meta
- How do you know? (What is the source of your information?)
- What is your name?
- Who programmed you?
- Do you know everything?
- What do you know?
- Do you understand natural language?
- Are you conscious?
- Show a visualization of how you work.
- How do you work?
buy/amazon
- buy a pack of those maggies socks that come up to the ankle. (deliver to 831 w 6th)
- table of android phones
- add price (if price isn't already included on there)
- from ebay
- add camera specs
- add electrical tape to my amazon queue
- Axpress: there are quite a few options. How many rolls do you want?
- more than 1, and a few different colors would be good.
- Axpress: ok, found a roll of 6 different colors for $10 with the super saver shipping
- sounds good
- Axpress: this is the only thing in your cart. I'll wait to order it until you have enough to get free shipping
- great
- When is my new mouse gonna get here?
- allow access to gmail (then provide email/password)
- when will that order come in
- when will the amazon order arrive
- amazon ship date
- any new emails?
- when is my flight?
- when is her flight?
- archive that WUTE email and unsubscribe from the mailing list
- send the January UNFI catalog to alex
freebase
- movies with john travolta and samuel jackson
- films with both Nicolas Cage and George clooney
- Where Does John Travolta Live?
- movies with both john travolta and samuel jackson
- number of episodes in stargate sg-1
- full time for 15 years in hours
- How does google's profits compare to other companies?
- names of white flower start with n
- When is the next tour de france?
- Who won the civil war? -> show list of civil wars and who won, with guessed civil war meaning on top
- When did George Washington Die? -> DateTime
- What happened to him? -> ...
- Where is the tallest mountain in the world? ->
- What are the ingredients for pancakes? ...
- When is the amazon order going to arrive? (check my email to know)
- Who was the author of The Great Gatsby?
- How much does it cost? (new/used hardback/paperback)
- go ahead and put it on my credit card
- Where are they from?
- What is the population there?
- is mint an annual or a perennial
- is mint an annual or perennial
- is mint an annual perennial
- is mint annual or a perennial
- is mint annual or perennial
- is mint annual perennial
- mint annual or a perennial
- mint annual or perennial
- mint annual perennial
- mint annual
- mint perennial
- note: as well as all permutations switching the order of annual and perennial
- fallback to search if freebase can't get all the way
- or just start augmenting freebase with better data
- is Amarok a music player?
- can Amarok play music?
- which of these can play music: Amarok, White Stripes, 2:35, music?
- thats not right, it is 12!
- login to freebase
- how long does a bear hibernate for
- how many legs does a bee have
- ingredients in a Twinkie. How is each ingredient derived (back to basic naturally occurring substances)
- how old is earth?
- how much energy does a light bulb use compared to a laptop
- how big is the earth compared to the sun
- which cubie has the most home runs
- In which month is Christmas?
- How many bars are there in San Francisco?
- What was the first youtube video
- gardening books from the 70s with a red cover
- albums with 2 tracks that are both longer than 20 minutes (put albums I've listened to or similar to my interests at top)
mysql
- introspective mysql commands: ted5000 meter's urls - %property% %table% %property%
- which tables holds the timezone?
- %table% %table-property% -> %query%
- simple way to configure/interact with this kind of meta-module (does some looking at your mysql tables and generates rules)
- most recent readings meter_id 130
- create qlalchemy table for exiting table job
- what is the average frequency of data points for house 11 compared to 31? (disregard large missing data chunks (outliers))
amarok/music/media
- keep playing diplo
- play more by that artist (avoids using words that dictation might not know like Diplo)
- In general, I prefer to listen to music I haven't listened to in a while
- Play wfiu [bloomington] : with default add to playlist action
- I like this song
- tag this song _
- What song is playing?
- Who is it by?
- When was the last time I heard this song?
- Turn it down, I'm going to bed (or it just knows the time and thus how quite to make it)
- Turn it down (during a party this has a different meaning)
- Play something from the early 60s
- an album
- play same same but different
- Calexico is good for a rainy Saturday afternoon.
- What movies do I have?
- list all of the movies
- movies
- how much time is left in this playlist?
