# Summary of #hplusroadmap IRC Log (Nov 1, 2013)

* kanzure recommended the science fiction novel "Neverness" by David Zindell, providing a link to the full text (http://heybryan.org/docs/Zindell,%20David%20-%20Neverness%20(v1.0).txt), which may be of interest to transhumanist readers.

* A discussion about Bloomberg's technology stack revealed they converted their higher-level application development to server-side JavaScript (using Spidermonkey) in 2005, reportedly running one of the largest server-side JS stacks in the world with approximately 20 million lines of code.

* nmz787 shared a link to an Indiegogo campaign for substance analysis kits (http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/substance-analysis-kits-down-with-adulterants) related to harm reduction and drug testing.

* A user shared a link to a Vice article about DIY cyborgs (http://www.vice.com/motherboard/diy-cyborg), which prompted a question about how the Circadia device featured in the article was bio-proofed for implantation.

* poppingtonic shared a paper from Science titled "Parameter Space Compression Underlies Emergent Theories and Predictive Models" which was retrieved by the channel's paperbot.

* kanzure shared a link to tmuxp (http://tmuxp.readthedocs.org/en/latest/), a Python interface to the tmux terminal multiplexer, which sparked a brief technical discussion about Python's ability to interact with system processes.