- A proposal was floated to cap the total number of patents in a domain (e.g., 10 000) so that the search space stops growing and frivolous patents could be displaced by paying existing holders for their “slots,” discussed alongside a link to the RSA patent document (http://math.uic.edu/~jlong/MCS425Fall10/RSA-patent.pdf).  
- Participants debated whether patent-troll insurance could ever be viable, noting that if offered it would likely be prohibitively expensive compared with ordinary property insurance.  
- AlonzoTG announced he has shelved his hand-written OS project and will instead build an AI first, then instruct the AI to write the operating system; the group discussed evolutionary computation, neural networks, Bayesian methods, simulated annealing, Monte-Carlo techniques, and AIXI-style approximations as candidate approaches.  
- A water-based welding technology from Multiplaz (http://www.multiplaz.com/about) was shared as a potentially useful open-source fabrication tool.  
- Utopiah linked Simon Lewis’s TED talk on recovering from brain injury using a Functional Electrical Stimulation Battery-Powered Microstimulator (FEBPM), prompting skepticism about claims that the brain is a “fully functional quantum computer.”  
- kanzure posted Ray Dalio’s “Principles” manifesto (http://www.bwater.com/Uploads/FileManager/Principles/Bridgewater-Associates-Ray-Dalio-Principles.pdf) as a document on systematic decision-making.  
- A short discussion weighed Python vs. Perl vs. Ruby for scripting; Python’s scientific stack (NumPy, SciPy, matplotlib, scikit-learn, NLTK, Sage) was highlighted as a decisive advantage.  
- Someone suggested creating a software “Pensieve” (inspired by the Harry Potter memory basin) beginning with plain-text memories as a personal knowledge-management project.