In a posting mood...

Feel like everyone wants me to write blog posts -what’s on my mind, what might help others. So here are some of my immediately doable (free) inventions and ideas I’m currently thinking of:

1. Tennis wax. It is a fluorescent intaglio (raised printing) marker that can be peeled off with some difficulty. To use it, mark your stringbed like a cross hairs, leaving the sweet spot unmarked. Then mark your grip / handle where you want to feel when you hit backhand and forehand. Players may even mark diagonally if they want.
2. Fast on laces. These are short lengths of shoelace that are slip knotted to a side, between 4 holes so a simple pull to loosen / tighten is all you need. No more shoe horns or poor fits.
3. Better stylus tip. Most people don’t know the reason their writing on iPad is messy is because of smoothness of the screen. A simple tacky stylus support wedge will allow finer writing and line work.
4. Pot fit. Ever have too big pans on your stovetop that prevent other pans sharing the stove? You need a flame / heat channeler fins wedge that will support the full pan or pot, hinging onto the hob carriers. These may be fitted wide or long depending on pot size.
5. Sound tags. These are like Apple’s smart tags but simpler. They are tuned to sounds like dogs barking, pots boiling over, glass breaking, doorbell sounding, fire crackling, lightning / thunder etc. Useful to be alerted to these!

Want to make some guitar innovations as well. I have come up with this:

So the thing is basically a resonator chamber connected to the fret-neck-strings by a detachable length of acoustic wave guide. The neck is hollow to save weight as well as to function like the sound hole / bridge and to deepen bass while not requiring mating to the resonator chamber.

A piano can also be made more compact by making the soundboard cylindrical with slanted strings. The cylinder would be horizontally positioned behind the keys, which will be fly-by-wire for cost savings. The size of the instrument would be reduced by 2/3 and weight would be significantly reduced, maybe by 2/3 as well.

Final innovation, AI-assisted firearms. Where the precise (not general) aim is calculated and electronically adjusted by a processor on the gun, down to which part of the body to target, and when exactly to fire, how many shots.

Being prevented from my fiction writing and YouTubing so I’ll do another (few) ideas.

1. Beacon self driving / route navigation via hybrid 5G and FM radio. So nothing collides, every vehicle and danger zone is monitored by IoT. Lots of business for you, Paul Ng (my former boss @NIAV).
2. Flight seating. Every passenger is given a heavily padded sleep pod, spherical and slowly stretchable so they might achieve their ideal posture / relax without offending / colliding with others.

A new audio codec I call “every imaginable sound matrix”. It uses a 16 bit matrix which means it can process a matrix of 256x256 elements. Each element is either 1, 0, and, or, nand, nor, xor. Because each matrix frame is self contained, a simple buffer lossless decompress is possible.

So the decoder needs to very quickly find the determinant of every frame which goes to the DAC. The resolution of the codec should be rather high. Potentially accommodating audio recorded at 32 bits, 96kHz, 5 speaker surround sound.

We’re at the new place and I am still being oppressed by hair pulling and being sat on by baby minds. Very hot so put on the a/c on eco. Think I will do one more invention before dinner. When I was in university, I thought of a flow processor. A CPU that stores nothing. It has no cache or registers and has minimal processing power. Basically just addressing RAM and writing to RAM/ SSD.

The special sauce this requires, is a construct called a funnel. All instructions to the CPU build up in RAM and are filtered into the CPU, instruction first, then call data, call instruction etc. That sort of chain. But when an instruction and its data are not ready, they rotate out back into the funnel. The bounds of the funnel are hard-coded gates, AND-ORs while the rotate back gates are NAND-NORs. The magic is when there are parallel flow CPUs. With maybe 1000 simple cores, the funnel becomes a viable construct.

Writing a compiler for the funnel flow processor could be done by AI.

The following is my emergency ration pack for war / disaster zones that is easy to prepare, cheap, and ready to eat, just add a ladle of warm water.

Carrots, tomatoes, potatoes, and red onion chopped roughly and fried with oil, salt and sugar till tender and then compressed and fried again, and compressed. Each compress does not lose any of the juice but thickens it possibly with flour or gelatin.

Then bread spread with margarine is fried and compressed, then fried again and compressed, careful not to burn it.

Finally both bread and soup stock are vacuum sealed for distribution where there is warm water. Water helps re-expand the hard caked bread and rehydrate the tangy veg paste. They should taste good. I have tried this dish fresh.