- is last.fm scrobbeling right now?
last.fm
- login to last.fm
- what artists are similar to the band The Beatles?
- if I like The Beatles, who else might I like?
delicious
- recent bookmarks about message queuing
do events
- Always wake me up 1 hours before my first event in the calendar school.
- remind me to go to my parents in 20 mins
- remind me to cook at 7
- If I have a lot of unread emails in my inbox, send me a text
- let me know what happens when Paris bans plastic bags.
- let me know when this song ends.
- watch for paris bans plastic bags
- context facebook wall post: don't post this until wed (http://nothingtoinstall.com/questions/6436/app-for-delaying-writing-on-facebook-wall)
vision
- what color is my shirt?
- what kind of plant is this?
- what is this thing called in armenian?
- am I smiling?
- what was I wearing yesterday?
- what book was I reading yesterday?
growing record
- What did I plant in row 1 last year?
- Were there any bugs on it?
- What was the yield?
- When did I plant it?
- Is that normal for this area?
freecycle
- could anyone use a compass?
dictation
- take some notes for me ... (dictation)
search
- Where can I dispose broken CFL bulbs? => http://search.earth911.com/?what=cfls&where=47401&latitude=&longitude=&country=&province=&city=
- What are the hours for the public library today?
- When do you plant amaranth?
- How much do the seeds cost?
- How much will I need to grow a few pounds of it?
- How much will that many plants cost?
- How much would it cost to grow them from seed?
- does anyone grow them locally?
- Order that much.
- How well do they grow here?
- When will pepper season end (here in Bloomington, IN)
- end of pepper season
- blogs written by americans in afganistan
- missouri congressman phone number
- [list of] bike shops near here and their hours
- couscous recipe
- basic steps in beer brewing
- theres a bus that goes from the airport and one arrives in Bloomington around 6. What time is it exactly?
- mongodb ui - linux
- latest jquery source
- what are the hours for the iu credit union at the union?
- Who was the original voice of Mickey Mouse?
- How much profit did Google have in 2004?
- What does HTML stand for?
- how much hops is needed for 5 gallons of beer?
- we're making a wheat ale
- cost of milk
- google profit
- bob dylan sandman lyrics
- imagemagick commands: imagemagick resize, imagemagick crop
- jigsaws at lowes under $100
- how much does it cost to stream a song over AT&T 3g service?
- how much energy does my monitor use?
- tv shows -> scifi -> anime -> etc...
- political comedian who just came to bloomington
- what is it called when you measure the performance of a program?
organizing/wiki
- separate each line of the commands article into an item in a list
- I want to tag a list of items
- have a recipe open and be able to ask about it
open questions
- How does a command encode a question that needs answered first? action: speech instead of action: send email along with some kind of context
netflix
- Play Imaginatarium something on Netlix
- I'd like to watch Imaginatarium something (you know which one?)
- "You know which" one can be a suffix to something that has a meta:whichone or a meta:questionablesearchresolvinginoneoption
- Some way to help find connections and ask people if the connections exist (learn new connections and meanings)
- holy shit
- spam? we only use learned methods that other people like you liked, and we'll ask you before we incorporate them
corrections
- no, I meant ...
mint
- How much money do I have? (connect to mint or other bank account)
programming/python
- setup a memcached server
- in python setup a benchmark of memorised
- replace the old mysql library calls with the new plotwatt.lib mysql calls
mysql/special/email
- run these queries as csv files and email me the results:
SELECT * FROM ... SELECT ... SE ...
call/txt/search
- call/text and remind me to _ at 8 tomorrow
- Cancel my netflix subscription
- renew my books at the library
- email mom: I'll be over for dinner at 7
- Post on craigslist/freecycle: linksys router working condition
- Send me an email/txt when theres a post of craigslist or freecycle for a chest freezer
- Move my money from my current savings account to people's bank.
- move $500 from my savings into my checking
- transfer money from the bag end food account to my checking to reimburse my most recent bfoods purchase
- call company X to cancel my membership
- how much does DSL in my area cost?
