Mercurial > thoughts
changeset 36:a09d3b045bcd
initial assimilation of ideas from MIT complete.
author | Robert McIntyre <rlm@mit.edu> |
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date | Sun, 21 Apr 2013 03:49:53 +0000 |
parents | b023ccc23f56 |
children | e6e7b0d4a0b5 |
files | org/ideas.org |
diffstat | 1 files changed, 37 insertions(+), 50 deletions(-) [+] |
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1.1 --- a/org/ideas.org Sun Apr 21 03:32:37 2013 +0000 1.2 +++ b/org/ideas.org Sun Apr 21 03:49:53 2013 +0000 1.3 @@ -205,65 +205,52 @@ 1.4 to text or smtg. This would store sound as an image of the 1.5 wavefront encoded as a vector image. 1.6 1.7 -Oct 27, 2009 1.8 +- Mouse with a horizontal scroll wheel in addition to the vertical 1.9 + scroll wheel 1.10 1.11 -Mouse with a horizontal scroll wheel in addition to the vertical scroll wheel 1.12 -logic maintance system for big institutions to make sure the things they are thinking about doing are not retarded 1.13 -Me: For a starting point, crawl public domain regulations sites looking for retardation. 1.14 +- logic maintance system for big institutions to make sure the things 1.15 + they are thinking about doing are not retarded 1.16 1.17 -Oct 28, 2009 1.18 +- http://www.regulations.gov/ 1.19 1.20 -http://www.regulations.gov/ 1.21 +- genetically engineered glowing fruit -- sell seeds? 1.22 1.23 -genetically engineered glowing fruit -- sell seeds? 1.24 +- memory slide :: IF memories are encoded using particular sensory 1.25 + impressions, what happens if the sensory organ 1.26 + itself changes? those memories would become 1.27 + unaccessable. maybe this is why we can't remember 1.28 + much from our childhoods. also, could this happen 1.29 + throught life as well? Could S remember stuff from 1.30 + his childhood? 1.31 1.32 -Me: Fruits whose skins store sunlight in luminscent flesh => useful? 1.33 +- make a completely indestructable phone :: no moving parts or display 1.34 + you should be able to slam it around all you want, and it will 1.35 + just work. brutally simple. aerogel around the battery, minimal 1.36 + interface - never gets too hot, and can be dropped into water. no 1.37 + holes -- uses field effects for everything from the buttons to 1.38 + inductive charging and data transfer. 1.39 1.40 -Oct 27, 2009 1.41 +- midi to ocarina "tabs" program (online website? buy ocarinas from it 1.42 + too) 1.43 1.44 -memory slide -- IF memories are encoded using particular sensory impressions, what happens if the sensory organ itself changes? those memories would become unaccessable. maybe this is why we can't 1.45 -remember much from our childhoods. also, could this happen throught life as well? Could S remember stuff from his childhood? 1.46 -make a completely indestructable phone -- no moving parts or display you should be able to slam it around all you want, and it will just work. brutally simple. aerogel around the battery, minimal interface - never gets 1.47 -too hot, and can be dropped into water. no holes -- uses field effects for everything from the buttons to inductive charging and data transfer. 1.48 -Me: Start with "military" phones (like Mr. Hawley has) with field-effects interface additions and additional hardcore streamlining. 1.49 +- 3d printing with sound pulses (or just patterns) -- like the 8.03 1.50 + lecture 1.51 1.52 -Oct 27, 2009 1.53 +- lighter flint on spring :: make hot and it makes sparkles! 1.54 1.55 -midi to ocarina "tabs" program (online website? buy ocarinas from it too) 1.56 -3d printing with sound pulses (or just patterns) -- like the 8.03 lecture 1.57 -lighter flint on spring --- make hot and it makes sparkles! 1.58 -put a plane on a treadmill, to help it do a vertical takeoff. 1.59 -Use a nondeterministic sentence parser to understand sentences with multiple meanings. Perhaps use statistical language as a filter against unintended (or rather, uninteresting) interpretations. 1.60 -Rebranding New+Clear Energy with informational campaign and public debate forum to enforce its transparent and open nature. France needn't be the world leader in nuclear energy. 1.61 -Me: Standardized, modular nuclear plants? 1.62 +- put a plane on a treadmill, to help it do a vertical takeoff. 1.63 1.64 -Oct 29, 2009 1.65 +- Use a nondeterministic sentence parser to understand sentences with 1.66 + multiple meanings. Perhaps use statistical language as a filter 1.67 + against unintended (or rather, uninteresting) interpretations. 1.68 1.69 -Textbook whose content can be varied continuously---alter 1.70 -Me: well, actually varied over a countable "dense" set. 1.71 +- Rebranding New+Clear Energy with informational campaign and 1.72 + public debate forum to enforce its transparent and open 1.73 + nature. France needn't be the world leader in nuclear 1.74 + energy. (Dylan) 1.75 1.76 -Oct 29, 2009 1.77 - 1.78 -level of difficulty, rigor, diction, emphasize crossover with certain other discipline, etc. Content generated dynamically from knowledge base, 1.79 -Me: Or, initially, interpolated over all pre-existing books. 1.80 - 1.81 -Oct 29, 2009 1.82 - 1.83 -along with questions that are moreover altered to guide knowledge acquisition. 1.84 -Motivation: One book of knowledge. One. 1.85 -Engineer a material which has both ductility and high surface tension to make the "third" minimal-surface-energy solution to a bubble suspended between two equal-diameter rings. (Solutions are cylindrical catenary 1.86 -curve, two separated half-bubbles, and a double-cone) 1.87 - 1.88 -Tags: 1.89 - 1.90 -Me: Color-coded lid-cup pairs. 1.91 - 1.92 -Dec 3, 2009 1.93 - 1.94 -Me: Dry soap (like for pets) but for cars 1.95 - 1.96 -Dec 3, 2009 1.97 - 1.98 -Next w ave 1.99 - 1.100 - 1.101 \ No newline at end of file 1.102 +- Engineer a material which has both ductility and high surface 1.103 + tension to make the "third" minimal-surface-energy solution to a 1.104 + bubble suspended between two equal-diameter rings. (Solutions are 1.105 + cylindrical catenary curve, two separated half-bubbles, and a 1.106 + double-cone)