I found out about https://www.codebox.io/. It is an online ide and it supports a ton of langs (including java). It is open source, so you don’t have to use their services. It also has desktop apps so you can work outside your browser. The ide is customizable and you can make custom plugins etc. Sounds awesome… Continue reading Codebox
Author: drew
Car insurance data
Did you know that auto insurance companies allow you to look up a quote online. All you need is your name, address and date of birth and they will show you your cars! That means you can with a little effort find out what cars people have! Year and Model at least. That could be… Continue reading Car insurance data
fun autonomous vehicle ideas
Would be cool in the future with autonomous cars we will be able to have events where instead of having stations in a building that you walk to you would be in cars. And whenever you switched you would change cars. Bathroom car! Would be too cool to have an autonomous bus/car that just… Continue reading fun autonomous vehicle ideas
Cloud Storage
Well this is the end of 2014. I just found this amazing energy storage company LightSail Energy. They use compressed air to store energy. It sort of reminds you of how the water cycle or weather systems work. Cloud storage :). http://daniellefong.com/ — Founder’s website has some nice articles.
Texting Restaurants
You should be able to text/IM any restaurant.
Karaoke for google glass
Karaoke for google glass seems like a good idea. Found someone who has already done it
Entangled FindSet
Would be cool to use quantum entanglement to do instant FindSets (seeing if two elements are contained in the same set) for Kruskal MST algorithm. Say each vertex is a photon. Whenever you do a union you entangle the photons. Then all you have to do to compare if the photons belong to the same… Continue reading Entangled FindSet
tv channel
The animation for the channel number on our tv (you know how when you change the channel it tells you what channel you are now on) changed today. Made me wonder how that happens. I thought that was defined by the tv… Strange.
Warblr
This is totally awesome!! One of my ideas is becoming an app soon. They just started and are trying to get funding through kickstarter https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1190241008/warblr-an-app-that-recognises-birds-from-their-son?ref=nav_search. They seem to have a lot of media support and there app seems to work! Totally awesome. Fast Company did an article about it http://www.fastcoexist.com/3037817/fund-this/the-original-tweeting-this-app-is-like-shazam-for-bird-songs. https://drewsblog.herokuapp.com/?p=1741 my original post on my idea which… Continue reading Warblr
Impossible Objects
Some interesting geometry, where either optical illusions or impossible shapes are created: http://www.asiapacific-mathnews.com/01/0101/0001_0005.pdf http://aitopics.org/sites/default/files/classic/Machine%20Intelligence%206/MI6-Ch19-Huffman.pdf Escher and Huffman http://www.cs.technion.ac.il/~gershon/EscherForReal/ http://www.cs.technion.ac.il/~gershon/BeyondEscherForReal/