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author	Robert McIntyre <rlm@mit.edu>
date	Sat, 13 Jul 2013 03:10:44 -0400
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+#+title: Big List O' Ideas
+#+author: Robert McIntyre
+#+email: rlm@mit.edu
+#+description: list of ideas from the last ~ 7 years
+#+keywords: aurellem ideas half-baked ramdom
+#+SETUPFILE: ../../aurellem/org/setup.org
+#+INCLUDE: ../../aurellem/org/level-0.org
+#+babel: :mkdirp yes :noweb yes :exports both
 * Ideas
+This is a list of all the ideas I've had that I felt like writing down
+for the past ~ 7 years. Some of them could be practical inventions and
+are "just" waiting the that 95% persperiation to bring them to
+furition, some are ideas for science fiction, and some are simple
+observations. There are arranged roughly in reverse chronological
+order, with the most recent ideas at the top of the list. The ones at
+the bottom of the list are heavily influenced by my time at MIT.
+If you find some of these interesting and would like to collaborate on
+them with me or discuss them in more detail, I'd love to hear from
+you. You can email me at ideas@aurellem.org.
 - fixed cryopreservation :: why not use a fixitave to buy enough time
 to ramp up cryoprotectants to an acceptable level at room
 temperature? Then, the whole system can be rapidly cooled and
 vitrified. This method "severs the biological link" in that the
 gender characteristic (bunny/cat, male/female), which makes
 homophobia look very silly. Here, our own biological legacy of
 pain and death is made to look like the tradegy it is through the
 lense of the the caterpillar people.
+- relationships as a business ::
+http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/Up-or-Out-Solving-the-IT-Turnover-Crisis.aspx
+is an excellent talk about the "culture of quitting," which is about
+better business by letting people go instead of keeping them around
+past their "apex". Focouses on information transfer. Cool idea of an
+alumni network, which for relationships would be a group of
+satisfied ex-lovers, who would recommend new people your way, and
+who might consider coming to you again, refreshed from their time
+away with new stories/experiences. I should look for examples of
+this and how they worked out.
+- coffe with tea :: /rlm-tea/ contains 2% sugar, 10% cream, and 20%
+dylan coffee. /dylan coffee/ contains 5% sugar,
+20% cream, and 10% rlm-tea. Start your mornings
+with recursion!
+- psychic crystal :: in a science fiction story, this would be an
+object that is very easy to move physically but is extremely
+difficult to move with telekinesis.
 - http://betsofbitco.in/ :: what a great place for an AI/person to
 prove themselves as a good predictor. I wish this could be
 automated.
 - don't forget about that mirror in the student center!, it's two
 - algorthms which learn what their inputs are and in what order, and
 can adapt to changing circumstances -- they remember previous
 arguments and adapt so as to respond to different connections.
 - hear a true pure tone by direct stimultion of the nerves of the ear
-mechanical analogue to the electrical op-amp
+- mechanical analogue to the electrical op-amp ::  would be an object
+with two levers -- you pull on one lever and the other moves the
+same way, no matter what's in the way or what it is driving. This
+anlogy could be useful to teach op amps to people.
 - paper folding device :: make it convienent to fold lots of papers in
 various ways.
 - concrete epoxy :: epoxy with sand/ some other solid material.
-- suspend some ball of material with a high index of refraction and
+- light capacator :: suspend some ball of material with a high index
-shine light into it so it gets stuck -- would the light stay trapped
+of refraction and shine light into it so it gets stuck -- would
-forever? Could you build up unlimited quantities of light inside the
+the light stay trapped forever? Could you build up unlimited
-sphere (which could then be released slowly by frustrated internal
+quantities of light inside the sphere (which could then be
-reflection?
+released slowly by frustrated internal reflection?
 - movie screening :: Movies always are too long at first. One way to
 shorten them ``scientifically" is to record blink rate during the
 move and then remove / shorten the frames of the parts in which
 there are a lot of blinking (average this over multiple people)
 apply during reading so as to read very fast.
 - explosive thermite epoxy putty (one part would contain the rust, one
 part the alumimum)
-- use the above screen capture routine to make a quiz program tha
+- use the above screen capture routine to make a quiz program that
 constructs questions about the content you seemed to gloss over
 while reading. could be easy if the pdf came with embedded
 questions.  Dylan: automatically generate word-cloud about the parts
 you found most interesting; help others who read the same stuff by
 drawing attention to the interesting parts.
 - conducting extracellular matrix
 - cross-modal memory hashing
-- flossing thimble-gaurds
+- flossing thimble-gaurds (these actually exist)
 - integrate lattice learning with rules by generating hypothetical
 examples
 - wooden refridgerator to give food a better taste Dylan: like barrels
 - website to design your own soda, and label, and have it mailed to
 you / sell it from your own online store.
 - solar panels that float on the ocean
 - handcuffs with more than two cuffs (3?) :: great for daisy chaining
-prisoniers, binding them to environment, etc.
+people, binding them to environment, etc.
 - vector based SOUND files :: like the pictures but with SOUND. codify
 sound in a language with enough symbols so that it can describe
 everything and encode it in that. would be like going from speech
-to text or smtg. This would store sound as an image of the
+to text or smtg. Could also store sound as an image of the
 wavefront encoded as a vector image.
 - Mouse with a horizontal scroll wheel in addition to the vertical
 scroll wheel
 other discipline, etc. Content generated dynamically from
 knowledge base, along with questions that are moreover altered to
 guide knowledge acquisition. Motivation: One book of
 knowledge. /One./
-- relationships as a business ::
-http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/Up-or-Out-Solving-the-IT-Turnover-Crisis.aspx
-is an excellent talk about the "culture of quitting," which is about
-better business by letting people go instead of keeping them around
-past their "apex". Focouses on information transfer. Cool idea of an
-alumni network, which for relationships would be a group of
-satisfied ex-lovers, who would recommend new people your way, and
-who might consider coming to you again, refreshed from their time
-away with new stories/experiences. I should look for examples of
-this and how they worked out.
-- coffe with tea :: /rlm-tea/ contains 2% sugar, 10% cream, and 20%
-dylan coffee. /dylan coffee/ contains 5% sugar,
-20% cream, and 10% rlm-tea. Start your mornings
-with recursion!
-- psychic crystal :: in a science fiction story, this would be an
-object that is very easy to move physically but is extremely
-difficult to move with telekinesis.
 ** From Jacob's idea list
 - Roommate-cancelling headphones: uses roommate's laptop mic to seed
-noise cancellation alg in your headzphones (would this
+noise cancellation alg in your headphones (would this
 work?). -Update on sound canceling headphones that take feed from
 tv: how about ones that cancel people talking on the phone by
 receiving the phone signals and playing inverse sound
 waves. #signalprocessing ~jcole@mit.edu

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