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     1.4 +#+title: Big List O' Ideas
     1.5 +#+author: Robert McIntyre
     1.6 +#+email: rlm@mit.edu
     1.7 +#+description: list of ideas from the last ~ 7 years
     1.8 +#+keywords: aurellem ideas half-baked ramdom
     1.9 +#+SETUPFILE: ../../aurellem/org/setup.org
    1.10 +#+INCLUDE: ../../aurellem/org/level-0.org
    1.11 +#+babel: :mkdirp yes :noweb yes :exports both
    1.12 +
    1.13  * Ideas
    1.14  
    1.15 +This is a list of all the ideas I've had that I felt like writing down
    1.16 +for the past ~ 7 years. Some of them could be practical inventions and
    1.17 +are "just" waiting the that 95% persperiation to bring them to
    1.18 +furition, some are ideas for science fiction, and some are simple
    1.19 +observations. There are arranged roughly in reverse chronological
    1.20 +order, with the most recent ideas at the top of the list. The ones at
    1.21 +the bottom of the list are heavily influenced by my time at MIT.
    1.22 +
    1.23 +If you find some of these interesting and would like to collaborate on
    1.24 +them with me or discuss them in more detail, I'd love to hear from
    1.25 +you. You can email me at ideas@aurellem.org.
    1.26 +
    1.27  - fixed cryopreservation :: why not use a fixitave to buy enough time
    1.28       to ramp up cryoprotectants to an acceptable level at room
    1.29       temperature? Then, the whole system can be rapidly cooled and
    1.30 @@ -126,6 +147,26 @@
    1.31       pain and death is made to look like the tradegy it is through the
    1.32       lense of the the caterpillar people.
    1.33  
    1.34 +- relationships as a business ::
    1.35 +  http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/Up-or-Out-Solving-the-IT-Turnover-Crisis.aspx
    1.36 +  is an excellent talk about the "culture of quitting," which is about
    1.37 +  better business by letting people go instead of keeping them around
    1.38 +  past their "apex". Focouses on information transfer. Cool idea of an
    1.39 +  alumni network, which for relationships would be a group of
    1.40 +  satisfied ex-lovers, who would recommend new people your way, and
    1.41 +  who might consider coming to you again, refreshed from their time
    1.42 +  away with new stories/experiences. I should look for examples of
    1.43 +  this and how they worked out.
    1.44 +
    1.45 +- coffe with tea :: /rlm-tea/ contains 2% sugar, 10% cream, and 20%
    1.46 +                    dylan coffee. /dylan coffee/ contains 5% sugar,
    1.47 +                    20% cream, and 10% rlm-tea. Start your mornings
    1.48 +                    with recursion!
    1.49 +
    1.50 +- psychic crystal :: in a science fiction story, this would be an
    1.51 +     object that is very easy to move physically but is extremely
    1.52 +     difficult to move with telekinesis.
    1.53 +
    1.54  - http://betsofbitco.in/ :: what a great place for an AI/person to
    1.55       prove themselves as a good predictor. I wish this could be
    1.56       automated. 
    1.57 @@ -216,18 +257,22 @@
    1.58    arguments and adapt so as to respond to different connections.
    1.59  
    1.60  - hear a true pure tone by direct stimultion of the nerves of the ear
    1.61 -  mechanical analogue to the electrical op-amp
    1.62 +  
    1.63 +- mechanical analogue to the electrical op-amp ::  would be an object
    1.64 +     with two levers -- you pull on one lever and the other moves the
    1.65 +     same way, no matter what's in the way or what it is driving. This
    1.66 +     anlogy could be useful to teach op amps to people.
    1.67  
    1.68  - paper folding device :: make it convienent to fold lots of papers in
    1.69       various ways.
    1.70  
    1.71  - concrete epoxy :: epoxy with sand/ some other solid material.
    1.72  
    1.73 -- suspend some ball of material with a high index of refraction and
    1.74 -  shine light into it so it gets stuck -- would the light stay trapped
    1.75 -  forever? Could you build up unlimited quantities of light inside the
    1.76 -  sphere (which could then be released slowly by frustrated internal
    1.77 -  reflection?
