Comments on: A million galaxies in a hundred hours

By: Brian

Brian — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 04:14:23 +0000

Ha! Phil, did you see this? http://arfon.org/confessions_of_a_zoonometer_addict/

Turns out Galaxy Zoo actually classified over 2.5 million galaxies in their 100-hour sprint!

By: Brian

Brian — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 16:42:32 +0000

Tada! The one-million mark was surpassed last night. (Unfortunately I missed it — I was contributing when it was still around 930,000 but I had to sleep.)

By: Brango

Brango — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 18:14:50 +0000

I posted a link to this in a racing forum I attend and got a not entirely unexpected reply from a member who I know is a creationist, basically saying how he will use this as an opportunity to sabotage as many classifications as he can by entering the opposite of what he sees. I mean how petty is that!!

I know mis-classification is just par for the course in something like this, but what do you do about such pathetic people?

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By: Caleb

Caleb — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 14:53:24 +0000

Reminds me of the image recognition games that are out there. Basically you form a competitive or cooperative game around identifying images and feed the information back into a database. You then have very accurate and detailed information about images that otherwise wouldn’t have been possible to obtain.

It’s a very ingenious and paradigm-altering idea. Why have supercomputers spend trillions of cycles trying to compute something when nature has spent millions/billions of years evolving a highly specialized organ to do the same task? Find a way to entice people to use their biological “computers” (ie: brains) to do the processing.

Hackers also use this kind of technique to bypass captcha images on websites. They have scripts that go out and when presented with a captcha, they feed it back into a system which has actual people giving responses. Once the human answer is given, it is fed back to the script and it proceeds past the captcha.

By: scotth

scotth — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 13:00:28 +0000

Looking at some of the other clues, it must have rolled back to zero rather to 1,000,0000. Looks like we’ve “won” already.