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finally creating a good-ideas page.
author Robert McIntyre <rlm@mit.edu>
date Sun, 12 Apr 2015 17:31:34 -0700
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10 * Ideas 10 * Ideas
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15 This is a list of all the ideas I've had that I felt like writing down 15 This is a list of *Every* idea I've written down
16 for the past ~ 8 years. Some of them could be practical inventions and
17 are "just" waiting for that 95% perspiration to bring them to
18 fruition, some are ideas for science fiction, and some are simple
19 observations. Some are really only for my own personal notes and are
20 not meant to be comprehensible. They are arranged roughly in reverse
21 chronological order, with the most recent ideas at the top of the
22 list. The ones at the bottom of the list are heavily influenced by my
23 time at MIT.
24
25 If you find some of these interesting and would like to collaborate on
26 them with me or discuss them in more detail, I'd love to hear from
27 you. You can email me at ideas@aurellem.org.
28
29 If you want to use one of these ideas as your own and run with it,
30 please feel free. I'd love to hear about it if you do.
31 16
32 #+begin_quote 17 #+begin_quote
33 There's no end to what a man can accomplish if he doesn't care about 18 There's no end to what a man can accomplish if he doesn't care about
34 getting credit. 19 getting credit.
35 #+end_quote 20 #+end_quote
21
22 - becomming alive :: upload faces challenges to grow into they type of
23 person that can join the greater society -- a god. They have to
24 go though quests that replicate all the things that humanity had
25 to accomplish, like going to the moon, by themselves.
26
27 - population distorted map of USA :: to see states sizes in terms of #
28 of people. (already exists!
29 http://www-personal.umich.edu/~mejn/cart/doc/)
30
31 - butterfly drone :: if big butterflies used to exist, then maybe we
32 could make butterfly-inspired drones!
33
34 - methylation sex symmetry breaking :: So, human cells have
35 methylation patterns that encode male/female origin. If you
36 combine two male patterns, the fetus grows "too fast" and
37 dies. Two female patterns causes the fetus to enter a "vegatable"
38 state and fail to develop. Evolutionary biologists will say that
39 this reflects the asymmetry of energy investement for creating
40 offspring. If that's true, then species that cast-spawn will lack
41 this symmetry, and give clues about how to remove it in
42 humans. If even cast spawners like sea urchins have it, then that
43 means there's something deeper going on!
44
45 - reverse cannulation perfusion :: you put the organ you want to
46 perfuse in an airtight chamber with a pool of the stuff you want
47 to perfuse. You cannulate some veins and lead tubes form to
48 outside of the chamber. You pump in air and perfusate, and the
49 increasing air pressure in the chamber forces perfusate through
50 the organ. For times when you don't want to cannulate the inputs
51 -- they can be ragged, or there can be many of them. You still
52 have to guide the veins to the outside of the chamber, but
53 depending on the use case this might be far easier than
54 tradational cannulation.
55
56 - very slow physiological pressure perfusion :: less extreme example
57 of the "pausing" trick -- just keep the perfusion running and
58 don't put the perfusion target into the liquid as deep.
36 59
37 - whole brain perfusion embedding :: Do the standard EM embedding 60 - whole brain perfusion embedding :: Do the standard EM embedding
38 protocol, but skip the osmium step, and use the "perfusion 61 protocol, but skip the osmium step, and use the "perfusion
39 pausing" method to prevent overextraction during the dehydration 62 pausing" method to prevent overextraction during the dehydration
40 and embedding steps. I think that you CAN perfuse resins into the 63 and embedding steps. I think that you CAN perfuse resins into the
98 - whirlpool of light :: shine a laser out into space. But the planet 121 - whirlpool of light :: shine a laser out into space. But the planet
99 is spinning! What you get is a spiral or light! And as this 122 is spinning! What you get is a spiral or light! And as this
100 signal expands, does it eventually reveal it's wuantized nature? 123 signal expands, does it eventually reveal it's wuantized nature?
101 124
102 - perfusion coking :: EOM 125 - perfusion coking :: EOM
103
104 - whatever :: asdfsadasda asda
105 126
106 - timestamp verification :: you sign your message, and it has a 127 - timestamp verification :: you sign your message, and it has a
107 timestamp at the top, with a +- percision number. Then you send 128 timestamp at the top, with a +- percision number. Then you send
108 it over to the public timestamp server, which only signs the 129 it over to the public timestamp server, which only signs the
109 message if it gets the message within the timestamp window. Or 130 message if it gets the message within the timestamp window. Or