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I looked up the word bastet and found "Egyptian cat goddess". I'm sure that's not the meaning here. What is it?

https://github.com/FoldingAtHome/fah-we ... /issues/88

That is exactly the meaning meant - https://foldingathome.org/foldinghome-v8-client-guide/.

We are excited to announce version 8 of the Folding@home software. V8 has been code named “Bastet” in reference to the Ancient Egyptian goddess who is associated with cats and protection from disease.

OH! Good idea. I didn't realise it was version name. I also didn't realise we were curing diseases in cats!

I always thought that goddess was "Bast", apparently either name is acceptable.

Probably either different accents/pronounciations (people probably weren't so precise back then), or it's similar to "motor car" and "car", "omnibus" and "bus".

Apparently they are various transliterations from the original, and according to Wikipedia varied over time as well. Bastet would be more common in the later Egyptian, the language evolved over a couple thousand years.

But basically it's a cat in charge of humans. Oh dear.