Talk:1430: Proteins - Revision history

92.62.120.134: signed my comment

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92.62.120.134 at 13:21, 11 November 2025

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172.71.241.57: Yeah, but no... If I thought it was worth also replying...

2025-04-20T09:04:23Z

Yeah, but no... If I thought it was worth also replying...

172.68.7.65 at 02:19, 20 April 2025

2025-04-20T02:19:57Z

172.69.23.21 at 23:28, 23 October 2024

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162.158.159.47 at 12:23, 9 January 2023

2023-01-09T12:23:11Z

172.70.126.117: I really hope I didn't just break something

2023-01-09T03:29:08Z

I really hope I didn't just break something

Tsumikiminiwa: meow adding a comment

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meow adding a comment

RedHatGuy68 at 02:12, 2 November 2015

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162.158.255.84 at 22:26, 22 August 2015

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	Why can't we just look at proteins to see how they fold? {{unsigned ip\|172.68.7.65\|02:19, 20 April 2025}}		Why can't we just look at proteins to see how they fold? {{unsigned ip\|172.68.7.65\|02:19, 20 April 2025}}

−	Hi. I think part of the joke in the end is that if you correctly fold the right set of proteins, you can literally create a living crane (starting from the DNA with just one cell).	+	Hi. I think part of the joke in the end is that if you correctly fold the right set of proteins, you can literally create a living crane (starting from the DNA with just one cell).[[Special:Contributions/92.62.120.134\|92.62.120.134]] 13:23, 11 November 2025 (UTC)

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	Why can't we just look at proteins to see how they fold? {{unsigned ip\|172.68.7.65\|02:19, 20 April 2025}}		Why can't we just look at proteins to see how they fold? {{unsigned ip\|172.68.7.65\|02:19, 20 April 2025}}
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		+	Hi. I think part of the joke in the end is that if you correctly fold the right set of proteins, you can literally create a living crane (starting from the DNA with just one cell).

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	While Random-ing through xkcd in 2024, I stumbled upon this one. I'm just here to note that a mere ten years later, the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry went to the teams that actually solved protein folding. So problems that once seemed nearly unsolvable sometimes become tractable. -- [[Special:Contributions/172.69.23.21\|172.69.23.21]] 23:28, 23 October 2024 (UTC)		While Random-ing through xkcd in 2024, I stumbled upon this one. I'm just here to note that a mere ten years later, the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry went to the teams that actually solved protein folding. So problems that once seemed nearly unsolvable sometimes become tractable. -- [[Special:Contributions/172.69.23.21\|172.69.23.21]] 23:28, 23 October 2024 (UTC)

−	Why can't we just look at proteins to see how they fold?	+	Why can't we just look at proteins to see how they fold? {{unsigned ip\|172.68.7.65\|02:19, 20 April 2025}}

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	While Random-ing through xkcd in 2024, I stumbled upon this one. I'm just here to note that a mere ten years later, the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry went to the teams that actually solved protein folding. So problems that once seemed nearly unsolvable sometimes become tractable. -- [[Special:Contributions/172.69.23.21\|172.69.23.21]] 23:28, 23 October 2024 (UTC)		While Random-ing through xkcd in 2024, I stumbled upon this one. I'm just here to note that a mere ten years later, the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry went to the teams that actually solved protein folding. So problems that once seemed nearly unsolvable sometimes become tractable. -- [[Special:Contributions/172.69.23.21\|172.69.23.21]] 23:28, 23 October 2024 (UTC)
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		+	Why can't we just look at proteins to see how they fold?

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	No idea how this works, but I'm going to try to comment. When I read this the first time I thought they were talking about the construction type of crane.[[Special:Contributions/172.70.126.117\|172.70.126.117]] 03:29, 9 January 2023 (UTC)		No idea how this works, but I'm going to try to comment. When I read this the first time I thought they were talking about the construction type of crane.[[Special:Contributions/172.70.126.117\|172.70.126.117]] 03:29, 9 January 2023 (UTC)
	:I'm not adding any useful comment, except to say that you ''did'' comment very well. Bottom-posted, added the signature, etc... Better than some do. Be proud of yourself. (And I understand your mental mismatch, even though I didn't go down the same {{w\|Garden-path sentence\|garden path}} as you.) [[Special:Contributions/162.158.159.47\|162.158.159.47]] 12:23, 9 January 2023 (UTC)		:I'm not adding any useful comment, except to say that you ''did'' comment very well. Bottom-posted, added the signature, etc... Better than some do. Be proud of yourself. (And I understand your mental mismatch, even though I didn't go down the same {{w\|Garden-path sentence\|garden path}} as you.) [[Special:Contributions/162.158.159.47\|162.158.159.47]] 12:23, 9 January 2023 (UTC)
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		+	While Random-ing through xkcd in 2024, I stumbled upon this one. I'm just here to note that a mere ten years later, the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry went to the teams that actually solved protein folding. So problems that once seemed nearly unsolvable sometimes become tractable. -- [[Special:Contributions/172.69.23.21\|172.69.23.21]] 23:28, 23 October 2024 (UTC)

