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I had the same thought. Not bashing their work I am genuinely curios.

For this specific case I was suprised to see they have a dedicated website for such questions! So I guess it is quite common.... (They seem very serious about it since i couldn't even mark the text to copy it here! )

>Tolkien’s original drawings, paintings, maps, designs, scripts and other graphic works are protected by copyright and may not be copied. The Tolkien Estate takes action against parties who try to commercialise Tolkien’s works, including maps of Middle-earth, the One Ring Inscription and other images.

[0] https://www.tolkienestate.com/frequently-asked-questions-and...


The key is that the original maps are copyrighted, and direct derivatives may fall under that, too - but the general information cannot be copyrighted (at least in the USA).

You could make a freeway map of Eriador, for example.

And see all the "unofficial" books around Minecraft or Harry Potter (or lord of the rings): https://www.amazon.com/s?k=unofficial+lord+of+the+rings

And maps "in the style" of Tolkien but covering the real world or other properties are likely entirely fine.


I guess this is the only way. I don't think we need novel approach and I don't consider this a novel one since we already have government agencies verifying approved processes in other areas so why not content distrubution.


"Because social media already has the age info exactly?" I don't know what this question means. What information does social media have "exactly"?


Facebook can make a very accurate guess from your photos, your posts, your friends' ages, and the data brokers they link it all up with.


You said it. An accurate _guess_. Not exactly.


When I registered my account I gave my date of birth didn't I?


Late to this post but I have to ask. People made fun of you? Really? I have never owned bluetooth headphones but I've never heard a single comment about that. What kind of enviroment are you in? Leave!


Gmail was an acquisition? I thought it was internal? I remember them launching as an invite only (how i got mine) and it went from there. What is the story?


I didn't know what to expect when clicking an URL to "My _spicy_ take on vibe coding for PMs". I'm a little disapointed of the lack of risque content though.


Wasn't that the model used to hack a banking app?


>Most radio SETI projects process data in near real-time using special purpose analyzers at the telescope. SETI@home takes a different approach. It records digital time-domain (also called baseband) data, and distributes it over the internet to large numbers of computers that process the data, using both CPUs and GPUs.

Definetly something going on here I'm not following.

>SETI@home is in hiberation. We are no longer distributing tasks. [0]

Is this paper really old or something? I would love to turn on my clients again :D

[0 ]https://setiathome.berkeley.edu/


The distributed compute part of the project has turned off but data analysis continues.

I know what you mean these types of projects inspired me to contribute as a young citizen scientist.

A different domain, but https://foldingathome.org/ is still running. Using distributed compute to study protein folding.


If you are looking for a good list of these types of projects: https://boinc.berkeley.edu/projects.php


Wasn't this largely solved by DeepMind's AlphaFold?

https://alphafold.ebi.ac.uk/


I'd discourage claiming any biological process is "solved."

But to your point: No--AlphaFold is an amazing machine learning approach to predicting protein structure but Folding@Home is still immensely useful for simulating how proteins fold up over a timescale. They are/will be complimentary methods.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11892350/


no, alphafold is basically just a static structure predictor. folding@home explicitly models the folding process (the journey, not just the destination).


They went into hibernation, in terms of accepting new inputs, several years ago. They had more data than they could handle and switched to just analyzing existing data and final reports.


Yeah i was an hour from boarding my overnight bus and it seems i got game over for not being at a hotel.

>There are just 2 rules 1. You can't fly 2. You must be in a hotel by 2am unless you have overnight transport

Guess the "have" doesn't work as i thought.


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