- Greg Fahy’s GDF11 lab results were requested; kanzure confirmed they exist but are “somewhere” in the archives.  
- A curated collection of speech-recognition papers was praised as “high quality,” with participants still surprised by some of the findings.  
- Chris_99 highlighted the paper “SPEECH ACOUSTIC MODELING FROM RAW MULTICHANNEL WAVEFORMS,” which uses a CNN to process raw waveforms without preprocessing.  
- GPU hardware discussion: pasky recommended any recent NVIDIA card (GTX 1060, 980, K40) prioritizing CUDA version and RAM; maaku suggested GTX 1080 or 980 Ti for local builds, while Knights Landing Xeon Phi was noted as available via Intel contacts but would require library rewrites.  
- Consensus emerged that a single 4-GPU server (e.g., 4× GTX 1080/980 Ti) would be a useful shared resource for the channel’s ML experiments.  
- Sci-Hub accessibility was confirmed at sci-hub.cc, .io, and .biz; maaku suspected ISP-level filtering when initial access failed.  
- DIYHPL.us wiki updates: transcripts of Jihan Wu’s July 2016 Bitcoin miners & developers meeting were committed to the repository.