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Helping to find real exoplanets by playing Eve Online
- Animats 9y agoThat's cute, but why do they need humans to detect changes in luminosity data?
- dmichulke 9y agoExactly, 'luminosity curve' sounds like a function to me and even if there were no suitable detection mechanism (which I cannot imagine), there's always a Deep Learning network that can do it.
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- majewsky 9y agoWell, if anything, the players are going to provide a massive amount of training data to that neural network.
- InclinedPlane 9y agoSome transits are easy to categorize automatically. If you have a stable, isolated star with steady brightness over time and then a single well defined transit, that's easy to automate. But not all stars are quite so cooperative. A lot of stars have variable brightness or are in multiple star systems. Those variations in brightness can be much greater than the transit signal, but humans are very good at pattern recognition and can pick up on those signals where computers would have a tough time. You can go to https://www.planethunters.org/ https://www.planethunters.org/ to look at Kepler data right now to see what it looks like. If you can automate finding every single transit a human can in that kind of data, please do so.
- Animats 9y agoThat looks like something a DNN could do.
- dagenleg 9y agoTaking 'spreadsheets in space' concept to a whole new level here.