Folding@Home: THGC Needs You -Team 40051

[beanoslim]

TEAM RANK 39 😍

 

[bholland2]

Hay!... What's with this "Choose Me (I'm Better" popup cr@p. Do the people running this board realize how annoying that is? If I want to go to another thread I'll go, I don't need them to block by screen with an annoying popup implying I have to pick one of the two offered. That's really lame.

 

[EXT64]

Do you get that even when logged in? I have to admit I haven't been using the forums a ton recently. Pretty much all I do is refresh this page/thread every few hours.

 

[randomizer]

I have no idea what you're talking about.

 

[bholland2]

Do you get that even when logged in? I have to admit I haven't been using the forums a ton recently. Pretty much all I do is refresh this page/thread every few hours.

I wasn't logged in and didn't realize it.
I guess I got logged out when I re-booted a few days ago.
I have been logged in for a few hours now and it hasn't popped up yet.
It may be only when someone NOT logged in gets to the bottom of a page.
It's still a dumb popup though, kinda' idiotic actually.

 

[beanoslim]

I haven't seen any pop ups but I have seen a few members with it in their forum profile.

Things like "If you like my response don't forget to choose me as the best answer."

I was instantly put off by anyone that desperate.

 

[EXT64]

Yeah, when I'm not logged in I get all sorts of popups.

 

[beanoslim]

OMG! Just logged out to see what you were on about.

Tacky and embbarrasing.

 

[Mousemonkey]

OMG! Just logged out to see what you were on about.

Tacky and embbarrasing.

That's what you get for logging out so you have no one else to blame but yourself.

 

[beanoslim]

I won't do it again Mr Mouse

 

[Mousemonkey]

I won't do it again Mr Mouse

You don't want to be like that DD wuss that runs away at the slightest sign of competition do you? We Brits are built of sterner stuff after all aren't we?

 

[anti-painkilla]

I hate that I even have to use AdBlock on toms, but the AdWords just kill me a little every time I see them in the articles.

I get logged out all the time, so I understand your pain bholland.

Whoop whoop on 39. With DD about to take a break, I think we need to pick up the slack.

 

[beanoslim]

I won't do it again Mr Mouse

You don't want to be like that DD wuss that runs away at the slightest sign of competition do you? We Brits are built of sterner stuff after all aren't we?

What Ho, stiff upper lip and all that old boy 😀

 

[Mousemonkey]

I won't do it again Mr Mouse

You don't want to be like that DD wuss that runs away at the slightest sign of competition do you? We Brits are built of sterner stuff after all aren't we?

What Ho, stiff upper lip and all that old boy 😀

That's the spirit old chap!

 

[warmon6]

Well... Guess I lied about Internet at Job Corps. 😀

Took me a while to get my internet login all setup but I do have access now. Although a decent amount of web sites (such as youtube) is blocked and for the dorm I'm in, there only 1 computer (with internet access) to share with 20+ other guys (and 11 to 12 more students will be coming in this Tuesdays).

So I'm still pretty limited to what I can do and how often I'll be on.



Anyways, so far Job Corps been pretty good although a bit boring for the first week.


Having to sign a million papers saying I'll agree to this and that for a certain rule or test... Also having to go though drug testing (although that was quick and easy).

Food is decent. Not the greatest but at least I can say it wont kill me. :lol: (Pretty much like a high school lunch setup that serves all 3 meals a day.)


Only real fun part I can say for certain that I this week is that I'll certainly be learning computer IT. 😀

The TABE test that I had to score high enough on (Math is 580 and Reading was 583), I scored way above it. Mine was 594 for math and reading was 606.

Although still trying to figure out how I scored higher in reading than math..... Math is my favorite of the 2 subjects (heck I dont even read books. lol.)

Now I don't know when I'll be starting that class but it might be in January (As I'll have to "shadow" all 3 of the trades that I picked and then "decide" what I want).



Another thing I was told is that due to my high TABE scores, I shouldn't need any additional education and be able to start working on my GED at the beginning of December.





Anyways glad to see everyone still in the spirit and DD, we understand. Dont go in to debt for F@H.

Well when I can get on, I'll see you next time.


also here is the sort of latest news from F@H. From Nov. 13 though.

