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Jun 10
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Foldit - Play A Video Game, Contribute To Medical Science | Scientific Blogging “Long-term, I’m hoping that we can get a significant fraction of the world’s population engaged in solving critical problems in world health, and doing it collaboratively and successfully through the game,” Baker said. “We’re trying to use the brain power of people all around the world to advance biomedical research.” Okay, here’s the most killer Mechanical Turk/”crowdsourcing” [barf] application yet. 10,000 sheep was just the beginning. For more see FaceStat and Dolores Labs.

Foldit - Play A Video Game, Contribute To Medical Science | Scientific Blogging

“Long-term, I’m hoping that we can get a significant fraction of the world’s population engaged in solving critical problems in world health, and doing it collaboratively and successfully through the game,” Baker said. “We’re trying to use the brain power of people all around the world to advance biomedical research.”

Okay, here’s the most killer Mechanical Turk/”crowdsourcing” [barf] application yet.

10,000 sheep was just the beginning.

For more see FaceStat and Dolores Labs.

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