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Re: seti@home

Chuck, I'm crunching on my 54th data set from Arecibo. Ron Hipschman gives a
reasonably good explanation of the processing done both on home computers
and on their main frame at
http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/about_seti/about_seti_at_home_4.html.
I don't recall him talking about entropy, however.

poj
Collin County College

----- Original Message -----
From: "Chuck Britton" <britton@ACADEMIC.NCSSM.EDU>
To: <PHYS-L@lists.nau.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, February 09, 2000 3:58 PM
Subject: Re: Entropy


I've been interested in the SETI project for a while and actually
'ran' some of the data analysis on my desktop computer.

Does anybody have any clue as to how the program identifies
'potential hits' as distinct from the 'random noise'?

We gotta be talking about Shannon entropy rather than 'micro-states'
or else all signals would have equal probability and the whole SETI
notion would be bogus. (perhaps it IS bogus?)
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