# Key Points from IRC Log (August 15, 2011)

• A PDF document on "dermal circuitry" was shared for discussion, with questions about watermark removal techniques for academic sharing.

• Several crowdfunding platforms for scientific research were discussed, including FundScience.org, which had supported an optogenetics design project that notably used 3D printing as a major cost component.

• Open-source initiatives were highlighted, including opensource-solar.org and discussions about tracking various OpenSCAD derivatives (pyopenscad, openscadpy, openscad.py, cadmium).

• Multiple AI and programming resources were shared, including ai4r.rubyforge.org (a Ruby library for AI) and free Stanford online courses on databases (db-class.org) and machine learning (ml-class.org).

• Google's acquisition of Motorola Mobility (but not Motorola Solutions) was discussed, noting that Motorola Mobility had approximately 20,000 employees, similar to Google's size at that time.

• A programming language comparison resource (hyperpolyglot.org/scripting) was shared during a discussion about languages used in bioinformatics, with Python being identified as the predominant language in the field.