Comments on: Spare Cycles: Distributing Computing Among Machines and Minds http://tropophilia.com/2008/01/19/spare-cycles/ the love of change Fri, 29 Aug 2008 03:17:35 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: Do You See What I See? | Tropophilia http://tropophilia.com/2008/01/19/spare-cycles/#comment-955 Do You See What I See? | Tropophilia Tue, 29 Apr 2008 04:15:19 +0000 http://tropophilia.com/?p=61#comment-955 [...] this dilemma is giving humans an incentive to label images themselves (see my earlier post on human computation).  Luis Von Ahn, the brain behind Google Image Labeler (an addictive game that pairs users [...] [...] this dilemma is giving humans an incentive to label images themselves (see my earlier post on human computation).  Luis Von Ahn, the brain behind Google Image Labeler (an addictive game that pairs users [...]

]]> By: James http://tropophilia.com/2008/01/19/spare-cycles/#comment-118 James Tue, 22 Jan 2008 17:04:31 +0000 http://tropophilia.com/?p=61#comment-118 I participated in one of these projects when I had my old computer at school and left it on all the time. It's called "Folding@home" and is a computer model trying to figure out why some proteins fold incorrectly and end up causing various diseases. http://folding.stanford.edu/ I participated in one of these projects when I had my old computer at school and left it on all the time. It’s called “Folding@home” and is a computer model trying to figure out why some proteins fold incorrectly and end up causing various diseases.

http://folding.stanford.edu/

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