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     1.3 @@ -31,33 +31,39 @@
     1.4  getting credit.
     1.5  #+end_quote
     1.6  
     1.7 +- smart toilets :: Instead of using indirect measures like infrared
     1.8 +                   detectors of the presence of a person, use computer
     1.9 +                   vision to directly measure whether the toilet needs
    1.10 +                   to be flushed. I think a lot of things will end up
    1.11 +                   going this way as we get better computer vision.
    1.12 +
    1.13  - validate chemopreservation :: chemopreservation is difficult to
    1.14       validate because it destroys the functionality of a brain, and
    1.15       brain simulation will take a long time to mature as a
    1.16       technology. However, one very powerful way to validate
    1.17       chemopreservation would be to have a person/animal learn
    1.18       something with high complexity such as a number or the solution
    1.19 -     to a maze, or a flashbulb memory. Then you perserve their brain
    1.20 -     chemically, slice it up, and reat /that specific memory/ from the
    1.21 +     to a maze, or a flashbulb memory. Then you preserve their brain
    1.22 +     chemically, slice it up, and read /that specific memory/ from the
    1.23       detailed brain scan. Much more difficult, but much more doable.
    1.24  
    1.25  - candy screw :: edible candy screw with candy nuts that you can screw
    1.26                   as well. 
    1.27  
    1.28  - better bibliography :: when writing a thesis or paper, have the
    1.29 -     biblography not just be an opaque list of resources, but have it
    1.30 +     bibliography not just be an opaque list of resources, but have it
    1.31       be a list of /summaries/ and /qualities/ that each paper has in
    1.32 -     the context of the paper being written. When examaning a
    1.33 -     biblography, I want to know if reading the papers in the
    1.34 +     the context of the paper being written. When examining a
    1.35 +     bibliography, I want to know if reading the papers in the
    1.36       bibliography are worth my time, and I also am probably also
    1.37       interested in exactly the things that are being discussed in the
    1.38       paper I'm reading. The bibliography is the perfect place to
    1.39       provide information about the referenced papers from the
    1.40 -     author's perspective. I will use this biblographic form in my own
    1.41 +     author's perspective. I will use this biographic form in my own
    1.42       thesis. 
    1.43  
    1.44  - digital inter-library loan :: libraries at universities already do
    1.45 -     interlibrary loans for books, so why not do the same for access
    1.46 +     inter-library loans for books, so why not do the same for access
    1.47       to stupid paywalled digital papers? All the universities could
    1.48       allow access to articles for registered students to all the files
    1.49       available through any participating university. This could be
    1.50 @@ -127,7 +133,7 @@
    1.51                     wipe job you have done / watch how your excretion
    1.52                     system works.
    1.53  
    1.54 -- test dummies :: why don't we clone encephalic humans and use then to
    1.55 +- test dummies :: why don't we clone anencephalic humans and use then to
    1.56                    test /in vivo/ human organ systems and drugs? It
    1.57                    would be ethical as long as there are women who are
    1.58                    willing to host the clones, and it would be a
    1.59 @@ -139,7 +145,7 @@
    1.60  - X-ray telepresence :: given that a doctor is operating on a patient
    1.61       via telepresence, one cool things you can do is shine X-rays into
    1.62       the patient to view the insides during real time. If the system
    1.63 -     was coupled with a Baysean model of the layout of the structure,
    1.64 +     was coupled with a Bayesian model of the layout of the structure,
    1.65       and the x-rays were only fired whenever the uncertainty of the
    1.66       model reached a certain threshold, then the radiation damage
    1.67       and surgery risk could be minimized.
    1.68 @@ -202,8 +208,8 @@
    1.69  - image compression :: use a library like gimp or opencv to process an
    1.70       image to make it have less entropy, then store the reverse of
    1.71       those operations along with the compressed simpler image as a
    1.72 -     super-compressed image file (possibly sccapting some
    1.73 -     lesses). Trades file size for decompression time, and allows one
    1.74 +     super-compressed image file (possibly accepting some
    1.75 +     losses). Trades file size for decompression time, and allows one
    1.76       to cheat by using information in gimp/opencv to compress the
    1.77       image. 
    1.78