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Bill Higgins-- Retired Beam Jockey
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Physicist. Speaker. Writer. Mono-instrumentalist. My posts are my opinions, and I do not speak for anybody else. Avatar: Bill Heterodyne, smiling & tipping his boater, by Phil Foglio. Banner: Me, infinitely reflected in mirrors.
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BHbeamjockey.bsky.social

I can understand that the need for help is strong; the more people who participate, the faster the process of classifying images will go. 🌌 But seeing the word "urgently" is sending my imagination running in wild directions. What scenario would provoke a sudden URGENT need to classify galaxies? 🔭

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Spilangodraig.bsky.social

Oh, but, dear sir, there are billions of them and entirely not enough of us to see it all, to know it all, to figure it all out before the universe ends, or, less dramatically, before our ridiculously short lives end. Therefore, classification of galaxies is always an “urgent” business. :)

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KMkarenlmasters.bsky.social

In this case the urgency comes from timelines to get morphology catalogues ready to come out with the first release. In less than four weeks we need to have enough classifications to train Zoobot to do the best it can on the rest.

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Bill Higgins-- Retired Beam Jockey
@beamjockey.bsky.social
Physicist. Speaker. Writer. Mono-instrumentalist. My posts are my opinions, and I do not speak for anybody else. Avatar: Bill Heterodyne, smiling & tipping his boater, by Phil Foglio. Banner: Me, infinitely reflected in mirrors.
358 followers142 following2.3k posts