Simon Jul 25
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oh you grew up watching tiktok? i grew up searching for aliens
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Show threadM SchommerJul 22
@valkyrie
Wow!
Show threadGraham Sutherland / PolynomialJul 25
@musevg @valkyrie I get this reference
Show threadSnoopJJul 25
@gsuberland @musevg @valkyrie poor Arecibo 
Show threadM SchommerJul 25

@SnoopJ
😭

@gsuberland @valkyrie

Show threadKlaus FrankJul 22
@valkyrie Tbh they probably saw all of our TV and radio shows and shielded all of their electromagnetic radiation towards us so that we can't detect them...
Show threadDuschmarkeJul 25
@agowa338 @valkyrie
Show threadjoëlJul 22
@valkyrie omg the nostalgia 🥰
Show threadBartoszJul 22
@valkyrie I still wonder if they found any
Show thread🔷 leckseJul 22
@valkyrie Why go to the trouble of searching when you could simply Naruto run into Area 51?
Show threadJoe DyrtJul 22
@valkyrie SETI @ home was a waay better use of energy than ai!
Show threadJiří Fiala Total LandscapingJul 25
@JoeDyrt57 @valkyrie was it though?
Show threadAdam Jul 22
@valkyrie I was sad when the project wound down. I remember installing it on my family computer when I was in middle school. I ran it all the way up to the end.
Show threadvJul 24
@adam me too it felt like the end of an era and part of my childhood that made me dream bigger than my small town
Show threadPypeBrosJul 24
@valkyrie I grew up watching defrag.exe ...
Show threadAndrei TorresJul 25
@PypeBros and listening to the music of the hard-drive clicks during defrag
Show threadPypeBrosJul 25
@andreitorres if my brother wasn't around with ScreamTracker III tunes on K7 ... quite likely.
Show threadvJul 25
@PypeBros
Show threadPypeBrosJul 25
@valkyrie yes. That one ^_^
Show threadJames TinmouthJul 24
@valkyrie or trying to crack RC5 on Amigas ❤️
Show threadTim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPEJul 24

@valkyrie I know some people who searched for aliens. They had a cast-off dish (inherited from Philips I think) in the garden (three or four metres?) and a rack of electronics analysing the signal in real time.

They had to remember to turn off the bleeper when they had party guests crashing on the floor, else the false positives work them up in the middle of the night.

Show threadℒӱḏɩę  💾Jul 24
@valkyrie I did folding@home on my dual athlon MP 1800 rig and was scoring serious points
Show threadLEJ.approach 🇺🇦Jul 24
@valkyrie
Good old SETI@Home! Brings back some great memories!
Show threadFaraiweJul 24

@valkyrie aw, maaaaan, I recall testing #SETI for #BeOS in 199... uh... no, 2001... no, 2002....... uh... I'm ... uh ... old.

( http://www.bebits.com/app/813 )

Cc @Kancept

Show threadleberschnitzelJul 24
@valkyrie oooh I remember seti!
Show threadseungjinJul 24
@valkyrie
Science is fun.
Show threadavatastic  Jul 24
@valkyrie it was only 5 years ago they stopped sending out work to boinc, which is something I learned today.
Show threadKate 57duckyJul 24
@valkyrie ... nowadays I'm looking for foldable proteins ... but before there were the aliens... ​​
Show threadБРОНЗЫ БИТЬJul 24
@valkyrie now this is the content I'm here for ❤️
Show threadTheramansi 🏳️‍🌈🦁✊🏽💉'dJul 24

@valkyrie

My SETI@home stats:

Total credit 39,577,723
Recent average credit 62.55
SETI@home classic workunits 250
SETI@home classic CPU time 3,231 hours

Show threadMark Malowany 🇨🇦Jul 25

@Theramansi @valkyrie I can still log into my account! 😀

34 classic work units
1610 hrs classic CPU time

Show threadWokStationJul 24
@valkyrie I could crunch so many seti blocks now...
Show threadMore boobs than brainsJul 24
@valkyrie @atax1a I remember setting up multiple computers to help with that!
Show threadRay59Jul 24

