Play to Cure Cancer
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Hi all just saw a great TV program about Play to Cure which is an android/iOS game designed to process cancer cell data to help Cancer Research.
Its actually quite a good game and you can’t really get a better cause. :)
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Nice initiative… processor power for data analysis, right?
We have a lot of processors embedded here and there that could contribute to things like this, why not to use them?
Gonna try it!
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BTW, I think this is the same idea that made the Flappy bird author withdraw his app… but now he is puttin’ it back on (maybe with some upgrade). I think it will hide a miner for the flappycoin, actually the most profitable coin around (they say).
Maybe I’m just paranoid but the timing looks suspicious.
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Ah right no this game does not use hidden background processing power. Its by Cancer Research UK so is legit.
As part of the game you have to manually click on a genetic output of a cancer cell to identify the areas with a lot of activity. In the game this is used as a map as you are trying to collect this with your space ship.
Its a really clever idea. It means you can have free (apart from the cost of creating the app) labour for processing cell data rather than have paid professionals doing it.
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Ah right no this game does not use hidden background processing power. Its by Cancer Research UK so is legit.
Don’t worry I wasn’t arguing its legitimacy, just wondering what the process could be. I thought it may be similar to those distributed calculation software for protein folding and similar.
I already installed but I’m still at my uni so I didn’t have time to try it. I’ll try to do some work for them as soon as I get home!
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Don’t worry I wasn’t arguing its legitimacy, just wondering what the process could be. I thought it may be similar to those distributed calculation software for protein folding and similar.
I already installed but I’m still at my uni so I didn’t have time to try it. I’ll try to do some work for them as soon as I get home!
Ah right now I see what you mean. Yeah I like those distributed calculation processing apps. Such as SETI. I used to have that on my home pc its really quite a cool concept.
I believe is it Gridcoin was designed to try and allow mining via these actually useful calculations. I had a quick look but it seems reasonable complex to setup.
would be a nice thing to supprt tho. Maybe that could be our new Hashing Algorithm.
