is a remnant from our too harsh animal days that
|
rlm@40
|
1411 hasn't caught up to the fact that we have very complex brains
|
rlm@40
|
1412 now. It's a worst-case scenario about a maladaptive genetic
|
rlm@40
|
1413 legacy. Also, it's inspired by "There She Is!!!", which makes a
|
rlm@40
|
1414 compelling point about homosexuality by introducing a second
|
rlm@40
|
1415 gender characteristic (bunny/cat, male/female), which makes
|
rlm@40
|
1416 homophobia look very silly. Here, our own biological legacy of
|
rlm@47
|
1417 pain and death is made to look like the tragedy it is through the
|
rlm@47
|
1418 lens of the the caterpillar people.
|
rlm@40
|
1419
|
rlm@46
|
1420 - relationships as a business :: [[http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/Up-or-Out-Solving-the-IT-Turnover-Crisis.aspx][Turnover-Crisis]] is an excellent talk
|
rlm@46
|
1421 about the "culture of quitting," which is about better business
|
rlm@46
|
1422 by letting people go instead of keeping them around past their
|
rlm@47
|
1423 "apex". Focuses on information transfer. Cool idea of an alumni
|
rlm@46
|
1424 network, which for relationships would be a group of satisfied
|
rlm@46
|
1425 ex-lovers, who would recommend new people your way, and who might
|
rlm@46
|
1426 consider coming to you again, refreshed from their time away with
|
rlm@46
|
1427 new stories/experiences. I should look for examples of this and
|
rlm@46
|
1428 how they worked out.
|
rlm@43
|
1429
|
rlm@47
|
1430 - coffee with tea :: /rlm-tea/ contains 2% sugar, 10% cream, and 20%
|
rlm@43
|
1431 dylan coffee. /dylan coffee/ contains 5% sugar,
|
rlm@43
|
1432 20% cream, and 10% rlm-tea. Start your mornings
|
rlm@43
|
1433 with recursion!
|
rlm@43
|
1434
|
rlm@43
|
1435 - psychic crystal :: in a science fiction story, this would be an
|
rlm@43
|
1436 object that is very easy to move physically but is extremely
|
rlm@43
|
1437 difficult to move with telekinesis.
|
rlm@43
|
1438
|
rlm@40
|
1439 - http://betsofbitco.in/ :: what a great place for an AI/person to
|
rlm@40
|
1440 prove themselves as a good predictor. I wish this could be
|
rlm@40
|
1441 automated.
|
rlm@40
|
1442
|
rlm@44
|
1443 - true reflection :: don't forget about that mirror in the student
|
rlm@44
|
1444 center!, it's two mirrors at right angles, like staring at a
|
rlm@44
|
1445 corner of a room. The light reflects so that it shows you what
|
rlm@44
|
1446 you actually look like, instead of your mirror image.
|
rlm@33
|
1447
|
rlm@33
|
1448 - remote control wasp :: use computer to drive wings with remote
|
rlm@32
|
1449 power/logic.
|
rlm@32
|
1450
|
rlm@47
|
1451 - encrypted email phone book :: public (distributed?) database of
|
rlm@44
|
1452 email->private-key pairs, to enable automatic encryption.
|
rlm@32
|
1453
|
rlm@44
|
1454 - universal eye color :: every equivalent creature will see each
|
rlm@44
|
1455 others' eyes as black -- it's universal. Even if the creatures
|
rlm@44
|
1456 see in radio waves, and their eyes are 2m long pieces of jagged
|
rlm@44
|
1457 metal, when those creatures look at each other, they will see
|
rlm@44
|
1458 black, the absence of light and color (since it's being absorbed
|
rlm@44
|
1459 by the sensor array).
|
rlm@32
|
1460
|
rlm@33
|
1461 - intelligent microwave :: it learns where the hot nodes of its fields
|
rlm@83
|
1462 are, and uses them to evenly heat any food item. It has an infrared
|
rlm@32
|
1463 camera or something to keep track of how hot the food is. That way,
|
rlm@32
|
1464 you don't get bowls where the edges are boiling, while the center is
|
rlm@32
|
1465 still frozen. Requires a little bit of intelligence/vision, since
|
rlm@32
|
1466 the exact pattern of heating totally depends on the exact shape of
|
rlm@47
|
1467 the food. Wouldn't need a carousel, and wouldn't need a timer,
|
rlm@47
|
1468 just a desired temperature. Could also detect ice, and automatically
|
rlm@32
|
1469 defrost the parts which are frozen. Might be able to work much
|
rlm@47
|
1470 faster since it can avoid overheating; might have problems with
|
rlm@32
|
1471 heating the insides of thick things, might need a weight sensor too.
