# Summary of #hplusroadmap IRC Log (May 15, 2016)

• Discussion about a "synthetic human genome meeting" that was described as "secret," though one participant noted this secrecy may have been overstated and was possibly just to protect publication rights.

• kanzure proposed creating summaries of the entire #hplusroadmap logs (estimated at 50MB of text requiring approximately 800 hours of work) to make the content more accessible and to preserve speculative technology concepts discussed in the channel.

• maaku suggested that automatic summarization technology had progressed enough to be useful for this task, arguing it would be a better and more reusable allocation of resources than manual summarization.

• A debate emerged about whether automated summarization could effectively capture the nuanced content versus human-created wiki pages and prose summaries of the discussions.

• maaku shared information about a machine learning course being removed from YouTube due to litigation from a disabilities organization: https://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/4j7mh8/

• kanzure mentioned an interest in reading through "the entire set of all patents," suggesting an ongoing interest in comprehensive knowledge gathering beyond the IRC logs.