- A new crowdsourced nootropics survey and analysis was published on Slate Star Codex (http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/02/16/nootropics-survey-results-and-analysis/), prompting discussion about whether reported benefits are placebo-driven and what functional differences in individuals might imply.  
- Participants expressed skepticism that the survey revealed anything beyond “popular well-known nootropics are popular and well-known,” highlighting the need for more rigorous, controlled experimentation.  
- nmz787_ explored adding an ADC protocol analyzer to the open-source sigrok logic-analyzer suite, noting that neither sigrok nor Saleae Logic currently supports this feature, and weighed the ease of contributing to sigrok versus compiling a Saleae SDK DLL.  
- A quote circulated estimating only ~3,000 analog engineers worldwide versus over a million digital/system designers, reinforcing the scarcity—and perceived value—of analog expertise in the transhumanist hardware community.  
- The day’s logs show routine technical chatter about toolchains (sigrok, Saleae SDK), component scarcity, and the perennial challenge of quantifying cognitive enhancement, all against a backdrop of typical IRC join/part noise.