|
rlm@32
|
1472
|
rlm@39
|
1473 + Would be much cleaner than other microwaves, since food would
|
rlm@39
|
1474 "sputter" and splash liquid much less.
|
rlm@32
|
1475
|
rlm@39
|
1476 + Throw in some SIFT+R processing to match previously cooked foods
|
rlm@39
|
1477 and learn the exact heating profiles for things that have been
|
rlm@54
|
1478 cooked before -- it can get faster the more it's used.
|
rlm@32
|
1479
|
rlm@47
|
1480 - compression :: brain-aware image compression algorithm
|
rlm@32
|
1481
|
rlm@44
|
1482 - Credit card proxy :: would be a company which works like paypal
|
rlm@44
|
1483 except for real world transactions
|
rlm@32
|
1484
|
rlm@33
|
1485 - Flesh pillow :: a pillow like the arm or torso of a human, complete
|
rlm@33
|
1486 with simulated temperature, bones, and heartbeat.
|
rlm@33
|
1487
|
rlm@47
|
1488 - super screw :: a screw which has only one or two threads and instead
|
rlm@47
|
1489 uses compression to fit into a hole (the whole shank
|
rlm@33
|
1490 of the screw is split into multiple pieces to
|
rlm@33
|
1491 accomplish this; the tip is a point, then the middle
|
rlm@33
|
1492 bulges out and gets compressed when screwed in.
|
rlm@33
|
1493
|
rlm@47
|
1494 - light filter :: (like light tweezers) to mechanically separate
|
rlm@33
|
1495 fluids with different index of refraction
|
rlm@33
|
1496
|
rlm@33
|
1497 - chalk eraser project :: maybe make a directional eraser, for easy
|
rlm@33
|
1498 release of chalk dust, like fur, and how it likes to rest in a
|
rlm@33
|
1499 certain direction.
|
rlm@33
|
1500
|
rlm@44
|
1501 - silver socks :: socks laced with silver for the antimicrobial
|
rlm@44
|
1502 properties.
|
rlm@32
|
1503
|
rlm@53
|
1504 - UROP :: magnet gear/metal teeth tape
|
rlm@53
|
1505
|
rlm@82
|
1506 - Rod of Moses :: device to distill urine through evaporation and
|
rlm@53
|
1507 easily dispose of urea crystals for use in desert --
|
rlm@53
|
1508 produce drinkable water.
|
rlm@32
|
1509
|
rlm@47
|
1510 - UROP :: Make the LED in line with the flow for the micro injector, so
|
rlm@44
|
1511 that it may transmit maximum flow. Motor that changes
|
rlm@44
|
1512 distance of internal magnet from windings depending on
|
rlm@44
|
1513 desired speed so as to obtain maximum power efficiency.
|
rlm@32
|
1514
|
rlm@47
|
1515 - lottery scraper :: web scraper which monitors various lotteries,
|
rlm@44
|
1516 looking for "special" gimmick changes in the rules (like 4x
|
rlm@44
|
1517 winnings on Wednesdays) and computes expected value...
|
rlm@34
|
1518
|
rlm@34
|
1519 - Memristiors novel design :: make an evolutionary algorithm to make
|
rlm@34
|
1520 old stuff using all four basic circuit elements.
|
rlm@34
|
1521
|
rlm@44
|
1522 - Conductive concrete :: concrete that has embedded metal fibers so
|
rlm@44
|
1523 that it can conduct electricity.
|
rlm@34
|
1524
|
rlm@44
|
1525 - little bitty melting pot :: might be useful for some types of
|
rlm@44
|
1526 manufacturing/3D printing -- how small can an induction melter be
|
rlm@44
|
1527 made, for example.
|
rlm@34
|
1528
|
rlm@44
|
1529 - power strip/timer programmable combination :: meh
|
rlm@34
|
1530
|
rlm@47
|
1531 - algorithms :: which learn what their inputs are and in what order,
|
rlm@44
|
1532 and can adapt to changing circumstances -- they
|
rlm@44
|
1533 remember previous arguments and adapt so as to respond
|
rlm@44
|
1534 to different connections.
