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New (http://blogs.zooniverse.org/blog/2010/10/12/the-zooniverse-goes-historical/) blog post !
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New blog post Weather and history in the South Atlantic
(http://blogs.zooniverse.org/oldweather/2010/10/weather-and-history-in-the-south-atlantic/).
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New blog post : Blowing away the fog of ignorance
(http://blogs.zooniverse.org/oldweather/2010/11/blowing-away-the-fog-of-ignorance/)
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another new blog post : Snapshot of Old Weather (http://blogs.zooniverse.org/oldweather/2010/11/snapshot-of-old-weather/)
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Day 8 of the Zooniverse Advent calendar
(http://www.zooniverse.org/advent) and a new blog post : Old Weather
Author Poster
(http://blogs.zooniverse.org/oldweather/2010/12/old-weather-author-poster/)
;D
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;D Old Weather Author Poster is Awesome!
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and another gorgeous blog post : :D HMS Invincible
(http://blogs.zooniverse.org/oldweather/2010/12/hms-invincible-in-her-own-words/comment-page-1/#comment-858)
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:D 8) 8)
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Some very good news : Old Weather sails on (http://blogs.zooniverse.org/oldweather/2011/02/old-weather-sails-on/) ! ;D
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Hurrah! ;D ;D ;D
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Yaaaay! ;D
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I have often tried to go to the blog, but it doesn't load for me. Oh
well, I waste enough time on the forum as it is! Yet another
distraction from the coal face is the last thing I need.
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and another one : Old Weather Voyages (http://blogs.zooniverse.org/oldweather/2011/02/old-weather-voyages/)
Warning ! Serious Distraction (http://www.oldweather.org/voyages) !!!! :o ;D
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Definitely a serious distraction - this is going to have to be rationed if any more logs are going to get transcribed!
And
with all the new ones coming up, I think that's my spare time for 2011
sorted. Brilliant news in these straitened days for funding.
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It's distracting for us too - I'm using it as my screensaver and
caught myself avoiding typing to make sure I see it. Thanks for all the
hard work, all of you.
Chris
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how am I supposed to get any work done with this available? ;D :o
yours -
Kathy W.
It almost brings tears to my eyes to see our work so graphically! This is so way cool!
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:D
Amazing, fantastic - something beautiful.
Big applause for your hard work.
THX!!!
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Are any of the completed ships doing the Northern Patrol? I'd love to see all that zigzagging in action. ;D
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Watching our ships pootle around the world and seeing what has been logged is amazing. Kudos to the tech guys! ;D
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Are any of the completed ships doing the Northern Patrol? I'd love to see all that zigzagging in action. ;D
Unfortunately
I don't think it is on a big enough scale for the zigzagging to show
up. I think the Northern Patrol ships will all look like they're
more or less stationery for three weeks or so, before setting off for
coaling. What would be interesting would be a graphic showing all
the ships of the 10th Cruiser Squadron - you would really be able to
see the patrol lines, how the ships moved up or down the line, how the
lines themselves changed over time. Plus of course the occasional
special mission to Iceland or elsewhere. (Note to Development Team
- you need have no concern that I expect this to ever happen!)
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There is a new one here (http://blogs.zooniverse.org/oldweather/2011/04/old-weather-at-50/). :D
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Hi Caro,
Superb. ;D
I also want those maps
I use Google Erth, but I do not know how to turn the layer on the maps.
Do not know if this is possible.
Where can I download this layer?
Are these maps were generowne one time?
regards
szukacz
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I think we would have to have access to all the data in the computer
to generate that layer independantly - and I seriously doubt that will
ever be open to the forum, for reasons of safety and security. But
we can save the pictures from the blog, the same way we get JPEG links
on our log pages.
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New blog post Diving into Old Weather (http://blogs.zooniverse.org/oldweather/2011/04/diving-into-old-weather/)
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Here's (http://blogs.zooniverse.org/oldweather/2011/04/social-graph-of-the-royal-navy-in-ww1/) another one. ;D
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That is very interesting - I wonder how the data is mined from the logs - I rarely use the Ship pick list because the Foxglove mainly notes ships arriving and leaving what ever harbor she is in, so I put the entries in Other, which enables me to note the time of the action, in case that is of some value to someone.
