# Summary of #hplusroadmap IRC Log (Oct 14, 2016)

* SENS Research Foundation shared updates on thymus engineering and research on death-resistant cells, with links to their ongoing work in reversing aging and financing anti-aging technologies.

* Several neural network and machine learning resources were shared, including "The Neural Network Zoo" visualization of different architectures, papers on variational autoencoders, and research on boosting algorithms as gradient descent.

* Intel announced plans to add deep-learning instructions to its processors, alongside discussions of research papers on efficient inference engines and binarized neural networks that constrain weights to +1 or -1.

* Open source FPGA development was highlighted through Stanford's AHA project, which aims to create a completely open source toolchain from HDL to place and route, along with Python-based alternatives to MyHDL like PyMTL and PyRTL.

* GPU-accelerated computing in browsers was discussed with links to Weblas (GPU-powered BLAS for browsers using WebGL pixel shaders) and WebCL (JavaScript binding to OpenCL for heterogeneous parallel computing).

* A White House report on "Preparing for the Future of AI" was shared, indicating government-level interest and planning around artificial intelligence technologies.

* Research on "Automatic chemical design using a data-driven continuous representation of molecules" was shared, demonstrating applications of machine learning to molecular design.