Jun 29 2008
Another Interesting Thing For My Theoretical Podcast
From Citizen Astronomy, ScienceNews:
From a scientific standpoint, Galaxy Zoo started paying dividends almost from day one. “This is not something we expected,” notes Chris Lintott, an Oxford University scientist and “zookeeper.” The hope was that hundreds of people would log on. To date, almost 150,000 have.
And the idea that many of the images might one day be categorized illustrates how low the zookeepers’ expectations had been. On average, each of the images on the site has already been seen and characterized by 50 people. Those 50 million photo evaluations “is simply fantastic,” Lintott says, “and illustrates for us one of the huge advantages of getting the public involved. It gives us an error bar on the classifications.”
(Also, there’s Sacre Bleu Wine.)
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This podcast you speak of . . . it sure is taking its time getting made. Who do you think you are Axel Rose? Then again, “Smile” took decades to complete and that turned out pretty well.
Unfortunately, beginning a new project ranks down below “finding my next contract” and “getting things situated for grad school”.
When I decided to move to Durham, I also decided to put pretty much everything on hold until after I get there. :(