- what am I paying comcast right now?
- is there much of a difference?
- is there any reason I shouldn't switch to DSL?
- ok, please call and make the arrangements then
complex search
- Where does the money come from to pay for my roads?
- where do newspapers get money from
- summarize this forum thread
fact/math/calculate
- general unit conversion
- America/Los_Angeles
- random zipcode
- $2/28 oz in $/lb
- $0.16/hr to $/month
- _ %timestamp% to date
- %year% CO2 levels - pull from CSV at ftp://ftp.cmdl.noaa.gov/ccg/co2/trends/co2annmeanmlo.txt
- $0.10 per hour for a year
- (77-28) * (0:1:10) - (arbitrary number multiplied by a time)
- _ 1 year / min
- $0.10 per hour to usd/month
- 115,900 morgage 5% 30 years
- average price kilowatthour indiana : source?
- 100 w for 1 year at 9 cents per kilowatt hour
- 3.26gb over 10mbit
- angle of sun %city% %date% (default: date => 'now', %city% => where is my IP)
- palo alto weekly weather
- what time is it at home?
- what time is it in Bloomington? (requires longterm context to know which Bloomington I am talking about)
- When is it going to rain?
- california gmt
- area of 30 foot diameter circle
- generate me a strong password (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3103325)
ubuntu/linux/shell/programming
- change default shell to zsh
- apt-file search
- apt-get GL/gl.h
- missing GL/gl.h
- can't find /usr/include/GL/gl.h
- also helpful data-source: popularity of each debian package
- copy this cd/dvd onto my computer/ipod/etc
- backup this cd/dvd [onto another dvd]
- list of my movies/music
- Anytime /mnt/linode is listed and empty, "sshfs plotwatt@plotwatt.com:/home/plotwatt /mnt/linode"
- (from windows) install ubuntu
- install subsonic on my server; let me know when it is ready
- initialize this folder with a simple chrome extension
- autohide top and bottom toolbars/panels
- (delete a line in a file) find this line in all the other files in this folder and remove it and the next line if that next line is empty
- do I use push or append for lists (in python)?
- search in this folder for file with text xyz (try to understand the format of the files too maybe even images)
- split out in half (out is a local file)
inotify
- %action% when file added to %folder%
- %action% when %folder/file% opened
autosuggest
- William Gibson
- books by William Gibson
- books by William Gibson by popularity
- ...
firefox/chrome
- install flashblock [and white list google reader, youtube and vimeo]
- When I visit X do Y (X is type website and Y is an action)
- [search for] [names of] people on this page
- recently viewed pages about job queues
web
- download newest ubuntu iso (via torrent)
- download john stewart with kramer
- let my brother Luke have access to all of my music
images
- post onto flickr
- resize to x y
- make black and white
- rotate 90 degrees ccw
- invert colors
- sort by hue
- sort by saturation
- sort by distance from red
- increase contrast
- [download|save] to my pictures with tag friends
- store local copy and tag family
- convert image to text
web APIs
- check out commonly used YQL queries (maybe just interface to them?)
- hacker news for hacker news post
- weather
- what is the temp today?
- how does that compare to historical averages?
- allow a website to expose certain information which could then be queryable
- for example have a recipe open and then ask it to read parts of it off, etc.
weather
* what is the (temp outside|dew point|heat index) %time range%
* weather
* what is it like outside
* current weather chicago
* is it going to snow this week
* do I need an umbrella
* is it more windy this week than last week
* what are the chances of rain this week
* what is the coldest it will get this week
* any unusual weather coming this week
* how much snow are we supposed to get tonight
todo
* requires storage - could even by HD
* add %s% (to |)(my |)todo( list|)
* (show |)(my |)todo( list|)
* remove %s% (from |)(my |)todo( list|)
interface
- load a csv file, manipulate, add remove columns with english
- this column is in california time, convert to GMT
- invert
- highlight table in webpage
- add derived column (row x + row y) (allow using some kinda of english/axpress/calculator help)
- hide column
- export to csv, google spreadsheet
- set to alway have that column added or changes made when that table is viewed on that page (make it into an extension kinda)
- allow entering axpress command on any webpage
- take the webpage as context
- from twitter search page:
- show graph of search
- show minutes on x axis, number of tweets [per minute] on y axis
- bash interface:
- a turn all the images in this folder into a collage
- not as much spacing ... a little more basic.
