- kanzure shared a link to a tutorial on using Amazon CloudDrive with EncFS and rsync for encrypted, incremental backups (https://alpha-labs.net/2016/09/amazon-clouddrive-encfs-rsync/).  
- Discussion of an ongoing “automatic transcripts” project: kanzure is building a language model and is dissatisfied with CTC loss scoring, which penalizes semantically correct but lexically different transcriptions.  
- jcorgan suggested that the CTC loss issue might be an overfitting problem and recommended lowering the learning-rate parameter before gradient application.  
- kanzure proposed an alternative evaluation strategy: accept any transcription that is “similar” to a set of valid reference transcriptions instead of enforcing a single canonical output.  
- chris_99 asked the channel for recommendations of curated biographies of scientists, noting that Amazon’s lists are inadequate.