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I used to run this on my computer in the early 2000s. I wish we had a similar project nowadays.
by markus_zhang 10mo ago
I used to run this on my computer in the early 2000s. I wish we had a similar project nowadays.
- serf 10mo agofolding@home is still going I think? seti@home was definetly a cool screensaver, though.[0] [0]: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Eric-Korpela/publication/3422381/figure/fig2/AS:394692438052873@1471113418702/A-screenshot-of-the-SETIhome-client-program-The-bottom-half-of-the-screen-presents-the.png https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Eric-Korpela/publicatio...
- hkt 10mo agoFolding is still going strong, as is: https://worldcommunitygrid.org/ https://worldcommunitygrid.org/
- sam_lowry_ 10mo agoWasn't protein folding solved by our AI overlords once? Demis Hassabis? Alpha Fold?
- jryb 10mo agoNot solved at all. Certainly AF is very useful but what it outputs is a fundamentally a prediction with important limitations. There’s plenty of utility in physical modeling.
- cheschire 10mo agoThe article links to BOINC. https://boinc.berkeley.edu/ https://boinc.berkeley.edu/
- qingcharles 10mo agoThis made me go back and find the S@H team I started in 1999: https://setiathome.berkeley.edu/team_display.php?teamid=33462 https://setiathome.berkeley.edu/team_display.php?teamid=3346...
- markus_zhang 10mo agoThat was really interesting. Really wish we got a real deal of aliens in the next say ten years. The tictac thing as well as all those congress hearing got me excited.