|
rlm@34
|
1535
|
rlm@47
|
1536 - true pure tones :: hear a true pure tone by direct stimulation of the
|
rlm@44
|
1537 nerves of the ear
|
rlm@43
|
1538
|
rlm@43
|
1539 - mechanical analogue to the electrical op-amp :: would be an object
|
rlm@43
|
1540 with two levers -- you pull on one lever and the other moves the
|
rlm@43
|
1541 same way, no matter what's in the way or what it is driving. This
|
rlm@47
|
1542 analogy could be useful to teach op amps to people.
|
rlm@34
|
1543
|
rlm@47
|
1544 - paper folding device :: make it convenient to fold lots of papers in
|
rlm@34
|
1545 various ways.
|
rlm@34
|
1546
|
rlm@34
|
1547 - concrete epoxy :: epoxy with sand/ some other solid material.
|
rlm@34
|
1548
|
rlm@47
|
1549 - light capacitor :: suspend some ball of material with a high index
|
rlm@43
|
1550 of refraction and shine light into it so it gets stuck -- would
|
rlm@43
|
1551 the light stay trapped forever? Could you build up unlimited
|
rlm@43
|
1552 quantities of light inside the sphere (which could then be
|
rlm@43
|
1553 released slowly by frustrated internal reflection?
|
rlm@34
|
1554
|
rlm@40
|
1555 - movie screening :: Movies always are too long at first. One way to
|
rlm@34
|
1556 shorten them ``scientifically" is to record blink rate during the
|
rlm@34
|
1557 move and then remove / shorten the frames of the parts in which
|
rlm@34
|
1558 there are a lot of blinking (average this over multiple people)
|
rlm@34
|
1559 better yet, put it online and do it across thousands of people. I
|
rlm@34
|
1560 got this from youtube in which there is an episode of kill bill
|
rlm@47
|
1561 which is composed entirely of the parts in which people had their
|
rlm@34
|
1562 eyes closed. slogan: want to make a movie people can't take their
|
rlm@34
|
1563 eyes off of? Just take those parts out!
|
rlm@34
|
1564
|
rlm@47
|
1565 - optimize an article :: capture reading of a scientific article via
|
rlm@44
|
1566 screen capture while people read it, then use it to make the
|
rlm@44
|
1567 article better. like the movie-pruning idea.
|
rlm@35
|
1568
|
rlm@44
|
1569 - super reading program :: teaches people the ideal mental mask to
|
rlm@44
|
1570 apply during reading so as to read very fast.
|
rlm@35
|
1571
|
rlm@44
|
1572 - explosive thermite epoxy putty :: one part would contain the rust,
|
rlm@47
|
1573 one part the aluminum.
|
rlm@34
|
1574
|
rlm@44
|
1575 - reading comprehension :: use the above screen capture routine to
|
rlm@44
|
1576 make a quiz program that constructs questions about the content
|
rlm@44
|
1577 you seemed to gloss over while reading. could be easy if the pdf
|
rlm@44
|
1578 came with embedded questions. Dylan: automatically generate
|
rlm@44
|
1579 word-cloud about the parts you found most interesting; help
|
rlm@44
|
1580 others who read the same stuff by drawing attention to the
|
rlm@44
|
1581 interesting parts.
|
rlm@34
|
1582
|
rlm@44
|
1583 - hard sword :: make a samurai sword, but use osmiridum instead of
|
rlm@44
|
1584 martensite for the cutting part; it should be a better
|
rlm@44
|
1585 sword.
|
rlm@32
|
1586
|
rlm@44
|
1587 - close range wireless :: use the induction technology used to
|
rlm@44
|
1588 recharge electric toothbrushes with no metal links to send data
|
rlm@44
|
1589 without any metal at all!
