- A Phoronix review of the open-source “ZLUDA” project was shared, demonstrating how AMD Radeon GPUs can now run unmodified CUDA binaries—potentially widening access to GPU-accelerated AI and scientific workloads on non-NVIDIA hardware.  
- Discussion centered on a newly corrected Swedish centenarian study (https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11357-023-00996-y) that links extreme quintiles of routine blood markers—cholesterol, iron, glucose, uric acid, liver enzymes, and kidney function—to reduced odds of reaching age 100.  
- Participants questioned the study’s reliance on “total cholesterol,” noting that modern NMR spectroscopy or sub-fraction analyses (HDL, LDL subtypes, Lp(a), apoB) are needed for meaningful lipid-related longevity insights.  
- It was suggested that elevated glucose in non-survivors might reflect sarcopenia-driven loss of muscle-mediated glucose disposal rather than simple metabolic dysfunction.  
- The conversation underscored a broader critique: longevity research that stops at coarse clinical chemistry panels risks the “streetlight effect,” missing deeper mechanistic or biomolecular explanations.