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more ideas
author Robert McIntyre <rlm@mit.edu>
date Tue, 26 Jan 2016 23:32:36 -0800
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     1.1 --- a/org/ideas.org	Thu Dec 10 20:55:09 2015 -0800
     1.2 +++ b/org/ideas.org	Tue Jan 26 23:32:36 2016 -0800
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     1.4  getting credit.
     1.5  #+end_quote
     1.6  
     1.7 - - toilet + fume hood ::
     1.8 + - auto book ::handwritten by machine; illuminated. Like old medieval
     1.9 +   books. Use a model of handwriting so the letters are different. 
    1.10  
    1.11 - - wind speed force :: two wind socks one weighted
    1.12 + - url resolver :: pick the longest vaid url that's a rooted substring
    1.13 +      of the requested URL. unambigupously corrects for links that
    1.14 +      have things like periods and ending parens at the end of a link.
    1.15 +
    1.16 + - soul black marble :: for existential threats, what if solu magic
    1.17 +      was true, and undertale whatever, destroy the world
    1.18 +
    1.19 + - heart preservation + heart bypass to allow time for healing :: you
    1.20 +      cryopreserve a heart, then "recondition" it inside the patient
    1.21 +      while under bypass to allow time for it to heal. 
    1.22 +
    1.23 + - intelligent microwave osmium perfusion w/ CAT scan ::
    1.24 +
    1.25 + - assembling new word-sounding words by concatenation and random deletion ::
    1.26 +
    1.27 + - amber brain preservation? :: would this work, without having to do
    1.28 +      the heavy metal bits? Maybe chemical fixation with aldehydes
    1.29 +      followed by hot amber and then high pressure for several months?
    1.30 +
    1.31 + - zappy fat ::
    1.32 +
    1.33 + - electrocaloric effect :: see
    1.34 +      https://dx.doi.org/10.1146%2Fannurev-matsci-062910-100341,
    1.35 +      [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrocaloric_effect][wikipedia article]]
    1.36 +
    1.37 + - albino fruit ::
    1.38 +
    1.39 + - cryoprotectant that increases the nutritional value fo food ::
    1.40 +
    1.41 + - faucet enerty :: how much power do you get from an average faucet
    1.42 +      compared to the wall socket?
    1.43 +
    1.44 + - high pressure fixation :: could this defeat the "myelin unraveling"
    1.45 +      problem? Maybe -- if the "unraveling" is actually BUBBLES like
    1.46 +      you might get during the bends, caused by the fixation reaction!
    1.47 +
    1.48 + - eat fixed tissue :: can you EAT glutaraldehyde preserved tissue, if
    1.49 +      you wash away all the free aldehydes and make sure that the
    1.50 +      reaction is complete? Can you also cook the tissue? Maybe it
    1.51 +      would be good!
    1.52 +
    1.53 + - intelligence sorting ::
    1.54 +
    1.55 + - hyperbaric fixation :: apparently with divers with the "bends", you
    1.56 +      get bubbles in the myelin in particular. Maybe hyperbaric
    1.57 +      fixation would be able to eliminate these bubbles!
    1.58 +
    1.59 + - blood + cryoprotectant :: might be more gentle than normal things?
    1.60 +      Why not use it? (b/c you might need extracellular ion
    1.61 +      concentrations), also zeta potentials! But you could filter the
    1.62 +      blood, and get a lot from a slaughterhouse perhaps.
    1.63 +
    1.64 + - the matrix has a "lord of space" and a "muse of time" ::
    1.65 +
    1.66 + - ultra fast fluorocarbon cooling :: perfuse brain w/ cryoprotectant,
    1.67 +      cool to -20°C. Then clear out everything w/ fluorocarbon (or
    1.68 +      something else that doesn't interact w/ cells and has very low
    1.69 +      viscosoty at low temperatures), and then immediately switch to
    1.70 +      fluorocarbon at around -135°C. Should very quickly cool the
    1.71 +      brain (even faster than persufflation!) and would also avoid the
    1.72 +      dehydration problems associated w/ persufflation. Even better,
    1.73 +      you have a mechanism for rapidly warming the brain --
    1.74 +      immediately switch to warm fluorocarbon. Everything is always
    1.75 +      still liquid and pressurized. Should buy you a couple % decrease
    1.76 +      in CPA toxicity.
    1.77 +
    1.78 + - gameboy IR link over wifi through emilation ::
    1.79 +
    1.80 + - living memory is the start of history :: the natural dividing line
    1.81 +      is between living and dead history, and is created retroactively
    1.82 +      with the advent of brain preservation technology and then
    1.83 +      realized by mind uploading. It can still creep forward from
    1.84 +      death of individuals. We're still living in pre-history!
