# Key Points from IRC Log

• A discussion about calculating Pi using continued fractions occurred, with links to implementations in Ruby and Python, including mention of Fabrice Bellard (QEMU creator) who set a Pi calculation record using home PC hardware.

• Kanzure shared progress on porting Nanoengineer (molecular modeling software) to different platforms, noting installation challenges on Linux and mentioning that pmetzger was working on porting it to OSX Mountain Lion.

• Open science resources were shared, including previously unpublished content from the Open Science Summit 2011, available at diyhpl.us/wiki/transcripts/open-science-summit-2011/.

• A DIY PCR (Polymerase Chain Reaction) project using Arduino was mentioned, showing continued interest in accessible biotechnology tools.

• A discussion about the Higgs boson discovery occurred, with participants clarifying that the "God Particle" nickname is misleading and explaining that the Higgs is evidence of a field that enables electroweak symmetry breaking.

• Steve Mann's alleged "cybernetic hate crime" incident at a French McDonald's was shared, prompting discussion about the social implications of wearable technology and augmentation.

• Various command-line tools for downloading YouTube videos were compared, including youtube-dl, cclive, and libquvi, with jrayhawk explaining the different ecosystems of video download modules.