• Large-scale Nordic registry studies (Keloharju et al. 2011-2012, Grinblatt et al. 2012) were highlighted as rare empirical evidence that higher IQ scores—drawn from Finland’s universal male conscription database—predict superior real-world financial performance and CEO selection, fueling debate over whether IQ/g-factor remains a useful construct despite its weak neurological grounding.

• Channel members cited hospital data indicating ~50 % error rates in IV medication administration and double-digit serious-error rates, attributing the failures to under-qualified staff and perverse for-profit healthcare incentives.

• A proposed low-latency hand-tracking architecture was outlined that combines multiple accelerometers, force sensors, and wrist/arm motion detectors to achieve <20 ms end-to-end latency for high-DOF input, improving on the 40–60 ms latency demonstrated by the “Gest” Kickstarter.

• Reverse-engineering notes on CryptoWall 3.0 ransomware were shared from a Reddit netsec thread, offering a technical snapshot of contemporary malware analysis techniques.

• Google’s 2014 image-captioning system was described as a pair of co-trained RNNs—one for visual analysis, one for language generation—producing sentences like “Two pizzas sitting on top of a stove top oven” to enable accessibility and low-bandwidth image search.

• A 2015 genomics paper (PMC3953855) reporting no measurable association between the aggregate load of rare, non-synonymous exome variants and childhood or late-life cognitive ability was used to question genetic-determinist views of intelligence.

• Participants proposed “Agency” (goal-directed capability) as a more predictive metric than raw g-factor, noting that a 2006 Perl program can already generate and solve Raven-style IQ items.

• Research on subvocalization and sleep communication was discussed, including a 1986 study showing phasic EMG bursts in speech muscles during REM/Stage-2 sleep correlate with recalled dream speech, and the open question of combining EMG throat sensors with ASL gesture capture for nocturnal communication logging.