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folding@home is still going I think?

seti@home was definetly a cool screensaver, though.[0]

[0]: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Eric-Korpela/publicatio...

Folding is still going strong, as is:

Wasn't protein folding solved by our AI overlords once? Demis Hassabis? Alpha Fold?

Not solved at all. Certainly AF is very useful but what it outputs is a fundamentally a prediction with important limitations. There’s plenty of utility in physical modeling.

The article links to BOINC. https://boinc.berkeley.edu/

This made me go back and find the S@H team I started in 1999:

https://setiathome.berkeley.edu/team_display.php?teamid=3346...

That was really interesting. Really wish we got a real deal of aliens in the next say ten years. The tictac thing as well as all those congress hearing got me excited.