mmm a "zoo" project yeah, crowdsourcing science like this is actually pretty popular. They use it for determining galaxy types and finding planets... unfortunat

mmm a "zoo" project yeah, crowdsourcing science like this is actually pretty popular. They use it for determining galaxy types and finding planets... unfortunately it's often highly biased once you get to the realm of Machine Learning failure, you end up in a regime of false signals that can easily fudge amateurs like galaxies, crowdsourcing science found that that most (like a significant portion of most) galaxies spin clockwise or something, but it should be purely random. This was a big blow to the galaxy-zoo project from like 8 years ago. crowdsourcing science is hugely powerful, but I don't think it should be tackled or implemented by amateurs really... crowdsourcing should really be in the form of spare CPU cycles like BOINC projects... Although. Asteroid detection does basically operate on the algorithm this guy proposes. emphasis on _basically_ there are literally thousands of types of variable objects that can flicker out and thousands which can flicker in. and a pure random background which gives strong positive signal on an instantaneous timescale. what he's doing is basically 1960s tech with a million grad students. I also want to blow a load on this guy's burger for this fucking statement: "A year ago, I set aside my doubts and started to innovate in the space industry as a complete outsider." Give this fuck 3 hours at CfA and see how confident he is of innovating anything. The real people (CSCI People) changing astrophysics are the deep machine learning guys, the data structure guys and the mapping algorithm guys. not the bloggers.