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This blog will be used to host the commentary made during folding events, but also be used to announce events, post news, stats or anything else Folding related. 

If anyone would like to write something to be posted here, please DM me with the subject "Folding Blog" 

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LTT Summer Folding Sprint 2025

SFS 2025 - Award Ceremony

First of all, I want to apologise for the time it has taken to write this. I don't want to go into too much detail, but I am immunodeficient, which means sometimes I end up with an illness that goes and ruins my week. In this case, I started with a mild fungal infection on my scalp that decided it wanted to be systemic instead, and have been feeling pretty crap for the last 3 weeks of treatment for that. But, I had my last day of the treatment a couple days ago, and now it is working itself out
LTT Summer Folding Sprint 2025

Day Six - It's The End Of The Fold As We Know It

I have to say, I've been feeling like crap all day, but I decided to have a rest in bed for a couple hours, didn't sleep, but I feel pretty good. I'm getting old people, I remember when these late nights were easy. It's not actually that, I'm just unwell and on some horrible treatment protocol that is very unfun. But, it sure beats dying, so I'll take it, if it actually works.    Today I am watching the first Terminator movie, I've never actually seen it, and there was a DVD of it for
LTT Summer Folding Sprint 2025

Day Five - Sweet Sweet Thunder

I have had a quite frankly terrible day. But last night, that was great, a proper live local band, on my own, no one to try to meet the expectation of. I don't want to dwell on it too much, but a recent emergent treatment protocol I've needed to start is known to interfere with my antipsychotics, so I've not been having the best experience. But, I am officially three years sober, as of 27 mins from me writing this line. It has not always been easy, but it has always been the right choice, everyt
LTT Summer Folding Sprint 2025

Day Four - Guest Speaker

Good evening everyone! It is I, TheLANguy. Thank you Spec for letting me stop by and present the daily update. We are now more than halfway through the event and the heat isn't stopping yet! Will your hardware survive the test?   First, I must tell you what I'm listening to. In case you have not already heard, yesterday Brian Wilson passed away. Today I have been listening to his work with the Beach Boys. Right now I am listening to Smile! It is certainly a masterpiece. https://open.
LTT Summer Folding Sprint 2025

Day Three - Dichotomy

Ladles and gentlespoons, welcome to another update from me. I had to call in sick yesterday, but not for illness; instead, I had my first day at a new job. I always told myself I would never work in IT after my degree. I hated the subject professionally... And yet, here I am. On my first say I completely reorganised their HR management, they were using names not UUIDs for everything. And mistakes have slowly crept in from the increasing workload on a static-sized team. So they now have a UUID sy
LTT Summer Folding Sprint 2025

Day One - Half a Bill in One Day

Ladles and gentlespoons, welcome, welcome to the Great Linus Bake Off... Err... I mean the summer folding sprint, where the only thing baking... If you!    I hope you are all having a great time, or at least a better time than I have been having with Foldatron today. But, not to worry as it seems like she is not behaving after a second blood sacrifice to Khorne and some gentle taps. Secret video of me being motivated to fix it   I'm not going to lie to you all, I've been unwe
General

Emergency Deployment Orders (Please help us)

Attention all fairy tale things... The BOINC Pent has a GPU project coming up... Help us out, let us show the Pent what the 2nd best ranked FaH Team can do. Please, I am making a personal request for everyone to get involved, it is only 3 days, and we need every GPU we can get    @TheLANguy Can we get a guide ASAP, drop a comment below of the guide when you make it.  It is rare that I ask you to redirect your compute away from folding at home. But today, on this day, I
BBWUB25

BBWUB - Finale

So today I have my first day at college, I did sign up to the evening classes rather than the daytime classes. So I have some time to kill before I need to hear out so I thought let's smash out a blog post! My PC has been perfectly stable since closing the door overnight to stop the cat sleeping on the radiator. I'm not sure what I'm going to do when it get's warmer and I can't do that.    First of all, I would like to thank @cbigfoot for being a diamond geezer and sorting out all of t
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BBWUB25

