# Summary of #hplusroadmap IRC Log (August 18, 2016)

• Google research on speech recognition was shared, specifically a paper by Tara Sainath about using raw waveforms instead of mel spectrum features for speech processing: http://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.com/en//pubs/archive/43960.pdf

• A security warning was posted regarding GPG configuration, advising users to disable short IDs in their ~/.gnupg/gpg.conf file to prevent potential vulnerabilities.

• A "radically rewritten" bacterial genome was discussed, with a link to the full scientific paper in Science journal: http://science.sciencemag.org/content/sci/353/6301/819.full.pdf

• A conversation about self-experimentation with GDF-11 (a protein linked to aging research) occurred, with mentions of individuals who are self-dosing with laboratory chemicals and collecting data.

• A wiki update was shared regarding "mimblewimble" (a cryptocurrency protocol), with links to transcripts available at http://diyhpl.us/diyhpluswiki/transcripts/mimblewimble-podcast/

• One participant mentioned encountering a graduate student from a lab working on light-sensitive amino acids, suggesting potential interest in optogenetics or similar technologies.