- A UK firm is commercializing MRI-to-finite-element conversion; participants recommend the open-source FEniCS stack over COMSOL because it scales to GPU clusters and supports parallel Navier–Stokes solvers.  
- nmz787 intends to reproduce a Royal Society of Chemistry microfluidic resonator experiment (DOI: 10.1039/C4LC00576G) using FEniCS/UNICORN for high-resolution fluidic simulations.  
- delinquentme outlined a SQUID-based microfluidic flow-cytometry system aimed at non-invasive read/write neural interfacing across the spinal cord.  
- kanzure circulated two security briefings: NSA’s systematic weakening of encryption standards and a HITB talk detailing ECDSA signature-failure exploits on the Bitcoin blockchain.  
- A debate on git commit-signing questioned whether per-commit signatures dilute trust or are essential to prevent forged-author attacks.  
- paperbot was used to retrieve Nature Protocols and Nature papers via LibGen; participants noted that some public networks (e.g., Whole Foods Wi-Fi) block LibGen, prompting discussion of VPN/VPS circumvention.  
- fenn shared a Nautilus visualization showing human cognitive abilities cluster along a single principal axis, reinforcing the “positive manifold” theory in intelligence research.  
- Adapteva’s blog post on semiconductor economics was highlighted as a reality check for cost-sensitive open-hardware transhumanist projects.