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slowkow | 3 years ago | on: Algae-Powered Computing

The article is not easily available yet:

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https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/336039

Citation:

Howe, C., Bombelli, P., Savanth, A., Scarampi, A., Rowden, S., Green, D., Erbe, A., et al. Powering a Microprocessor by Photosynthesis. Energy and Environmental Science https://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.83468

slowkow | 5 years ago | on: Google Stories

When can we expect to find Google Stories here?

https://killedbygoogle.com/

slowkow | 5 years ago | on: Show HN: A bookmarking tool designed to help synthesize your web research

Diigo has been active since 2006. It works well enough for me.

https://www.diigo.com/

> Diigo is a multi-tool for personal knowledge management dramatically improve your workflow and productivity easy and intuitive, yet versatile and powerful

slowkow | 9 years ago | on: Ask HN: Do you still use browser bookmarks?

I use diigo. The free version lets you cache the page, annotate the page with highlights, and tag your bookmarks. The extension for Chrome works very well. They also launched some PDF annotation features, but I haven't tried that.

https://www.diigo.com/

slowkow | 9 years ago | on: Viral.js – Peer-to-peer web app distribution

I'd like to mention related work from 2014 called QMachine. You might also be interested to read the "Security" section of the article.

Wilkinson, S. R. & Almeida, J. S. QMachine: commodity supercomputing in web browsers. BMC Bioinformatics 15, 176 (2014).

http://bmcbioinformatics.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/...

"Modern web browsers can now be used as high-performance workstations"

https://github.com/qmachine/qmachine

"QM is an open-sourced, publicly available web service that acts as a messaging system for posting tasks and retrieving results over HTTP. The illustrative application described here distributes the analyses of 20 Streptococcus pneumoniae genomes for shared suffixes. Because all analytical and data retrieval tasks are executed by volunteer machines, few server resources are required. Any modern web browser can submit those tasks and/or volunteer to execute them without installing any extra plugins or programs. A client library provides high-level distribution templates including MapReduce. This stark departure from the current reliance on expensive server hardware running “download and install” software has already gathered substantial community interest, as QM received more than 2.2 million API calls from 87 countries in 12 months."