SSLOI #30
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Fold.it https://fold.it (game/citizen science)
Folding@home https://foldingathome.org (stand-alone/non-BOINC)
OpenPandemics (soon via World Community Grid/BOINC) https://www.ibm.org/OpenPandemics
crowdfight covid19 - An initiative from the
scientific community to put all available resources at the service of
the fight against COVID-19 https://crowdfightcovid19.org
▶︎ SETI@HOME
1 Apr 2020, 21:12:20 UTC - "
The last chunk of new SETI@home work has gone out. There's still a little astropulse to be split when disk space clears. Beyond that, there's only resends when validation fails. Thanks for staying 'til the end." - Eric Korpela
https://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=85412&postid=2042379 ..
2020.04.01 -
FORA: "We will have to replace the RAC > 1 requirement with a total credit requirement. We may also have to come up with an endorsement process to allow new users." - Eric Korpela
https://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=85412&postid=2042179#2042179 ..
2020.03.31
HIBERNATION: "As promised, we've stopped the process that puts new data into the queue today. Data distribution will continue until the files shown on the status pages are done. We'll be accepting results and resending results that didn't validate for a while." - Eric Korpela
https://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=85412&postid=2042009#2042009 ..
AMA 2020.03.25 - Q. "Why did you shelve SETI@home?"
A. "SETI@home is [a] project of the Berkeley SETI Research Center at the
University of California, Berkeley, not the SETI Institute, but the
short answer is that the small SETI@home team needs to concentrate their
resources on examining the results produced thus far rather than
sending out new data. But stay tuned! There will be some exciting new
ways to get involved in SETI announced soon! - AS (Andrew Simeion, SETI Institute director)
https://old.reddit.com/r/space/comments/foty97/we_are_scientists_and_engineers_working_on_the/flh7cuv/ ..
New in SETI Perspectives: "How did life begin on Earth and elsewhere?" by Dr Richard Lawn
https://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=85360#2038992
SETI@home Is Over. But the Search for Alien Life Continues | WIRED
https://www.wired.com/story/setihome-is-over-but-the-search-for-alien-life-continues/ ..
Breakthrough
[Listen] is also being shepherded by the Berkeley SETI Research Center,
but its data firehose would overwhelm a distributed computing program
like SETI@home to search through it all. Instead, to parse through the
data it uses massive banks of GPUs at the Green Bank Telescope in West
Virginia running advanced search algorithms.“Developing these new
algorithms and bringing them on site is really the way to crack this
problem today,” says Steve Croft, Breakthrough Listen’s project
scientist at the Green Bank Telescope. “It’s just not feasible anymore
to go over the internet to individual users.”
Each day, the telescopes around the world that contribute to
Breakthrough Listen generate more than 100 terabytes of raw data. Even
if there were enough people volunteering their computers to analyze it,
the internet connections at the telescopes can’t push the data onto the
net fast enough. As Croft says, it was time to “bring the computers to
the data” and do as much processing of radio signals on site as
possible.
The grandfather of distributed computing projects, SETI@home, shuts down – Ars Technica
https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/03/the-grandfather-of-distributed-computing-projects-setihome-shuts-down/ ..
Farewell SETI@Home | Hackaday
https://hackaday.com/2020/03/06/farewell-setihome/ ..
SETI@Home ends, The search for alien life is over | The Intelligencer
https://www.lintelligencer.com/setihome-ends-the-search-for-alien-life-is-over-2575-2020/ ..
'All the data we need': Seti computing project paused after 20 years | Science | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2020/mar/05/all-the-data-we-need-seti-computing-project-wound-up-after-20-years ..
After 1.5 million days of computer time, SETI@home heads home to probe potential signs of alien civilizations • The Register
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2020/03/04/seti_at_home_halt/ ..
Nebula: science goals | If we don't find ET, our secondary goal is to quantify the sensitivity of the search. Read about
some ideas about how we can do this in the Nebula blog.
7 Mar 2020, 4:44:49 UTC https://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=85311&postid=2036357#2036357 .. https://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=85312 ..
