Talk:SETI@home

message: The current text indicates that SETI@home is unique in that it 
uses coherent integration, but all modern microwave and some 
optical SETI searches, use both coherent and non-coherent
integration.
Coherent here really just means the use of discrete Fourier
transforms, rather than simply averaging the power.  The link on
coherent integration is also misleading as the connection 
between optical coherence and coherent integration is rather
tenuous, although optical coherence is a prerequisite for signals
to be detected by coherent integration.
In SETI@home, the gaussian search is effectively non-coherent 
integration and the pulse search certainly uses non-coherent 
integration.
What's really unique is the number of chirp rates tried, and,
in later versions, the search for repeating pulses.
David Woolley 13:11, 11 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: What makes SETI@home's SETI different?

message: I propose to change the referencing style from inline URLs, plus full citation in References, to using Harvard style references inline (with the same full citations).  The advantage of this is that it is easier to see which facts come from which sources, which helps in maintaining the sources and means that it is easier for a reader to  judge the reliability of statements against their perception of the reliabilty of particular sources.
Note that the article is generally under sourced at the moment (a common problem on Wikipedia).
Up to yesterday, I believe that I was the only person to have contributed inline references, so I could have made the change unilaterally.  A couple of references have now been added inline in the direct URL style, but have not yet been properly cited in the References section.  See, for example, WP:V and WP:CITE for why full citations are desirable, although it is also worth noting that Berkeley has a real problem with link rot and renaming URLs.  --David Woolley 09:11, 18 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: For such cases, it might make more sense to use the Internet Archive as a reference instead of the original site. This also aids in verifying that citations are accurate when compared to the work referenced, at the expense of being a somewhat less direct source (I would consider this roughly comparable to retrieving online copies of academic journal articles through a database such as Proquest, which is accepted conduct in most academic circles). --LX 05:07, 26 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Propose change to Harvard referencing

message: On February 11, JarlaxleArtemis added a section about "s-23 wiki",
:a MediaWiki-based wiki created by the Seti23 cabal. It is described as a "non-hierarchical geek contents dis-organization by uncensored, decentralized, transglobal multi-user hypertext editing without restrictions." It is both an English- and German-language wiki.
:The Seti23 is a team dedicated to Karl Koch and is participating in the SETI@home project.
I removed the section. There are thousands of SETI@home teams; this team does not appear to be any more notable than any other team. Note that s-23 wiki used to have its own article, but it was deleted. dbenbenn | talk 10:32, 15 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: s-23 wiki

message: Perhaps some of the information in this article pertains to more than Seti@home, for example... Folding@home? It would probably have the same threats such as non dedicated users, etc. 72.66.87.24 04:39, 30 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Perhaps, move threats to Distributed Computing? 

message: Stolen Laptops
http://www.boingboing.net/2007/02/22/stolen_laptop_recove.html
http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/22/seti-home-claims-its-first-major-discovery-a-stolen-laptop
http://digg.com/security/Stolen_Laptop_Recovered_Thanks_To_SETI_Home
Plenty of sources, but I'm running a fever and can't type a full addition. Please someone *thud* zzzzzzzzz. 66.248.160.235 23:08, 17 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Stolen Laptops 

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replies: text: Rationale added. Adam McMaster (talk) 10:40, 4 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Image copyright problem with Image:SETI@Home Logo.svg

message: I would correct it myself if it wasn't.....the K Computer's computation speed is 8.162 petaflops, not 8162...... 94.171.57.7 (talk) 20:39, 16 August 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Locked Article

message: There aren't 234 countries, and there never were(according to wikipedia itself)So.... What gives?--108.48.125.213 (talk) 02:34, 2 February 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Inaccuracies  

message: The sources are links to outside content rather than references, there's a website just written down and a direction to come to the talk page for more information. I'll leave it here for others to decide on what should be changed. Acoma Magic (talk) 03:45, 29 August 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Greenhouse gas impact section 

message: clearly this page hasn't been looked at in a bit... so is all that extra information on program release dates and previews, etc. all really needed?  how much can it be condensed? FriarTuck1981 (talk) 20:33, 9 January 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Infobox cleanup? 

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message: I do not think that the date of the initial release mentioned here, 17 May 1999, is correct. I was of the class of 18 May 1999, and I had seen it on someone's computer so I will hardly have joined the second day. I therefore searched for earlier classes and found the class of 29 April 1999. I do not know what the first class was, but in any case Seti was active already in April 1999. VWA (talk) 01:43, 14 January 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Date of initial release