Posted on 01/02/2006 9:53:26 AM PST by systematic
New thread for this week.
Congrats to all new members who joined this week!
We've made excellent progress so far and have smoked the DUmmies and Kossacks. Let's keep folding!
"You seem to have a desire to purposely not understand what we're doing and what the program is for. "
Do please explain this ...
To: papasmurf
I guess I could understand where they were coming from if this was a distributed computer project to study why male > female transexuals become lesbians, but it's not.
349 posted on 01/03/2006 2:16:38 AM EST by VeniVidiVici
The final word is that:
1. This program simulates the folding of proteins. It does not look at your information. It does not download or upload anything other than work units and completed work units.
2. This program is no more invasive than SETI, and goes towards a lot more worthy goal.
3. Stanford may be able to afford some supercomputers--but they cannot afford a million CPUs. That's how big this project is. As it explains on their website, folding a single protein in its entirety would take 30 years.
This is not about liberals at Stanford. This is not about DUmmies or Kossacks. (More competition means that more research gets done.) This is about Alzheimer's and Mad Cow and such. I ran SETI for a total of 3 days before deciding that my CPU wasn't doing anything worthwhile. I'm very happy to lend my help in this case.
I apologize if we're a bit testy right now--but if you have any further questions, I'll be happy to answer them in full.
He was saying that he could understand your hesistance if it were going to a clearly liberal project (like studying transgenderism, which was the example he used) but it's not.
There's nothing liberal about studying mutant proteins, and frankly, mutant proteins are one of the biggest & least-understood threats to our health and safety (Alzheimer's, Mad Cow)
Dang it, Seamoth, you took the words right out of my mouth!
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Thank you! Guess one just has to be literal with some people.
To be honest .. I've seen this thread earlier because I was pinged to it and frankly, I didn't get it and it smelled funny to me
Then add in Klutz Dohanger recent comments and well my radar went up
I can understand your antipathy against most of the liberal arts majors, but SCIENCE?
There isn't too much that's political about helping a program, that's designed to speed up research into mutant proteins. Even Nancy Reagan, bless her heart, goes against the grain, when she supports stem cell research.
My point is, don't be so quick to condemn something, until you're done your research. It's obvious that you haven't even read ANY of the documentation on this program, and it shows.
Do you mean when he implied that the owner of this site was stupid?
That caught my eye too.
What comments? That I suggested that there was some prejudice against institutions of higher learning? If so, I stand by those. To dismiss a very well documented, universally accepted research program, as being some subversive, intrusive, progrom by a bunch of liberals is just flat out nonsense.
If I could be polite, and ask, who "pinged" you to this thread, and what was their reason for doing so?
This thread has left me... unimpressed. I don't think the Freeper SETI team ever asked for official endorsement. I certainly don’t care what they think about anything. I will continue to contribute to this project as I contributed to SETI and dnetc RC5-64 before under different teams.
I understand exactly what is going on here, Stanford is borrowing "unused" CPU usage. Lots of caveats there though.
I've read it and I understand much more than you think. Don't condescend to me again.
I pinged the mods early on to ask they could provide Malsua an explanation of why this was taken out of "Technical".
Yea .. that and the Grumpy Old Conservatives and old "fuddy duddy" comments
What does it matter who pinged me
and I'm guessing the reason why I was ping was to get me to sign up????
Jim Robinson replied several times on this thread. If that's not good enough for you, here's a reply from the moderators:
What Jim said.
I don't see a ping to you, personally. The only ping I'm aware of was my own ping to the Admin Moderator, which was a request about why this was taken out of Technical.
I didn't say you pinged me to this thread
I am not seeking one anymore. That ping was before JR made a decision.
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