So, there are two projects I want to do, but between the Google Summer of Code, my thesis, my last graduate course, a conference (in SPAIN!), and adventure, I won't have time until August. However, I'm recording it here so I don't forget.
- Add the silhouettes of birds to my apartment. I've drawn in what it will look like above. I have black Bristol board already, and have used it to add some black stars for contrast to my growing wall of white ones (which circle my bed). I'm going to recruit help and cut out a bunch of different unique ones and place them along the top of the walls, mostly flying, but some sitting (see the one perched atop the curtain rod?). Some even suspended from the ceiling, (but not too low, as half the point of a tall ceiling is so I can swing sticks up high for iaido/jodo/kendo).
- Recreate whatsbetter.com. That site doesn't exist any more, but it was one of my favourite sites. It would basically have a large vocabulary of concepts and present you with two and ask you which one was better, THUS CREATING A TOTAL ORDERING OF ALL THINGS (both apples AND oranges) REFLECTING THE AVERAGE VALUE OF INTERNET-CONNECTED HUMANITY. They had pictures with their concepts. I don't have time to collect those (and I'm not sure what my bandwidth is) so I'm initially going to just start with words themselves, and I'm going to initially just take them from a dictionary file. I'll try to provide a facility for people to add words or link words (when it's like a plural and a singular, and should be the same concept). Maybe I can find a DB of unique concepts from some ontology. :)
Anyway, to make it a bit more interesting than the old one, I'll apply some machine learning to do clustering so you can see clusters (including the one(s) to which you belong) of ordering. It will be amazing, I think.
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| And maybe I'll add flora artwork to the base boards |
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