# Summary of IRC Log - October 20, 2016

• A discussion about bookmark management tools took place, with kanzure mentioning jotmuch (https://github.com/davidlazar/jotmuch) as their preferred tool, in response to maaku asking about Buku.

• A link to information about Distributed Practice was shared (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed_Practice), which is a learning technique involving spacing out study sessions over time.

• kanzure shared information about prediction markets for scientific questions, noting that SciCast's assessments were 85% more accurate than uninformed prediction models, as reported in Nature (http://www.nature.com/news/the-power-of-prediction-markets-1.20820).

• A comprehensive resource called "The Neural Network Zoo" was shared (http://www.asimovinstitute.org/neural-network-zoo/#), which catalogs and explains different types of neural network architectures.

• A new implementation of Mimblewimble (a blockchain protocol) was announced, with a link to the GitHub repository (https://github.com/ignopeverell/grin).

• A video by Isaac Arthur on the Kardashev Scale (a method of measuring a civilization's technological advancement) was shared.

• A serious Linux kernel vulnerability (CVE-2016-5195) was discussed, allowing local attackers to overwrite files they shouldn't have write access to (https://lwn.net/Articles/704078/).

• A resource for deep learning research was shared: "Deep-Learning-Papers-Reading-Roadmap" (https://github.com/songrotek/Deep-Learning-Papers-Reading-Roadmap), which provides a structured approach to studying deep learning literature.