BBWUB(2025) - It Was The Cat... Maybe

So, I am now somewhat confident the PC crashing overnight was the cats doing. After closing the door(and opening the window) it seems despite the higher room tempurature, the PC ran all night. Frustrating sometimes having cats, but I do love them. I'm a little tired today which is surprising becuase I slept quite well overall.    I had some things to take care of today, and that means this blog is once again later than I would personally like, but this is my birthday party after all. T
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BBWUB(2025) - The Cat Is Sus

So, my PC died again overnight, and at first, I was thinking, I guess the chip is dying, but then I remembered how the cat liked to lay on the radiator and the computer doesn't like that. So I'm going to close the door to my office and see if it happens again tonight. I will keep you all updated on how it goes.    We are already more than halfway through the event and I have to say, it is kinda weird not being up at midnight to do updates, but I am quite liking sleeping like a function
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BBWUB25

BBWUB(2025) - I'm A Student Now

Guys, first of all I would like to apologise for how late this blog is, I ended up struggling to sleep, then overslept and had to rush about to get to the enrollment event. But, I can once again get student discount say I'm learning in an academic setting.  So what did I choose, as many of you know I didn't choose before the event event. I ended up choosing to do a Level 2 in Counselling Skills and Entry Level BSL(Sign Language). I'll be honest, I signed up to BSL because it was free and wo
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GOTSpectrum in BBWUB25

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BBWUB25

BBWUB(2025) - The WUs Must Flow!

And here we are for yet another blog post, this one is a little later in the day than planned, but I ended up doing Spanish in the morning as I’m going out this afternoon. It’s nice to see everyone ramping up their production rates and firing on all cylinders.    I have to say getting up early is still weird for me, but I’m slowly starting to get used to it. I’ve also been caffeine-free for the last week or so. Which is pretty big for me as I used to drink 3 energy drinks a day plus co
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GOTSpectrum in BBWUB25

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BBWUB25

BBWUB(2025) - Work Units! You Got Some?

The first day of the week has passed and I have to say, we didn't do too bad to say we have only 30 people signed up for the event.  I'm not planning to do massive blog posts for this event, in part due to the low number of people signed up and the fact that I'm enjoying a little time before I start college. But, thank you, to everyone who signed up to help me celebrate my birthday with some folding, I really do appreciate it.    My PC seems to have become unstable over the last 24 h
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GOTSpectrum in BBWUB25

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General

Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas Ladles and Gentlespoons,    I hope you have all had a fantastic day. For me, I spent the day alone. Which was somewhat my own choice, but also not. In all honesty, it’s been fine, I’ve been playing with Linux on android with emulation. I’m running into some bugs trying to get things running, so, I need to root the phone. But that is a task for tomorrow.    This is the first Christmas update from me, but I wanted to spend a little time thanking everyone. First
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GOTSpectrum in General

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Folding Month VII

Folding Month VII Awards Ceremony

This event was my first event since starting my new ADHD meds. In truth, I didn’t think the medication was helping to any great degree. But that was for one simple reason… I got so used to being unable to push myself, that I just stopped trying. But, this event has shown me that, I can, in fact, apply myself. So I have signed up for a number of online classes, and I’m looking forward to the future for the first time in many years.    For the last time for this event, I should post some
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GOTSpectrum in Folding Month VII

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Folding Month VII

FMVII - Day Thirty Four - This Isn't The End; It's Just A New Beginning

I have to say, this event has been one of my favourites, it has gone quickly, hasn’t been particularly stressful, no one’s username broke the script and I have not missed a single blog post, which is not something that I can say about past events. This has been a really great event in all honesty, my pain hasn’t been too bad, I only ended up in the hospital once and it was a scheduled appointment. I think I’ll try to do it like this again next year.    MUSIC, I’m listening to Lorna Sho
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GOTSpectrum in Folding Month VII

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Folding Month VII

FMVII - Day Thirty Three - [Redacted] Is Such A Good Website

[This is added after the fact; In past events days like today would have been a missed blog post. But not anymore, I am dedicated, I am fixated, I am dependable. We got this] Today has been a not-terrible day. I was up until 7am, which is the problem when you have a friend group online that spans three continents and something happens that makes the whole community want to come together. But I will admit that I have used all of my mental spoons today so this is going to be a challenge to write.
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GOTSpectrum in Folding Month VII

