- **Automated experiment generation**: kanzure proposes using WordNet or Cyc to randomly generate psychochemical experiments on mice, label observed behaviors with folk-psychology terms, and then analyze the resulting multidimensional data with techniques like Support Vector Machines—arguing that the same approach could ultimately be applied to human behavior.

- **Post-scarcity fragmentation critique**: Discussion identifies the open-manufacturing / post-scarcity community as too scattered; the root cause is said to be a lack of “grounding”—i.e., few participants actually possess the machines or tools needed to demonstrate the concepts.

- **Materials-data extraction project**: A plan is outlined to mine the graphs and tables inside materials handbooks and websites such as MatWeb. Steps include page-segmentation algorithms to locate plots, curve analysis to recover data points, and scripting wget with cookies to bulk-download MatWeb’s Excel files.

- **OpenMP and parallelization**: The channel briefly debates whether C preprocessor directives are the right mechanism for OpenMP-style parallelism, and later kanzure acknowledges the need to multithread his automated-design code to exploit the 8-core cluster offered by bkero for 10⁴–10⁷ design permutations.

- **Key resources mentioned**: adciv.org (post-scarcity wiki), the Nature article “A unified vision of the building blocks of life” (Marth, Nature Cell Biology Sept 2008), TED talk by Paul Stamets on mushrooms, Facebook’s engineering recruiting events at UT Austin, and the CODATA “International Register of Materials Database Managers.”