# Key Points from #hplusroadmap IRC Discussion

• Participants discussed text analysis heuristics suggesting that the most meaningful phrases in a corpus tend to be closest to mean frequency, which has applications for Markov chain bots and natural language processing.

• The DIY biotechnology community was actively discussing strategies for engaging with policy discussions, including a proposed write-in campaign to bioethics.gov to ensure community representation in the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues.

• Technical challenges with the Emotiv EPOC EEG headset were explored, particularly its AES encryption, with suggestions to either extract the decryption key from executable files, modify the hardware, or consider alternatives like OpenEEG.

• The conversation referenced Singularity University's GSP10 program resources, including presentations on neurotechnology, medical informatics, DNA origami, directed evolution, and digital biology as important educational materials.

• Participants debated information consumption strategies in scientific fields, with some advocating for broad consumption while others emphasized the necessity of filtering through hundreds of papers weekly to identify relevant content.

• The "10,000 hours to expertise" concept popularized by Malcolm Gladwell was discussed as a framework for understanding skill development in technical and scientific domains.

• The group highlighted community resources including BioCurious (a biohacking space), the Open Science Summit, and various DIY bio Google groups as important infrastructure for the transhumanist and biohacking communities.