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	No idea how this works, but I'm going to try to comment. When I read this the first time I thought they were talking about the construction type of crane.[[Special:Contributions/172.70.126.117\|172.70.126.117]] 03:29, 9 January 2023 (UTC)		No idea how this works, but I'm going to try to comment. When I read this the first time I thought they were talking about the construction type of crane.[[Special:Contributions/172.70.126.117\|172.70.126.117]] 03:29, 9 January 2023 (UTC)
		+	:I'm not adding any useful comment, except to say that you ''did'' comment very well. Bottom-posted, added the signature, etc... Better than some do. Be proud of yourself. (And I understand your mental mismatch, even though I didn't go down the same {{w\|Garden-path sentence\|garden path}} as you.) [[Special:Contributions/162.158.159.47\|162.158.159.47]] 12:23, 9 January 2023 (UTC)

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	if (a==true){computer works}		if (a==true){computer works}
	That way, if the computer tries to comment out something, it stops working and I might be overthinking this. [[User:RedHatGuy68\|RedHatGuy68]] ([[User talk:RedHatGuy68\|talk]]) 02:12, 2 November 2015 (UTC)		That way, if the computer tries to comment out something, it stops working and I might be overthinking this. [[User:RedHatGuy68\|RedHatGuy68]] ([[User talk:RedHatGuy68\|talk]]) 02:12, 2 November 2015 (UTC)
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		+	No idea how this works, but I'm going to try to comment. When I read this the first time I thought they were talking about the construction type of crane.[[Special:Contributions/172.70.126.117\|172.70.126.117]] 03:29, 9 January 2023 (UTC)

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 ::Is there an xkcd team on any of the distributed computing projects?  Or does someone want to put one together?  [[User:Nealmcb|Nealmcb]] ([[User talk:Nealmcb|talk]]) 22:02, 6 October 2014 (UTC)
 :::I would like to join a team [[User:RecentlyChanged|RecentlyChanged]] ([[User talk:RecentlyChanged|talk]])
 This comic has some similarities to [[1425: Tasks]]. It can be difficult for the public (or experts for that matter) to grasp the complexity of a task for a computer. --[[User:Pudder|Pudder]] ([[User talk:Pudder|talk]]) 09:13, 6 October 2014 (UTC)

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	I find this explanation a bit too technical. For all I know, there's no simpler way to explain this. Not going to add an incomplete tag, but maybe someone someday will see this and try to fix it. [[Special:Contributions/162.158.255.84\|162.158.255.84]] 22:26, 22 August 2015 (UTC)		I find this explanation a bit too technical. For all I know, there's no simpler way to explain this. Not going to add an incomplete tag, but maybe someone someday will see this and try to fix it. [[Special:Contributions/162.158.255.84\|162.158.255.84]] 22:26, 22 August 2015 (UTC)
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		+	I wonder if we could theoretically prevent computers from becoming self-aware by inputting a line that makes any processing power that is not being used work on folding@home or work on finding prime numbers or something. Then that line of code could be linked to a boolean that allows the computer to do something vital, like this:
		+	bool a=false;
		+	int pr;
		+	some kind of function that only uses any idle memory{
		+	while (true){
		+	if (pr is prime){print pr;
		+	a=true;}
		+	else {pr++;
		+	a=true:}
		+	}
		+	a=false}
		+	}
		+	if (a==true){computer works}
		+	That way, if the computer tries to comment out something, it stops working and I might be overthinking this. [[User:RedHatGuy68\|RedHatGuy68]] ([[User talk:RedHatGuy68\|talk]]) 02:12, 2 November 2015 (UTC)

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	Going to start using the Folding@Home Chrome web applet. Having seen the mentions here of forming an xkcd/explainxkcd team, I'm all for it! [[User:Boct1584\|Boct1584]] ([[User talk:Boct1584\|talk]]) 01:46, 20 April 2015 (UTC)		Going to start using the Folding@Home Chrome web applet. Having seen the mentions here of forming an xkcd/explainxkcd team, I'm all for it! [[User:Boct1584\|Boct1584]] ([[User talk:Boct1584\|talk]]) 01:46, 20 April 2015 (UTC)
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		+	I find this explanation a bit too technical. For all I know, there's no simpler way to explain this. Not going to add an incomplete tag, but maybe someone someday will see this and try to fix it. [[Special:Contributions/162.158.255.84\|162.158.255.84]] 22:26, 22 August 2015 (UTC)