- Face2Face (CVPR 2016) and FaceRig demos were shared, showing real-time facial reenactment and avatar-driven video calls that can impersonate public figures like Elon Musk on Zoom and Omegle.  
- A link to the paper “An opportunity cost model of subjective effort and task performance” (PMC3856320) was circulated, proposing a cognitive framework for why mental tasks feel effortful and how perceived cost influences performance.  
- Discussion of speculative-execution side-channel attacks continued with the disclosure of new SGX-based exploits documented at https://sgaxe.com/, highlighting ongoing hardware-security concerns.  
- Participants debated browser architecture trade-offs: Chrome’s multi-process model for security isolation versus the resulting memory bloat and lingering background processes after tabs are closed.  
- The “tab overload” phenomenon—hundreds to thousands of open tabs—was framed as a personal knowledge-management problem, with comparisons to inbox-zero strategies and critiques of digital minimalism when storage is abundant.  
- Modern GPU computational power was remarked on as “mind-blowing,” underscoring the hardware backdrop for current AI and graphics research.