- **BioBrick categorization & SBML integration**: kanzure has scraped the MIT Registry of Standard Biological Parts and organized ~1 500 BioBricks into type directories; he is exploring how to map each brick (or brick-type) to kinetic reaction rules in SBML/BioNetGen format so that whole genetic circuits can be simulated as systems of ODEs.  
- **PDE vs. ODE debate**: Discussion on whether chaining individual BioBrick ODEs into a larger circuit yields a simple “related-rates” problem or a true partial-differential-equation system; concern raised that naïvely summing per-brick solutions could miss intermediate failures (analogous to a bank balance going negative between monthly statements).  
- **Automated design lab vision**: Proposal for a CAD-like tool where users drag-and-drop bricks; a validator checks I/O compatibility (metadata matching molecule production/consumption rates) and an external solver stitches the ODEs together to score competing designs on efficiency or yield.  
- **Open-source robotics link**: kanzure flags the Willow Garage / Stanford “Personal Robotics” program (pr.willowgarage.com) as a promising open-source mobile-manipulation platform, contrasting it with Anybots’ teleoperated balance robot.  
- **Miscellaneous technical notes**:  
  – Posted a concise personal write-up on free will (heybryan.org/free_will.html).  
  – Shared the emergent server protocol page (grey.colorado.edu) and the EBI BioModels database as key SBML repositories.  
  – Began reverse-engineering a Visual Basic neural-simulation program, grumbling about global-variable soup and cryptic Exp() syntax.