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     1.2 +++ b/org/ideas.org	Sun Apr 21 03:49:53 2013 +0000
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     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
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   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)