Why Crunching Data For Science Is the Future of Game-Playing page 1

ksen
8th February 2012, 10:48 PM
http://www.popsci.com/gadgets/article/2012-01/gamification-data

Across all disciplines of science, researchers are realizing that with some creativity — and an open mind — they can access entire armies of free helpers who will log in to online games and help them classify galaxies, solve puzzles or twirl virtual shapes, completing tedious tasks for them and generally enhancing their work. For the most part, these information games take advantage of humans’ natural proclivity for pattern recognition; we are simply better than computers at sussing out visible details. But future projects may go beyond puzzles or other visual tasks. Any problem can become a game, if you approach it the right way.

This sounds pretty cool.
Jerome
9th February 2012, 12:54 AM
:fistbump:
Linus
9th February 2012, 12:24 PM
That's a cool idea. Many chemists and solid-state physicists need to run computational tasks that are not dissimilar to the FoldIt problem and that are amendable to pretty graphical visualization. If you could put a game layer over it that is sufficiently interesting to capture the attention of those who play online games 24/7...


luke548: why is no one online in the star wars game?
physics_princess895: uninstalled star wars lol
physics_princess895: everyone's playing structure optimization
physics_princess895: the other clan is killing us, their energy min is 5% lower
luke548: how did they do that?
chrisboy1997: good news guys
chrisboy1997: leveled up, can break all symmetries
ksen
9th February 2012, 01:28 PM
lol
nick
9th February 2012, 02:02 PM
Saw thread title, assumed this was about raven's mafia spreadsheets
Cunt
10th February 2012, 06:29 AM
Crowdsourcing can get a lot of important shit done.

I think nick is leading a crowdsourcing effort to praise Horus.

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