I listened to Stephan Biller‘s talk on the future of manufacturing at GE. I was saddened to hear that like Boeing GE also doesn’t have many of things that I thought they would have. GE and Boeing both make jet engines and neither has the software to do the rescheduling and re-planning and renegotiation of… Continue reading GE on the Future of Manufacturing
Category: Cool
Year 2300
I was reading about chemical engineers and they seem pretty cool. They then made think about the matrix and other sci-fi type things where the user is transported to a different reality. Then I thought about LSD and how some drugs can produce hallucinations. So, my idea is that in the far future instead of… Continue reading Year 2300
Builder Broker
I would imagine that building a house from scratch is pretty difficult for the regular lay person. It would be for me. Making the blue prints, figuring out the permits, what contractors I need and when. Especially if I want to change something or money changes etc there are many dynamic unpredictable things that can… Continue reading Builder Broker
Microeconomics
I was learning a bit of micro to help my brother and here is a bit of what I learned. The economics term for derivative is marginal. Marginal revenue is the derivative of the revenue function. Revenue is defined by R(q) = P(q)*q the price at a particular quantity times the quantity sold. So, R'(q)… Continue reading Microeconomics
Anki Drive
Pretty cool AI startup that builds AI applications for the general public rather than for DARPA or for defense contractors! If they can get going there is sooo much that they can do. http://anki.com/
Smart Logistics and the Knowledge Genesis Group
These are two pretty awesome companies/contractors. They provide muliagent systems approach to solving real world problems. They implement real time schedulers and optimization algorithms in the real world and not just as academics. Pretty cool, too bad they aren’t based in the US (though they do have a branch in Florida). http://www.knowledgegenesis.co.uk/home/what-we-do http://smartlogisticsinc.com/partnerships/ http://goaleurope.com/2012/02/10/russian-science-put-to-a-commercial-use-real-time-multi-agent-optimization-know-how/… Continue reading Smart Logistics and the Knowledge Genesis Group
Tupper’s Self-referential formula
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tupper’s_self-referential_formula Also, I think Godel might have some things like this…
Regender websites
Interesting idea to regender text: http://regender.com/index.html. Maybe websites could use this based on a profile of the person that is entering their website to change the text they display.
http://www-math.bgsu.edu/z/carcosts/
A nice tool to plot how much you are spending on maintenance and repair of your car.
Gene Patenting
Today, April 15 2013, Supreme Court will hold oral arguments on the following question: can one get a patent to gain the exclusive right to do research on specific genes that have been taken out of the body? Myriad Genetics, Inc., has obtained several federal patents on “isolated” forms of two genes. On the one hand,… Continue reading Gene Patenting