Message boards :
News :
SETI@home hibernation
All good things must come to an end...
''SETI@home hibernation''
https://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=85267&postid=2035163 .. Dr Eric Korpela comments :
https://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=85275&postid=2035328#2035328 .. The Nebula portion of the project continues
https://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_forum.php?id=1511 . The SETI@home community is maintained along with its Message boards
https://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_index.php ..
UC Berkeley SETI ..
@BerkeleySETI .. Thanks to the many volunteers who have helped crunch data for SETI@home in the last two decades. On March 31, the project will stop sending out new work to users, but this is not the end of public engagement in SETI research. 8:15 PM · Mar 2, 2020
Stay tuned …. We have some exciting new ways for the public to contribute to SETI@Berkeley that we will announce in the near future. 8:15 PM · Mar 2, 2020
2020.03.24 - Opportunities to Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence with the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.09639 ..
Europe - The Final Countdown
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jK-NcRmVcw ..
THERE IS NO PLANET B
▶︎
SETI
Life as We Don’t Know It
https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/life-as-we-dont-know-it/ "If we’re going to find extraterrestrials, we need to stop assuming they’ll think like humans"
Reddit AMA 25 March 2020 - " We are scientists and engineers working on the Search For Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) at SETI Institute. AUA!"
https://old.reddit.com/r/space/comments/foty97/we_are_scientists_and_engineers_working_on_the/ ..
Asteroids@home... Because an asteroid will eventually come around here to check how our space programs are doing. http://asteroidsathome.net
A great post about Dysonian SETI in ''Signs of Life on Ancient Mars?"
https://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=85356&postid=2039740#2039740 ..
We asked astronomers: are we alone in the Universe? The answer was surprisingly consistent.
https://theconversation.com/we-asked-astronomers-are-we-alone-in-the-universe-the-answer-was-surprisingly-consistent-132088 ...
Interference is a huge
problem. It's really easy to find signals from technology - much harder
to eliminate the ones which have been generated by us pesky humans. As
the field of machine learning has massively grown, there are probably a
lot of techniques that those outside the field of SETI are familiar with
that are only just making inroads to the SETI community. If you're an
at home nerd with those skills, check out some SETI data from the
Breakthrough Listen Initiative! It never hurts to look at data in new ways --
Our github repository hosting code and walkthroughs is a good place to learn more about our searches: https://github.com/UCBerkeleySETI/breakthrough [AMA]
▶︎ BOINC
Updated BOINC Clients for Win 64, Mac OS X 64 and Linux 64 have been released for public use
https://boinc.berkeley.edu/wiki/Release_Notes_for_BOINC_7.16 ..
The future of BOINC (6 Apr 2020) - Android apps is questionable now that
Google has
implemented new policy of only signed apps being distributed by the app
store.
Got notification that Vitalii and David Anderson are looking for
developers to completely change how Android BOINC native executable apps
are developed and packaged to make them compatible with Google's new
policies.
https://android-review.googlesource.com/c/platform/system/sepolicy/+/804149 https://github.com/BOINC/boinc/issues/3561 (
source : Keith Myers)
IBM.org - OpenPandemics
https://www.ibm.org/OpenPandemics ..
▶︎ DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING
WCG has released an open paper about future plans about covid-19
here /
https://www.ibm.org/OpenPandemics ..
IBM (through
https://www.worldcommunitygrid.org) will soon join research efforts (Rosetta@home, Folding@home, Fold.it) in the fight against COVID-19 with OpenPandemics
https://www.ibm.org/OpenPandemics ..
Coronavirus: How your PC's spare computing power could help discover potential COVID-19 treatments | ZDNet
https://www.zdnet.com/article/coronavirus-how-your-pcs-spare-computing-power-could-help-discover-potential-covid-19-treatments/ ..
▶︎ CITIZEN SCIENCE
[AMA] We are scientists who use computers to design COVID-19 vaccine candidates — AND we’re part of the team behind
https://Fold.it, the computer game that lets anyone craft new antivirals. Ask us anything! : COVID19
https://www.reddit.com/r/COVID19/comments/frt2za/crosspost_we_are_scientists_who_use_computers_to/ ..
