I'm stupid musician (yes, that means dumbuser in computers :)) from Estonia.
Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home
It's nice not to waste electricity to idle process in computers, so lets them work hard.
BTW, it would be interesting to do same kind of project on basis "chess". Maybe we'll have then sometimes computer who moves starts the game 1.e2-e4 and announces mate in 40 :)
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