# HG changeset patch # User Robert McIntyre # Date 1373699444 14400 # Node ID 7d00e0dbdddb61c1ff6eceaaed4eb96455a7ac47 # Parent 25b2ade0816a517a13ce4bb6947d54d8514a441c add formatting to ideas so they can be published. diff -r 25b2ade0816a -r 7d00e0dbdddb org/ideas.org --- a/org/ideas.org Sat Jul 13 02:43:51 2013 -0400 +++ b/org/ideas.org Sat Jul 13 03:10:44 2013 -0400 @@ -1,5 +1,26 @@ +#+title: Big List O' Ideas +#+author: Robert McIntyre +#+email: rlm@mit.edu +#+description: list of ideas from the last ~ 7 years +#+keywords: aurellem ideas half-baked ramdom +#+SETUPFILE: ../../aurellem/org/setup.org +#+INCLUDE: ../../aurellem/org/level-0.org +#+babel: :mkdirp yes :noweb yes :exports both + * Ideas +This is a list of all the ideas I've had that I felt like writing down +for the past ~ 7 years. Some of them could be practical inventions and +are "just" waiting the that 95% persperiation to bring them to +furition, some are ideas for science fiction, and some are simple +observations. There are arranged roughly in reverse chronological +order, with the most recent ideas at the top of the list. The ones at +the bottom of the list are heavily influenced by my time at MIT. + +If you find some of these interesting and would like to collaborate on +them with me or discuss them in more detail, I'd love to hear from +you. You can email me at ideas@aurellem.org. + - fixed cryopreservation :: why not use a fixitave to buy enough time to ramp up cryoprotectants to an acceptable level at room temperature? Then, the whole system can be rapidly cooled and @@ -126,6 +147,26 @@ pain and death is made to look like the tradegy it is through the lense of the the caterpillar people. +- relationships as a business :: + http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/Up-or-Out-Solving-the-IT-Turnover-Crisis.aspx + is an excellent talk about the "culture of quitting," which is about + better business by letting people go instead of keeping them around + past their "apex". Focouses on information transfer. Cool idea of an + alumni network, which for relationships would be a group of + satisfied ex-lovers, who would recommend new people your way, and + who might consider coming to you again, refreshed from their time + away with new stories/experiences. I should look for examples of + this and how they worked out. + +- coffe with tea :: /rlm-tea/ contains 2% sugar, 10% cream, and 20% + dylan coffee. /dylan coffee/ contains 5% sugar, + 20% cream, and 10% rlm-tea. Start your mornings + with recursion! + +- psychic crystal :: in a science fiction story, this would be an + object that is very easy to move physically but is extremely + difficult to move with telekinesis. + - http://betsofbitco.in/ :: what a great place for an AI/person to prove themselves as a good predictor. I wish this could be automated. @@ -216,18 +257,22 @@ arguments and adapt so as to respond to different connections. - hear a true pure tone by direct stimultion of the nerves of the ear - mechanical analogue to the electrical op-amp + +- mechanical analogue to the electrical op-amp :: would be an object + with two levers -- you pull on one lever and the other moves the + same way, no matter what's in the way or what it is driving. This + anlogy could be useful to teach op amps to people. - paper folding device :: make it convienent to fold lots of papers in various ways. - concrete epoxy :: epoxy with sand/ some other solid material. -- suspend some ball of material with a high index of refraction and - shine light into it so it gets stuck -- would the light stay trapped - forever? Could you build up unlimited quantities of light inside the - sphere (which could then be released slowly by frustrated internal - reflection? +- light capacator :: suspend some ball of material with a high index + of refraction and shine light into it so it gets stuck -- would + the light stay trapped forever? Could you build up unlimited + quantities of light inside the sphere (which could then be + released slowly by frustrated internal reflection? - movie screening :: Movies always are too long at first. One way to shorten them ``scientifically" is to record blink rate during the @@ -249,7 +294,7 @@ - explosive thermite epoxy putty (one part would contain the rust, one part the alumimum) -- use the above screen capture routine to make a quiz program tha +- use the above screen capture routine to make a quiz program that constructs questions about the content you seemed to gloss over while reading. could be easy if the pdf came with embedded questions. Dylan: automatically generate word-cloud about the parts @@ -293,7 +338,7 @@ - cross-modal memory hashing -- flossing thimble-gaurds +- flossing thimble-gaurds (these actually exist) - integrate lattice learning with rules by generating hypothetical examples @@ -328,13 +373,14 @@ you / sell it from your own online store. - solar panels that float on the ocean + - handcuffs with more than two cuffs (3?) :: great for daisy chaining - prisoniers, binding them to environment, etc. + people, binding them to environment, etc. - vector based SOUND files :: like the pictures but with SOUND. codify sound in a language with enough symbols so that it can describe everything and encode it in that. would be like going from speech - to text or smtg. This would store sound as an image of the + to text or smtg. Could also store sound as an image of the wavefront encoded as a vector image. - Mouse with a horizontal scroll wheel in addition to the vertical @@ -389,30 +435,11 @@ guide knowledge acquisition. Motivation: One book of knowledge. /One./ -- relationships as a business :: - http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/Up-or-Out-Solving-the-IT-Turnover-Crisis.aspx - is an excellent talk about the "culture of quitting," which is about - better business by letting people go instead of keeping them around - past their "apex". Focouses on information transfer. Cool idea of an - alumni network, which for relationships would be a group of - satisfied ex-lovers, who would recommend new people your way, and - who might consider coming to you again, refreshed from their time - away with new stories/experiences. I should look for examples of - this and how they worked out. - -- coffe with tea :: /rlm-tea/ contains 2% sugar, 10% cream, and 20% - dylan coffee. /dylan coffee/ contains 5% sugar, - 20% cream, and 10% rlm-tea. Start your mornings - with recursion! - -- psychic crystal :: in a science fiction story, this would be an - object that is very easy to move physically but is extremely - difficult to move with telekinesis. ** From Jacob's idea list - Roommate-cancelling headphones: uses roommate's laptop mic to seed - noise cancellation alg in your headzphones (would this + noise cancellation alg in your headphones (would this work?). -Update on sound canceling headphones that take feed from tv: how about ones that cancel people talking on the phone by receiving the phone signals and playing inverse sound