▶︎ COVID-19 & EPIDEMIOLOGY
How to track the coronavirus: Dashboard delivers real-time view of the deadly virus | ZDNet
https://www.zdnet.com/article/how-to-track-the-coronavirus-dashboard-delivers-real-time-view-of-the-deadly-virus/ ..
▶︎ ASTROBIOLOGY
Life found in rocks beneath the ocean floor give scientists hope of finding life on Mars - CNN
https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/02/world/earth-ocean-rock-life-mars-scn/index.html ..
▶︎ EXOPLANETS
Astronomy student discovers 17 new planets, including Earth-sized world -- ScienceDaily
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/02/200228073146.htm ..
▶︎ PLANETOLOGY
Earth formed much faster than previously thought - Astrobiology Magazine
https://www.astrobio.net/also-in-news/earth-formed-much-faster-than-previously-thought/ ..
▶︎ SPACE
NASA calls on public to help improve RASSOR Moon-mining robot
https://newatlas.com/space/nasa-public-help-improve-rassor-moon-mining-robot/ https://grabcad.com/challenges/nasa-regolith-advanced-surface-systems-operations-robot-rassor-bucket-drum-design-challenge ..
Solar Orbiter launch preparations - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hw0w2qb-2eU&feature=youtu.be ..
Space Bites: Becoming a planetary explorer | Matthias Maurer - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iVvk3TNNURI .. .. .. .
Possible Worlds' takes us back into a universe of science - https://www.space.com/cosmos-possible-worlds-season-3-premiere.html .. Just in time for the 40th anniversary of Carl Sagan's original 'Cosmos.'
Pearl Jam's 'Gigaton' boldly goes to the Red Planet, has 'Apollo' launch on SiriusXM
Surprise! Earth and the moon aren't made of exactly the same stuff.
Green auroras dance over Iceland in awesome fisheye video
https://www.space.com/green-auroras-over-iceland-seljalandsfoss-cliffs-video.html ..
Tenacious bacteria flourish on space station, but they're no more dangerous than Earth bugs
Is life possible around black holes? By Paul Sutter 3 days ago - A new research paper has found a new potential type of abode for life: a rocky planet orbiting just past the event horizon of a rapidly spinning supermassive black hole. https://www.space.com/is-life-possible-around-black-holes.html ..
These 4 Pieces Of Evidence Have Already Taken Us Beyond The Big Bang
https://medium.com/starts-with-a-bang/these-4-pieces-of-evidence-have-already-taken-us-beyond-the-big-bang-5d0005bad7ed?source=rss----458a773bccd2---4 ..
Two Mars Missions Are Gutted Despite Near-Record Funding for Planetary Science | Strong funding for NASA's Planetary Science Division isn't enough to support MSL Curiosity and Mars Odyssey, apparently
https://www.planetary.org/blogs/casey-dreier/2020/fy-2021-pbr-for-planetary-science.html ..
Using Gaia as a Gravitational-Wave Detector | astrobites
https://astrobites.org/2020/03/02/using-gaia-as-a-gravitational-wave-detector/ ..
Bad Astronomy | The Earth has a new minimoon! But not for long…
https://www.syfy.com/syfywire/the-earth-has-a-new-minimoon-but-not-for-long ..
Chinese moon rover peers beneath surface of mysterious lunar far side | Space
https://www.space.com/china-change-4-moon-far-side-subsurface.html ..
Alien-life hunters are eyeing icy ocean moons Europa and Enceladus | Space
https://www.space.com/alien-life-ocean-moons-europa-enceladus.html ..
Scientists eye the Martian underground in search for alien life | Space
https://www.space.com/alien-life-hunt-mars-underground.html ..
▶︎ SCIENCE
David Baker: 5 challenges we could solve by designing new proteins | TED Talk
https://www.ted.com/talks/david_baker_5_challenges_we_could_solve_by_designing_new_proteins ..
