I want a social media that has never existed before and I cannot see why nobody has tried it. I had some hope Twitter would migrate in that direction but it didn't. The entire purpose of social media is to use algorithms to find content from other users of the platform via the activities of those users. Because everyone has unique interests, the algorithm must also be unique. Many people have multiple "realms" of interests and associated people who share that realm. Often these realms must remain unique... Some things should never be seen by your mother or your boss for instance. These unique realms will also have unique needs in format. Twitter has been adding new formats but there isn't a way to match formats with realms. For instance, artists posting art would love to have better control of the shape and location of the images and "thumbnails". DeviantArt has implemented some of these tools but very poorly. I am posting this now because I spent over an hour to find only a handful of art worth sharing and NONE of that art was from my over 1000 artists I follow. Elon and his "fanboys" often say they get their news from Twitter. I find zero news of interest on Twitter and zero from news organizations. I have to search with Google using their time filter and the image search format to find websites that MIGHT have news on the topic I want... But the majority of the interesting links are old news items that are marked new because the website uses built in ads to make the page appear new all the time. Due to the horrible Twitter "for me" and "following" algorithms, I used to use the "likes" section of people who liked something I shared. Twitter made likes private for EVERYONE so that's no longer an option. I definitely agree that you should be able to make your likes private IF you choose to but it would be better if you can choose who can see the likes. Alternatively, you can adjust the algorithms to use likes in ways that find interesting things based on the realm of the accounts that match the interest in question.
Because of security concerns, I don't currently use cellphones so I have also never used the GPS system with any of my electronics but as someone who has done extreme walking trips, walking hundreds of miles in wilderness locations with no humans and no cellular service, a GPS device would be useful. Worrying about a long list of possible events that could damage electronics including grid power, internet, cellular towers, and the satellites needed for GPS or the Russian and Chinese versions of this technology. Starlink's system has it's own methods to discover locations of customers based on the extremely accurate satellite locations and space junk locations all the satellites needed to operate including beaming lasers at each other for interconnection to maximize speed and range of their service. But of course, that service might also be disabled or the "customer" may not want location made known. I saw an ad on YouTube for a technology that used magnetic maps of the earth to determine location. Gravity detecting technology might also be developed and used with these same type of maps but for gravity strength. Low frequency radio waves can be detected from solar wind influencing the ionosphere that might be used to determine location relative to time of day. A faraday cage to protect electronics will still allow gravity, static magnetic flux (like Earth's magnetic field) and low frequency radio waves through such faraday cage. A set of positioning detectors can reduce errors and three or more detection systems allows the central system to reject a system with the least-similar location data.
I liked most of the topics on the YouTube channel "Two Bit da Vinci" but often he had some glaring errors so I was hesitant to bother watching some videos with interesting titles. I was very impressed with his recent treatment of the topic of desalination (industrial scale from sea water being the implied use case) because he addressed the real problem... Entropy changes between salty and pure water. Looking at the real energy cost of reversing entropy much like the real energy use in air conditioning... Trying to reduce entropy in one place while minimizing the entropy increase elsewhere to maximize system efficiency. With this framework in thinking about water purification or mineral extraction from fluids (like Tesla's new lithium refining technique or getting Magnesium from ocean water), better methods might be thought up that minimize the entropy changes to only be what is necessary for the desired task (pure molecules/ions have lower entropy than mixtures)
Thinking of thermal "batteries", large mass of material at a temperature, the temperature is NOT the energy stored but the temperature difference between two "storage mediums" multiplied by the "specific heat capacity" and applicable "latent heat capacity" multiplied by the mass of each storage medium to select the lower value (the higher value does not need calculation if a higher value is confidently assumed). The losses are not temperature necessarily but rather any increase in entropy. If the temperature difference goes down but the mass at the new temperatures increases the right amount, entropy may stay the same rather than increase if only the temperatures changed. My intuitive thought with "onion" design of hottest or coldest temperature in the center then progressively less extreme temperature relative to the system environment (typically the average outdoor air temperature) surrounding that core would reduce losses. Now I have a way to calculate the volume and heat capacity of each layer to the storage system for minimum increase in entropy. Then the level of loss between each layer can be calculated for various insulation options to weigh cost over entropy gain per time. This helps define insulation as an entropy blocking method and thermal mass within an insulating medium as another entropy blocking technique. Optimizing insulation for cost or effectiveness needs accurate calculations that have previously only been a guess based on experimentation. SpaceX's current challenge is getting orbital speed objects to the surface of Earth or Mars without them getting too hot via insulation. More accurate insulation effectiveness calculation might reduce the weight of their "heat shield tiles" for minimum loss of payload. I want to make the best windows and doors for high efficiency buildings. Doing entropy-based calculations on various elements of these building parts might increase effectiveness and/or decrease cost. I will still want to test my ideas for these building parts but if I can develop the math and science enough to predict the results, the tests can also refine such math and science. My ideas of using fluid friction in pipes to create heat from pneumatic energy or hydraulic energy were frustrated by a lack of formulas regarding viscosity and Reynolds number and other fluid dynamics science... This is why "rocket science" is regarded as hard. Bypassing all that by calculating entropy changes might be a solution... At least enough to get values close for actual real-world testing.
