# Key Points from IRC Log (October 18, 2016)

• Detailed composition information about various Vitreloy metallic glass alloys was shared, including Vit1b-X, Vit105, and Vit106a, with specific weight percentages of elements like titanium, copper, nickel, and zirconium, along with pricing information indicating bulk material costs of approximately $1000/kg.

• An acoustic beamforming tool called BeamformIt was discussed (https://github.com/xanguera/BeamformIt), which processes multi-channel audio input to separate speaker segments without requiring information about microphone topology or locations.

• Microsoft announced achieving human parity in conversational speech recognition with their CNTK (Computational Network Toolkit), as documented in a paper shared via arXiv (https://arxiv.org/abs/1610.05256).

• A network protocol called Verse 2.0 was mentioned, designed for real-time sharing of 3D data primarily for collaborative virtual reality applications and potentially useful for sharing data between applications like Blender.

• Mozilla's initiative to phase out SHA-1 on the public web was discussed, with implications for security protocols and certificate validation across the internet.

• A static analysis tool for shell scripts called ShellCheck was shared (https://github.com/koalaman/shellcheck), useful for identifying problems in shell scripts.