|
rlm@32
|
1590
|
rlm@44
|
1591 - reading :: is a form of synsethesia
|
rlm@32
|
1592
|
rlm@44
|
1593 - DNA printer :: A machine which translates the text eg, "ACTGAC" into
|
rlm@44
|
1594 actual DNA
|
rlm@32
|
1595
|
rlm@44
|
1596 - black generator :: ferro-fluid magnetic field suspended micro
|
rlm@44
|
1597 generator to make electricity
|
rlm@32
|
1598
|
rlm@44
|
1599 - alcohol battery :: alcohol/fluid flow powered battery
|
rlm@32
|
1600
|
rlm@44
|
1601 - folding razor blade sword ::
|
rlm@32
|
1602
|
rlm@44
|
1603 - perfect pitch :: learn perfect pitch using another sense in
|
rlm@44
|
1604 combination (sight or touch)
|
rlm@32
|
1605
|
rlm@44
|
1606 - kaleidoscope projector ::
|
rlm@32
|
1607
|
rlm@44
|
1608 - razor blade de-sharpener :: for guilt free disposal
|
rlm@32
|
1609
|
rlm@44
|
1610 - bricks :: filled with luminescent plant material
|
rlm@32
|
1611
|
rlm@47
|
1612 - bio metallic structure :: metal grids with seeds inside, which grow
|
rlm@44
|
1613 together and form a durable biological matrix. The metal
|
rlm@44
|
1614 substrate delivers water. (maybe use plastic instead of metal?)
|
rlm@44
|
1615 Dylan: enrich plants with inorganic compounds; electrical
|
rlm@44
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1616 interfaces in cellular plant matter => remote-controlled
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rlm@44
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1617 photosynthetic/bioluminescent structures.
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rlm@32
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1618
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rlm@44
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1619 - conducting extracellular matrix :: to allow better control of
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rlm@44
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1620 organic systems and an enhanced nervous system.
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rlm@32
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1621
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rlm@44
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1622 - cross-modal memory hashing :: a way to retrieve memories more
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rlm@44
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1623 robustly.
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rlm@32
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1624
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rlm@47
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1625 - flossing thimble-guards :: (these actually exist)
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rlm@32
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1626
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rlm@44
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1627 - rules + lattice learning :: integrate lattice learning with rules by
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rlm@44
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1628 generating hypothetical examples
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rlm@32
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1629
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rlm@47
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1630 - wooden refrigerator :: to give food a better taste Dylan: like
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rlm@44
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1631 barrels for wine, or planks for salmon. Maybe just have "flavor
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rlm@44
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1632 planks" for your pre-existing fridge. Need to mitigate effect of
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rlm@44
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1633 temperature on volatility?
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rlm@32
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1634
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rlm@35
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1635 - radioactive transmutation molecule by molecule :: create precious
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rlm@35
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1636 metals or something else economically advantageous.
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rlm@32
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1637
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rlm@47
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1638 - crowd preservation :: inoculate food with tons of harmless
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rlm@44
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1639 bacteria so that there's no room for bad bacteria as a method of
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rlm@44
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1640 preservation
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rlm@32
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1641
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rlm@47
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1642 - old school preservation :: Pasteur - style holding jar with siphon
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rlm@47
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1643 as a way to store liquids at room temperature indefinitely w/o
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rlm@47
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1644 refrigeration.
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rlm@32
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1645
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rlm@47
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1646 - restaurant policy :: Throw rude people out of restaurant as a matter
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rlm@44
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1647 of course -- make ambiance much better.
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rlm@32
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1648
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rlm@47
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1649 - clean windows :: make something that mixes soap with fire hydrant
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rlm@44
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1650 water (and reduces the pressure a bit) and use it
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rlm@44
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1651 to clean windows of buildings.
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rlm@32
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1652
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rlm@44
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1653 - ocarina :: make an ocarina out of pure silver
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rlm@32
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1654
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rlm@35
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1655 - fire pen :: pen which burns words on to the page, thus never needing
|
rlm@47
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1656 any ink. Is there a way to make it runnable from the
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rlm@35
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1657 human's energy?
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rlm@32
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1658
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rlm@44
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1659 - website to design your own soda :: and label, and have it mailed to
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rlm@44
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1660 you / sell it from your own online store.
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rlm@35
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1661
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rlm@44
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1662 - solar panels :: that float on the ocean
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rlm@43
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1663
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rlm@35
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1664 - handcuffs with more than two cuffs (3?) :: great for daisy chaining
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rlm@43
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1665 people, binding them to environment, etc.
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rlm@35
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1666
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rlm@35
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1667 - vector based SOUND files :: like the pictures but with SOUND. codify
|
rlm@35
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1668 sound in a language with enough symbols so that it can describe
|
rlm@35
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1669 everything and encode it in that. would be like going from speech
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rlm@43
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1670 to text or smtg. Could also store sound as an image of the
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rlm@35
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1671 wavefront encoded as a vector image.
