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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 rovr138 »

javiramos wrote: post #26

Nice to see that this project came from the University of Puerto Rico! The university has a cluster of activity in astronomy thanks to the legacy of the Arecibo telescope.

eso es!

Seeing the title I was a bit bummed seeing radio telescopes and what happened with the radio telescope there. Clicking the link, I was really happy to see upr.edu domain and then the title, 'PHL @ UPR Arecibo'.

I like the legacy that the radio telescope has left behind and I'm very happy to see others there working with radio.

Re: Wow@Home – Network of Amateur Radio Telescopes

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Post by nullc »

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.

I find ChatGPT is a fairly mediocre writer: It uses a lot of overwrought and exaggerated language that becomes fatiguing rather quickly.

It's also frequently used by fraudsters and in spam, so you run a real risk of 'your' writing style giving unintended impressions when you rely on it.

Re: Wow@Home – Network of Amateur Radio Telescopes

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Post by Xss3 »

nullc wrote: post #32
Xss3 wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

I find ChatGPT is a fairly mediocre writer: It uses a lot of overwrought and exaggerated language that becomes fatiguing rather quickly. It's also frequently used by fraudsters and in spam, so you run a real risk of 'your' writing style giving unintended impressions when you rely on it.

When I say it's a better writer...I really mean it's a faster writer. It's a tool. You can ask for 15 variations on a sentence, ask it to be more or less concise, or to tailor it to a certain audience. Ask it for 5 ways to communicate a stronger feeling of X. Etc.

If you just blindly ask it to write it isn't great. It has far greater writing ability than I do but it doesn't know what's good and what isn't, it needs guidance.

Re: Wow@Home – Network of Amateur Radio Telescopes

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Post by spacedcowboy »

toomuchtodo wrote: post #29
kQq9oHeAz6wLLS wrote: post #19

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> 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/

Thanks. I have a few remote sites on my list for where to go eventually, but I’d not come across this one.

Re: Wow@Home – Network of Amateur Radio Telescopes

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Post by ThoriumClock »

Xss3 wrote: post #33
nullc wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I find ChatGPT is a fairly mediocre writer: It uses a lot of overwrought and exaggerated language that becomes fatiguing rather quickly. It's also frequently used by fraudsters and in spam, so you run a real risk of 'your' writing style giving unintended impressions when you rely on it.

When I say it's a better writer...I really mean it's a faster writer. It's a tool. You can ask for 15 variations on a sentence, ask it to be more or less concise, or to tailor it to a certain audience. Ask it for 5 ways to communicate a stronger feeling of X. Etc. If you just blindly ask it to write it isn't great. It has far greater writing ability than I do but it doesn't know what's good and what isn't, it needs g…

I agree with this. That's how I use AI's writing -- to enhance my own writing.

I write a first draft, AI revises it, I rework a second draft, AI revises it, then I curate a final draft. That's my typical AI-enhanced writing process. AI can even provide multiple variations of each revision, from which I incorporate the best content from each back into my own writing.

The combination of my ability to pick what's good and AI's ability to quickly come up with numerous options creates a better result than I could on my own with a similar amount of effort.

Re: Wow@Home – Network of Amateur Radio Telescopes

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Post by multjoy »

bluerooibos wrote: post #27
multjoy wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

It's entirely relevant. If you've chucked a prompt at ChatGPT and called it a day, the output is an approximation of human thought. There is no originality, it is text vomited onto a page that may, or may not, resemble human creativity.

If you're content with that, then bully for you. The rest of us want words written by humans.

Re: Wow@Home – Network of Amateur Radio Telescopes

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Post by ericye16 »

Joel_Mckay wrote: post #6
ericye16 wrote: post #5

I would love to build something like this, but it looks like the project is not quite complete yet? And also I don't see anywhere on the page where I can sign up for updates.

Would recommend getting a Ham technician license, as it will prepare you to understand the LNA and filter hardware. Best regards =3 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5uV6zI_978 https://github.com/AP-HLine-3D/HLine3D https://www.rtl-sdr.com/buy-rtl-sdr-dvb-t-dongles/ https://github.com/byggemandboesen/H-line-software

I do have a ham license! I just need something to do with it haha.
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