I just watched Netflix's teaser for "Chickenhare and the Hamster of Darkness" that automatically plays when the item is highlighted. I was impressed with the clip choice because it included the following: introduction to the main characters, the challenges to overcome in the plot including character development arcs for those main characters, the full name of the movie in context to the plot, the species of the animal characters, details of the world of the movie including some unique elements, and relationship details of the two characters who already know each other. When developing a script for a movie, such a clip as the optimum teaser should be planned. I also like the idea of making possible titles, taglines, movie poster designs, and trailer storyboards should be quickly developed prior to writing a script (with expectation that they would never be used but will prepare the script writer to consider the needs of such items when made officially later). This plays into the concept of "the elevator pitch"... The idea that a film isn't good enough if you can't get someone interested in watching this unmade film with one or two sentences to describe it. Even better, if just the title alone gets you interested.
I have been disappointed lately by a lot of very smart people due to subjective opinions that are riddled with logical fallacies. I think I figured out the source for most (or maybe all) of these quests in the subjective realm... The need for meaning in topics that have no "intelligence" behind them. Statements like "I don't want my suffering to be for nothing" or "why does the universe exist?" are examples of such quests for meaning in an existence within a physics made by chaos. Of course there is no inherent problem with searches for meaning behind things but when logic says there is no meaning and you create a meaning or something that seems logical to explain the subjective side of things, you are likely creating fiction via some form of logical fallacy. Someone kept suggesting that I really wanted my beliefs to be true so could be deceiving myself. Yes, that is a possibility if I don't do the scientific method properly. When doing any experiment including thought experiments, you must be trying to prove your hypothesis as incorrect to avoid confirmation bias. This is the opposite of hoping your hypothesis is correct and looking for evidence to prove the hypothesis as correct. Part of this separation of biases and a proposed hypothesis is to find and remove all subjectivity from all aspects... From the hypothesis, from the test method, from the results, from the conclusion, and most importantly from your hopes for a particular result. Discovering how the universe works is a marvelous goal but discovering meaning in the universe is an impossible goal that will lead you to the blind alley of chaos being misinterpreted as data instead of pareidolia (recognizing things in random patterns)
I hope to make an auxiliary language, a language people might learn as a secondary language to communicate with others who learned that same language as a secondary language. But that is just an excuse to promote it. The primary purpose is to encode meaning using minimal letters (16 maximum letters and symbols) and having minimal ambiguity so the encoded meaning can more accurately be translated to any natural language (a language that was not created but developed by people using it). A secondary purpose is to create a similar concept but for computer languages with, hopefully, adaptation abilities for future programming needs like AI and quantum computing and analogue computing and of course, using the vocabulary of this "meaning encoded language with minimal letters". I realize that the goal is too large to create in "one pass" and will need to be developed in stages. One way to create a passable vocabulary to test with as a version 1 is to use several conlangs (languages that have been created) as my starting point because the developers and users of those languages will have noticed and fixed missing or unused words. The next step, which appears to have no pioneers in, is to make an unambiguous meaning requirement of the resulting mesh of these conlangs. The third and most subjective step is to order the vocabulary on a scale of most-used to least-used... At least in blocks of 2-letter words vs 3-letter words vs 4-letter words etc. (Most used being shorter). Later I hope to gather the most used words and phrases of the most used languages (of various metrics... Native, fluent, secondary, most used on the internet, these same lists but within each language family) to then create the best set of meanings for each word-size set based on usage among all these lists then assign each possible letter combination to each word with the hope that the most-used languages have priority on the sound of these words to match the words in these common languages for easier learning. The resulting version 2 of my language will be ready for stress testing by converting some set of literature samples to this new conlang and attempt to use various translation tools to translate to and from some of the more common languages (like English, French, German, Arabic) and all those other languages in the lists of languages with a significant population of users to determine any needed additional words for that goal of unambiguous meaning to create version 3. By this point, AI tools might be advanced enough to find other ambiguities to solve and better choices of sound combos for each word to be easier to learn for the greatest numbers of people. Along the way, creating a new programming language would lean towards the shorter words and less confusing words for each programming word needed. Obviously at some point, the conlang and new programming language will have to be "good enough" to start using it in my many projects.
Solar powered glider-style drones have been built to circle the globe continuously without landing. A low budget land based version is my first goal I think on the path to portable indoor agriculture with disaster-proof considerations. Slow speed reduces possible legal challenges to using such a vehicle but slow speed adds the challenges of driving in ditches and back-roads and not having problems with the possible rough terranes like holes, lost wires, rocks, post stumps, curbs, pipes.
The battle bot contests where people design and control robots to be the last bot still working might be the future technology driver for drone warfare where drones fight each other with the hope of remaining airborne or at least air worthy after disabling the opponent drone.
Ukraine is severely harmed in electricity. Deep mines passing through a water table use freezing to keep the water from getting through the rocks or sand. Gas pipelines crossing permafrost need to keep the ground cold or the foundation of the pipeline will sink. My idea of transmitting cryogenic atmospheric gases as liquid or a slurry mix of frozen particles through oil and gas pipelines or new pipelines of similar design to replace transmission power wires and transformers for energy distribution has a few new projects along those lines but for different goals (just storage in abandoned pipelines). In hot climate situations, turning this liquid air into power will have waste cold that can be useful. In cold climate situations, the loss of temperature difference is minimal and adding solar thermal heat collection, the "waste" cold adds temperature difference for increased energy production. A water line broke in Calgary and it was so hard to fix because the wet earth and pipe volume took days to actually access the broken parts of the pipe to fix it. Cold liquid air would freeze the soil around a pipe or freeze added water for a temporary leak repair made out of ice. My issue is electromagnetic radiation or charged particles damaging anything with long wires and the long list of dangers of fuels in pipes and more problems with natural gas blowing up buildings.