A typical entry looks like this:
0834 Hollyhock sailed
Kathy W.
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Yes, a lot of my ship interaction is in event-other as well because
they are coming and going from harbour or receiving/discharging ratings,
delivering coal, or various other activities which don't fit with the
'ship' categories.
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New blog post ! ;D
0.02953 inches to the hectopascal
(http://blogs.zooniverse.org/oldweather/2011/07/http://blogs.zooniverse.org/oldweather/2011/07/0-02953-inches-to-the-hectopascal//)
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New blog post : Very old weather (http://blogs.zooniverse.org/oldweather/2011/08/very-old-weather/)
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Halley for patron saint of OW!
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New blogpost : 150 ships (http://blogs.zooniverse.org/oldweather/2011/08/150-ships/) :D
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OMG this is incredible.
You can find all your mistakes, and compare how much of the events etc you transcribed compared with someone else.
For the first time we can get at real specific feedback.
Interestingly
there are still occasions where the position is shown as a very long
way from the sea. Must have been an incorrect calculation by the ships
crew, if all the transcribers agree that is what is written.
Thanks
so much for posting these. It is a good thing that they have gone up
just before a bank holiday, so I can spend all the holiday looking at
them and wont loose too much more work time than I lose already to OW.
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Is it me doing something wrong or is there still a glitch with some
fixes showing as degress west of Greenwich when they are in fact East.
I
have just looked through Espiegle's data and it seems to show that she
suddenly jumped half way round the world and went up the North East
coast of South America and round the Carribean in 1921. She didnt and
checking the logs they all show that the positions are east of
Greenwich, on the East Coast of Africa and the Red Sea. The positions on
the pages that show the log have a negative number (eg -43) for the
Eastings, when I think they should be positive.
Is it possible that
some or all of the transcribers have not put in the E after the
position? I will do some digging back through some of the logs I
transcribed to make sure that I didnt miss any.
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Doh, now realised that once the ship is completed I cant see what I
transcribed any more. However, I think there is still a problem. Let me
know if I can help to sort it out.
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Keith, try looking at My Pages (down arrow, blue box, top right of interface pages). All your pages should be there.
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Thanks Caro. That was what I tried to do. I can get to the log
pages, so it is possible to confirm that the log said that the position
was east, not west of Greenwich, (ie that the Google Earth view is
wrong for that specific day). What I hoped to do was to see what I
entered for that page to make sure that I had not forgotten the E, or
done something else wrong. It is not possible to see my own entries for
that log page anymore as the ship is completed.
Hope this is clear.
Would
it help if I collected together dates and log page addresses for some
of the points that are wrong and put them into a message?
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What about if you click your lat/lon entries as though you were going to edit them?
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If I click on any part of the log page it just changes size, and the
magnifier icon goes from + to - and back if I click again.
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Keith, I have corrected missed readings on an HMS Otter page through
the "My Pages". The one handicap is that when you click "Finished
with this page", it sends you to "Voyage Completed" and you have to
manually go back to "My Pages" to correct anything else.
What you are saying here, I now really need to get Google Earth! ;D
ADDED: I'm using dinosaurs, WindowsXP and IE8.
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Is
it me doing something wrong or is there still a glitch with some fixes
showing as degress west of Greenwich when they are in fact East.
I
have just looked through Espiegle's data and it seems to show that she
suddenly jumped half way round the world and went up the North East
coast of South America and round the Carribean in 1921. She didnt and
checking the logs they all show that the positions are east of
Greenwich, on the East Coast of Africa and the Red Sea. The positions on
the pages that show the log have a negative number (eg -43) for the
Eastings, when I think they should be positive.
Is it possible that
some or all of the transcribers have not put in the E after the
position? I will do some digging back through some of the logs I
transcribed to make sure that I didnt miss any.
It
may be that the logkeeper didn't enter a W or E and therefore the
transcribers (following the cardinal rule of 'transcribe only what is
written') didn't enter anything at all?
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If I click on any part of the log page it just changes size, and the magnifier icon goes from + to - and back if I click again.
I'm on Safari and I can edit my pages of completed ships easily (for example: HMS Torch). What browser are you using?
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It's OK thanks. We've worked out the problem with Tegwen's My Pages.
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Thanks for the help all, especially Caro. Part of the problem was me not using the right route to my transcribed pages.
