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sirdeepcookie: DC’s Magnificent Seven

Sun, 26 May 2013 00:06:48 -0400

sirdeepcookie:

DC’s Magnificent Seven

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Sun, 26 May 2013 00:00:01 -0400

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Sat, 25 May 2013 23:58:35 -0400

oneworldoneocean: Swimmingly peacefully through the dark waters...

Sat, 25 May 2013 23:54:06 -0400

oneworldoneocean:

Swimmingly peacefully through the dark waters of the ocean the world over are marine planktonic polychaete worms in genus Tomopteris These mesmerizing creatures are relatively transparent until they shine a deep bioluminescent blue. One species, Tomopteris nisseni, is one of the few creatures on the planet to produce yellow bioluminescence.

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Sun, 05 May 2013 16:55:25 -0400

orangepek0e: I am the man of steel..

Sun, 05 May 2013 16:53:14 -0400

orangepek0e:

I am the man of steel..

comic-jazz: Trinity via kevintut

Sun, 05 May 2013 16:50:52 -0400

comic-jazz:

Trinity via kevintut

comicsforever: The Amazing Spider-Man // artwork by John Romita...

Sun, 05 May 2013 16:45:48 -0400

comicsforever:

The Amazing Spider-Man // artwork by John Romita Jr (2001)

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Thu, 28 Mar 2013 19:11:35 -0400

ganonbashsix: samus concept art

Mon, 11 Feb 2013 21:05:08 -0500

ganonbashsix:

samus concept art

Young Romance NEW 52 #1 by Kenneth Rocafort

Thu, 07 Feb 2013 05:41:21 -0500

Young Romance NEW 52 #1 by Kenneth Rocafort

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Sun, 03 Feb 2013 11:10:51 -0500

comicbookstash: From Batman and Spiderman: Disordered Minds.

Mon, 28 Jan 2013 22:11:40 -0500

comicbookstash:

From Batman and Spiderman: Disordered Minds.

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Mon, 28 Jan 2013 20:32:35 -0500

razikx6: Haha yeeeah!

Sat, 08 Sep 2012 10:56:07 -0400

razikx6:

Haha yeeeah!

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Mon, 03 Sep 2012 17:55:35 -0400

medicalschool: Played By Humans, Scored By Nature Meet eteRNA,...

Mon, 03 Sep 2012 14:07:23 -0400

medicalschool:

Played By Humans, Scored By Nature

Meet eteRNA, 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 advance biology’s understanding of RNA and its synthesis - in a big way. Scientists from Stanford University and Carnegie Mellon University have developed eteRNA as a successor to Foldit, 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’re hedging their bets that eteRNA will work similarly - and are even funding the real-life synthesis of the weekly winner’s RNA molecule to see if it really does fold the same way the game predicts it should.

The scientists hope to tap the internet’s ability to harness what is described as “collective intelligence,” 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 “cognitive surplus” - 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’t worked for us in the past.

“We’re the leading edge in asking nonexperts to do really complicated things online,” says Dr. Treuille, an assistant professor of computer science at Carnegie Mellon and one of the original masterminds behind the game. “RNA 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.”

“This [project] is like putting a molecular chess game in people’s hands at a massive level,” he continues. “I think of this as opening up science. I think we are democratizing science.”

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’re pitted against.

So what are you waiting for? This isn’t procrastination, it’s being a part of a collective intelligence that’s smart enough to take down science’s finest algorithms. Click here (you know you want to) to get synthesising!

almostamandi: This is Rinzler. He likes to fraternize with...

Sun, 02 Sep 2012 12:59:04 -0400

almostamandi:

This is Rinzler. He likes to fraternize with Death. My cat’s a badass.

iamsterlingarcher: SYG

Sun, 02 Sep 2012 12:50:15 -0400

iamsterlingarcher:

SYG

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Sun, 02 Sep 2012 09:35:48 -0400