Traffic lights utilizing 'game theory' successfully reduce gridlock in downtown Toronto by up to 40%
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Ghett0
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I heard some game called foldit helped solve some protein string issue for geneticists or some shit. I forget the details, but long story short, scientists coughed their protein string problem over to gamers and they solved it in 11 days.
I don't take that to the Nth power and say that playing GTA V will save the universe, but it is nice to see that gaming's technology advances can have practical applications in the real word.
I don't take that to the Nth power and say that playing GTA V will save the universe, but it is nice to see that gaming's technology advances can have practical applications in the real word.
TinanaBoa
DARKLY Regular
Sweet- I hate driving downtown and I go out of my way to avoid rush hour if I can.
Hope this doesn't make it to the smaller towns, I got my local traffic light pattern down. I'm sure you all know your local traffic light pattern but maybe during rush hour this system can be used.
Hope this doesn't make it to the smaller towns, I got my local traffic light pattern down. I'm sure you all know your local traffic light pattern but maybe during rush hour this system can be used.
MetalLobster
TD Admin
There are communities that use clients like FAH and BOINC to volunteer their system to calculate protein folding and send what they've calculated to research all kinds of diseases. I use FAH that is calculating protein folding for cancer.
As for the OP, I'm surprised no one thought of this earlier!
Ghett0
DARKLY Regular
Oh yeah, baby. I teach people new to Ottawa the secret of when and where to speed on Baseline to bypass the 417 and downtown to get the east / south end of the city from the west in record time. Cabbies taught me this trick ages ago, and most of the cops do the same thing and are pretty decent about not speed trapping it.
Once you learn it you can shave 15 minutes off of the drive both south and east. I am lucky, I live in the neighbourhood where you can drive anywhere in Ottawa in 30 minutes except for (wh)Orleans, but the only reason to go there is to fuck young french girls, and once you're in your 20s, that's no longer a concern... unless you're a diddler.
Fuck, I should get on that. I have a beefy CPU and I can run it while I watch Star Trek on my PC, ftw.
Smurf Eater
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I actually played foldit for a while, it was open to anyone because as you played the game and made progress you actually solved different protein problems, it was really, really hard and I maybe played it for 5-6 hours but never solved anything. Great idea though, games that solve scientific problems.
Ghett0
DARKLY Regular
Apparently, the protein string they fixed had been in the hands of geneticists for 10 years with no luck. The reason why they DID solve it is apparently, Foldit is now co-op multiplayer, so a bunch of die hards would get together and work together to figure it all out.
Personally, of the 8 intelligences, Spatial Manipulation is probably my poorest, so I was never all that into games that thrives on it. (Statistically speaking, women tend to thrive in this area of intellect relative to men, which is probably why my mom always whooped my ass at Tetris when I was a kid, and can probably still whoop my ass at it now.)
I tried Luminosity.com and I love it. Apparently, my attention span and my memory are my strongest traits, which is probably why I spam up "walls of text". Oh, imagine that. A guy who excels in English, creative writing and journalism can write at length with ease. Next thing you know, I'll wake up tomorrow and the sky will be blue.
