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    1. gwern‏ @gwern 8 Oct 2016

      Startup idea: CNN smartphone app to count the number of hands raised in meetings/lectures/conventions & speed up: http://www.gwern.net/Statistical%20notes#proposal-hand-counting-mobile-app-for-more-fluid-group-discussions …

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    2. gwern‏ @gwern Mar 17

      Startup idea: consumer cat genomics; initial hook, ancestry & basket of cat psychoactives (catnip+valerian+silvervine+honeysuckle+thyme+Buckbean+...) for response GWAS & predict alternatives to catnip. Then can develop larger dataset of health/domestication/stress for breeding.

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    3. gwern‏ @gwern Apr 6

      Startup idea: ceiling-mounted infrared beam emitters+camera, steered by segmenting CNN: it automatically detects & warms up the bare skin segments of female objects until thermal equilibrium of 37.5°C - thereby resolving the Great Office Thermostat Wars once and for all.

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    4. gwern‏ @gwern Apr 22

      Startup idea: cat toys which change after trauma, to simulate successful hunt conclusion & avoid habituation/boredom - detachable parts, shape-memory alloy/plastic, LEDs? Research on the problem with static cat toys:https://plus.google.com/103530621949492999968/posts/USxmo8CY7G6 …

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    5. gwern‏ @gwern Sep 9

      Startup idea: isochronic travel-time maps as a service like https://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/news/What-travelling-was-like-100-years-ago/ … but using Google Maps/OSM for anywhere on demand - turns out to already exist! http://iso4app.net/  looks very cool.

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      gwern‏ @gwern Oct 26

      Startup idea: there's one big-money sport which depends enormously on a single exaggerated highly-heritable highly-PGS-predictable trait: basketball. Screen kids' SNPs and sell contact info to NBA recruiters seeking to build a relationship & loyalty years ahead of competitors.

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        2. bearmace‏ @bearmace Oct 26
          Replying to @gwern

          there was a startup doing something similar that was one of the more memorable #SharkTank pitcheshttp://www.marketwired.com/press-release/shark-tank-winner-scoutsview-sports-unveils-new-biomechanics-predictive-video-analytics-1885978.htm …

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        3. gwern‏ @gwern Oct 26
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          Somewhat similar. The idea here though is that in young enough kids, correlation with adult traits is so low that PGSes actually do become useful (I give an IQ example in https://www.gwern.net/Hunter  ). Their video analysis would have the same issue: predicts present but not future.

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