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Folding Month VII

FMVII - Day Thirty Two - Nothing Lasts Forever

The days of the event are winding down, and with each passing minute, the spirit of the fold grows ever more dim. But do not fear, because one thing is clear. The fold will never die, or so is said by, I. Take solace in the deeds of kindness, as we help to cure medical blindness. For we are one with the fold, if only we could be so bold.    Sorry about that, I’ve been doing a creative writing course today and it seems I was still in that kind of mindset. What am I listening to today, y
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GOTSpectrum in Folding Month VII

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Folding Month VII

FMVII - Day Thirty One - Emo Country Music

I really need to say how much I love this keyboard. I’ve already written a few hundred thousand words with it over the last few weeks, between blogs, chatting, working on personal projects and such. I never really thought that the difference between Cherry and generic switches would have impacted my typing speed to such an extent. But, it seems that it does in fact have a significant impact on my typing speed. I’m about 20% faster on this keyboard than my last. Which is quite a difference to say
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GOTSpectrum in Folding Month VII

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Folding Month VII

FMVII - Day Thirty - Reflection

So guys, I guess we should lead with the headline news that as of the time of writing the team as a whole has produced     100,659,738,291 points this month. Making it the most points we have ever managed in a one month period. The last highest was just shy of 96 billion during Folding Month VI. Thank you to everyone who has folded over the last month. No matter if you have only folded on a RaspPi or on 8 GPUs you are ranting from Amazon. Every year you guys top the last year's event and I reall
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GOTSpectrum in Folding Month VII

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Folding Month VII

FMVII - Day Twenty Nine - Sleepy

I cannot begin to explain to you all how tired I am. Many of you know that I did not sleep very well last night. I ended up only getting around 3 hours of sleep. Why? Well, the homeless person the police were looking for came back. Which you may ask, why does that mean I didn’t sleep well? At 5:45 the police came to arrest the guy, and were very loud about it. But it wasn’t a quick go of it. The guy ended up having a weapon and claimed he had a hostage. He didn’t, but they had to treat it like t
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GOTSpectrum in Folding Month VII

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Folding Month VII

FMVII - Day Twenty Eight - The Final Week Starts Now

The end of week four has now passed. That means there is only one week remaining of the event. Will there be any last mad dashes in an attempt to get a better rank, or will everyone continue with business as normal and just sail through this last week? I got woken up this morning at 0830 by a policeman knocking at the door. I thought they were gonna raid me for growing weed, seeing as they used thermal imaging and power meter readings. Let’s just say, It gets very warm in here and I use a lot of
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GOTSpectrum in Folding Month VII

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Folding Month VII

FMVII - Day Twenty Seven - One Billion Points For Me

Today has been another unusual day for me. I really don’t know what I’ve done today—completely no knowledge. Which may seem unusual to you but for me it is somewhat a common occurrence. Some of the joys of having mental health like I do is the fact I often disassociate for periods of time. Just flying on auto-pilot doing a range of tasks. This is the reason I don’t fancy learning to drive, because god only knows where I would end up!    Music! Today I am listening to Jeff Wayne’s The W
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GOTSpectrum in Folding Month VII

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Folding Month VII

FMVII - Day Twenty Six - Uhh... Nuclear Reactors and Isolation

Well, what a day I have had. First of all my disability was not being kind to me and as such I ended up being in bed until almost three PM. I don’t really enjoy such days, and it is very difficult for me to explain it in terms others would understand. Chronic fatigue is one of my most hated symptoms, because like today, I can be in relatively acceptable levels of pain. But be so physically exhausted that I can’t even walk. It is not often I get as bad as I have been today, it is an occurrence of
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GOTSpectrum in Folding Month VII

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Folding Month VII

FMVII - Day Twenty Fine - A New Record!!!

Well, it is time to congratulate Kev. He has shown us that you don’t need to own hardware to win. And setting a new record for Folding Month history is a testament to that fact. I remember in the early days when we considered the use of cloud computing to be cheating, not in the sense that we would disqualify someone. But at the time it felt like cheating to those of us who don’t have a credit card. Back then you needed a credit card to rent compute time ysee. But as it became more available to
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GOTSpectrum in Folding Month VII

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