Under the hood at Berkeley
November 13, 2013 by Greg Bowman ·

The Bowman lab at the University of California, Berkeley recently purchased its first Folding@home server and I thought I would share a little bit about what’s under the hood. The main purpose of this machine is to serve and store Folding@home work units, so it is equipped with a dozen 4TB drives. Two drives are dedicated to redundant storage (RAID-6 for experts who are curious to know), leaving us with 40 TB of storage space for collecting data. Many of the projects I run take 10-100GB of disk space, so conservatively we’re now prepared to run 400 projects! The machine also has four Gigabit Ethernet connections for sending/receiving data. Another highlight is a dozen 2.0 GHz cores and 64GB of memory, allowing us to run some of our analysis locally. The bulk of our analysis will still be conducted on clusters at Berkeley though, where we can parallelize many of the steps across hundreds of processors.

 

[Mousemonkey]

Well... Guess I lied about Internet at Job Corps. 😀

Took me a while to get my internet login all setup but I do have access now. Although a decent amount of web sites (such as youtube) is blocked and for the dorm I'm in, there only 1 computer (with internet access) to share with 20+ other guys (and 11 to 12 more students will be coming in this Tuesdays).

So I'm still pretty limited to what I can do and how often I'll be on.



Anyways, so far Job Corps been pretty good although a bit boring for the first week.


Having to sign a million papers saying I'll agree to this and that for a certain rule or test... Also having to go though drug testing (although that was quick and easy).

Food is decent. Not the greatest but at least I can say it wont kill me. :lol: (Pretty much like a high school lunch setup that serves all 3 meals a day.)


Only real fun part I can say for certain that I this week is that I'll certainly be learning computer IT. 😀

The TABE test that I had to score high enough on (Math is 580 and Reading was 583), I scored way above it. Mine was 594 for math and reading was 606.

Although still trying to figure out how I scored higher in reading than math..... Math is my favorite of the 2 subjects (heck I dont even read books. lol.)

Now I don't know when I'll be starting that class but it might be in January (As I'll have to "shadow" all 3 of the trades that I picked and then "decide" what I want).



Another thing I was told is that due to my high TABE scores, I shouldn't need any additional education and be able to start working on my GED at the beginning of December.





Anyways glad to see everyone still in the spirit and DD, we understand. Dont go in to debt for F@H.

Well when I can get on, I'll see you next time.


also here is the sort of latest news from F@H. From Nov. 13 though.

Under the hood at Berkeley
November 13, 2013 by Greg Bowman ·

The Bowman lab at the University of California, Berkeley recently purchased its first Folding@home server and I thought I would share a little bit about what’s under the hood. The main purpose of this machine is to serve and store Folding@home work units, so it is equipped with a dozen 4TB drives. Two drives are dedicated to redundant storage (RAID-6 for experts who are curious to know), leaving us with 40 TB of storage space for collecting data. Many of the projects I run take 10-100GB of disk space, so conservatively we’re now prepared to run 400 projects! The machine also has four Gigabit Ethernet connections for sending/receiving data. Another highlight is a dozen 2.0 GHz cores and 64GB of memory, allowing us to run some of our analysis locally. The bulk of our analysis will still be conducted on clusters at Berkeley though, where we can parallelize many of the steps across hundreds of processors.

So what drugs did you have to test?

 

[anti-painkilla]

@MM - Crystal Blue?

@Warmon, glad to hear you are enjoying yourself as much as you can. Hopefully you have someone nice to shadow that is willing to explain things in detail. Be a sponge and take in all you can.

 

[Mousemonkey]

I'm on white and yellow ones!

 

[Haserath]

I imagine it went more like:

Are you on drugs?

Yes?

*scribbles on paper*

 

[Haserath]

I imagine it went more like:

Are you on drugs?

Yes?

*scribbles on paper*

 

[dogman_1234]

@warmon:

Glad you are doing great. Good to hear from you!

What math did they test you on?

I too am curious what drugs they had you test on. 😀

 

[anti-painkilla]

I imagine it went more like:

Are you on drugs?

Yes?

*scribbles on paper*

Evaluation:

-1 For not sharing.

+2 For Honesty.

 

[warmon6]

The drugs they test for, just about anything you can think that's illegal in the US.

Math, it seams like basic math to me although most of the people that came in the same time as I did didn't do that well. So maybe it's more advance than that.

 

[dogman_1234]

Did they ask questions like this:

Differentiate the equation to the second prime:

f(x)= 3x^2-4sin^2x+lnx-e^x

f''(x)= ?

 

[EXT64]

I would be a little surprised if Calculus was on the exam, as I don't think you have to take Calc to graduate high school, do you?