[FMO] Re: Stardust@home experiences
- From: "Tavi Greiner" <tavianne@xxxxxxxx>
- To: <fmo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 3 Aug 2006 20:42:24 -0400 (EDT)
Stan,
I think my browser was doing exactly that - asking about each frame. I had
loading text across the bottom of the page and a skipping curser each time
I moved across the focuser, whereas I didnt have that during my second,
successful session. I'm just glad I realized it when I did, before I made
too many errors.
I know what you mean about that auto time-out. My three-year-old insisted
on "keeping me company" and of course she has many demands in exchange for
that company. I never retrieved drinks and turned on bathroom lights so
fast in all my life ;)
Tavi
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Re slow-acting focus control ... there is a note in the Tech FAQ that
> helped me resolve it at this end ... Focuser went from "variably
> responsive" to "very responsive" with the setting change.
> Responsiveness of the focus control should NOT be affected by network
> speed ... unless the internet setting is incorrect and the browser is
> forced to ask about each frame as it tries to flash it up on the screen.
>
>
> I would sure like to be able to review the 7 calib movies that I marked
> as "no tracks" but they said did have tracks. I'm pretty consciencious
> about looking at each image carefully, and 6 of the 7 were, I thought,
> firm decisions. So, I must have some systemmatic error that in keeping
> my "sensitivity" measure down around 80%. Hmmm ... which means I must
> learn more. I did 100% on the original test Tuesday and repeated the
> tutorial Wednesday when my "sensitivity" measure dropped. It didn't
> help, except to suggest that I might be missing some very faint tracks.
> Maybe I need to put this up on a brighter monitor ... this old monitor
> is running as bright as it will go, and still many of the movies look
> pretty dim. Hmmm... I've got a nice flat screen TV sitting next to the
> computer monitor and the instruction on the TV said it will work as a
> monitor. But, then, I'd have to find another way to follow the ball
> game!
>
> I'd also like to see 'em loosen up the timeout for auto-logout ... Not
> even enough time to run to the kitchen, pour a cup of coffee, and run
> back and then to a good review of the movie! (At least that is what I
> think is happening.)
>
> Stan
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: tavianne@xxxxxxxx
> To: fmo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Sent: Thu, 3 Aug 2006 11:16 AM
> Subject: [FMO] Re: Stardust@home experiences
>
>
> Hi All,
>
> I finally had a great experience with the project late/early this
> morning - 3:00 am. After my initial earlier login, wherein the server
> was
> excruciatingly slow and it took me nearly an hour to review 12 movies, I
> managed to complete 175 real movies and 69 calibration movies in about
> 90 minutes. I moved quickly from a ranking of 3686 to 328. (I wanna get
> into that top 100)
>
> I'm so disappointed in myself with my specitivity/sensitivity scores of
> 92 and 91 - I really messed up in that initial login and marked four
> calibration movies incorrectly before I realized that even the focuser
> was not responding properly. Suspect tracks (rings) that would have
> normally focused on out as non-tracks remained focused with that
> crawling server and I marked them as tracks before giving the focuser
> enough time to respond. Darn it! ;)
>
> For those who are pre-registered and tested, but havent yet logged in, I
> highly recommend reviewing the tutorial before you start your first
> viewing session. Maybe doing so myself would have saved me those four
> errors in my original slow server/response login.
>
> Marco, I agree. I suspect those movies with the sharp focus at the
> bottom were actually reversed or inverted sequences. Regarding the
> movies that are clearly two different areas - I recall a mention of
> those in the tutorial somewhere. I had five or six of those.
>
> The best part of all this is the movies themselves. Just to think about
> what we are actually reviewing. This composite, that aerogel, was
> exposed to a world billions of miles from here - some exotic place that
> we'll always only know through images and collectors. And how fantastic
> that we can, indeed, know it in even this way. I love it :) and I am
> thrilled with this opportunity to participate.
>
> So, a great experience with the StarDust@Home Project!
>
> Tavi
>
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> Marco Langbroek said:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Finally managed to log in to stardust@home last night.
>>
>> The tutorial was very good, and I passed the test with zero mistakes.
>>
>> Then got to real reviewing (ha, reviewing again at last!!). All in all
>> I managed to do 71 real pictures plus 27 calibration images (all
>> identified).
>>
>> I had to re- login 4 times though to get so far, as several times I
>> was bumped out with an error message (either "error from stardust" or
>> "database error"). After each such event, it generally took some time
>> before I was able to re-login again.
>>
>> My experiences so far:
>>
>>
>> Positive:
>>
>> * Review mechanism very easy
>>
>> * it is fun!
>>
>>
>> Negative:
>>
>> * website soooooo slow...(and I have a FAST connection...)
>>
>> * too many website crashes necessitating re-login
>>
>> * they throw in way too many calibration images. For the first hour or
>> so over half of my images were calibration images, later about 1/3rd.
>> That is too much, I found it very annoying.
>>
>>
>> Oddities:
>>
>> * I had a number of movies where the sharp surface focus was way at
>> the bottom of the bar. I reported them as "bad focus" but wonder
>> whether these were actually movies with the image sequence the wrong
>> way around.
>>
>> * I had one movie where halfway the frames clearly were of another
>> area.
>>
>>
>> Nevertheless, it is good to have something to do again. This is a good
>> new alternative to the late FMO project.
>>
>> - Marco
>>
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