- OpenDrop V2, an open-source digital microfluidic bio-lab, was showcased in a YouTube video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysImtIpy7zY) demonstrating low-cost droplet-based biochemical experimentation.  
- A slide deck titled “Similarity, Attention and Memory in Semantic Sentence-Pair Scoring” (http://pasky.or.cz/dev/brmson/sts-intro.pdf) was shared, illustrating state-of-the-art NLP neural-network architectures including LSTMs, Bi-LSTMs, and CNNs.  
- Discussion highlighted the “Kaggle mentality” of ensembling 11 LSTMs, 7 Bi-LSTMs, and 10 CNNs with varied hyper-parameters to achieve top performance on sentence-similarity tasks.  
- A paper on growing half-meter-long carbon nanotubes via floating chemical-vapor deposition was linked (http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/nn401995z), noting that the Schulz–Flory distribution accurately models catalyst activity and nanotube length ratios.  
- Biohack.me issued a formal apology to the channel for past “lack of engineering integrity” and behavior surrounding biohacker Lepht, indicating a shift in community leadership after a meeting with the new forum owner.