In my earlier
Posting #3 in this Topic, I mused:
It wasn't just that I was seeing data new to me. It was that the web was allowing me to jump out of the system in a totally unexpected, recursive, self-referential way. Here was the WWW: a medium so powerful that it could show me my own whole wide world -- at a click. How long would it be before I could jump into virtual subatomic or genomic space with the same ease?
Well, check out the following three new-to-me adventures in distributed world-wide supercomputing:
Reminiscent of
SETI@Home? Intentional I'm sure, but at the other end of the size scale. But is it the other end of the
complexity scale? Hmmm...
(Speaking of epiphanies: While we're busily folding a protein or nucleotide, what happens if we "wrap around" to a buncha Little Green Men (LGMs) broadcasting pi in binary from the Andromeda Galaxy?) (-: OBTW that "wrapping" pun was intentional :-)
Anyone for a TBTF/QT Team on one of these Fantastic Voyages? I've only just looked at the new microcosmic front Pp, and it's been over a year since I tried SETI@Home, so I don't know which is the most potentially useful, beautiful or fun. Plus, I hate to admit it, but there's no realistic chance of finding any LGMs if we go micro... If anyone wanted to team up, I'd guess that we'd need to make some sort of collective decision as to which client to use, to max the bang-for-the-cycle... Perhaps a branched topic is in order so that Wiser Heads (i.e., the Hive-Mind we can convene in a new Quick Topic) can do a mind-meld :-) ...
OBTW the reason I've labeled this Topic
PUBLIC is that Keith Dawson "outed" it [with my permission] in last week's TBTF Log, so that all his email subscribers (and forward-ees) might be dropping in for a looksee here, and they might be traversing the linx they can find herein.
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