HIV research - from wester to easter ... ?

Captain, I've joined your team.

I just hooked up a second machine.

Welcome Jazzns. Let's make a difference.For the rest of the EvC members who have not signed up yet:Most of you probably have a ten tonne truck for a computer, where a shopping cart would have done nicely. After all, typing up funny lists of Murphy's laws and playing Tic-Tac-Toe doesn't really take much more computing power than a piece of paper and a pencil, or does it?So maybe, just maybe, it's not such a bad idea to put all those superfluous megabytes, gigaherzes and teraflops^* to good use and finally sign up for this. Or must I assume that EvC really stands for Ephemeromorphic vacuous Cretins? No, I wouldn't think so either.Asgara, expect some more team mates in the coming days. ^*Well, all right, not teraflops then. But I'm not writing this to be pointed at as someone who wrote 'giga' twice in one sentence, where 'giga' and 'tera' really do look much nicer.My new signature: (Robin, are you paying attention? It hasn't been two weeks. And have you signed up yet?)This message has been edited by Parasomnium, 16-Dec-2005 02:07 PM

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You don't know what what is? The two weeks, or the signing up?

Have you looked at the World Community Grid website? They explain quite clearly what it's all about.

If you divide the point totals by the number of results for each member, and sort them by this ratio, then you get to see who has the best equipment, sort of. I did this with the list RAZD gave above and here is the result:

Name            Points  Results Ratio 
Ringo317	 7,644	   10	764.40
Ringo316	 7,445	   19	391.84
LwJohnL          9,497	   25	379.88
Omnivorous	18,964	   55	344.80
RAZD	        18,115	   55	329.36
sig_230	        25,554	   86	297.14
NosyNed	        18,658	   64	291.53
berberry	12,059	   48	251.23
Theodoric2	   732	    3	244.00
bobbins	         8,986	   37	242.86
demongoat	18,405	   76	242.17
Asgara 	        20,296	   87	233.29
Stephen Street	 2,823	   13	217.15
bernd11	           967	    5	193.40
bob_gray	 4,695	   26	180.58
Theodoric	 7,839	   45	174.20
Annata	        11,271	   65	173.40
Fifi Trixiebell	   860	    5	172.00
Parasomnium	 6,720	   40	168.00
Discreet Label	 3,000	   18	166.67
Jazzns	        16,931	  116	145.96
MangyTiger	15,427	  135	114.27
GoodIntentions	     0	    0	-     

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What is the problem? Maybe some technical wizards here can help you.

Fair enough. You will be welcome to the team whenever you're ready.(Signature not meant to rub it in...)

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Sometimes a sacrifice has to be made, Dan. Look at it this way: you'll get fired, you'll have to sell your house, you'll have to live on the street, where eventually you end up in the gutter, eating road kill and cockroaches. You'll find a used syringe that you stick into your arm to inject the heroin you have bought with your last money. And that's only the good news. The bad news is that you'll contract HIV and you'll die. But another piece of good news is that the one block of data your computer at work was able to finish before it was detected by the system administrator contained the miracle cure for HIV. You won't have died in vain.

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G.I., what's the story with your membership of World Community Grid Team EvC? Just good intentions?This message has been edited by Parasomnium, 10-Jan-2006 08:49 PM

We are on the verge of breaking some 1000-barriers.

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"Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science." - Charles Darwin.

I wrote:

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We are on the verge of breaking some 1000-barriers.

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I did some more research and the following is a nice illustration of how we are doing. At the time I did my research, Stuyvesant Alumni was ranking 1000th in the category "points generated", we were 1147th. The graph shows the statistics of the last 30 days. The markers are real data, the lines are projections into the future. The vertical line indicates we will intercept them somewhere around the 20th. This message has been edited by Parasomnium, 13-Jan-2006 01:17 PM

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"Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science." - Charles Darwin.

RAZD, here's the same kind of analysis for the category "results returned". In this case we have to overtake Proteome Origami. Asgara is right on the mark with her prediction.Of course, other teams might be closing in on the 1000-barrier also, but on the 19th, we should be among a number of teams competing for the 1000th rank. And seeing our upward mobility, we should easily win.The second graph is our rank 500 target. This message has been edited by Parasomnium, 17-Jan-2006 09:37 AMThis message has been edited by AdminAsgara, 01-17-2006 07:56 AM

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"Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science." - Charles Darwin.

If I remember correctly, when you install the programme on your second
computer, you will be asked for your World Community Grid member name. If you enter the same name you're already registered under, another device will be added to your account.

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"Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science." - Charles Darwin.

Now that the prediction has come true, we must face the question of whether it was a miraculous prophesy, or just a rational interpretation of data. Opinions, anyone? {edited to swap the contents of this message with that of the next one}This message has been edited by Parasomnium, 20-Jan-2006 09:23 AM