TIL : about the game "Foldit", a puzzle game about protein folding. In 2011, its gamers helped decipher a protein of a HIV-like virus, solving a scientific problem that went unsolved for 15 years in as little as 10 days.

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  • Senpwai

    A desktop app for tracking and batch downloading anime

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  • openfold

    Trainable, memory-efficient, and GPU-friendly PyTorch reproduction of AlphaFold 2

    Seeing this stuff on GitHub is mind-blowing: https://github.com/aqlaboratory/openfold

  • WorkOS

    The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

  • inaturalist

    The Rails app behind iNaturalist.org

    Anecdata BOINC Brain Explorer Brain Game Center Cancer Crusade Citizen Science Games CitSci DreamLab GLOBE Glyph iNaturalist Open Humans Phylo Rocks & Runes SciStarter Stall Catchers SuperStruct Water Reporter Wikimedia Commons Zooniverse

  • boinc

    Open-source software for volunteer computing and grid computing.

    Anecdata BOINC Brain Explorer Brain Game Center Cancer Crusade Citizen Science Games CitSci DreamLab GLOBE Glyph iNaturalist Open Humans Phylo Rocks & Runes SciStarter Stall Catchers SuperStruct Water Reporter Wikimedia Commons Zooniverse

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