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They discovered that the scientist had converted his living room into a monitoring station for extra-terrestrial life: Six powerful computers were running a pro
by dkarl 17y ago
They discovered that the scientist had converted his living room into a monitoring station for extra-terrestrial life: Six powerful computers were running a program that analyzed radio signals from outer space.
Not to make light of a tragic story, but I hope no police or news media ever have anything to say about my life.
- argv_empty 17y agoI'm inclined to believe it was just SETI@home. After all the other eccentricities they'd described, that seemed rather anticlimactic.
- astine 17y agoAnalyzing radio signals from outerspace? What else could it be but S@H? (I wonder if he had an F@H setup in his basement :))
- bitwize 17y agoDear Media, The A Beautiful Mind guy is real, and he has a name. It's John Nash. You should start using it more often as, movie or no movie, he's a remarkable guy in his own right.
- jcl 17y agoAgreed. SETI@home is exactly the sort of thing an engineer would run in the background on a cluster of computers. And a cluster of computers is exactly the sort of thing a guy would have if he were making millions through "investment algorithms". I suppose he wouldn't have been much better off if he ran Folding@home instead. The article would probably have said something like "Six powerful computers were found analyzing the inner workings of mad cow disease."
- Eliezer 17y agoIf the media ever report on your life, you will find that it's even worse than you think.