@valkyrie

How old were you when you joined ICE? 😉

Show threadSaulo Popov ZambiasiJul 24
@valkyrie I'm feeling nostalgic now. I had two computers at home working with the seti@home program back in my college days in the 90s.
Show threadJeffJul 24
@valkyrie I think about this memory every single time I see the crowd-sourced [protein] folding@ home or even crypto mining.
Show threadJeroen BaertJul 24
@valkyrie Also: folding proteins
Show threadGeorge 🍦🚲 🥾 ✌️🌎 🌌Jul 24
@valkyrie Hadn't thought about SETI in a long time. I used to have 3 desktops doing this at work and one at home.
Show threadFurbland's Very Cool Mastodon™Jul 25
@valkyrie Voices of the Void (2022)
Show thread🏳️‍⚧️ mascs with strapsJul 25
@valkyrie I remember that one. Also Folding@Home which is apparently still an active project!
Show threadPatashu (Dragon Style!)Jul 25

@valkyrie

core memory unlocked

Show threadSynn Fynn Jul 25

@valkyrie

I remember running SETI on Solaris back in the day. Long time ago. What a sight for sore eyes. Wow.

Show thread🐻 Midtown Masochist (RB-050)Jul 25
@valkyrie Oh, I left SETI running on my computer for years. All that down time used for a good purpose. 😃
Show threadMark Malowany 🇨🇦Jul 25
@valkyrie 💯
Show threadGarrett LatimerJul 25
@valkyrie That brings back some *memories*.
Show threadJason, Human, Average Jul 25
@valkyrie That's a fine hit from the nostalgia bong. I remember seeing all the computers in the Lab running this. It was a beautiful sight. Right up there with flying toasters.
Show thread$ Enya21🔥ΘΔ | the toolfoxJul 25
@valkyrie "source: arecibo radio observatory" RIP
Show threadWideEyedCurious 🇺🇸 💙 🇺🇦 & 🇨🇦Jul 25
@valkyrie I remember doing that. 😊
Show threadDario LandazuriJul 25
@valkyrie I ran distributed.net instead. :)
Show threadJames BlandingJul 25
@kuoirad @valkyrie Same. I got a talking-to by the chair of the CS department at school for running it on a bunch of their shell servers. Then later he hired me as a student sysadmin to replace the knucklehead that was previously filling the role and who had reported me, so it all worked out.
Show threadzerotensorJul 25
@valkyrie @setiinstitute
Show threadChristian Kent   𝘊𝘒 :＼﹥Jul 25
@valkyrie @nina_kali_nina Did you find any alien bitcoin?
Show threadNina KalininaJul 25
@whophd @valkyrie nope ;(
Show threadChristian Kent   𝘊𝘒 :＼﹥Jul 25

@nina_kali_nina @valkyrie 😏

I deep-dived into the “final results” after they decommissioned it (after all, I contributed lots of CPU), and I think there were a dozen candidates sent for review — with no further news

But the retirement of distributed processing was also fascinating — I think it became “too much data” which is ironic, because it was supposed to scale up for exactly that; but it was the transport of the data that was harder at “very” large scales, surpassing even the challenge of processing it

So in a weird summary:

- Small data: trivial to move, easy to process local

- Large data: takes work to distribute broadly, but more viable to process distributively

- Very large data: impossible to distribute, but recently viable to process on-site or multi-site

So what it reminds me of is ARPANET, the academic networks predating the public internet

Show threadDatalineJul 25
@valkyrie I miss this so much :')
Show thread🚲Jul 25
@valkyrie @SnoopJ Welp, that’s a nostalgia hit all right…
Show threadJoel LeBlancJul 25

@valkyrie

😍

Show threadLJJul 25
@valkyrie my uncle was in charge of that program!!
Show threadShadowbottleJul 25
@valkyrie @bigzaphod ::gets catty about folding@home:: (;