The Audacious Project
https://www.audaciousproject.org ..
Coronavirus massive simulations completed on Frontera supercomputer: New simulations can help researchers design new drugs and vaccines to combat the coronavirus -- ScienceDaily
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/03/200324102720.htm ...
The world's fastest supercomputer identified chemicals that could stop coronavirus from spreading, a crucial step toward a treatment - CNN
https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/19/us/fastest-supercomputer-coronavirus-scn-trnd/index.html ..
World's Fastest Supercomputer, Summit, Joins The Battle Against COVID-19
https://www.iflscience.com/technology/worlds-fastest-supercomputer-joins-the-battle-against-covid19/
Fight climate change like it's World War III: 4 potent weapons to deploy
https://phys.org/news/2020-03-climate-world-war-iii-potent.html ..
News | Greenland, Antarctica Melting Six Times Faster Than in the 1990s
https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?feature=7616 ..
At CMS, artificial neural networks search for exotic particles | CERN
https://home.cern/news/news/experiments/cms-artificial-neural-networks-search-exotic-particles ..
New study allows brain and artificial neurons to link up over the web -- ScienceDaily
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/02/200226110843.htm ..
Why is there any matter in the universe at all? New study sheds light: Scientists one step closer to understanding the mystery of matter in the universe -- ScienceDaily
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/02/200228142022.htm ..
Unique material could unlock new functionality in semiconductors:
Researchers synthesized ferroelectric material that can be manipulated
using light in previously impossible ways -- ScienceDaily
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/02/200228170329.htm ..
Artificial intelligence yields new antibiotic: A deep-learning model
identifies a powerful new drug that can kill many species of
antibiotic-resistant bacteria -- ScienceDaily
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/02/200220141748.htm ..
Unique
non-oxygen breathing animal discovered: The tiny relative of the
jellyfish is parasitic and dwells in salmon tissue -- ScienceDaily https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/02/200225114408.htm ..
▶︎ SCIENCE-FICTION
From Soviet to science fiction icon, the weird life of Isaac Asimov 100 years on • The Register
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2020/01/06/isaac_asimov_100_years_on/ ..
▶︎ TELEVISON AND PREVIEWS
COSMOS on Twitter: "The discoveries of today would not be possible without the sacrifices of the past. Yesterday’s scientists are today’s historic heroes. #COSMOS https://t.co/NEf7tkNrvr" / Twitter
https://twitter.com/COSMOSonTV/status/1239567097018986496 ..
▶︎ HUMOR
Neil deGrasse Tyson On Coronavirus: Will People Listen To Science? - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jB4FUHHMI24 hhhhh
▶︎ WEIRD
How UFO Sightings Became an American Obsession | WIRED
https://www.wired.com/story/how-ufo-sightings-became-an-american-obsession/?itm_campaign=BottomRelatedStories_Sections_1 ..
BBC - Ogopogo, Canada’s mysterious lake monster
http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20200309-ogopogo-the-monster-lurking-in-okanagan-lake ..
First US coronavirus death follows Trump claim outbreak is a hoax | World news | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/feb/29/joe-biden-trump-coronavirus-hoax-claim ..
▶︎ OTHER NEWS
▶︎ MUSIC
Unique non-oxygen breathing animal discovered: The tiny relative of the jellyfish is parasitic and dwells in salmon tissue -- ScienceDaily
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/02/200225114408.htm ..
FLOPPY DISK OVERDRIVE | MASTER BOOT RECORD
https://masterbootrecord.bandcamp.com/album/floppy-disk-overdrive ..
▶︎ ON REPEAT
Why dying stars may be a good place to look for alien life (2016)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2016/05/16/why-dying-stars-might-be-a-good-place-to-look-for-alien-life/.
China barred my dystopian novel about how its system enables epidemics - The Washington Post
https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/china-barred-my-dystopian-novel-about-how-its-system-enables-epidemics/2020/02/27/cc0446f0-58e5-11ea-9000-f3cffee23036_story.html “World War Z” imagined a mysterious virus being downplayed by Beijing. Sound familiar?''
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