- set image X as the background
context/webapps
- google reader: don't show stories about the world series (http://nothingtoinstall.com/questions/7030/google-news-how-to-exclude-topics-like-lindsay-lohan)
accounting
- Nate paid $40 to the grain store
- we got $130.45 from George
- how much does that total?
- we paid $1330 in total for the food; how much is unaccounted for ...
plotwatt
- Houses.all -> total_kwhrs -> < 0 -> click on each house
- How does my current baseload compare to 2 months ago
- for detail/exploration, could show a graph of baseload over time
real life virtual assistant
- 3 page summary of technology x
- fill out these insurance forums (referencing a pdf)
- start my truck
- feed the dog
Use these for testing. Data to be kept
http://digg.com/2008uselections/RudycallsforamassiveMilitarybuilduptotakeonChinaandRussia rdfs:comment "this hurt me"
General Information
- about status of actions performed by the local computer
- about queryable information (wikipedia, etc)
- my picture
- my pictures
- my email
- my emails
- what is the forecast for tomorrow
- what is the forecast?
- forecast
- the forecast
- show the radar
- hide the radar
- show this week's forcast
- show new rss feeds
- subscribe to no impact man
- unsubscribe from fox news
- show feeds with a low priority with a yellow background
- more pale
- show feeds with a high priority with a green background
- more pale
- show craigslist only when I ask specifically to
- what is [a]
- what is The Daily Show
- is The Colbert report a tv show?
- is The Colbert report a movie?
- is The Colbert report a song?
- What is the Colbert Report?
- if it is a tv show download it from tvrss
- if it is an artist, movie, album, band, software, program download it from scrapetorrent
- make public
- public
- blog post
- icon for music
- icon for Grateful Dead
- icon for hot
- icon for next
- icon for stop
- I need _ => get it and once its has been retrieved, ask what to do with it. Fairly high priority
- change the upload limit to 80[KiB/s] at 9:00 am [tomorrow morning]
- Download all of X's podcasts and keep downloading new ones as they come out.
- Download the torrents located at http://.../
- Get the firefox plugin that lets me zoom images
- get the firefox zoom plugin
- install the firefox zoom plugin
- what program am I using to download torrents?
- how can I control what is playing?
- what play modes are supported? (music player)
- Bob's number is ###-####
- email is xyz@abc.def
- meet with Fred at 5 tomorrow (what about am/pm inferencing?)
- cse511 4:00 - 5:30 -T-T-----
- free time on wednesday
- busy today
- todo today
- appointments today
- class today
- call mom tonight
- email luke about music sharing when I get it up and running
- email luke about when we are celebrating dad's brithday.
- email mom
- when is dad's birthday?
- send
- action when condition
- if condition then action
- action but action
- new window
- insert my picture (into this email)
- attach file (into this email)
- make my music public
- make my music by mice parade public
- share all of my pictures with matt
- make all of my pictures accessible to matt
- let all of my friends have access to my music
- let my friends download my music
- show the context
- list context
- If there is a new download at http://tvrss.net/search/index.php?showname=The+Daily+Show&showname_exact=true&mode=rss and it is newer than the previous one then download it.
- download http://tvrss.net/search/index.php?showname=The+Daily+Show&showname_exact=true&mode=rss
- if there is a new entry [in it] and it is newer than the previous one, download it.
- is "The Daily Show 09.18.07 (DSRip-SYS)[VTV]" newer than "The Daily Show - 2007-09-18 [VTV]"?
- date of "The Daily Show 09.18.07 (DSRip-SYS)[VTV]"
- new document
- new email concerning this document
- new button for email
- new button to see [my] email
- is it a full moon today?
- what is the rolling stones?
- what was the name of the writing competition Jordan told me about earlier?
- what writing competition ...