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| author | Robert McIntyre <rlm@mit.edu> |
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| date | Tue, 13 Aug 2013 00:46:37 -0400 |
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| 26 If you want to use one of these ideas as your own and run with it, | 26 If you want to use one of these ideas as your own and run with it, |
| 27 please feel free. I'd love to hear about it if you do. | 27 please feel free. I'd love to hear about it if you do. |
| 28 | 28 |
| 29 /There's no end to what a man can accomplish if he doesn't care about | 29 /There's no end to what a man can accomplish if he doesn't care about |
| 30 getting credit/ | 30 getting credit/ |
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| 32 - server culture : mirrors :: make a distributed system where people | |
| 33 can mirror the websites of people they like -- essentially cover | |
| 34 the server costs of favored websites. This could make popular | |
| 35 websites run at no cost. The system would require that the | |
| 36 mirrored content be the same as the official source. Sort of like | |
| 37 bittorrent for websites. | |
| 38 | |
| 39 - map programming :: one problem with functional programming is that | |
| 40 in order to remain functional, you have to pass up arguments up | |
| 41 into each calling function to get the full range of behaviour | |
| 42 from the lower level functions. Normally people come to a | |
| 43 compromize involving abstraction and sparing use of dynamic | |
| 44 variables to configure runtime behaviour. What would be the | |
| 45 advantages of making a programming language where every function | |
| 46 recieves one argument, a map, which contains all the symbol | |
| 47 bindings it would ever need? This map is passed on to all | |
| 48 subordinate functions. This way, you could replace functions on | |
| 49 the fly, and arrange for there to be sensible defaults, | |
| 50 etc. Might cause more harm than good but is an interesting idea. | |
| 31 | 51 |
| 32 - rest nest :: a small EEG device you would attach to your head when | 52 - rest nest :: a small EEG device you would attach to your head when |
| 33 you go to sleep at night. ML algorithms would determine | 53 you go to sleep at night. ML algorithms would determine |
| 34 your particular sleep cycles. This would mostly be an | 54 your particular sleep cycles. This would mostly be an |
| 35 alarm clock that you could give a time range, say | 55 alarm clock that you could give a time range, say |