I
have looked back at some of the pages where Espiegle is shown in the
Western Atlantic and most of them are missing Es from some of the
positions.
Sorry for any confusion and worry.
K
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I just figured out how to show all the weather entries at once. Wow,
we have a lot of them; I couldn't even see the Earth at some points.
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New blogpost : 150 ships (http://blogs.zooniverse.org/oldweather/2011/08/150-ships/) :D
It seems like there are some errors on the temperature readings.
If
you look at 1916/02/13 page of HMS Sutlej, the official page only has
2-3 barometer reading, while if you look at the log page, there are 7
barometric readings (possibly one lost to illegibility). I tried to look
at the next point on it?s trail to see if the reading would be there,
but that was just the next day. Are these readings the final readings or
is there more editing stages that they have to go through?
Or is this just an error of Google Earth?
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New blog post : OldWeather credits reel (http://blogs.zooniverse.org/oldweather/2011/09/oldweather-credits-reel/)
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I can't access the Old Weather blog on either Chrome or Safari. Anyone else having problem? ???
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I had no trouble with FireFox and Windows 7.
I just clicked on ElisabethB's link and it works fine for me.
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worked fine in chrome for me!
totally cool...
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Almost 4-and-a-half minutes of names!! 8)
The link works on my WindowsXP with both IE8 and Chrome, no problems.
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I could open the blog from safari without problems. I did it
yesterday about one hour before your problem occurred and tried it again
now without problems.
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Tried a different machine from the Mac - a Windows 7 PC and neither
Chrome nor IE9 could find http://blogs.zooniverse.org/ The rest of
the site works fine ??? I've had this problem for a while. Perhaps the
blog get's stuck at Swiss customs, like purchases from ebay.
>:(
Ho hum, back to Sapphire...
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http://blogs.zooniverse.org/oldweather/2011/09/oldweather-credits-reel/
Can you open the above link P-gbtSN?
I will ask for technical help here anyway.
In addition: Are you connected to an intranet?
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Tried
a different machine from the Mac - a Windows 7 PC and neither Chrome
nor IE9 could find http://blogs.zooniverse.org/ The rest of the
site works fine ??? I've had this problem for a while. Perhaps the blog
get's stuck at Swiss customs, like purchases from ebay. >:(
Ho hum, back to Sapphire...
http://blogs.zooniverse.org/oldweather/2011/09/oldweather-credits-reel/
Can you open the above link P-gbtSN?
I will ask for technical help here anyway.
I don't suppose it helps much, but I have tried both links with FireFox (thanks to Caro ;)) and Windows 7 - from France.
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This is very strange - I don't think there's any reason this should
be blocked for some people. Can I check whether you have any firewalls
or security software running on your machine that might be blocking the
site?
Cheers
Arfon
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Success! (Sort of) my home internet connection just doesn't want to
know about the blog but I used my work laptop to connect remotely via
the office server and voila! Weird. Sorry about that. Thanks for
your help, old weatherers. As you were.
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Glad to hear it Press-ganged. :D
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And I thought that all I know ... ;D
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Just in case you missed it on the Zooniverse advent calendar, here (http://blogs.zooniverse.org/oldweather/2011/12/new-mediterranean-voyages-for-advent/) is a new one.
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Zooniverse blog (http://blog.zooniverse.org/2012/01/10/a-very-good-day-in-austin/) from Chris with a mention for us:
"Of
the eight Zooniverse projects that were live at the beginning of 2011,
six (the three already mentioned along with Solar Stormwatch and Galaxy
Zoo : Supernovae which have papers, and Old Weather has contributed data
to its climate scientists) have serious published results."
