- Octopus-paralarvae aquaculture failures may stem from poor hydrodynamics: an upwelling system that improves water-flow vectors and the addition of natural zooplankton (e.g., swimming-crab zoeae) dramatically boosts survival and growth, while tank color can interfere with prey detection.  
- Researchers question the dogma that live prey is required, suggesting exploration of dead zoeae, microalgae, or nutrient-rich media as simpler feed alternatives.  
- Nueva Pescanova Group’s proprietary paralarval diet, reportedly co-developed with UNAM, remains undocumented in the open literature, highlighting a knowledge gap for open-source replication.  
- NR2F1 gene knockout in mice prolongs neuronal-progenitor proliferation and expands the occipital neocortex, offering a potential lever for controlled cortical expansion and insights into human cortical-gyrification disorders (BBSOAS).  
- A search was initiated for a classic analogy that likens CPU throughput to millions of medieval peasants performing arithmetic by hand for years to equal a few seconds of modern computation.  
- Channel members weighed the practicality of using large language models to semantically index the #hplusroadmap IRC corpus (~80 k concept vectors), noting current open-source options are unsatisfactory and GPT-3’s API cost (~$0.10 per log-day) is prohibitive.  
- Elasticsearch integration was proposed as a near-term strategy for concept-level search of the channel’s historical discussions.  
- A brief survey of megastructures in science-fiction history was shared via Tor.com, framing long-term habitat and engineering visions relevant to transhumanist futures.