a running list of all the explorations I would like to dig deeper into

Simulations

• N-copter
  • quad copter
  • copter with any given number of rotors
  • real physics for rotors
• biped - n-ped
  • biped locomotion
  • n-legged locomotion
• wheeled vehicles kenematics
  • pros-and-cons-for-different-types-of-drive-selection
  • differential drive robot
  • ackerman steering (car)
  • holonomic robot
  • ball robot
  • treaded

Machine Learning

• when should bank account be checked? (predict likliehood of change)

Markov Chains

• https://github.com/Edwin-Pratt/js-markov

Reinforcement Learning

• wtf happened in my college class on this?

Control Theory

• PID tuning
• wtf happened in my college class on this?

Signal Processing

• Kalman filter
  • kalmanjs
  • Kalman.js
• sensor fusion
  • wtf is sensor fusion

Image Processing | Manipulation | Creation

• object detection
• background removal
• chop and remix and shuffle an image
• basic operations I want to do all the time
  • crop
  • paste and add text or speech bubble
  • graph of nodes with connections
  • slideshows
  • scan multiple pages into a pdf document
• procedural art

Game Helpers

• Line Rangers
  • whats the best ranger to upgrade?
  • how often do certain rewards drop?
  • is it worth it to purchase something?
  • what is the best gear to place on ranger?

Math (see mathematics.js)

• convolution - intuitive convolution
• z-transform
• eigenvalues
• fourier transform

Knowledge Graph

• all the notes/threads/connections in one place
  • google bookmarks
  • pocket (Read It Later)
  • old bookmarks from Firefox, Chrome, delicious
  • notes from email
  • Amazon Wishlist
  • goodreads
  • youtube likes / watch later
  • old notes in text files (or elsewhere?)
• can be visualized
• can be searched easily
• can be globbed together, tagged, sorted
• can be shared
• will remind me to come back to it
• also see: HN comments thread about Dendron,a ROAM alternative

Code, Languages, Computing

• use case: create a dependency graph (visualize code connections)
• use case: change the location of required/imported dependencies
• use case: transform code from one format to another
• abstract syntax tree
  • Manipulating AST with javascript
  • AST Explorer
  • babel AST Explorer
• parser generator
  • ohm editor
• user interface markup language
  • I would like to start UI’s with this but not go as low level with it as some I have seen
  • wiki

Zietgeist Engine

• think Mechanical Turk, then stop
• think facebook analytics or google analytics or search engines or social media, then stop
• We have not completely figured out how the individual can query the mass brain (or even smaller collectives)
• I have a picture some place of this… had a long talk with Mehul about it… maybe lost

Systems Architecture

• this is LESS about classic architecture patterns and thinking
• this is LESS about making manually making graphs, pictures, and annotations
• this is MORE about implementing running models of a few system patterns I am interested in
  • kubernetes
  • simple storm
    • a talk about the original
  • expression engine
  • the bartok system (mainly backend portion)
• I wonder how much distributed systems functionality can/should be implemented in a programming language
  • can internal system messages be interchanged with external calls?
  • how can components of a distributed system be seen as parts of one system (is this a naive question?)
• the intent is not to fully implement the system components more than needed to explore the pattern
• Analysis of Message-Passing Concurrency
• can shader languages and programming for GPU’s inform this discussion?
  • Parallel, distributed and GPU computing technologies…

Modular Synth

• https://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/Behr2600–behringer-2600-analog-semi-modular-synthesizer

wish

• dream org
  • I’d like to put all of this into the human realm, have a company or company
  • create an org chart
  • multiple teams
    • computer hardware and software(possibly with sub-teams)
    • wood-working
    • industrial design
    • …
  • assistants or managers

themes of ideas I get

• isolation chamber
• computing without senses (or limited senses)
• visuals
• audio
• games

• money

  investment

  markets

  economics

• parallel computation
• machine learning

• lifestyle

  workflow

• analysis: data and systems
• robotics

• think tank

  crowd source

Little Experiments

I want to be able to do little experiments

• and easily share them
• and not have to deal with build system
• and not spin up a server
• and later grow them

Examples of little experiments:

• broken clock right twice a day
• simulate a collection of people as faulty mirrors
• architect stage of some project
• emulate kubernetes, explore kubernetes pattern
• services with central config service pattern
• scrape a bunch of sites and do wizardry (data composition & representation)
• write a bunch of ideas then visually group and connect them
• write a bunch of little modules then visually group and connect them
• collect a ton of stuff and have something make me come back to them or recall them
• search for unicode icons without leaving text editor
• view fonts in editor
• view/change/convert colors and color palettes in editor
• write web code the way I want to, use files the way I want to
  • ^^^ might be useful to expand on this