Brian Bulkowski

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Up-to-date Happenings

It's April in Silicon Valley, and much is afoot. In particular, it seems like good smaller companies have funding, and are looking for senior engineers. Similarly, large companies are starting projects. I'm interested in getting involved with a product-oriented company on a long term basis. Let me know if you have any opportunities.

Rosin Coven is a finalist in Coast Recording's "Battle of the Bands". Insane - we're a bit old for a Battle of the Bands, but with a $7,000-value recording package up for grabs, we'll get excited. The shoot-out, the final battle will be Tuesday April 24th at the Independant in SF. We'll be late - Midnight show - come out and support if you can! Otherwise, catch us at our Fillmore debut on May 12th (Saturday, BABY!)


Ann Simon's book is getting closer to done - we've selected a cover artist (Maria Porges, see her at Trillium Press), and are partially done with the typesetting. The manuscript will be better than what is online, but none of the words have changed. We're going to end up doing some of the typesetting ourselves - thanks, Travis, for helping us get this far! - let me know if you know a good freelance typesetter with poetry experience willing to be paid for a few days of work.

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Donate cycles to Folding!

Please do this. Go to their site and download their screensaver.

The Folding project is important, explaining a vital process that can only be explained through a massive distributed computer. The Stanford Folding Project attempts to solve the problem of protien folding, which determines how a DNA sequence can code for a certain protein. Once we understand how this works, we can modify sequences to create new protiens, instead of dropping sequences from one species to another.

An interesting note is Folding's use of the graphics processors, and how they toast general purpose processors. More an issue of how the folding problem is similar to graphics than a statement about graphics processors.

If you're running Seti@Home - switch to folding. Solve our real problems here, first.


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