- A new “Big Data Science in Medicine” conference at http://bdsmcongress.org/ was noted for its unfortunate acronym, prompting jokes about viral marketing.  
- nmz787_i is reverse-engineering proprietary 4000 × 4000-pixel pattern files from a 166 MHz Windows NT workstation that drives a Focused Ion Beam (FIB) system, aiming to convert the X, Y, dwell triplets into 3-D visualizations.  
- Modern FIB/SEM combo instruments were described: a gallium-wetted needle tip acts as the ion source while an SEM-type electron detector images the sample during sputtering.  
- A tooling debate contrasted browser-based JavaScript/WebGL visualizations (nmz787_i) with standalone binaries (kanzure) over accessibility versus dependency bloat.  
- heath introduced binglide (https://github.com/wapiflapi/binglide) and Cantor-Dust (https://sites.google.com/site/xxcantorxdustxx/) as open-source tools for interactive binary visualization and entropy analysis.  
- The channel’s paperbot delivered the Neuron paper “A Cortical Circuit for Gain Control by Behavioral State” (http://www.cell.com/neuron/pdf/S0896-6273(14)00686-2.pdf) and a global-temperature mortality study (PMID 25166878).  
- A DIY X-ray detector project is underway using a PIN photodiode instead of a Geiger tube, with two IEEE/Wiley papers retrieved for calibration guidance.  
- Purdue’s Network for Computational Nanotechnology (https://nanohub.org/dataviewer/view/nanobio:db/community_db_codes_engines/) was highlighted as a source of open simulation codes and tools.  
- Bitcoin–PGP convergence: secp256k1 has been merged into the GPG development branch (GitHub PR 4789), enabling ECDSA signatures tied to Bitcoin addresses for code signing.