SSLOI #30
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Join the fight against COVID-19 (desktops/laptops/tablets/smartphones)
Rosetta@home (BOINC) https://boinc.bakerlab.org
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@HOMEJoin the fight against COVID-19 (High Performance Computing Consortium)https://covid19-hpc-consortium.org Adhesion requests https://www.xsede.org/covid19-hpc-consortium
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 ..
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
Data volumes from projects like @brkthroughprize Listen are huge, requiring us to bring computing resources to the data rather than the other way round. But we still seek to engage the world in helping to develop algorithms and analyze data: breakthroughinitiatives.org/news/28
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.netA 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 ...
▶︎ BOINCInterference 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 --The main data repository is at: https://breakthroughinitiatives.org/opendatasearch and there is an additional beta version at http://seti.berkeley.edu/opendataOur github repository hosting code and walkthroughs is a good place to learn more about our searches: https://github.com/UCBerkeleySETI/breakthrough [AMA]
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 .. .. .. .
Voyager and the Deep Space Network Upgrade https://www.centauri-dreams.org/2020/03/05/voyager-and-the-deep-space-network-upgrade/ .. ..
Calculating Life’s Possibilities on Titan by PAUL GILSTERon MARCH 4, 2020 https://www.centauri-dreams.org/2020/03/04/calculating-lifes-possibilities-on-titan/ ..
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.'
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 ..
▶︎ 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?''
▶︎ NEW LINKS UNCATEGORIZED
Mystical Complex & Dapanji - Distigma (Bassfactor Remix) - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWeoGaVFOMs ..
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