# Key Points from IRC Log

• A study published in Nature Neuroscience about post-study caffeine administration enhancing memory consolidation was criticized as being obvious research that shouldn't warrant publication in such a prestigious journal.

• A link was shared to "Meditations on Moloch" on SlateStarCodex, which discusses multipolar traps where competition for one value leads to sacrificing other values, resulting in everyone being worse off despite maintaining relative status.

• Archels discussed research into putting numerical ODE (Ordinary Differential Equation) solvers directly into silicon, noting that a Xilinx FPGA running at 300 MHz achieved 25 GFLOPS in 2009 compared to 2.5 GFLOPS for an AMD64 implementation.

• Overstock.com was reported to be using Counterparty (a cryptocurrency platform) for stock trading, raising questions about the value of distributed consensus for stocks when companies must still be trusted to pay dividends.

• Samsung introduced a reference design for a fitness bracelet, indicating continued corporate interest in wearable health tracking technology.

• Several discussions centered on software design flaws, including Android's limitations (inability to share WiFi over Bluetooth, flashlight functionality being disabled at low battery levels), and service management systems like Solaris SMF versus systemd.

• Security issues were noted with Plover (a stenography program) storing all keystrokes in a world-readable log file, creating potential privacy vulnerabilities.