I wish I could work at UBC one day. I admired and loved the campus and the students that were there. If I was to start there this weekend, at UBC, I would do the following. And in the whole world I love BC, Canada.

All students/professors would get a personal mind clock that runs on an android or iphone that helps focus the brain for creativity/innovation/complex science for Good. It would be an enroll gift. I have been investigating different forms of mind safety using the sun, moon and the planets. And today have settled on a design that uses the sun and the moon with a unique visualization for the minds eye.

Ecology - sounds of life. I want to continue the research from Karen Bakker to better understand the sounds of life and how we can better nuture it and assist the preservation of farming, seeds, food and our lovely forests. Reducing wildfires and perhaps even better undestanding tectonic plate movements to predict severe earthquakes and volcanos, to give warning and country emergency planning. I had originally spoken to the BC minister of forestry in 2023, and a BC parks ranger, who both were interested and mentioned that UBC were planned to be given funding to work on these topics.

Computer Science, I want to investigate getting more out of less. Investigating the lower levels of compute to leverage a CPU. It was possible to render video and images of CPUs that had less than pentium II chips that ran at a clock frequency of 300Mhz, why is it today that we have 3/4/5GHZ clock frequency processors that run with 8 cores that do exactly the same. Why haven’t we investigated the lower bit based storage and processing of that data to leverage modern processors to get accelerated software that is low powered rather than turn to GPUs that draw a lot of power. We have built languages and techniques on old original data structures from the 70s not optimized for the final purposed intended.

Applying the same thinking to bandwidth and networking, it was possible to download an mp3 from an IRC channel in late 90s and today we stream music on Spotify. What is it that we should investigate the TCP/IP stack to innovate new methods of data transfer and re-usability. I'd like to investigate multiple banding over FM or AM technology similiar to what modulator/demomodulator modems used to do with our modern multiple core processors. Even perhaps using distributed data mesh points to construct data as it's being delivered with new forms of data breakdown and caching at points closer to the origin, a distributed p2p CDN of sorts.

AI and the use of GPUs and the expensive task of using electricity, why can’t we return to the use of intelligent search indexes that even Google had with their early Google desktop search for Windows, it created an index that you could search locally and felt almost like AI. Today in all Macbooks there are neural cores, why isn’t it possibile to better analyze and index data for intelligent questions and answers rather than build LLMs. This would be great for students to build their own research indexes that are private from scarce literature, it’s the curation of the content that makes intelligence rather than a LLM model that indexes billions of tokens.