"""""""So far it's been mostly reading tons of headache inducing research papers and several failed experiments.""""""""

Oh I feel you.... Maybe some 100% Kona beans would help to bring you to a sweeter place? Do you Coffee it up?

""""""""I think it may be possible that there won't be one single mechanism that will cover every kind of situation so there might be a few different modes each of which takes a different approach and works better for some different kinds of situations.""""""""""

Very cool. Cant wait to see! :o