    1.78 +- light capacator :: suspend some ball of material with a high index
    1.79 +     of refraction and shine light into it so it gets stuck -- would
    1.80 +     the light stay trapped forever? Could you build up unlimited
    1.81 +     quantities of light inside the sphere (which could then be
    1.82 +     released slowly by frustrated internal reflection?
    1.83  
    1.84  - movie screening :: Movies always are too long at first. One way to
    1.85       shorten them ``scientifically" is to record blink rate during the
    1.86 @@ -249,7 +294,7 @@
    1.87  - explosive thermite epoxy putty (one part would contain the rust, one
    1.88    part the alumimum)
    1.89  
    1.90 -- use the above screen capture routine to make a quiz program tha
    1.91 +- use the above screen capture routine to make a quiz program that
    1.92    constructs questions about the content you seemed to gloss over
    1.93    while reading. could be easy if the pdf came with embedded
    1.94    questions.  Dylan: automatically generate word-cloud about the parts
    1.95 @@ -293,7 +338,7 @@
    1.96  
    1.97  - cross-modal memory hashing
    1.98  
    1.99 -- flossing thimble-gaurds
   1.100 +- flossing thimble-gaurds (these actually exist)
   1.101  
   1.102  - integrate lattice learning with rules by generating hypothetical
   1.103    examples
   1.104 @@ -328,13 +373,14 @@
   1.105    you / sell it from your own online store.
   1.106  
   1.107  - solar panels that float on the ocean
   1.108 +
   1.109  - handcuffs with more than two cuffs (3?) :: great for daisy chaining
   1.110 -     prisoniers, binding them to environment, etc.
   1.111 +     people, binding them to environment, etc.
   1.112  
   1.113  - vector based SOUND files :: like the pictures but with SOUND. codify
   1.114       sound in a language with enough symbols so that it can describe
   1.115       everything and encode it in that. would be like going from speech
   1.116 -     to text or smtg. This would store sound as an image of the
   1.117 +     to text or smtg. Could also store sound as an image of the
   1.118       wavefront encoded as a vector image.
   1.119  
   1.120  - Mouse with a horizontal scroll wheel in addition to the vertical
   1.121 @@ -389,30 +435,11 @@
   1.122       guide knowledge acquisition. Motivation: One book of
   1.123       knowledge. /One./
   1.124  
   1.125 -- relationships as a business ::
   1.126 -  http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/Up-or-Out-Solving-the-IT-Turnover-Crisis.aspx
   1.127 -  is an excellent talk about the "culture of quitting," which is about
   1.128 -  better business by letting people go instead of keeping them around
   1.129 -  past their "apex". Focouses on information transfer. Cool idea of an
   1.130 -  alumni network, which for relationships would be a group of
   1.131 -  satisfied ex-lovers, who would recommend new people your way, and
   1.132 -  who might consider coming to you again, refreshed from their time
   1.133 -  away with new stories/experiences. I should look for examples of
   1.134 -  this and how they worked out.
   1.135 -
   1.136 -- coffe with tea :: /rlm-tea/ contains 2% sugar, 10% cream, and 20%
   1.137 -                    dylan coffee. /dylan coffee/ contains 5% sugar,
   1.138 -                    20% cream, and 10% rlm-tea. Start your mornings
   1.139 -                    with recursion!
   1.140 -
   1.141 -- psychic crystal :: in a science fiction story, this would be an
   1.142 -     object that is very easy to move physically but is extremely
   1.143 -     difficult to move with telekinesis.
   1.144  
   1.145  ** From Jacob's idea list
   1.146  
   1.147  - Roommate-cancelling headphones: uses roommate's laptop mic to seed
   1.148 -  noise cancellation alg in your headzphones (would this
   1.149 +  noise cancellation alg in your headphones (would this
   1.150    work?). -Update on sound canceling headphones that take feed from
   1.151    tv: how about ones that cancel people talking on the phone by
   1.152    receiving the phone signals and playing inverse sound