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I'm curious about this bit: "In a post on X, formerly Twitter, Jaxa shared a photograph taken by Slim of a nearby rock that it nicknamed a "toy poodle"." What
by WilTimSon 3y ago
I'm curious about this bit: "In a post on X, formerly Twitter, Jaxa shared a photograph taken by Slim of a nearby rock that it nicknamed a "toy poodle"."
What does nicknaming mean here? Is it the lander doing some sort of pattern recognition or how exactly does a machine generate a nickname?
- gliptic 3y agoIt = JAXA.
- WilTimSon 3y agoAh, makes sense. Not sure why I didn't just assume that.
- beAbU 3y agoHard to say without an actual link to the twitter post, but I suspect they followed the Curiosity/Ingenuity playbook here, creating a twitter handle that personifies the robot. Posts are made as if it's the actual probe/bot making the updates, in which case the sentence "... that it nicknamed..." makes sense.
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- numpad0 3y agoTheir spectrometer team picked candidate rocks within view of the camera, rock A, B, C... then one of spacecraft manager crew said names might be useful, and few minutes later they were all puppies. Forgot the source, sorry.
- skywhopper 3y ago"It" here refers to Jaxa, not the lander.
- kybernetikos 3y agohttps://interestingengineering.com/science/japans-moon-lander-first-images https://interestingengineering.com/science/japans-moon-lande... The team assigned nicknames, I think we're talking about Jaxa rather than Slim.