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Anybody with a good PC (or even a shitty one), join my Folding@Home team and help cure a variety of diseases

February 21, 2022
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Folding@Home is software that uses your PC's processing power to fold proteins related to various diseases, which helps to create new ways of treating those diseases. You can let it choose any diseases on its own, or pick a specific focus you care about (covid, alzheimer's, cancer, huntington's, and a few others).

Join Juggalos@Home

The number at the end of that URL (which is the team's home page) is the Team Number you add when you sign up/run the software.

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February 22, 2022
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Stalkz said
Folding@Home is software that uses your PC's processing power to fold proteins related to various diseases, which helps to create new ways of treating those diseases. You can let it choose any diseases on its own, or pick a specific focus you care about (covid, alzheimer's, cancer, huntington's, and a few others).

Join Juggalos@Home

The number at the end of that URL (which is the team's home page) is the Team Number you add when you sign up/run the software.

Neat. I did something similar with astronomical data. I participated in a "crowd-processing" pool for that. I think it was a joint Nasa-MIT project. I only participated for like a week and I have no clue if my computer's processing "found" anything in the data.

Since the one you are using has a linux 64bit version (along with PC and Mac), this is something that can be setup on a Raspberry Pi4 (I think 4 is when they went 64bit) and just have it run on a shelf somewhere. Won't have a lot of processing power, but it will contribute.

PS...

And (not trying to be political) but THIS is the way to combat viruses. It's about finding ways that destroy the virus's ability to do anything. It doesn't "fool" the body into immuno-responses. This is about creating CURES for viruses, not periodic vaccines, not therapeutics, but CURES.

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February 22, 2022
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Psyral Infection said
...PS...

And (not trying to be political) but THIS is the way to combat viruses. It's about finding ways that destroy the virus's ability to do anything. It doesn't "fool" the body into immuno-responses. This is about creating CURES for viruses, not periodic vaccines, not therapeutics, but CURES.

Hilarious that genuine applied scientific inquiry comes with that disclaimer these days.

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February 22, 2022
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Psyral Infection said
PS...

And (not trying to be political) but THIS is the way to combat viruses. It's about finding ways that destroy the virus's ability to do anything. It doesn't "fool" the body into immuno-responses. This is about creating CURES for viruses, not periodic vaccines, not therapeutics, but CURES.

I appreciate your fervor, but its wiki description is literally as follows;

Folding@home (FAH or F@h) is a distributed computing project aimed to help scientists develop new therapeutics for a variety of diseases by the means of simulating protein dynamics

But I think we're splitting hairs between therauptics and cures really

Running it in a Pi is a really good idea, I might do that too 🤘

February 23, 2022
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Stalkz said
Folding@Home is software that uses your PC's processing power to fold proteins related to various diseases, which helps to create new ways of treating those diseases. You can let it choose any diseases on its own, or pick a specific focus you care about (covid, alzheimer's, cancer, huntington's, and a few others).

Join Juggalos@Home

The number at the end of that URL (which is the team's home page) is the Team Number you add when you sign up/run the software.

Just curious why you made one when there is already a team called "Juggalos" with 3 members.... Not at all important, just curious. also how the fuck do I make it do? All I got from my first few minutes of looking was stats..... I hate feeling old but it is happening more and more lately XD XD XD

edit: I found it, clicked the other link wacky

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February 23, 2022
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Hah, cuz I didn't find it when I searched 'juggalo' 🤷‍♂️😊

Also I'm a control freak and I like being the head of stuff. And finally, Juggalos@Home is objectively a better name, so, not sorry.

Glad you figured it out but still took us on your elderly tech journey!

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February 23, 2022
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I'm am looking into using the Discord Morton's List QuestBot's idle time to do this. It does nothing but wait for input like 99.9% of the time. Why not utilize this idle time for some crowd-processing.

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February 24, 2022
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That's a really good idea