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by bmendez
Thu Feb 07, 2008 6:15 pm
Forum: FAQs
Topic: I answered a calibration movie right but was scored wrong
Replies: 257
Views: 560055

Okay, here we are in early February and I haven’t had a problem for months. At least not since you cleaned out the bad Cms in early October, Thank you for that. I see that since early December no one else has either . That’s good. Just now however: Feb. 03, 08 at 8:35 PM Pacific time I ran into a s...
by bmendez
Thu Feb 07, 2008 5:58 pm
Forum: Stardust@home Discussion
Topic: Screening strategy
Replies: 1
Views: 4658

Thanks for the question jelfving, To directly answer your question, as yet there are no automated limits set to remove a movie from the active search database. Typically, movies have been removed or added manually at intervals that depend largely on the progress of automated microscope scanning and ...
by bmendez
Thu Feb 07, 2008 5:48 pm
Forum: Stardust@home Discussion
Topic: my Specificity and Sensitivity against the average values.
Replies: 7
Views: 10548

Hi All, I'm glad you two decided to work the numbers. A few million movies when all is said and done is about right. There are a few factors which were not mentioned that change your calculations in detail: things like the switch from lower to higer resolution, an overlap between fields of view by a...
by bmendez
Thu Feb 07, 2008 5:39 pm
Forum: Stardust@home Discussion
Topic: What happens to movies that have passed cut 1 in phase 1?
Replies: 1
Views: 4594

Most of those movies were reviewed further and have lead to the candidates list or have been placed into the alpha list, which is now being reviewed.

-Bryan
by bmendez
Tue Feb 05, 2008 4:07 pm
Forum: FAQs
Topic: I answered a calibration movie right but was scored wrong
Replies: 257
Views: 560055

Okay, here we are in early February and I haven’t had a problem for months. At least not since you cleaned out the bad Cms in early October, Thank you for that. I see that since early December no one else has either . That’s good. Just now however: Feb. 03, 08 at 8:35 PM Pacific time I ran into a s...
by bmendez
Tue Jan 15, 2008 3:13 pm
Forum: Stardust@home Problems and Support
Topic: Alpha list
Replies: 5
Views: 9935

Hi All, Glad to know that some of you are still watching us closely :) We have just implemented a new feature on the Stardust@home website to make our candidate selection procedure more transparent. The Alpha list (link found on the News submenu) is a list of the top scoring movies as determined by ...
by bmendez
Tue Jan 15, 2008 2:24 pm
Forum: Stardust@home Discussion
Topic: "Unfair" calibration movies??!
Replies: 35
Views: 48849

Re: CM 9680457V1

startrak wrote:Assume the "track" on CM 9680457V1 is the spot that is usually a spot on the lens of the 50 micron movies -- knew that would happen eventually.
No. The track in that movie is just really, really small.

-Bryan
by bmendez
Tue Jan 15, 2008 2:17 pm
Forum: Stardust@home Community
Topic: A question
Replies: 54
Views: 153613

Re: Dark matter

Would like to take the opportunity to ask a couple more questions -- are the discovered planets being discovered in our own galaxy? Would elliptical galaxies contain planets? :? Hi Startrak, Yes, all of the over 200 exo-planets discovered so far are all inside the Milky Way Galaxy. More than that, ...
by bmendez
Fri Jan 11, 2008 9:16 am
Forum: Stardust@home Discussion
Topic: "I think I've found a track, what do you think?"
Replies: 1355
Views: 1803375

Hi All,

I'm merging this topic into the "I think I've found a track. What do you think?" thread.

-Bryan
by bmendez
Fri Jan 11, 2008 9:01 am
Forum: Stardust@home Problems and Support
Topic: "Back" button behavior in the VM
Replies: 14
Views: 30155

Thanks John!

That is a huge help. I'm at a conference in Austin this week, but I will make sure Will and Robert get your analysis today at our usual team meeting.

-Bryan
by bmendez
Fri Jan 04, 2008 5:11 pm
Forum: Stardust@home Problems and Support
Topic: WARNING!! Doesn't work the counting of the score !!!!!
Replies: 11
Views: 14414

Re: Sensitivity scoring

Hi - Happy New Year to All :D I've not experienced any problems with "Answered Correctly" scores but I am having a problem with "Sensitivity" scores. As far as I was aware, the scores for both advanced together but at the moment, at least 3 "Sensitivity" scores per hou...
by bmendez
Thu Jan 03, 2008 4:30 pm
Forum: In the Classroom
Topic: Steps to bring S@Home to a class
Replies: 9
Views: 33272

Hi Marc, Let me know what you are thinking of pursuing. I am willing to help out in any way I can (which could include helping you with text for a proposal to a local business, or just some info for the school's principle). We also have a Stardust@home PPT on the website that you could use, plus lin...
by bmendez
Thu Jan 03, 2008 4:23 pm
Forum: Stardust@home Community
Topic: A question
Replies: 54
Views: 153613

Re: Phase 3

First of all I'd also like to thank Bryan for taking the time to reply to my question of a while ago regarding space dust particles. My question now -- I've seen "Phase 3" mentioned a couple of times in the Forum and am curious as to what Phase 3 involves. Hi startrak, Phase 3 will be the...
by bmendez
Fri Dec 21, 2007 3:57 pm
Forum: Stardust@home Community
Topic: Happy December Solstice!
Replies: 3
Views: 9234

Happy December Solstice!

The December Solstice occurs 22 Dec 2007 at 6:08 AM Universal Time (which is 10:08 PM on Dec 21st in the Pacific Time Zone, and hence why I'm writing this message today). For us in the Northern Hemisphere the days will start getting longer again (for the next six months at least). Wohoo! Sorry for t...
by bmendez
Fri Dec 21, 2007 2:11 pm
Forum: Stardust@home Problems and Support
Topic: "Back" button behavior in the VM
Replies: 14
Views: 30155

Thank you so far for your reports. They will definitely be helpful in determining what is causing this change in behavior. Please keep them coming. One other piece of information that may be helpful for us as well would be your operating system and its version. Cache settings are difficult to find i...