Citybound VS Zooniverse

Https://aeplay.org/citybound might be interesting or the talks related to it given that (afaik) it simulates traffic better than simcity. - Source: Hacker News / about 1 year ago

However, there has been some research and experimentation with it, namely Citybound can (and does) distribute the simulation work across different players playing in the same instance, but this is "only" a Bachelor (or Master or PhD, whatever) thesis, not really a fully playable game. Source: almost 2 years ago

Citybound – A city building game using actor-based distributed simulation\ (63 comments). Source: almost 2 years ago

I don't know about Lunatic, but there's a bunch of Rust actor frameworks that run on many machines. I think I saw one that supported moving an actors between machines For example, Kay https://github.com/aeplay/kay (used in https://aeplay.org/citybound) I'm less sure about Axiom https://docs.rs/axiom/0.2.1/axiom/ And then there is Bastion https://crates.io/crates/bastion that I think allows moving an actor to... - Source: Hacker News / over 2 years ago

It's not NASA, but check out zooniverse.org if you haven't already. They have a rotating series of projects where you can get involved analyzing all sorts of things. Right now one of them is identifying distant galaxies to help measure dark energy. Source: 10 months ago

There are plenty where you do things like classify galaxies from photos, transcribe handwritten scientific notes, etc. No experience necessary. Just google. zooniverse.org, etc. Source: 11 months ago

Volunteered on zooniverse.org where I helped identify and research wildlife and aquatic animals in photos to rescue and aid them. Source: over 1 year ago

Stuff like Zooniverse maybe? You can help researchers sort and analyze large amounts of data on a ton of different topics. Source: about 2 years ago

Before covid, I would have said I was an introvert, too. Surprise? I guess I’m not as much as I thought? You make a good point about volunteer work, when I had nothing else to do I started volunteering on zooniverse.org to keep busy. I think one way or the other, enough people would start wanting to do some kind of projects or work that not everyone would be sitting at home all the time, even if in the future not... Source: over 2 years ago