{"id":5310,"date":"2012-08-30T13:34:22","date_gmt":"2012-08-30T13:34:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tumblwise.cynwise.com\/?p=5310"},"modified":"2014-08-05T16:12:21","modified_gmt":"2014-08-05T16:12:21","slug":"ilaniel-poptech-people-can-solve-much-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tumblwise.cynwise.com\/?p=5310","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-5310 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/tumblwise.cynwise.com\/?attachment_id=5311#main'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/tumblwise.cynwise.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/tumblr_m9gol0MVOD1rt8lhlo1_1280-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/tumblwise.cynwise.com\/?attachment_id=5312#main'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/tumblwise.cynwise.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/tumblr_m9gol0MVOD1rt8lhlo2_1280-150x150.png\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/tumblwise.cynwise.com\/?attachment_id=5313#main'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/tumblwise.cynwise.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/tumblr_m9gol0MVOD1rt8lhlo3_1280-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tumblwise.cynwise.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/tumblr_m9gol0MVOD1rt8lhlo3_1280-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/tumblwise.cynwise.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/tumblr_m9gol0MVOD1rt8lhlo3_1280-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/tumblwise.cynwise.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/tumblr_m9gol0MVOD1rt8lhlo3_1280.jpg 656w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/tumblwise.cynwise.com\/?attachment_id=5314#main'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"104\" src=\"http:\/\/tumblwise.cynwise.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/tumblr_m9gol0MVOD1rt8lhlo4_1280.gif\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ilaniel.tumblr.com\/post\/30504828621\/poptech-people-can-solve-much-more-complex\" class=\"tumblr_blog\">ilaniel<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/tumblr.poptech.org\/post\/30396528484\/people-can-solve-much-more-complex-problems\">poptech<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em><strong>\u201cPeople can solve much more complex problems online. We are at the edge of human knowledge.\u201d<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0&#8211;<a href=\"http:\/\/poptech.org\/popcasts\/adrien_treuille_crowdsourcing_science\">\u00a0<strong>Adrien Treuille<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0(2011 PopTech Science Fellow)<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Meet <a href=\"http:\/\/eterna.cmu.edu\/eterna_page.php?page=me_tab\">eteRNA<\/a>, your new internet addiction. Not only is it a super-fun way to procrastinate on that thing you should be doing, it also helps to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/01\/11\/science\/11rna.html\">advance biology\u2019s understanding of RNA and its synthesis<\/a> &#8211; in a big way. Scientists from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stanford.edu\/\">Stanford University<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmu.edu\/index.shtml\">Carnegie Mellon University<\/a> have developed eteRNA as a successor to <a href=\"http:\/\/fold.it\/portal\/\">Foldit<\/a>, a popular internet-based game that proved the pattern-matching skills of amateurs could outperform some of the best protein-folding algorithms designed by scientists. They\u2019re hedging their bets that eteRNA will work similarly &#8211; <em>and are even funding the real-life synthesis of the weekly winner\u2019s RNA molecule <\/em>to see if it really does fold the same way the game predicts it should.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The scientists hope to tap the internet\u2019s ability to harness what is described as \u201ccollective intelligence,\u201d the collaborative potential of hundreds or thousands of human minds linked together. Using games to harvest participation from amateurs exploits a resource which the social scientist Clay Shirky recently described as the \u201ccognitive surplus\u201d &#8211; the idea that together, as a collection of amateurs, we internet people make a very good algorithm because we react to information presented in a game, get better at it as we go along, and make informed decisions based on what has or hasn\u2019t worked for us in the past.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re the leading edge in asking nonexperts to do really complicated things online,\u201d says Dr. Treuille, an assistant professor of computer science at Carnegie Mellon and one of the original masterminds behind the game. \u201cRNA are beautiful molecules. They are very simple and they self-assemble into complex shapes. From the scientific side, there is an RNA revolution going on. The complexity of life may be due to RNA signaling.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis [project] is like putting a molecular chess game in people\u2019s hands at a massive level,\u201d he continues. \u201cI think of this as opening up science. I think we are democratizing science.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And, so far, the democratisation is working. Although the creators warn that game players may start to see legal and ethical issues in gameplay down the road, for now, the collective intelligence is trumping professionally designed algorithms. Significantly, not only do humans outperform their computer adversaries, but the human strategies developed during the course of the game are significantly more flexible and adaptable than those of the algorithms they\u2019re pitted against.<\/p>\n<p><strong>So what are you waiting for? This isn\u2019t procrastination, it\u2019s being a part of a collective intelligence that\u2019s smart enough to take down science\u2019s finest algorithms. Click <a href=\"http:\/\/eterna.cmu.edu\/eterna_page.php?page=me_tab\" target=\"_self\">here<\/a> (you know you want to) to get synthesising!<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>(via<a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/fuckyeahmolecularbiology.tumblr.com\/post\/30379854766\/played-by-humans-scored-by-nature-meet-eterna\">fyeahmolecularbiology<\/a>)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Holy shit this is incredible. I wish so hard that this had been out when I was studying biology in college!<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ilaniel: poptech: \u201cPeople can solve much more complex problems online. We are at the edge of human knowledge.\u201d\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0Adrien Treuille\u00a0(2011 PopTech Science Fellow) Meet eteRNA, your new internet addiction. 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