Anyway, I was bored and was looking at mathpuzzle.com when I came across something I thought was cool. If it turns out that it's not actually cool, I apologize, but here goes anyway:
So, the search for prime numbers has branched out into the realm of where SETI at Home has gone before. So if your computer rarely does anything, download the program and start crunching numbers.
As far as teams are concerned, I went ahead and started a new team, UMR, and it would be cool if you were to join that one. And if any of our team members discover a new and quite large prime number, team UMR gets recognition.
Okay, that's it. Have fun.
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Thanks to Swirls and cars8 and anyone else who has just signed up.
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I recently read an article about a program called avida that can simulate many aspects of evolution through numbers. Very interesting and free for download... http://dllab.caltech.edu/avida/
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Thanks to the thirteen or so we have so far. However, if we ever want to achieve awesomeness, we're going to have to take a hint from TeamPrimeRib, who apparently, with 723 members, wrote the handbook on pwnage.
_________________ "Clear? Huh! Why a four-year-old child could understand this report! ... Run out and find me a four-year-old child. I can't make head or tail out of it." - Rufus T. Firefly, Duck Soup
Thanks to the thirteen or so we have so far. However, if we ever want to achieve awesomeness, we're going to have to take a hint from TeamPrimeRib, who apparently, with 723 members, wrote the handbook on pwnage.
With the new IT policy, I'm sure this program will be labeled "Okay, but sitll bad for bandwidth usage."
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ben laden wrote:
How exactly does folding help find a cure for those diseases? And please explain what folding is, because I'm too lazy to look.
BSE (mad cow disease) and Alzheimer's Disease are part of a group of diseases caused by protein folding disorders.
If you remember back to biology, your body's DNA is nothing more than a code for a protein string that has some function in your body. The DNA is used to make RNA, which in turn helps put together proteins in the right order.
But having the right order is only half the key. In order to function, protein strings assemble themselves, or fold, into the shapes necessary to perform whatever function it is that they do. When they fold properly, things are well. But every once in a while, one will misfold, and when that happens, it doesn't work right. Once it's introduced to the body, that protein's replicated over and over, and before long so much of the defective protein exists that it causes problems with the body....in the form of Mad Cow Disease in cattle, or diseases like Alzheimer's in humans.
Folding@Home is a distributed computing project that attempts to figure out how protiens fold, and why they misfold. You can read all about it on their site at folding.stanford.edu, or go there to install their client.
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