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Zooniverse
blog
(http://blogs.zooniverse.org/blog/2012/01/10/a-very-good-day-in-austin/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+ZooniverseBlogs+%28Zooniverse+Blogs%29)
from Chris with a mention for us:
"Of the eight Zooniverse
projects that were live at the beginning of 2011, six (the three already
mentioned along with Solar Stormwatch and Galaxy Zoo : Supernovae which
have papers, and Old Weather has contributed data to its climate
scientists) have serious published results."
not
to mention Clerihew Time: (Today is #clerihew day at @the_zooniverse -
join us for whimsical, science rhymes http://t.co/qyp3I9Mv 10:52:29
21/12/11)
"RT @Caro601:
We work well together
Here on OldWeather
We're in love with the sea and a bit ocd
@the_zooniverse #clerihews 10:51:30 21/12/11"
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New Blog post:
http://blogs.zooniverse.org/oldweather/2012/03/analysis-of-the-oldweather-data/
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Endeavour and the transit of Venus: http://blog.oldweather.org/2012/06/06/the-transit-of-venus/
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Solar Stormwatch / Old Weather cross over ;D
Sunspots Ahoy (http://blogs.zooniverse.org/solarstormwatch/2012/06/sunspots-ahoy/)
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'The devil's symphony': http://blog.oldweather.org/2012/08/12/roaring-buzzing-wheezing-and-shrieking/
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Wow!!!
Are any of our ships going to be up there during the spring thaw?
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Unfortunately the Blog link seems to have disappeared from the oldWeather site (or at least I can't find it any-more).
I guess a lot of people will probable not see this interesting item.
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You're right Maikel.
The blog link is not available there
currently but it has been posted on the Zooniverse's Facebook page and
has been tweeted by @_thezooniverse (3,721 followers).
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On the new OW interface home, click the "Discuss" tab. That
drop-down menu allows the choice between "Blog" and "Forum".
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I don't follow anybody on Twitter or Facebook.
Blogs are for reading, they are not a discussion.
OK, so it is official now; I've definitely not made the transition to Web 2.0 ;D
Perhaps it's time to change my avatar?
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Please don't. I like your avatar!
And as Janet has pointed out, the blog link is now available from the interface. ;)
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I don't follow anybody on Twitter or Facebook.
Blogs are for reading, they are not a discussion.
OK, so it is official now; I've definitely not made the transition to Web 2.0 ;D
Perhaps it's time to change my avatar?
Much the same here ;)
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I don't follow anybody on Twitter or Facebook.
Blogs are for reading, they are not a discussion.
OK, so it is official now; I've definitely not made the transition to Web 2.0 ;D
Perhaps it's time to change my avatar?
Please don't change your avatar Maikel - it makes me chortel every time.... ;) ;) ;D ;D
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Let me clarify. :)
Links to the blog have been tweeted and posted on Facebook.
This can only help increase the blog's readership.
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Ship histories: http://blog.oldweather.org/2012/08/30/ship-histories-120-and-counting/
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I don't follow anybody on Twitter or Facebook.
Blogs are for reading, they are not a discussion.
OK, so it is official now; I've definitely not made the transition to Web 2.0 ;D
Perhaps it's time to change my avatar?
Much the same here ;)
For
the record: I don't Tweet and my FaceBook page will be deactivated by
the weekend. I've tired of their 'moving target privacy/security policy'
and last week one of their 'apps' (which I don't subscribe to) listed
me as 'visiting a profile page 19 times in 7 days.' I don't really
'know' the person except that we share membership in a 'group.' I can
only imagine the damage should that or some OTHER 'made up statistic'
show up on a young person's page and be found by a parent, officer of
the law, etc. My reputation is more important to me than taking a chance
with FaceBook any longer.
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I don't follow anybody on Twitter or Facebook.
Blogs are for reading, they are not a discussion.
OK, so it is official now; I've definitely not made the transition to Web 2.0 ;D
Perhaps it's time to change my avatar?
Much the same here ;)
For
the record: I don't Tweet and my FaceBook page will be deactivated by
the weekend. I've tired of their 'moving target privacy/security policy'
and last week one of their 'apps' (which I don't subscribe to) listed
me as 'visiting a profile page 19 times in 7 days.' I don't really
'know' the person except that we share membership in a 'group.' I can
only imagine the damage should that or some OTHER 'made up statistic'
show up on a young person's page and be found by a parent, officer of
the law, etc. My reputation is more important to me than taking a chance
with FaceBook any longer.
For the record I couldn't work out how tweet even worked... let joy be unconfined!!!! ;D ;D ;D
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I don't follow anybody on Twitter or Facebook.
Blogs are for reading, they are not a discussion.
OK, so it is official now; I've definitely not made the transition to Web 2.0 ;D
Perhaps it's time to change my avatar?
