FOLD-IT!

[surreal]

I was listening to the radio today and they were talking about this new game..

fold-it

You got it, it is people working on the proteins not the computer.

Ck it out, it may be fun. They were talking about the people doing it and how it is so much more productive for people to do the folding than a computer (think spacial concepts I think) that and we can see when something will or might fit together and a computer cannot. The computer is like working blindfolded, and just banging the part together at random until something fits.

I'm going over to check out the site once I get my homework done for today.

[nunyadam]

couldn't get into the game. just not my thing.

[surreal]

I CAn certainly understand that I can't stand most games,
but I played that one for 3 hours today, I'm almost topped out.

[butch81385]

Downloaded it and started thought the early stuff... Don't know how much I will get into it, but I set up a TechIMO group on the site. Click on Groups and search TechIMO.

[surreal]

Yes, I've done about 13 of them and it started pissing me off! LOL

Will she make it to 15?

I doubt it

[Aotearoa]

It's now scientifically prooven that folding protein, Humans trained/playing using the fold.it interface is as effective as what automated computer servers can do in predicting the structures of proteins, Thus no longer speculation to how well or if's, ands or buts about it's usefulness in the scientific world.

You yourself after a short time can offer something proactive to solving some of the worlds/societies most complicated puzzles, rather than waste time playing a "game" that does not provide the same "rewards" as folding protein does this way.

I have been playing Fold.it for over 8 months, almost every day, competing against people from all around the world, trying to find a solution that may just one day, save a life, perhaps two or maybe millions, that thought alone can drive someone like me to being something/someone they cannot normally be because of the perceptions of people in our society.

This is the Greatest Game in the world, without a doubt.

If you haven't tried it yet and are sick of your normal solveable puzzles/riddles in your newspapers and magazines, Sign Up, log on and try and compete against me or those of us who have dedicated ourselves to making the world a better place... playing games.

Renton Innes - aka "Aotearoa "
Auckland, New Zealand.
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