by bch132 on 3/4/2020, 8:58:20 PM
Oh damn, I thought the question was whether the coronavirus could cure crowdsourcing...
by mtmail on 3/4/2020, 10:03:17 PM
Have a look at https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=fold.it
by dt123 on 3/6/2020, 2:14:25 PM
both folding@home and rosetta@home are doing this kind of thing :)
I have a silly question to discuss: is there any chance that a Coronavirus vaccine can be found by brute force?
The world already has a pretty good infrastructure (Seti@Home) for that, and media all over the world already informed everyone about the threat. Participation in saving the world from the plague could be a very good motivation to join distributed calculations.
Or it makes no sense at all to try the brute force?