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Musical Collaboration by Opt-in and Mass Beat Channels

Posted on September 5, 2000 | Leave a comment

There could be channels for each beat/tempo, and an unlimited number of contibutors could participate in the creation of music within each channel. Any listener could select the combination of contributors and listen to the mixed track. Popular and preset groups could simplify selection, and descriptive fields for contributors could help improve custom selections. Contributor-defined sub-channels could branch off from the public ones. This system would allow unlimited musical collaboration in a way that provides compatibility and flexibility on a global scale.

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Posted in Early Stage, Media, Personal, Tech, The Future

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The Evolvor Cycle

Posted on August 27, 2000 | Leave a comment

I think that the following cycle is an abstraction that applies to many forms of systems and, when implemented, can create very powerful evolutionary dynamics. It actively evolves the underlying system, so I name it ‘Evolvor cycle’.

Applied to a configuration, for example, it would set the original default for new users according to the implied preferences of the existing users. The option to signal new preferences continues the cycle and the default configuration evolves over time without any human administration.

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Virtual Earth

Posted on August 11, 2000 | Leave a comment

Automatic generation of Virtual Earth using multiple input cameras, GPS, image recognition, and interactive identification and definition of Virtual objects. Storage area networks store the many files.

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Posted in Media, Tech, The Future

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CD Repair Shop

Posted on July 16, 2000 | Leave a comment

The CDDB provides the identification of CD content based on track set characteristics. This is how your Winamp program can provide you with the CD track titles when you put a CD in your computer and are connected to the internet. CDs get scratched and damaged, and are cumbersom to travel with. With a large single centralized database of CDDB data and the associated MP3 files, a CD could act as a key to gain access to a set of MP3 files – available from anywhere. A user account could store a list of authorized CDs for any user. Each account would not require additional storage of MP3s – rather, simply a list of unique keys. Even damaged CDs could be converted to high quality (undamaged) MP3 files in less than a few seconds with this system. Barrier to entry is high, but marginal costs for volume users is low. User accounts would provide users with access to their CD libraries from any networked device.

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Posted in Early Stage, Just for fun, Media, Tech

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Financial Markets Evolve

Posted on March 27, 2000 | Leave a comment

Arbitrages – even of very small marginal size – will be eliminated based on a large number of artificially intelligent program trading systems that will mine the historical and currently released information identifying and exploiting trends. The process of the elimination of arbitrage opportunities will create vast concentrations of wealth within the companies that embrace the tools that automate this process. As new information sources become available for analysis, new arbitrages may be identified with increasing complexity. The abstraction of trading systems to automaically test and integrate new data sources will mark the last decades of financially advantageous investment in hedge funds. After that time, return will be a stochastic function of expected risk.

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Posted in Bonds, Commodities, Economics, Investment, Public Policy, Science, Stocks, Tech, The Future

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