Much the same here ;)
For
the record: I don't Tweet and my FaceBook page will be deactivated by
the weekend. I've tired of their 'moving target privacy/security policy'
and last week one of their 'apps' (which I don't subscribe to) listed
me as 'visiting a profile page 19 times in 7 days.' I don't really
'know' the person except that we share membership in a 'group.' I can
only imagine the damage should that or some OTHER 'made up statistic'
show up on a young person's page and be found by a parent, officer of
the law, etc. My reputation is more important to me than taking a chance
with FaceBook any longer.
For the record I couldn't work out how tweet even worked... let joy be unconfined!!!! ;D ;D ;D
I tried Facebook out once.
Tried.
Past Tence.
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When Facebook emails me that family have posted something, I click
to link to go online and read what's up with them. I good reason
to have an account. But I hate it enough, I don't want to do a
whole lot else with it. 8)
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When
Facebook emails me that family have posted something, I click to link
to go online and read what's up with them. I good reason to have
an account. But I hate it enough, I don't want to do a whole lot
else with it. 8)
That's
basically what I did - logged on if I got an email about family or
someone I knew. Kept my profile page pretty well 'locked up' and I
stayed mainly because 2 groups I work with use FB to share "chat"
(unlike the way we do here in FORUM.) I'd seen the 'app' before but
until it 'tagged' me for something I NEVER do - that was the end.
I'll miss the family part but we'll do fine with good old e-mail.
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Zooniverse blog post
(http://blog.zooniverse.org/2012/09/10/citizen-science-september/) for
all you Facebook and Twitter fans. :-X :D
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http://blog.oldweather.org/2012/10/08/the-voyage-of-usrc-thetis-april-to-september-1884/
Some good news.
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Yay! Well done crew Thetis!
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And THAT blog will be the reference source for proving position of box equals computer assigned time. ;D
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And another one ... http://blog.oldweather.org/2012/10/11/from-the-stacks-at-the-u-s-national-archives/
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Nice to know the team behind Kevin. :)
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I agree with you Janet - it is nice to know who is looking after that end. ;D ;D
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I wonder how they do the scanning without stopping all the time to read the pages. I know I would ;D
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It IS hard not to stop and read. Here are a few snippets I've seen
just in the process of random QA - Captain Roald Amundsen came on board
as a guest of the captain...tyhoon signal spotted on shore...steaming
through scattered wreckage in thick fog...ran down the convoy at first
light and found three ships missing... Kevin
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All the kind of snippets that can lead to OW addiction. ;D
Welcome to the forum, Kevin.
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Thanks for those snippets, Kevin. Roald Amundsen - wow!
Don't get too distracted ;D
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Maybe you'll be able to get your own team of ship editors and have all this material in easy read/searchable format.
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Ok - this is a sign of my own addiction -
OWaholics Anonymous
5-Step Program: 1. Date, 2. Location, 3. Weather, 4. Other, 5. Finish
I had to do quite a bit of looking to find this 5 step program -
Welcome to the Friends of Beaufort (OWA) Kevin ;D
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:D :D :D
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http://blog.oldweather.org/2012/10/16/usrc-thetis-and-the-lady-franklin-bay-expedition/
Like it! ;)
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How very cool!!! Our very first completed ship of this new
fleet is on a blog!!! Roll-over the icons to see our
transcriptions and then click to see the page!!! ;D
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That is cool! :o
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And we are the subject of one of Philip's Blogs!
http://blog.oldweather.org/2012/10/24/oldweather-arctic/
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And you have to read this one, complete with a very impressive photo
of all the folk representing the agencies involved, and Kathy Wendolk
representing us volunteers. :)
oldWeather-Arctic launch event (http://blog.oldweather.org/2012/10/25/oldweather-arctic-launch-event/)
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We get everywhere. Well done Kathy!
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Great!
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We get everywhere. Well done Kathy!
They seek him here, they seek him there
Those Frenchies seek him everywhere
Is he in heaven or is he in hell?
That demned elusive Pimpernel !! ;)
Great job, Kathy! ;D
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Did you ever see Wayne and Shuster do a spoof on that called The Scarlet Pumpernickel, Dean? I don't imagine it would survive the passage of time but I found it pretty funny back in the 60s.
