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	<title>Random Ideas</title>
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	<description>Ideas are the most powerful things in existence. Here are mine.</description>
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		<title>Why People Get Away With Taxing the Rich</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The reason why additional taxes get shuffled onto the rich has little to do with who &#8220;needs&#8221; the money most. The real reason: there is an 80/20 distribution of wealth but not of votes. Therefore it is politically much safer to anger the highest-earning 20% than the bottom 80% in our winner-take-all elections. This inequity [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://randomideas.net/?p=1108</link>
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		<title>Thoughts on the Anthropocene Extinction</title>
		<description><![CDATA[While it is true that humanity is killing off species at an alarming rate, I don&#8217;t think this trend will continue indefinitely. The previous mass extinctions were driven (or at least initiated) for the most part by external events to the ecosystem, with reductions in the sustaining energy of the ecosystem and other consequences lasting [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://randomideas.net/?p=1105</link>
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		<title>Possible factor toward all-cause mortality reduction with vitamin D intake</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the all-cause mortality reductions of vitamin D may stem from the fact that it is synthesized from a cholesterol precursor, thus removing it from the bloodstream. Supplementing would not have this benefit. This hypothesis is testable by following a group of sunlight-synthesized vitamin D patients and comparing them against a group which receives [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://randomideas.net/?p=1102</link>
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		<title>The Two Types of Intelligence</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There are two types of traits which people refer to as &#8220;intelligence&#8221;, and two regions of the brain with their storage infrastructure: there&#8217;s the ability to draw new insights from disparate data, mediated by inductive long-term retrieval (hippocampus) and there&#8217;s the ability to draw formal and rapid mathematical/logical conclusions from existing theorems, mediated by working [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://randomideas.net/?p=1099</link>
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		<title>Treating the toxin rather than the bacterium which produces it.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One treatment which would probably be fairly effective to counteract an infection with an antibiotic-resistant bacterium which causes symptoms by secreting a toxin (such as pathogenic E. Coli which releases a Shiga toxin) is to induce an immune response (via immunoglobulin) against the toxin rather than the bacterium for the duration of the traditional symptomatic [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://randomideas.net/?p=1095</link>
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		<title>Seeding localized immunosuppressants</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been thinking of ways to produce long-term localized immunosuppression recently in order to help people with autoimmune diseases. What I&#8217;ve dreamed up this time is a device similar to a radioactive &#8220;seed&#8221; used for prostate cancer, but delivering an inhibitor of cellular signaling (take your pick of interleukins) in direct response to a high [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://randomideas.net/?p=1090</link>
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		<title>Another hidden caveat: no polymorphism with malloc() on the Arduino (probably in general)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The traditionally held restrictions of malloc()-allocated objects are &#8220;no constructor calls&#8221; and &#8220;no destructor calls&#8221;. However, there is an additional restriction: no virtual functions or polymorphism. If you wish to implement polymorphism on the Arduino and plan to use dynamic memory, you must declare operators new and delete (in terms of malloc() and free()) before [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://randomideas.net/?p=1086</link>
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		<title>Vector Quantization for dynamic n-gram models</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Images have texture. Sentences have texture too. Use the keyblock approach to dynamically build n-grams. &#8216;Nuff said.]]></description>
		<link>http://randomideas.net/?p=1083</link>
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		<title>Physical Key Encryption</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It is possible to define a mapping between the bits in a digital key and the shape of a physical key. Further, it is possible to physically etch a digital key onto a physical one below the resolution at which said data could be easily copied. Consequently, it is possible to design an intelligent lock [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://randomideas.net/?p=1081</link>
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		<title>On The Nature of Popularity</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Videos and music become popular because people like to minimize their risk of wasting time listening to or watching something unenjoyable. Actually, I suspect something similar lies at the heart of popularity in any context.]]></description>
		<link>http://randomideas.net/?p=1079</link>
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