- Two Boston Dynamics robot videos were shared: one showing the WildCat quadruped running untethered at 16 mph and another demonstrating the Atlas humanoid robot’s dynamic balance and manipulation capabilities.  
- Discussion of “asynchronous indexing” in robotics: participants speculated it allows a part to leave station A before station B is confirmed vacant, reducing cycle-time bottlenecks in automated assembly.  
- IBM’s Watson cognitive system was highlighted in a PopSci article describing how it generated a novel kebab recipe, illustrating early culinary applications of large-scale knowledge extraction and creativity algorithms.  
- A request for the 1995 BMJ paper “Febrile seizures: an update” (PMID 7474248) was made via paperbot, prompting debate on proper placebo design in pediatric seizure studies and the relevance of cephalic-phase insulin release to artificial-sweetener controls.  
- Links to two Springer/BMJ papers on febrile-seizure management were successfully retrieved by paperbot, demonstrating continued use of the channel’s automated literature-fetching infrastructure.  
- kanzure advised cloning Codeship’s continuous-deployment service by re-implementing Travis-CI with libcloud/jclouds for elastic AWS node provisioning, noting that immutable infrastructure (destroy-and-replace EC2 instances) obviates the need for in-place restarts.  
- Unexpected user inquiries about python-brlcad (Python bindings for the open-source BRL-CAD solid-modeling suite) revealed growing adoption of the library, despite limited documentation beyond kanzure’s original code.