# Summary of IRC Conversation on December 24, 2015

* A discussion about peer review highlighted significant problems in academic publishing, with evidence that 70% of journals accepted a deliberately flawed paper, and only 36 of 304 submissions generated reviews that recognized scientific problems (with links to studies in Science Magazine and Quillette).

* Participants debated whether reaching the age of 130 would be a significant milestone in longevity research, with some arguing it would be comparable to the Moon landing as a breakthrough moment since there appears to be a "wall" where supercentenarians die around age 120.

* A link to amateur science resources was shared (http://amasci.com/amateur/sciam1.html), containing archive links to Scientific American's "The Amateur Scientist" column.

* A participant shared a livestream of an Acomys cahirinus (spiny mouse) colony, which may be of interest to researchers studying regenerative biology.

* A blog post about laboratory explosions and accidents was shared, with subsequent discussion about the frequency of accidents in amateur labs versus academic settings.

* A user shared results of training a Deep Q Network built in TensorFlow to play Atari Pong after 25 hours of training, with a link to GitHub resources in the video description.