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Terryt88
Skeptic Friend
USA
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 Posted - 11/06/2002 : 08:46:05
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Ok, just becasue I am a computer nerd, I wanted to put this out. I am currently studying Computer Science at the University of Idaho and recently had a discussion with a professor of mine on topics unrelating to IBEST and what it is. Slowly the topic shifted and I began to become very excited what we were talking about.
IBEST - Initiative for Bioinformatics and Evolutionary STudies
I wanted to supply the link and see what people thought.
http://www.cs.uidaho.edu/~foster/ibest/
And if your a computer nerd like me, it may be interesting to note that they are using a Beowulf cluster, which loosley described is a bunch of individual machines linked together acting as one. Pretty cool stuff. (I know Boron, my geek is showing.  )
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filthy
SFN Die Hard
USA
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Posted - 11/06/2002 : 11:57:30 [Permalink]
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I haven't the faintest idea of what you're talking about. Beofulf cluster? Hmm.
Anyhow, Welcome to SFN! Gonna check out the link, now.
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"What luck for rulers that men do not think." -- Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)
"If only we could impeach on the basis of criminal stupidity, 90% of the Rethuglicans and half of the Democrats would be thrown out of office." ~~ P.Z. Myres
"The default position of human nature is to punch the other guy in the face and take his stuff." ~~ Dude
Brother Boot Knife of Warm Humanitarianism,
and Crypto-Communist! 
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filthy
SFN Die Hard
USA
14408 Posts |
Posted - 11/06/2002 : 12:03:10 [Permalink]
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Hey Terry, here's the best link on the web for the Theory of Evolution. I give it to you, free of charge, my friend!
http://www.talkorigins.org/
I gots lots of others, should you want them.
Edited to ask, Yeesh, when will I ever learn to spel?
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"What luck for rulers that men do not think." -- Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)
"If only we could impeach on the basis of criminal stupidity, 90% of the Rethuglicans and half of the Democrats would be thrown out of office." ~~ P.Z. Myres
"The default position of human nature is to punch the other guy in the face and take his stuff." ~~ Dude
Brother Boot Knife of Warm Humanitarianism,
and Crypto-Communist!
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Boron10
Religion Moderator
USA
1266 Posts |
Posted - 11/06/2002 : 13:42:53 [Permalink]
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| Hey! How come I never knew about this when I was at the U of Idaho? |
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Terryt88
Skeptic Friend
USA
120 Posts |
Posted - 11/06/2002 : 15:15:55 [Permalink]
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Heck, I didn't even know much about it and I am a CS major. 
Supposedly the proffessor I have that is working on it needs tech aides (which I think is a nice way of saying cheap labor ) to help out next semester with the Beowulf stuff. I think it might be interesting to get in on. Plus they are offering an upper division evolutionary computation's course next fall, so I'm there. |
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NubiWan
Skeptic Friend
USA
424 Posts |
Posted - 11/06/2002 : 16:29:46 [Permalink]
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| Heard of a group that is 'studying' the interactions of a bunch of charactors in the computer game, "the SIMS." How did we ever get along... Would this be like this "Initiative for Bioinformatics and Evolutionary STudies" stuff? |
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Terryt88
Skeptic Friend
USA
120 Posts |
Posted - 11/07/2002 : 12:45:55 [Permalink]
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off the top of my head I would say no, but I really don't know much about 'the sims' or the study. Do you have a link?
From what I do know about 'the sims' I would say that it wouldn't even really be a good representation of human level Artificial Intelligence either. The game mostly "reacts" to pre-determined states, much I would guess like a state machine in electronics. But what is exciting is, we don't have AI figured out yet, but who knows what will happen in the next decade with all the advances we have made in the last one!!
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