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initial assimilation of ideas from MIT complete.
author Robert McIntyre <rlm@mit.edu>
date Sun, 21 Apr 2013 03:49:53 +0000
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203 sound in a language with enough symbols so that it can describe 203 sound in a language with enough symbols so that it can describe
204 everything and encode it in that. would be like going from speech 204 everything and encode it in that. would be like going from speech
205 to text or smtg. This would store sound as an image of the 205 to text or smtg. This would store sound as an image of the
206 wavefront encoded as a vector image. 206 wavefront encoded as a vector image.
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208 Oct 27, 2009 208 - Mouse with a horizontal scroll wheel in addition to the vertical
209 209 scroll wheel
210 Mouse with a horizontal scroll wheel in addition to the vertical scroll wheel 210
211 logic maintance system for big institutions to make sure the things they are thinking about doing are not retarded 211 - logic maintance system for big institutions to make sure the things
212 Me: For a starting point, crawl public domain regulations sites looking for retardation. 212 they are thinking about doing are not retarded
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214 Oct 28, 2009 214 - http://www.regulations.gov/
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216 http://www.regulations.gov/ 216 - genetically engineered glowing fruit -- sell seeds?
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218 genetically engineered glowing fruit -- sell seeds? 218 - memory slide :: IF memories are encoded using particular sensory
219 219 impressions, what happens if the sensory organ
220 Me: Fruits whose skins store sunlight in luminscent flesh => useful? 220 itself changes? those memories would become
221 221 unaccessable. maybe this is why we can't remember
222 Oct 27, 2009 222 much from our childhoods. also, could this happen
223 223 throught life as well? Could S remember stuff from
224 memory slide -- IF memories are encoded using particular sensory impressions, what happens if the sensory organ itself changes? those memories would become unaccessable. maybe this is why we can't 224 his childhood?
225 remember much from our childhoods. also, could this happen throught life as well? Could S remember stuff from his childhood? 225
226 make a completely indestructable phone -- no moving parts or display you should be able to slam it around all you want, and it will just work. brutally simple. aerogel around the battery, minimal interface - never gets 226 - make a completely indestructable phone :: no moving parts or display
227 too hot, and can be dropped into water. no holes -- uses field effects for everything from the buttons to inductive charging and data transfer. 227 you should be able to slam it around all you want, and it will
228 Me: Start with "military" phones (like Mr. Hawley has) with field-effects interface additions and additional hardcore streamlining. 228 just work. brutally simple. aerogel around the battery, minimal
229 229 interface - never gets too hot, and can be dropped into water. no
230 Oct 27, 2009 230 holes -- uses field effects for everything from the buttons to
231 231 inductive charging and data transfer.
232 midi to ocarina "tabs" program (online website? buy ocarinas from it too) 232
233 3d printing with sound pulses (or just patterns) -- like the 8.03 lecture 233 - midi to ocarina "tabs" program (online website? buy ocarinas from it
234 lighter flint on spring --- make hot and it makes sparkles! 234 too)
235 put a plane on a treadmill, to help it do a vertical takeoff. 235
236 Use a nondeterministic sentence parser to understand sentences with multiple meanings. Perhaps use statistical language as a filter against unintended (or rather, uninteresting) interpretations. 236 - 3d printing with sound pulses (or just patterns) -- like the 8.03
237 Rebranding New+Clear Energy with informational campaign and public debate forum to enforce its transparent and open nature. France needn't be the world leader in nuclear energy. 237 lecture
238 Me: Standardized, modular nuclear plants? 238
239 239 - lighter flint on spring :: make hot and it makes sparkles!
240 Oct 29, 2009 240
241 241 - put a plane on a treadmill, to help it do a vertical takeoff.
242 Textbook whose content can be varied continuously---alter 242
243 Me: well, actually varied over a countable "dense" set. 243 - Use a nondeterministic sentence parser to understand sentences with
244 244 multiple meanings. Perhaps use statistical language as a filter
245 Oct 29, 2009 245 against unintended (or rather, uninteresting) interpretations.
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247 level of difficulty, rigor, diction, emphasize crossover with certain other discipline, etc. Content generated dynamically from knowledge base, 247 - Rebranding New+Clear Energy with informational campaign and
248 Me: Or, initially, interpolated over all pre-existing books. 248 public debate forum to enforce its transparent and open
249 249 nature. France needn't be the world leader in nuclear
250 Oct 29, 2009 250 energy. (Dylan)
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252 along with questions that are moreover altered to guide knowledge acquisition. 252 - Engineer a material which has both ductility and high surface
253 Motivation: One book of knowledge. One. 253 tension to make the "third" minimal-surface-energy solution to a
254 Engineer a material which has both ductility and high surface tension to make the "third" minimal-surface-energy solution to a bubble suspended between two equal-diameter rings. (Solutions are cylindrical catenary 254 bubble suspended between two equal-diameter rings. (Solutions are
255 curve, two separated half-bubbles, and a double-cone) 255 cylindrical catenary curve, two separated half-bubbles, and a
256 256 double-cone)
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259 Me: Color-coded lid-cup pairs.
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263 Me: Dry soap (like for pets) but for cars
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