Pointless Anecdotes: In the top 6%

2007-12-17

With the Intel Mac I've gone over to marking only every 10000 points, otherwise every second posting would be a new certificate.

thnidu said...: But what is it???; 20:32
kai said...: Folding@Home, one of these distributed computing efforts. All my computers run a lowest-priority background process which does molecular dynamics simulations of protein folding and sends the results back to Stanford, where they generate insight and papers. Currently some 250000 computers around the world contribute CPU time to the effort. The certificate shows that I've contributed 51000+ computation units to the project and the proud title exclaims that that means I am in the top 6% of CPU time contributors, which in other words means I have computers with a lot more power than is needed for just doing word processing, databases and web surfing. :-); 21:14
thnidu said...: Ah ha. I figured it was something of the kind. I used to run SETI@home.; 17:55

Recently read

Ministry of Space W Ellis, C Weston, L Martin & M Heisler. The world is more connected than this.
Bombers in Service—Patrol and Transport Aircraft since 1960 K Munson. For my nostalgia shelf.
French Poilu 1914–18. I Sumner, ill G Rava. Rather too short to cover the entire war.
First World War and Army of Occupation War Diary France Belgium and Germany: 24 DIVISION 72 Infantry Brigade, Brigade Trench Mortar Battery February 1918–31 January 1919 (First World War, War Diary, WO95/2215/3) Exactly what it says on the tin, though the label is quite large.
Making Sense of Haptics: Fundamentals of Perception and Implications for Device Design F E van Beek. This is the work of a recently graduated PhD student. Good work, too.
Sonification Design: From Data to Intelligible Soundfields D Worrall. I thought this was the work of an eager and recently graduated PhD, not a well-established professor.

Places I keep track of

IPMS Stockholm One of the best plastic modelling forums you'll find.
Hyperscale More modelling stuff.
Occasional kvetch Thnidu is a linguist and an old friend.
Another CyborgManifesto Small and large, always with alarming skill.
Aardvarchaeology What kind of archaeologist doesn't have a whip or even a fedora?
Arkland Archaeology and random bits.
Pharyngula Biology, politics and atheism. And eight-legged animals.
Something positive Magical realism in a very cynical way.
Chicken Wings It's about birds…that fly…
xkcd Don't miss the mouse-overs.

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