I found some emails in my outbox that I guess didn’t generate any responses, but I still think they are interesting so will post them here…<\/p>\n
In an interesting twist, humans are now being used to solve problems
\nfor computers:<\/p>\n
Online gamers strike major blow in battle against AIDS They used the ‘game’ Foldit: Which is a “games-with-a-purpose” program: I like the idea of people being challenged to play engaging games that can lead to valuable-for-society results. \u00a0Analogous to the (somewhat darker aim) efforts of the military to produce video games that serve to train kids to be ready for the new military weapons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I found some emails in my outbox that I guess didn’t generate any responses, but I still think they are interesting so will post them here… In an interesting twist, humans are now being used to solve problems for computers: Online gamers strike major blow in battle against AIDS http:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2011\/09\/19\/gamers_crack_structure_of_aids_protein_in_three_weeks\/ They used the ‘game’ Foldit: … Continue reading “Hand bites mouth (man bites dog?)”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":124,"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123\/revisions\/124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nhttp:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2011\/09\/19\/gamers_crack_structure_of_aids_protein_in_three_weeks\/<\/a><\/p>\n
\nhttp:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Foldit<\/a><\/p>\n
\nhttp:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Game_with_a_purpose<\/a><\/p>\n