The lucky ones!
Submitted on 17 Sep 2021 14:14:29 UTC
Whenever Einstein@Home finds a new neutron star, there is always one workunit in which that discovery "stands out" from the noise with the highest statistical significance. The volunteers whose computers processed that workunit receive framed discovery certificates, signed by myself and by the Principal Investigator of the experiment/collaboration that provided the data. Over the past decade, we have sent out more than a hundred of these, and we are now preparing a new batch. If you are interested, here is a photo album showing our past "lottery winners", along with their discovery certificates.
Bruce Allen
Director, Einstein@Home
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Bruce, I'd be very
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Bruce,
I'd be very interested in having a certificate like that if I qualify!
Thanks,
Marty McClearen
Great idea. Hope I'll get
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Great idea. Hope I'll get it.
Tnx.
GC.
It would be great to have
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It would be great to have tangible evidence that my CPU cycle donation assisted with scientific progress. Hope I am so fortunate!
I too would be very
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I too would be very interested! please tell me more.
I too would be very
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I too would be very interested! please tell me more.
Thanks Ian, for testing
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Thanks Ian,
for testing and publishing my code to help the NVIDIA users to have an equal chance to succeed in finding new discoveries.
Petri
I'd be interested if it
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I'd be interested if it applies to me!
In 2025 we get one for
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In 2025 we get one for running our computers here 24/7 for 20 years
OK I made that part up
My uncle in law is one of
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My uncle in law is one of these people. He's the reason I started crunching!
Sure, looks pretty
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Sure, looks pretty interesting. I would like to have one of those certificates if i could.
Thanks
Pretty cool!
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Pretty cool!
I don't know if I qualify,
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I don't know if I qualify, but if I do, count me in!
Proud member of the Old Farts Association
Yeah I like that approach.
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Yeah I like that approach. Maybe I will be one of the lucky ones that gets the workunit with a hit. But everyone with a discovery earned that certificate. So please send me good workunits in the future, I'm happy to come to Hannover and pick up the certificate myself (living nearby) :)
Background tasks don't offer much in terms of awareness and action, but regular updates on discoveries and things like this really invigorate on why I'm doing this.
In the end we're all part of those discoveries. And we won't stop. Because we can all see the results and discoveries in the reports and papers related to E@H. Or by watching photos from dedicated people showing their certificate.
I'm personally a user from
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I'm personally a user from ScienceUnited.
The team seems making myself isolated from the majority of einsteinathome forum...
Anybody has similar situation?
I'm personally a user from
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I'm personally a user from ScienceUnited.
The team seems making myself isolated from the majority of einsteinathome forum...
Anybody has similar situation?
Edit: My actual credis is 9,501,249,362...
I'm not sure I qualify, but
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I'm not sure I qualify, but if I do, it would be wonderful to have!
I would love to be part of
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I would love to be part of the team of "winners" by helping find a new neutron star.
Count me in, if my number
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Count me in, if my number comes up.
fingers crossed
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fingers crossed
Yes. Count me in!
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Yes. Count me in!
Yes please! I would be
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Yes please! I would be interested too!
I see a lot of people are
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I see a lot of people are asking individually whether they qualify or not.
Of course, I would be interested too to get such a thing. I wonder however if you contact the users that qualify anyways or if there is some way to maybe check that yourself (for us users)? Thanks in any case!
If I qualify, I'd be pleased
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If I qualify, I'd be pleased to receive a certificate.
I would like to join this
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I would like to join this project
Very disappointed to see all
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Very disappointed to see all men. I have been on this project since 2007 and not very actively engaged, so my exclusion absolutely makes sense. But there had to have been some women who qualify. And they should have been included in this album.
+1
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+1
This is a great thing to
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This is a great thing to share with the users that are volunteering, it really makes people feel invested and thanked for their contributions. I've been crunching for various other projects for a while and the SETI project sent you a certificate when you joined and you could print out one at the end of the project showing the units processed etc.
A great way to keep people enthused!
Gary Roberts..... are you in
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Gary Roberts..... are you in these photos?
It's a bit like winning lotto to be one of these lucky finders.
It's an honor just to be
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It's an honor just to be nominated.
Kolja wrote: I see a lot of
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In your settings you can check if you allow E@H officials to contact you via email. I'm pretty sure you get an email if you got the workunit with a "hit" and are asked to provide your address for shipping certificate + upload a nice picture in return :)
. . It would certainly be an
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. . It would certainly be an honour to have such luck and the certificate to confirm it.
PS @ Petri33 and it is a privilege to have run the code you developed that makes Nvidia cards really sing :)
Stephen
Maria Alessandra Papa, an
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Maria Alessandra Papa, an Italian Physicist is the Chief Scientist of Einstein@home.
Tullio
Yes, I would be interested
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Yes, I would be interested and display it to encourage other people to contribute to this and other quality scientific distributed computing projects.
NinjaBooKitty schrieb: Very
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Women must participate more...
Me too!
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Me too!
Goodmorning, i'd like
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Goodmorning,
i'd like receive the certificate!
Please send me one too.
Best regards
Michelangelo
Great idea. I am
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Great idea. I am in.
Cheers
Jan
Re: certificate, count me in.
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Re: certificate, count me in.
Start cracking Einstein@Home
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Start cracking Einstein@Home since 2018, I would love to have a certificate if I'm qualified !
Thanks
I would proudly display this.
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I would proudly display this.
I would be absolutely
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I would be absolutely thrilled to get one of these.
If I've contributed, I would
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If I've contributed, I would be happy to have the certificate.
Sign me up!
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Sign me up!
Physical Certificates are
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Physical Certificates are better than those HTML ones ^_^
Would love to get one one day
If I qualify I'd love to
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If I qualify I'd love to receive one of these awards! I also want my own neutron star!! Fingers-crossed!
Looks good to me! If I ever
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Looks good to me! If I ever qualify for one, it would be proudly displayed for sure.
Yes, I'd be very interested,
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Yes, I'd be very interested, if I should qualify.
How do we know if we qualify
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How do we know if we qualify ? Would certainly like a certificate if I did.
Thanks.
Pues a mi también me
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Pues a mi también me gustaría, no mi importaría publicar la foto.
Un saludo a todos los miembros del grupo.
JM Suviriz
not sure why people are
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not sure why people are asking if you "qualify". either your system submits the standout WU or it doesn't. there's no additional qualification. your chances of getting the golden ticket are directly proportional to how many WUs you are processing and submitting.
also no need to make this some kind of sociopolitical issue bringing up gender... there's no bias on the part of the project here. the fact that there are no women in the list only tells us that there are far less women contributing. which is not surprising since computer enthusiasts and STEM fields are usually primarily men.
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