From 0ece2ecabd111078092cf9b23f7ceccf61bb4c72 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: bnewbold Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2012 22:32:23 -0500 Subject: more updates --- books/wanted-books.page | 2 ++ half-baked.page | 42 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ misc.page | 29 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ software/misc.page | 12 ++++++++++++ 4 files changed, 85 insertions(+) create mode 100644 half-baked.page create mode 100644 misc.page diff --git a/books/wanted-books.page b/books/wanted-books.page index 6c16e63..a9d6f31 100644 --- a/books/wanted-books.page +++ b/books/wanted-books.page @@ -54,6 +54,8 @@ Novels * **Return From the Stars** by Stanislaw Lem * **Mortal Engines** by Stanislaw Lem * **The Moon is a Harsh Mistress** by Heinlen + * **Babel-17** (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babel-17) + SciFi, a language is invented to be used as a weapon Non-Fiction ----------- diff --git a/half-baked.page b/half-baked.page new file mode 100644 index 0000000..fe74fa9 --- /dev/null +++ b/half-baked.page @@ -0,0 +1,42 @@ + +Half Baked Ideas +=================== + +The Simulacra-cycle +------------------------- +Bicycling with a light-weight (and functional!) helmet embedded with with 360 +fisheye camera coverage. Also collect rotation/acceleration data and +post-process out movements to give a stable 360 video image which can be played +back with 3D goggles (or a basic computer/tablet interface?). + +Enhanced version would also record bike vibrations, pedal turns, audio, and +handlebar positions, and this could be played back on an artificial bike. + +Solar Autonoma +----------------- +An audio "artifact": a CD jewel case with a photovoltaic panel powering a +generative digital/analog electronic music box which outputs hundreds of years +worth of non-repeating audio to an 1/8" headphone jack. + +One crude output algorithm could be the raw position of a turning machine +(probably a busy beaver) tape position over time. Another is interpreting a +meta-stable cellular autonoma's cells as notes; perhaps the combination of +these two ideas? + +Should be engineered to last at least a few decades without repairs, which +means compensating for PV cell degredation. + +Techno-cyption +---------------- +Robustly encode arbirary data into techno, similar to image-based stenography +techniques. Should be able to recover the data from audio recorded live at a +concert or rave; perhaps in real-time? + +Leads to "verboden" music which is illegal to broadcast and listen to? + +Robotic Mouse Cursor +----------------------- +An omni-drive robot encased in a mouse, controlled by a touchstick or touchpad. +Should translate very quickly, so the user feels like they are "mousing" and +selecting over the floor. + diff --git a/misc.page b/misc.page new file mode 100644 index 0000000..705afa6 --- /dev/null +++ b/misc.page @@ -0,0 +1,29 @@ + +"Big Hairy Fun Projects" /or/ "What To Do Next" +======================================================== + +A fuzzy-formal justified reasoning system for use as an external prosthesis +when debating complex systems and problem (eg, climate change, theology, +globalization, unified field theory) + +Generalized, Open Source, software/network-based Improvements to Beaurocratic +Systems + +Generalized function fitting to (or computational modeling of) arbitrary +single-dimensional timestreams + +New telecommunications and network infrastructure/technologies at all scales + + +Social Software +================= + +[A Group Is It's Own Worst Enemy](http://www.shirky.com/writings/group_enemy.html) + +[Why Defend Freedom of Icky Speech?](http://journal.neilgaiman.com/2008/12/why-defend-freedom-of-icky-speech.html) + +To read: + + - + - + diff --git a/software/misc.page b/software/misc.page index 6fb7918..b730b0b 100644 --- a/software/misc.page +++ b/software/misc.page @@ -28,4 +28,16 @@ Webmail the null webmail client http://www.nulllogic.ca/webmail/ +Standard ML +----------- + +`The SML Standard Basis (of types) +`_ + +Mutually recursive function using 'and' syntax: + + fun foo 0 = "beer car" + | foo n = bar(n-1) + and bar 0 = "bacon" + | bar n = foo(n-1); -- cgit v1.2.3