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     1.4    and have NOT been properly explored! You could be the first person
     1.5    to get them working!
     1.6  
     1.7 -  - Using Chaotic Systems to get unlimited measurement precision!
     1.8 -    - Two papers: 
     1.9 +  - Using chaos to get unlimited measurement precision!
    1.10 +    - In chaotic systems, states that are near to each other at one
    1.11 +      point in time become exponentially farther apart from each other
    1.12 +      as the system evolves in time. Therefore, you might be able to
    1.13 +      attain arbitrary precision by waiting for the system to evolve,
    1.14 +      and then determining what initial state must have led to the
    1.15 +      later state.
    1.16 +    - Two notable papers: 
    1.17        - [[http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/5953][A Global Approach to Parameter Estimation of Chaotic Dynamical
    1.18          Systems]], by [[http://eas.caltech.edu/people/3209/profile][Athanassios G. Siapas]], 1992.
    1.19        - [[http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/7060][Parameter Estimation in Chaotic Systems]], by Elmer Hung, 1995.
    1.20 @@ -85,7 +91,9 @@
    1.21        magnitude= improvement in measurement precision in a simple
    1.22        experiment. 
    1.23      - You will win the Nobel Prize if you can get it to work, because
    1.24 -      you will revolutionize the way we do measurements. 
    1.25 +      you will revolutionize the way we do measurements. In
    1.26 +      particular, you could measure the Gravitational Constant with
    1.27 +      unprecedented accuracy. 
    1.28  
    1.29    - [[http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/12007][Towards Intelligent Structures: Active Control of Buckling]]
    1.30      - By [[http://www.berlinplace.com/][Andrew A. Berlin]], 1994
    1.31 @@ -263,7 +271,7 @@
    1.32    where people could thrive. He is certainly the reason that I was
    1.33    seduced into working on AI. Minsky has vast and deep Scientific
    1.34    knowledge -- he could walk into almost any class: Chemistry,
    1.35 -  Physics, Math, Computer Science, and teach the class without
    1.36 +  Physics, Math, Computer Science, and teach the class well without
    1.37    preparation!
    1.38  
    1.39    - http://web.media.mit.edu/~minsky/ Much of Minsky's work is here,
    1.40 @@ -271,7 +279,8 @@
    1.41      papers. Check it out!
    1.42    
    1.43    - [[http://aurellem.org/society-of-mind/][Society of Mind]] Read it online! Each chapter of this book is a
    1.44 -    short, self-contained essay about the various
    1.45 +    short, self-contained essay about some aspect of intelligence or
    1.46 +    development. 
    1.47  
    1.48    - [[https://web.media.mit.edu/~minsky/papers/MusicMindMeaning.html][Music, Mind, and Meaning]] Minsky is one of a few living people who
    1.49      can /improvise/ complicated Baroque era fugues. You can hear one
    1.50 @@ -308,6 +317,7 @@
    1.51        example.
    1.52      - But the /feelings/ are exactly right! This book really captures
    1.53        what it was like to be in the AI lab back in the good old days.
    1.54 +
    1.55  * Selected works by Sussman
    1.56    
    1.57    - [[http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/users/gjs/6946/sicm-html/book.html][SICM (Structure and Interpretation of Classical Mechanics)]] This is