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     1.2 +++ b/org/ideas.org	Mon Mar 10 13:01:48 2014 -0400
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     1.4  #+INCLUDE: ../../aurellem/org/level-0.org
     1.5  #+babel: :mkdirp yes :noweb yes :exports both
     1.6  
     1.7 +
     1.8 +
     1.9  * Ideas
    1.10  
    1.11  This is a list of all the ideas I've had that I felt like writing down
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    1.13  getting credit.
    1.14  #+end_quote
    1.15  
    1.16 +<<<<<<< local
    1.17  - suicide parasite :: sometimes, people kill themselves for no good
    1.18       reason. We often explain this with things like "hidden
    1.19       depression" or we say that they had something like chronic jaw or
    1.20 @@ -51,8 +54,9 @@
    1.21            should have a higher incidence of some unknown parasite in
    1.22            their brains. 
    1.23  
    1.24 -- domestic insects :: People should eat more bugs, but why not do some
    1.25 -     major domestication research to make very appealing bugs?
    1.26 +- domestic insects :: People should eat more bugs because they're much
    1.27 +     more efficient, so why not do some major domestication research
    1.28 +     to make very appealing bugs?
    1.29  
    1.30  - birth-clones :: What if each person was intentionally split at birth
    1.31                    into a normal embryo and a few "backup" cells which
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    1.33                    backups. Imagine having a young Bach every
    1.34                    generation, etc.
    1.35  
    1.36 +- pronuncation guide :: a simple webpage where you type in a word and
    1.37 +     it returns a simpe, English sentence describing exactly how to
    1.38 +     pronounce the word. For people who don't want to learn IPA. 
    1.39 +
    1.40  - cortex-search :: use the repertoire of actions learned to limit the
    1.41                     search space of possible actions.
    1.42  
    1.43 +- learning to teleport :: scifi idea, this is a story about a person
    1.44 +     who is struggling with his/her society's ideas about
    1.45 +     teleportation. It's considered a fundamental part of being a
    1.46 +     member of that society (after all, the difference between animals
    1.47 +     and humans is that humans are creatures of pure information while
    1.48 +     animals are burdened with base matter, "that's how you travel the
    1.49 +     stars, etc") Humans are born normally, grow up, and then
    1.50 +     eventually transcend via destructive upload. Analogies to jumping
    1.51 +     off a diving board into a pool (which I simply /could not do/ for
    1.52 +     a long time), etc.     
    1.53 +
    1.54  - no-float-ice :: cup that has cross beams at the bottom where ice
    1.55                    forms. Then when you drink liquid from the glass,
    1.56                    the ice stays at the bottom and doesn't hit your
    1.57 @@ -174,6 +193,10 @@
    1.58  
    1.59  - aurellem shirt :: I should make an aurellem star symbol tee-shirt. 
    1.60  
    1.61 +- touch vision :: inspired by GelSight, I want to reexamine cortex and
    1.62 +                  see if I could implement touch as a very low range
    1.63 +                  form of vision.
    1.64 +
    1.65  - high school science :: this is a lesson in scientific ethics. The
    1.66       goal is to calculate /g/, the local gravitational
    1.67       acceleration. The students are told that the textbook says it's
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    1.69       by the sensor array).
    1.70  
    1.71  - intelligent microwave :: it learns where the hot nodes of its fields
    1.72 -  are, and uses them to evenly heat any food item. It has an infared
    1.73 +  are, and uses them to evenly heat any food item. It has an infrared
    1.74    camera or something to keep track of how hot the food is. That way,
    1.75    you don't get bowls where the edges are boiling, while the center is
    1.76    still frozen. Requires a little bit of intelligence/vision, since
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    1.78       knowledge base, along with questions that are moreover altered to
    1.79       guide knowledge acquisition. Motivation: One book of
    1.80       knowledge. /One./
    1.81 -- * Invalid capture template
    1.82  
    1.83  ** From Jacob's idea list
    1.84