    1.85 +
    1.86 + - the memory of God is the soul :: mind-uploading + christian
    1.87 +      theology ==> the soul falls out nicely from omniscience. 
    1.88 +
    1.89 + - alternating stir plate :: a magnetic stir bar that alternates back
    1.90 +      and forth. Is it more efficient?
    1.91 +
    1.92 + - rsync with md5 (or whatever) database :: Now if you're rsync'ing
    1.93 +      something over to the server, if the file matches something
    1.94 +      already on the server, then it gets copied over from wherever it
    1.95 +      is on the server (then each block's signature is checked like
    1.96 +      with normal rsync, so that you get exactly the same behaviour).
    1.97 +
    1.98 + - mvln :: uses a backing database to gaurantee that when you move a
    1.99 +      folder, that all the links that point to it can remain
   1.100 +      consistent across your system.
   1.101 +
   1.102 + - centrifugal drinking :: spin the bottle around and tubes from the
   1.103 +      bottom convey drink up to the top. (don't know why I came up
   1.104 +      with this one...)
   1.105 +
   1.106 + - DRACOS at single cell stage :: you splice the genes for DRACOS into
   1.107 +      a single human cell at the first stage of development. Then all
   1.108 +      the cells of the person that cell will eventually become will
   1.109 +      automatically produce DRACOS (and the DRACOS will be recognized
   1.110 +      as "self" by the immune system. This creates a powerful
   1.111 +      secondary immune system which will make the person immune to
   1.112 +      almost all viruses. 
   1.113 +
   1.114 + - toilet + fume hood :: because it's dumb to have the entire bathroom
   1.115 +      be a sort of fume hood.
   1.116 +
   1.117 + - wind speed force :: two wind socks one weighted. The angle between
   1.118 +      them tells you the force of the wind.
   1.119  
   1.120   - sshfs to mount root :: you can mount your own root filesystem
   1.121        somewhere else using sshfs. Sort of "normalizes" file
   1.122 @@ -33,7 +140,7 @@
   1.123        sshfs root@localhost:/ my-root
   1.124        #+END_SRC
   1.125  
   1.126 - - not even a nop of damage ::
   1.127 +- not even a nop of damage :: nop == no-op
   1.128  
   1.129  - twittwe vibratoe ::
   1.130  
   1.131 @@ -51,13 +158,18 @@
   1.132  
   1.133  - open source contributions :: way to make them public on your website easily.
   1.134  
   1.135 -- active opto-glove :: for ENHANCED touch!
   1.136 +- active opto-glove :: for ENHANCED touch! It's a magnyfing glass for
   1.137 +     your fingers!
   1.138  
   1.139  - glove screen :: for driving directions, etc. Better than a watch!
   1.140  
   1.141 -- osmium + sugar as a histo stain ::
   1.142 +- osmium + sugar as a histo stain :: the suger interacts with the
   1.143 +     osmium and retards its progress. you can see details on slices in
   1.144 +     a light microscope without any more staining, and the EMs are not
   1.145 +     adversely affected. 
   1.146  
   1.147 -- encryption camera :: use public key on memory card
   1.148 +- encryption camera :: use public key on memory card. The camera
   1.149 +     writes files encrypted with this public key.
   1.150  
   1.151  - immaculate AIDS acquisition ::
   1.152  
   1.153 @@ -76,7 +188,7 @@
   1.154  - edible crayons ::
   1.155  
   1.156  - library chaining ::
   1.157 -
   1.158 + 
   1.159  - hypnosis + that drug that makes you loose continuity :: can the
   1.160       hypnosos plant things during this time?
   1.161  
   1.162 @@ -91,7 +203,7 @@
   1.163       fixed during "sleep" mode  and those fixed during "awake"
   1.164       mode. (while still using anesthetic of course).
   1.165  
   1.166 -- shit flavored dog treats ::
   1.167 +- shit flavored dog treats :: because dogs would probably like them. 
   1.168  
   1.169  - fume hood incense :: so make sure the fume hood is working
   1.170  
   1.171 @@ -303,7 +415,11 @@
   1.172       the cells in the retina to begin expressing different color
   1.173       pigments? The brain ought to easily sort out the rest and enable
   1.174       color vision. Furthremore, could we add some more colors to
   1.175 -     baesline human eyes?
   1.176 +     baesline human eyes? Theory -- people who are color blind have
   1.177 +     better color spatial accuity for the colors they can see, because
   1.178 +     this it the tradeoff here involved with the retrovirus
   1.179 +     therapy. Re-purposing color detectors to see new colors at the
   1.180 +     expense of spatial acuity for the old set of colors.
   1.181  
   1.182  - mental integrity test :: if your brain starts to decay, you might
   1.183       not notice the damage until it's too late. This would be a mental