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I've taken the liberty of setting up an official folding@home team for Soylent News. In case you aren't familiar with folding@home, it's a distributed computing project that simulates protein folding in an attempt to better understand diseases such as Alzheimer's and Huntington's.
There is more information on the project here, which explains it much better than I could.
Clients are available for Linux, OSX, and even Windows (if you swing that way), so come join our botnet!
That Other Site's team is ranked at 1817, so we've got some catching up to do.
On a personal note, my Dad carries the gene markers for Huntington's disease, and will eventually succumb to it. Research like this is very helpful for understanding, and hopefully developing treatments for it.
tl;dr Our Soylent News team ID is 230319
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 12 2016, @08:03PM
Ah yes... The early days of seti@home when we overclocked our single core processor and set ice cube trays next to the ventilation holes on the computer case. And ran it on a ramdrive to save wear and tear on the hard drive.
(Score: 2) by mhajicek on Saturday February 13 2016, @05:34AM
Yeah, I figure if I wait another decade and then run it for ten minutes it will make up for my not running it this year.
The spacelike surfaces of time foliations can have a cusp at the surface of discontinuity. - P. Hajicek
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 13 2016, @07:57AM
It's like buying a new computer, it's always a bad time to do it...