Winkie Ma
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Science Vs
Narcissists: Are We Surrounded?
Yeah, so flare stars are stars that release bits of energy that spew out into space. And they release enormous, enormous amounts of energy that could power whole cities for millions of years in theory, if you were to be able to harness it.
Science Vs
Narcissists: Are We Surrounded?
Yeah. One of my favorites that I've written recently was actually a clustering algorithm. It's almost like... Pattern recognition. And an analogy might be if you're playing with a deck of cards and you're trying to find all of the cards that have the heart suit. You're trying to put all of them together, all of the spades, you're trying to put all of them together.
Science Vs
Narcissists: Are We Surrounded?
We did. So we discovered really fast flare stars, some of the fastest flare stars in our galaxy. And it was possible thanks to AI helping us sift through the data.
Science Vs
Narcissists: Are We Surrounded?
I did the math on that. I would still be sitting at a desk 88 years later, minimum. Are you kidding me? No. Isn't that insane? 88 years later.
Science Vs
Narcissists: Are We Surrounded?
I used machine learning. The actual clustering itself took minutes and then it took months of my time to look through and analyse everything. But the actual computer doing the hard work for me was minutes.
Science Vs
Narcissists: Are We Surrounded?
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