{"id":5166,"date":"2010-12-06T08:59:55","date_gmt":"2010-12-06T12:59:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/?p=5166"},"modified":"2010-12-06T08:59:55","modified_gmt":"2010-12-06T12:59:55","slug":"play-a-game-help-save-humanity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/?p=5166","title":{"rendered":"Play a Game, Help Save Humanity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/phylo-150x82.jpg\" alt=\"Phylo\" title=\"Phylo\" width=\"150\" height=\"82\" class=\"contentimg\" \/>Humans are still better than computers at solving certain kinds of problems, so crowdsourcing is becoming a common way to harness lots of meat-based processing power.  Turning the problem into a game guarantees even more participation.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/phylo.cs.mcgill.ca\/eng\/index.html\">Phylo<\/a> asks players to find the best arrangement of colorful little boxes, whilst behind the scenes they&#8217;re actually aligning genome sequences.  Everybody&#8217;s alignments are analyzed by the game and will be included in a global database.<\/p>\n<p>This sounds like an <em>excellent<\/em> excuse the next time you&#8217;re accused of wasting time by playing games.<\/p>\n<p><i>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/discoblog\/\">Discoblog<\/a>)<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Humans are still better than computers at solving certain kinds of problems, so crowdsourcing is becoming a common way to harness lots of meat-based processing power. Turning the problem into a game guarantees even more participation. Phylo asks players to find the best arrangement of colorful little boxes, whilst behind the scenes they&#8217;re actually aligning [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5166"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5166"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5166\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5175,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5166\/revisions\/5175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}