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Wow@Home – Network of Amateur Radio Telescopes

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Re: Wow@Home – Network of Amateur Radio Telescopes

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Post by multjoy »

spacedcowboy wrote: post #18
multjoy wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you’re not going to write it, why should I read it?

No-one is forcing you to. Not everyone who has the knowledge of how to put together a radio telescope is also awesome at creating a website. It seems everyone is a critic, these days… And if you don’t think that having an appealing website is at least as important as the content within when doing outreach, I may have a bridge to sell you.

They don't need to be awesome, they just need to write their own words.

If someone can't be bothered to write the copy for their project, what else have they handed over to an LLM?

Re: Wow@Home – Network of Amateur Radio Telescopes

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Post by lucb1e »

multjoy wrote: post #21
spacedcowboy wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No-one is forcing you to. Not everyone who has the knowledge of how to put together a radio telescope is also awesome at creating a website. It seems everyone is a critic, these days… And if you don’t think that having an appealing website is at least as important as the content within when doing outreach, I may have a bridge to sell you.

They don't need to be awesome, they just need to write their own words. If someone can't be bothered to write the copy for their project, what else have they handed over to an LLM?

> what else have they handed over to an LLM?

A version in their own language or with lots of spelling mistakes that take people out of the story as well

(Charitably, that is)

Re: Wow@Home – Network of Amateur Radio Telescopes

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Post by Xss3 »

multjoy wrote: post #21
spacedcowboy wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No-one is forcing you to. Not everyone who has the knowledge of how to put together a radio telescope is also awesome at creating a website. It seems everyone is a critic, these days… And if you don’t think that having an appealing website is at least as important as the content within when doing outreach, I may have a bridge to sell you.

They don't need to be awesome, they just need to write their own words. If someone can't be bothered to write the copy for their project, what else have they handed over to an LLM?

ChatGPT is a better writer than me. Simple as that. It takes my words and ideas and communicates them more effectively.

They're still my words and ideas being fed to it. It just transforms them into something others enjoy reading. It asks me questions I forgot to answer. Etc.

Re: Wow@Home – Network of Amateur Radio Telescopes

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Post by bluerooibos »

multjoy wrote: post #14
stefanfis wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

As long as the content is great, this doesn‘t matter at all. It helps especially non-native speakers a lot to clearly communicate their ideas. And it saves time for the important work. We should get used to it as fast as we can.

If you’re not going to write it, why should I read it?

That sentence sounds nice but what does it even mean?

Does the value of written content come from it being written by a human, or the fact that it's enjoyable to read and/or transfers useful information/knowledge? Whether a person wrote it or not is irrelevant. It's almost like complaining someone used a typewriter instead of hand writing something.

Re: Wow@Home – Network of Amateur Radio Telescopes

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Post by macintux »

multjoy wrote: post #14
stefanfis wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

As long as the content is great, this doesn‘t matter at all. It helps especially non-native speakers a lot to clearly communicate their ideas. And it saves time for the important work. We should get used to it as fast as we can.

If you’re not going to write it, why should I read it?

If you’re not going to write it in assembly, why should I use your software?

Re: Wow@Home – Network of Amateur Radio Telescopes

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Post by toomuchtodo »

kQq9oHeAz6wLLS wrote: post #19
spacedcowboy wrote: post #17

This is a bit like a scaled down (in terms of telescope size) Project Argus [1]. You could probably use the SARA ‘scope in a box’ [2] to do it, too, which is slight;y cheaper than the projected cost ($350 vs $500) assuming you have a spare r-pi hanging around. The far lower cost of entry will probably make it a lot more popular though - not to mention finding satellite dishes of that size is becoming harder by the ye…

> thinking (in my naivety) that all US dwellings would have way more space than the terraced house I was living in As you've no doubt discovered, this highly depends on where you live. In a major US city? You're going to pay a premium for yard space. In rural Tennessee? Not so much.

Perhaps an opportunity for more models like remote colocation of equipment, either for profit or non profit.

https://starfront.space/

Re: Wow@Home – Network of Amateur Radio Telescopes

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Post by multjoy »

Xss3 wrote: post #24
multjoy wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They don't need to be awesome, they just need to write their own words. If someone can't be bothered to write the copy for their project, what else have they handed over to an LLM?

ChatGPT is a better writer than me. Simple as that. It takes my words and ideas and communicates them more effectively. They're still my words and ideas being fed to it. It just transforms them into something others enjoy reading. It asks me questions I forgot to answer. Etc.

No it doesn't. It makes them average. It regresses as far as it can to the mean because that's what it does.

It has no creativity, it cannot think. It has no idea what is right, only that it can make your input look like the corpus of data that it has been trained on.

If you think that's better, then that's your look out.

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