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Shinobi Gaiden
Advanced Cruncher Joined: Sep 27, 2005 Post Count: 92 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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No idea if this is a good idea or not: How about letting the people who processed a useful unit know (account only: not publicly) that their computation served a critical calculation. "You crunched the winning number" etc...
Its not about pride by points for sure, but maybe a little "i made a difference" zeal would help fuel the passion flames of participation. Thanks |
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gb009761
Master Cruncher Scotland Joined: Apr 6, 2005 Post Count: 2977 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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It's a good idea, although what would the criteria be for 'it being a useful unit'?, as each and every unit crunched is (in my eyes) a useful unit crunched - due to it either eliminating a possibility or providing the project scientists with some evidence that it's worth pursuing (through all the various lab tests etc.), the unit that I've crunched.
----------------------------------------Science, unfortunately, is a lot of weeding out the 'bad' in order to find the very small percentage of the 'good'.  |
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Former Member
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Wcg most probably could not even if they wanted to. A number of times we've heard from technicians that they can't trace a 'faulty' result once it has moved beyond the assimilator. To me this indicates neither the reverse is possible, what host a specific result came from.
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noderaser
Senior Cruncher United States Joined: Jun 6, 2006 Post Count: 297 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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KLiK
Master Cruncher Croatia Joined: Nov 13, 2006 Post Count: 3108 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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You mean something like SETI@home can in certificate wirte how many PEAKs have you found? Doesn't mather if the PEAK is true or false signal...only that you found it!
----------------------------------------It could be done with HITs on the molecules...but you will never know how will the second stage refine the search...'cause your result might be "false positive"! but, a nice idea...though! ;) |
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