# Summary of IRC Conversation (April 17, 2016)

* Samsung is developing electrical vestibular stimulation headphones, as shared in a YouTube video link, representing an advancement in vestibular stimulation technology for consumer applications.

* A computational scientific discovery resource was shared (isle.org/~langley/discovery.html), focusing on methods for automating scientific discovery processes.

* The Stopping and Range of Electrons in Matter (SREM) program was highlighted as a valuable tool for modeling electron interactions with materials (srim.org/SREM.htm).

* A user noted that SL4.org (a transhumanist/AI safety discussion site) had implemented a privacy policy, with a link to the policy document hosted by the Machine Intelligence Research Institute.

* There was a brief discussion about the merits of paperbot (a scientific paper sharing bot) versus Sci-Hub, with the clarification that paperbot had been using Sci-Hub as its backend and offered the additional benefit of seeing what papers others were reading.

* A user raised the issue of software portability, quoting a humorous but cynical comment about the difficulty of getting developers to write more portable code.