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Hi all, this is Kevin from the Particle Clicker dev team. We made this game last weekend at the [CERN Webfest](http://webfest.web.cern.ch http://webfest.web.cer

by kdungs 12y ago

Hi all, this is Kevin from the Particle Clicker dev team. We made this game last weekend at the [CERN Webfest](http://webfest.web.cern.ch http://webfest.web.cern.ch). We didn't get much actual work done since then... Thanks a lot, this is really amazing but the game is far from perfect. We will release a mobile version soon. The code for everything is on [GitHub](https://github.com/particle-clicker/particle-clicker https://github.com/particle-clicker/particle-clicker) and we really need your help to make it better.

pronoiac 12y ago
HN doesn't allow Markdown, sadly.
- kdungs 12y ago
  Oh that's right, I always write markdown almost like a reflex... But the links are there so I guess it's okay this way.
  - pronoiac 12y ago
    Well, except CERN Webfest - http://webfest.web.cern.ch/ http://webfest.web.cern.ch/
    - kdungs 12y ago
      Now, that was just because I'm stupid. Fixed, thanks!
hliyan 12y ago
I've been doing nothing but this for the past half an hour. One thing I'd like is to be able to assign my research fellows and post docs to the more exotic areas of research so that the data collected can directly go into those areas. Right now, it doesn't feel right that all data is interchangeable -- I can use the same data to research both the W & Z bosons and the bottom quark.
- kdungs 12y ago
  That is indeed one of the points where we sacrifice correctness for simplicity. We had discussed this idea but decided to go with only one kind of data. But I completely agree with your point that in the real world data as such is not interchangeable. (Or if you think about it, a data sample could in fact be used for different analyses. Hmn...)
  - hliyan 12y ago
    So I've reached the point where I'm waiting for data to further research anti-hydrogen! But the waits now seem rather long. I need about 25 million data points, but my team's going rather slowly (they need in the order of hours to produce enough data). I don't want to increase my reputation by doing small-time research because then I'll be wasting data I need for the more frontier-level stuff. So I'm starting to get mildly impatient :-) Just some feedback, in case you want to tweak it a bit. Also, this may not be a majority opinion, but as someone with an amateurish interest in particle physics, I'd like to be able to put in a little more brainpower and domain knowledge into the game (though I haven't yet thought about how to do it).

by kdungs 12y ago

pronoiac 12y ago

HN doesn't allow Markdown, sadly.

kdungs 12y ago
Oh that's right, I always write markdown almost like a reflex... But the links are there so I guess it's okay this way.
- pronoiac 12y ago
  Well, except CERN Webfest - http://webfest.web.cern.ch/ http://webfest.web.cern.ch/
  - kdungs 12y ago
    Now, that was just because I'm stupid. Fixed, thanks!

hliyan 12y ago

I've been doing nothing but this for the past half an hour. One thing I'd like is to be able to assign my research fellows and post docs to the more exotic areas of research so that the data collected can directly go into those areas. Right now, it doesn't feel right that all data is interchangeable -- I can use the same data to research both the W & Z bosons and the bottom quark.

kdungs 12y ago
That is indeed one of the points where we sacrifice correctness for simplicity. We had discussed this idea but decided to go with only one kind of data. But I completely agree with your point that in the real world data as such is not interchangeable. (Or if you think about it, a data sample could in fact be used for different analyses. Hmn...)
- hliyan 12y ago
  So I've reached the point where I'm waiting for data to further research anti-hydrogen! But the waits now seem rather long. I need about 25 million data points, but my team's going rather slowly (they need in the order of hours to produce enough data). I don't want to increase my reputation by doing small-time research because then I'll be wasting data I need for the more frontier-level stuff. So I'm starting to get mildly impatient :-) Just some feedback, in case you want to tweak it a bit. Also, this may not be a majority opinion, but as someone with an amateurish interest in particle physics, I'd like to be able to put in a little more brainpower and domain knowledge into the game (though I haven't yet thought about how to do it).