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rlm@32
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1672
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rlm@44
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1673 - Mouse :: with a horizontal scroll wheel in addition to the vertical
|
rlm@44
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1674 scroll wheel
|
rlm@32
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1675
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rlm@47
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1676 - logic maintenance system for big institutions :: to make sure the
|
rlm@44
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1677 things they are thinking about doing are not retarded
|
rlm@32
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1678
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rlm@47
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1679 - http://www.regulations.gov/ :: cool site
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rlm@32
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1680
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rlm@44
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1681 - genetically engineered glowing fruit :: sell seeds?
|
rlm@32
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1682
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rlm@36
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1683 - memory slide :: IF memories are encoded using particular sensory
|
rlm@36
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1684 impressions, what happens if the sensory organ
|
rlm@36
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1685 itself changes? those memories would become
|
rlm@47
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1686 inaccessible. maybe this is why we can't remember
|
rlm@36
|
1687 much from our childhoods. also, could this happen
|
rlm@47
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1688 throughout life as well? Could S remember stuff from
|
rlm@36
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1689 his childhood?
|
rlm@32
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1690
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rlm@47
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1691 - make a completely indestructible phone :: no moving parts or display
|
rlm@36
|
1692 you should be able to slam it around all you want, and it will
|
rlm@36
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1693 just work. brutally simple. aerogel around the battery, minimal
|
rlm@36
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1694 interface - never gets too hot, and can be dropped into water. no
|
rlm@36
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1695 holes -- uses field effects for everything from the buttons to
|
rlm@36
|
1696 inductive charging and data transfer.
|
rlm@32
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1697
|
rlm@44
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1698 - midi to ocarina "tabs" program :: (online website? buy ocarinas from
|
rlm@44
|
1699 it too)
|
rlm@32
|
1700
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rlm@44
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1701 - 3d printing with sound pulses (or just patterns) :: like the 8.03
|
rlm@44
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1702 lecture
|
rlm@32
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1703
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rlm@40
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1704 - lighter flint on spring :: make hot, throw it at something, and it
|
rlm@40
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1705 makes sparkles!
|
rlm@32
|
1706
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rlm@44
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1707 - nuclear energy :: Rebranding New+Clear Energy with informational
|
rlm@44
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1708 campaign and public debate forum to enforce its
|
rlm@44
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1709 transparent and open nature. France needn't be the
|
rlm@44
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1710 world leader in nuclear energy. (Dylan)
|
rlm@32
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1711
|
rlm@44
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1712 - bubbles :: Engineer a material which has both ductility and high
|
rlm@44
|
1713 surface tension to make the "third"
|
rlm@44
|
1714 minimal-surface-energy solution to a bubble suspended
|
rlm@44
|
1715 between two equal-diameter rings. (Solutions are
|
rlm@44
|
1716 cylindrical catenary curve, two separated half-bubbles,
|
rlm@44
|
1717 and a double-cone)
|
rlm@38
|
1718
|
rlm@38
|
1719 - Textbook whose content can be varied continuously :: alter level of
|
rlm@38
|
1720 difficulty, rigor, diction, emphasize crossover with certain
|
rlm@38
|
1721 other discipline, etc. Content generated dynamically from
|
rlm@38
|
1722 knowledge base, along with questions that are moreover altered to
|
rlm@38
|
1723 guide knowledge acquisition. Motivation: One book of
|
rlm@40
|
1724 knowledge. /One./
|
rlm@40
|
1725
|
rlm@40
|
1726 ** From Jacob's idea list
|
rlm@40
|
1727
|
rlm@47
|
1728 - Roommate-canceling headphones: uses roommate's laptop mic to seed
|
rlm@43
|
1729 noise cancellation alg in your headphones (would this
|
rlm@40
|
1730 work?). -Update on sound canceling headphones that take feed from
|
rlm@40
|
1731 tv: how about ones that cancel people talking on the phone by
|
rlm@40
|
1732 receiving the phone signals and playing inverse sound
|
rlm@40
|
1733 waves. #signalprocessing ~jcole@mit.edu
|
rlm@40
|
1734
|
rlm@40
|
1735 - ClackerAlert -- tells if you slam the keys too hard using sound data
|
rlm@40
|
1736 (and speed/jerkiness data)!.Prevents RSI ~jcole@mit.e
|
rlm@40
|
1737
|
rlm@40
|
1738 - Panic Pin :: separate pin that you can tell someone if forced to
|
rlm@41
|
1739 identify your PIN (idea from idea about credit cards)
|