“The alternative for scientists is to look everywhere,” Brinkman said in regards to how players are analyzing 40 dimensions of data on a 2D plane that speeds up data research greatly. “Scientists can’t do that, though, because to analyze just one sample, it takes an hour… but we have an infinite amount of monkeys, all banging away on typewriters.”

Gamers bodied

too bad the game sucks dick and is just capitalist grind simulator

Another W for neal stephenson

They admit 60% of this is covid research, 40% is machine learning practice