Re: Extropy.org and Folding@Home

From: Lee Daniel Crocker (lee@piclab.com)
Date: Tue May 27 2003 - 18:14:14 MDT

  • Next message: Lee Corbin: "Meaning of "liberal""

    > (Robert J. Bradbury <bradbury@aeiveos.com>):
    >
    > Make a contribution to defeating entropy -- devote your
    > spare computing cycles to a project like Folding@Home.
    > (I'm partial to F@H because it helps biologists understand
    > protein folding which is one of the hardest problems to
    > solve in biology [and solving it may help to develop better
    > drugs and extend the human healthspan].)

    Not to mention that it's one of the few (if not the only) DP
    projects that has actually published results in a legitimate
    scientific journal (although GIMPS certainly can take credit
    for producing real real results as well, even though they are
    a bit more abstract in application). It's certainly a whole
    bunch more useful than SETI, and can be run by those of us no
    longer fueling the Microsoft gravy train.

    -- 
    Lee Daniel Crocker <lee@piclab.com> <http://www.piclab.com/lee/>
    "All inventions or works of authorship original to me, herein and past,
    are placed irrevocably in the public domain, and may be used or modified
    for any purpose, without permission, attribution, or notification."--LDC
    


    This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.5 : Tue May 27 2003 - 18:28:20 MDT