# Summary of IRC Conversation on February 7, 2017

• A discussion about finding time for personal projects revealed strategies including using nootropics, working on open-source projects, and "double-dipping" by finding employment that overlaps with personal research interests.

• Maaku described working on a smart contracting language for his fintech employer that shares 90% of requirements with the virtual machine for his AGI project, which is based on Goertzel's CogPrime architecture but with different algorithms and memory structures.

• There was a brief critique of OpenCog implementation as making "too many simplifying approximations from the CogPrime ideal" with "poor quality" code, though the underlying architectural concept was considered solid.

• A Microsoft/GE project was mentioned that uses drones to photograph power lines, with Azure IoT Suite performing visual analysis to identify damaged infrastructure, eliminating the need for human inspection.

• A legal question was raised about Fifth Amendment protections for medical prostheses, prompted by a case where pacemaker data was used in an arson investigation, with the observation that biometric data like fingerprints and DNA are not constitutionally protected.