- A member shared a photo of a small excavator they own and described letting their nearly four-year-old child operate it, framing the moment as early exposure to heavy machinery and a continuation of a family tradition.  
- Discussion turned to practical access to robotics hardware: one participant asked whether universities or other organizations rent out collaborative robots (“cobots”) for reinforcement-learning experiments, and noted that Universal Robots offers a lease program.  
- Bryan Bishop committed fresh transcripts of the Austin Bitcoin Developers’ Socratic Seminars (sessions 25 and 26, dated 17 Feb and 17 Mar 2022) to the diyhpluswiki, expanding the open archive of technical discussions on Bitcoin and related systems.  
- A link to the arXiv paper “AutoML-Zero: Evolving Machine Learning Algorithms From Scratch” (2003.03384) was dropped into the channel, highlighting interest in automated discovery of ML algorithms via evolutionary search.