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Post by Bratmon »

gnramires wrote: post #93
lloydatkinson wrote: post #35

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How many papers have been published as a result of this, and more pertinently, how many "real" things are now being made or used based on that? I'm hoping it's not all just perpetual "regrowing teeth" territory where nothing ever comes from it.

This is extremely far from any of my expertises, but I'll offer an answer while no one else did (please correct me!). Basically, all medicine (i.e. drugs) we have are proteins or certain compounds that fit within some of our cell's (or viruses) molecules and does funny stuff to them, like disabling certain parts, acting as a signal to regulate behavior, and so on. Doing funny stuff is basically about fitting into ano…

Wow, 333 words without even attempting to address the question. Have you considered a career in PR?

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Post by cloud-oak »

GuB-42 wrote: post #101
ragebol wrote: post #81

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Where can I buy a compute-for-heat home system? Edit: I have a heat pump, which is more efficient for heating of course

I remember some startups trying to install cryptominers in people homes, the idea was to use the electricity that would be spent heating the space anyways. The company would pay for the mining hardware while the customer would provide the electricity, and the profits would be shared. I don't know how it worked out, but the idea was there.

I know of this one [1], a 1000W space heater with integrated cryptominer. Looks kike you can actually buy it now. Not sure how much the mined crypto offsets the heating costs though.

[1] https://21energy.com/products/ofen-2

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Post by Brian_K_White »

catigula wrote: post #75
rtkwe wrote: post #69

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My dad did a similar thing with a bunch of computers at his store. It made way more sense back when processors didn't clock down efficiently so there was such a thing as 'wasted/excess clock cycles' you could donate to a distributed computing project. Now though processors shut off cores, reduce their clock speed etc so there's a lot less spare processing power you can siphon off without increasing power draw.

People were doing this as a donation, not because they perceived it to be free.

I am here to inform you that people were doing this for a variety of reasons, and one of those absolutely was because the cycles were free and going to waste.

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Post by HWR_14 »

Sohcahtoa82 wrote: post #104
ragebol wrote: post #87

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I do and have one actually. I have no idea if a kWh of compute could be worth more than eg. a kWh/(heat pump COP) though. Probably not...

My understanding is that for most residential heat pumps, the temperature needed to make the heat pump less efficient than resistive heating is so low that it enters a range that the pump doesn't even work anymore. However, that's only a measure of efficiency . It could still be that the throughput isn't enough. A 30 kW resistive heater can ALWAYS output 30 kW of heat. But my 7 kW heat pump could produce anywhere fro…

Does that mean the heat pump gets less efficient as the outside warms? Because that would be fine. 7kW to make you home a constant temperature seems wonderful.

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Post by Frotag »

jomohke wrote: post #17

It looks like folding@home is still going https://foldingathome.org/ I'm quite surprised these are still around as I hadn't seen them mentioned in so long. I always assumed the phase out of screensavers (and introduction of CPU low power modes) were terminal for them.

Some sites are using *@home as a cdn.

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Post by Perepiska »

nkrisc wrote: post #9

This was my screensaver for several years starting in maybe 2001. It felt really cool as a 12 year old to be contributing to the project in some small way. For a long time I would periodically check on the screen saver in case there would be some big message saying my computer found aliens or something. Never did though :)

Wow! My screensaver was some guy's project to invent running and walking creatures from leverages and wheels via genetic algorithms. I can't remember project name neither .edu domain connected to it.

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Post by nooflare »

_DeadFred_ wrote: post #115
scottLobster wrote: post #103

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Same here, you either move past it or go crazy, if the UFO subreddits are any indication. Given the population was already obsessed with blurry clumps of pixels in short video clips, AI is going to send a lot of those people into trailers in the desert with a lifetime supply of aluminum foil. And now that we have mass-produced hyper-maneuverable quad-copter drones, the whole "it moved backward in a way that no aircra…

My current UFO conspiracy brain is that the UAP makers want Greenland as their home, and the US wants to get the benefits of that. Because that would be less crazy to me than what it's really about.

This is probably the reason | except the UAP makers are now us

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Post by Blemiono »

rtkwe wrote: post #69
nkrisc wrote: post #9

This was my screensaver for several years starting in maybe 2001. It felt really cool as a 12 year old to be contributing to the project in some small way. For a long time I would periodically check on the screen saver in case there would be some big message saying my computer found aliens or something. Never did though :)

My dad did a similar thing with a bunch of computers at his store. It made way more sense back when processors didn't clock down efficiently so there was such a thing as 'wasted/excess clock cycles' you could donate to a distributed computing project. Now though processors shut off cores, reduce their clock speed etc so there's a lot less spare processing power you can siphon off without increasing power draw.

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Re: SETI@home is in hiberation

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Post by kelnos »

HWR_14 wrote: post #124
Sohcahtoa82 wrote: post #104

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My understanding is that for most residential heat pumps, the temperature needed to make the heat pump less efficient than resistive heating is so low that it enters a range that the pump doesn't even work anymore. However, that's only a measure of efficiency . It could still be that the throughput isn't enough. A 30 kW resistive heater can ALWAYS output 30 kW of heat. But my 7 kW heat pump could produce anywhere fro…

Does that mean the heat pump gets less efficient as the outside warms? Because that would be fine. 7kW to make you home a constant temperature seems wonderful.

No, they get less efficient as the outside gets colder.
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