Ohh... I would add another signal to traffic lights (think a blinking light of some sort) to signal that an ambulance is coming in from behind, and that you need to get out of the way. Combined with adequate intersection routing (block perpendicular direction, clear upcoming road as mentioned) and an expert AI to plan the path to clear, it would speed up emergency responders. What do you think?
Ask: What would you do/make if you never had to monetize it?
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#113Something blurring the lines further between Pac-Man and pie charts.
Don't get me started on pie charts!
http://blog.rescuetime.com/2008/01/11/no-pie-charts-not-ever...
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#114I'm doing this right now, with a game site devoted to multi-player turn-based strategy games. It's still a small site (as far as the number of players go) and I'm sure it could be monetized, but I doubt it'd make much money right now. Certainly not enough to put it outside the realm of just doing this for fun. The site's Vying Games (vying.org) if you want to check it out. : ))
Looks cool. Keep doing it for fun :)
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#115- An AI that could play GO
- A documentary on trying to create a startup in a highly regulated industry ( like healthcare)
- Educational games to teach math skills ( and not drill style, a game that would teach actual concepts)
- A WikiBook on relationships
- A free university (in person, not online)
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#116Evolutionary algorithms to create music (attached to libraries for sound generation and modification, drum beat, samples, etc) fronted by a reddit-like vote-up, vote-down system for the output of different algorithms. I'd try out different strategies for evolving things. I'd focus on electronica or something without vocals initially. Each "subreddit" would be focused around the evolved algorithms for a different them…
there's David Cope's Experiments in Musical Intelligence --- http://arts.ucsc.edu/faculty/cope/mp3page.htm --- where he's playing compositions that some AI wrote which was trained on Bach/Beethoven/et al. last june, i was toying around with the idea of learning a grammar of music on seeqpod, and generating pop songs, or something.
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#118Earlier quoted context omitted.
Actually that's not how I meant it. Regardless of who is working on it, it shouldn't stop you from working on it yourself and doing it better.
And that's why you stuck "do it right" on at the end, eh?
"Do it right" means as opposed to doing something the way a big corporation would do it (generally design by committee or by apathetic drones). MS is certainly guilty of that, but I wasn't picking on them.
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#119Earlier quoted context omitted.
Google Docs is organized this way.
Is it really? I thought it was just search for your documents by keywords found in them. There is no way to look at all the tags or navigate through them. That's actually one of my issues with GDocs. You don't have many organizational tools for the documents. They would actually be a good candidate for an overhaul similar to what we're discussing.
Maybe I'm confused, but I think the "folders" in Google Docs behave the way you'd like. I can put a doc in one or more folders, and then I can look at the contents of only one folder. And I can have sub-folders. And really the folders are just tags.
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#120Robots. Intelligent, self-sufficient, house-keeping robots. I know, that would be pretty easy to monetize... but it would take me decades to build. (and it'll be done by Trevor Blackwell long before).
so... 2nd option.
A better web.py web site.