Stardust@home

I've never had any problems with Firefox, but also noted that the new version (3) load the movies _much_ faster.

I would say - in all friendliness: stop quibbling about CM:s and points, and concentrate on searching for stardust!

I can't see anything either.

In the thread "my Specificity and Sensitivity against the average values" the discussion has turned to the amount of work we have set before us. fjgiie wrote: "around 3 million movies over the whole collector times 400 views is a billion looks, give or take a few million." This b...

A new feature has popped up: the Alpha list. But nowhere do I find any indication as to what it's all about. Anybody willing to shed light into the darkness of my ignorance?

I continued dusting without especially addressing the Back Button Broblem, but nevertheless tried every now and then. The behavior of the button was now erratic: sometimes it gave a new movie, sometimes the old one, accompanied dutifully by the "unusual route" comment. I couldn't discern a...

Sorry, there were seven (not five) Bad Focuses!

Hi! I just viewed 34 movies, pressing the browser's (the VM doesn't have a Back-button, does it?) Back-button each time after the "verdict" regarding the movie I just viewed had come. Each and every time I was served another movie than the one I just had evaluated, without any claim regard...

Here are my stats for the past two months: I'm happy I'm getting better, albeit slowly. 8.10.2007 Calibration Movies Answered Correctly 441 Calibration Movies Answered Incorrectly 31 Your Overall Score: 410 Total Real Movies Viewed: 2000 Your Rank: 199 out of 24668 Specificity: 99.59% Sensitivity: 8...

I just finished a short "sitting", during which I studied 20 real movies, six CM's, and deemed 9 movies as Bad Focus. After that my statistics are: Calibration Movies Answered Correctly 371 Calibration Movies Answered Incorrectly 30 Your Overall Score: 341 Total Real Movies Viewed: 1640 Yo...

Out of 220 CMs, my specificity is still 100%, but the sensitivity 82%. We can't complain: they warned us that the rates will go down! And I try to keep in mind, that I'm not looking for CM-points, but for possible tracks in the actual Stardust-movies. Spotting those tracks seem a lot tricker than we...

Why are we served movies already assessed by the Stardust team? I click on a suspect frame, go to "My Events", and find that it's already deemed "Not extraterrestial" or (if I'm lucky) "Possible interstellar dust particle". Waste of time and volounteer work? Also: would...