HI POODS,
I'm a 28-year old bioinformatician (biology + computer science) and a big fan of your youtube channel.
Your videos are so much fun and make my days lighter. Thank you!
Lately I've realized that it would be totally awesome if you played foldit.
Foldit is a pc game that actually lets the gamer help science to fight cancer, cure diseases like HIV and solve other difficult problems.
The idea is to use crowd-sourcing (the gamers), be them biologists with a PhD or 6-year old kids, to fold proteins.
[ No prior knowledge in biology is required. ]
This game solves a problem that perhaps only quantum computers will be able to solve in the future.
How? By using the average gamer's puzzle-solving skills that computers don't quite possess.
While the computer can brute-force search for the best solution, it would take forever.
The gamer, however, usually knows how to eliminate possibilities that are irrelevant in the first place, thus minimizing the "search landscape".
I'm really excited by the possibility of you playing it and drawing many gamers to foldit.
Stay awesome.
BROFIST
A short introduction video:
For more information:
The Science Behind Foldit | Foldit
For more games that help science:
How online gamers are solving science's biggest problems | Technology | The Guardian
Some pics:
scientificamerican.com/article/foldit-gamers-solve-riddle/
Disclaimer: I don't work and never have worked for foldit. I'm unemployed at the moment.
I'm a 28-year old bioinformatician (biology + computer science) and a big fan of your youtube channel.
Your videos are so much fun and make my days lighter. Thank you!
Lately I've realized that it would be totally awesome if you played foldit.
Foldit is a pc game that actually lets the gamer help science to fight cancer, cure diseases like HIV and solve other difficult problems.
The idea is to use crowd-sourcing (the gamers), be them biologists with a PhD or 6-year old kids, to fold proteins.
[ No prior knowledge in biology is required. ]
This game solves a problem that perhaps only quantum computers will be able to solve in the future.
How? By using the average gamer's puzzle-solving skills that computers don't quite possess.
While the computer can brute-force search for the best solution, it would take forever.
The gamer, however, usually knows how to eliminate possibilities that are irrelevant in the first place, thus minimizing the "search landscape".
I'm really excited by the possibility of you playing it and drawing many gamers to foldit.
Stay awesome.
BROFIST
A short introduction video:
For more information:
The Science Behind Foldit | Foldit
For more games that help science:
How online gamers are solving science's biggest problems | Technology | The Guardian
Some pics:
scientificamerican.com/article/foldit-gamers-solve-riddle/
Disclaimer: I don't work and never have worked for foldit. I'm unemployed at the moment.