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General discussionGamification and crowd stuff FOR SCIENCE!(21 posts)(21 posts)
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Posted April 16, 2016
Nice game! Maybe i can hack it so i can steal some CPU cycles from other users... I need them for Witcher 3 muahahaha! :P
Posted April 16, 2016
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Tarm: Well.
Wouldn't just informing people and really TRYING to do it from the ones in charge of our societies pretty much solve this?
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Cavalary: Just informing, not really. Really trying at the top, yes, but that's not happening. So if you can do a little something, you do it because it sure beats doing nothing.
I didn't get that. Sorry.
Posted April 16, 2016
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Cavalary: Just informing, not really. Really trying at the top, yes, but that's not happening. So if you can do a little something, you do it because it sure beats doing nothing.
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Tarm: I didn't get that. Sorry.
Thought you meant that informing people about the need to solve certain major problems that such projects tackle and making the powers that be focus resources on them would actually solve them so there'd be no need for such crowd[stuff] efforts. And I said just informing doesn't do that much and the powers that be aren't doing it, so if you can do a little something, be it just letting your computer crunch data for such a project or going past that and to chipping in to something or a tiny bit of volunteering or whatever, it may be a really tiny contribution in itself and the project itself may just be a small part of what'd need to happen to truly solve a problem, but it sure beats nothing, so should be done if possible.
Posted April 16, 2016
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Wishbone: You're thinking of Folding@Home, which was about folding proteins. That wasn't a game though. It was just a process that used your computer's spare CPU cycles for scientific calculations. A similar, even earlier project was SETI@Home, which used the same method to analyze fragments of signals from space.
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IronStar: There is a game too.
I stand corrected ;-)
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Wishbone: You're thinking of Folding@Home, which was about folding proteins. That wasn't a game though. It was just a process that used your computer's spare CPU cycles for scientific calculations. A similar, even earlier project was SETI@Home, which used the same method to analyze fragments of signals from space.
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Cavalary: Don't use past tense though. Folding@home is over here, SETI@home over here and they just recently started distributing data from the Breakthrough Listen initiative along with the usual stuff from Arecibo, and over here you can find a list of other projects using BOINC.
Right. I know they still exist. The past tense was meant to indicate that they are older initiatives of the same kind. But you're right, I did make it sound like they were shut down, which is not the case.
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Posted April 16, 2016
That's a really nice idea, and it's a win-win if they can make the game interesting enough - you got the necessary data for you science project, get funds, deliver fun and education in a sort - who knows it might spark the interest in science in the next Einstein.
Posted April 16, 2016
This is like folding, yes?
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