4th August 2010, 11:13 AM
http://arstechnica.com/science/news/2010...ctures.ars
Yes, the name of this thread is ridiculously out of proportion to the actual facts, but I thought I'd give a whack at this sort of article naming since the general media loves to do it so much.
Basically, human brains and their pattern recognition make for better tools in certain cases of protein folding than their simulations do, and so they turned protein folding into a video game. I want to download it now.
Yes, the name of this thread is ridiculously out of proportion to the actual facts, but I thought I'd give a whack at this sort of article naming since the general media loves to do it so much.
Basically, human brains and their pattern recognition make for better tools in certain cases of protein folding than their simulations do, and so they turned protein folding into a video game. I want to download it now.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)