Interesting Earth Science Picture of the Day today. I like the idea of a carbon star. Wonder if they are more graphite-like or diamond-like into their core composition? Maybe all are not "carbon" copies.
![Rolling Eyes :roll:](./images/smilies/icon_rolleyes.gif)
http://epod.usra.edu/
Hal Hodson wrote:
THE internet is stuffed with garbage. Anti-vaccination websites make the front page of Google, and fact-free "news" stories spread like wildfire. Google has devised a fix – rank websites according to their truthfulness.
Google's search engine currently uses the number of incoming links to a web page as a proxy for quality, determining where it appears in search results. So pages that many other sites link to are ranked higher. This system has brought us the search engine as we know it today, but the downside is that websites full of misinformation can rise up the rankings, if enough people link to them.
A Google research team is adapting that model to measure the trustworthiness of a page, rather than its reputation across the web. Instead of counting incoming links, the system – which is not yet live – counts the number of incorrect facts within a page. "A source that has few false facts is considered to be trustworthy," says the team (arxiv.org/abs/1502.03519v1). The score they compute for each page is its Knowledge-Based Trust score.
The software works by tapping into the Knowledge Vault, the vast store of facts that Google has pulled off the internet. Facts the web unanimously agrees on are considered a reasonable proxy for truth. Web pages that contain contradictory information are bumped down the rankings.
I'd say - "That is blue-tiful!!" And not be punning what-so-ever.starsurfer wrote:I saw this today!
Interesting tidbit about the spiders in space (and the free educational web service), Ron!Ron-Astro Pharmacist wrote:Couldn't resist the "web" pun even though I didn't see it. http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/stati ... ws/spider/
Wonder if they were "Nuts about spiders?" That ISS group could have starred in the next B-movie? "Spiders on a Space Station"
The world’s most powerful particle accelerator is about to be turned back on and enter into a second phase of collisions. Today, Rolf Heuer, Director General of CERN, spoke of ‘a new era for physics’ during the press briefing, held at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland. Heuer said, “I want to see the first light in the dark universe. If that happens, then nature is kind to me.”
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) has undergone important upgrades and repairs over the past two years since the first shutdown. The particle collider boasts new magnets, superior cryogenics, higher voltage and higher energy beams that will allow the machine to run at nearly double the collision energy of the first run.
The first circulating beams of protons in the LHC are planned for the week beginning 23 March, and by late May to early June the LHC aims to be running at 13 TeV. One hope is that these higher energies will allow physicists to extend the search for new particles and to check previously untestable theories such as the elegant theory of supersymmetry which could extend the standard model of particle physics. ...
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Yore write, Ron, fizzicks can be phun.