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Did you ever see Wayne and Shuster do a spoof on that called The Scarlet Pumpernickel, Dean? I don't imagine it would survive the passage of time but I found it pretty funny back in the 60s.
I
LOVE that one! I used to watch them every week on the local
Canadian channel. They were SUPERB! great - CLEAN - humour!!;D
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Here's some more analysis from Thetis's logs, from Philip. :)
Broken, loose, slack, rotten, soft, solid and impenetrable (http://blog.oldweather.org/2012/10/30/broken-loose-slack-rotton-soft-solid-and-impenetrable/) - the sea ice, that is.
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SO EXCITED!!! to see the video of the log entries. I mean
- the ice science is very fascinating, but as a transcriber I feel
like I've learnt a fair bit from watching the transcription video. Can
we put a link to this somewhere for newbies to see?
http://vimeo.com/50711811
Cool blog! (no pun ref. ice intended ;D) 8) 8) 8)
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If we did, we would have to be clear that this is a selective look
at date, position and weather only. There is a total editing out
of all comments, including all the ice descriptions Kevin needs.
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Oh right...ho hum....
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I guess I might as well stop using caps for the wind directions ::)
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I agree, Randi, it is a bit of a waste of time putting caps on wind directions. I have been doing it to.
Wouldn't
it be nice if we could see the summary of our transcriptions beside the
log page like in the video? It would be easier to see our errors (well,
my errors at least ;D)
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Kevin wrote us a new blog, quoting from the Captain's Log a
description of their Christmas Eve, 1880, festivities and dinner. :)
The new Jeannette opera house (http://blog.oldweather.org/2012/12/22/the-new-jeannette-opera-house/)
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Nice one Kevin!!! ;D
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And then there is this very nice announcement! (See Re: Old
Weather In The News
(http://forum.oldweather.org/index.php?topic=16.msg62204#msg62204) for
the party we threw when the tweet went out.) ;D
Award winning (http://blog.oldweather.org/2013/02/20/award-winning/)
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(http://imageshack.us/a/img72/808/wevealwaysknown.jpg)
For Philip, for all of us. ;D
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Love the infra-red look to that one.
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Calling
all Zooites!
(http://blog.zooniverse.org/2013/02/27/calling-all-zooites-your-chance-to-attend-the-second-zooniverse-project-workshop-in-chicago/)
Please note that this is an appeal for a representative of the Zooniverse, not Old Weather specifically.
Start writing!
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I've been crunching the numbers for the Arctic logs we've done so
far, and as part of the process I've made a video for each ship showing
the data transcribed from each page. I meant these as diagnostic tools -
to help me check that my software is working - but I think they are
good fun to watch (I like the seemingly endless stream of information
coming out of each log), so I've uploaded them to
https://vimeo.com/channels/496931/ (https://vimeo.com/channels/496931/).
My aim was to show everything
we are transcribing, in as concise a way as possible, but it's hard to
be sure I've succeded. So if you notice any pages where you remember
transcribing something that doesn't appear (or you spot any other
errors), please mention them here.
Thanks, Philip
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Those Mark-Up Videos are now on a blog!!
http://blog.oldweather.org/2013/04/10/markup-videos/
Note
that the video in the blog is a recorded sample, we have to click "Pick
your ship" (not marked as a link) to go to the active vimeo. The
choice of ships is below the active window.
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Neat! 8)
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Philip has put the Workshop 2 experience into a blog (http://blog.oldweather.org/2013/05/08/a-view-of-the-source/). :)
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A blog from Philip: http://blog.oldweather.org/2013/05/14/o-corpora-o-mores/
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8)
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Interesting. Those longer phrases from the US ships are very
familiar from Jeannette. They're appearing every day at the moment.
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The word "slight" surprised me, though. It must have been a reference to sunlight in winter.
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It's interesting to see that "hands cleaning ship" came so high up
the list - it's not something I ever included in the events as it seemed
too routine to bother with, and I have the impression that was general
practice. Perhaps the legions of transcribers who only did a page
or two and disappeared were conscientiously including just about
everything?
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I recorded "hands cleaning ship" quite a few times in Phase 2, but then what interested me was daily life on the ships.
In Phase 1 I did mainly weather and people+places+ships.
In Phase 3 I am recording even more events (depending on the handwriting ;)).
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It's
interesting to see that "hands cleaning ship" came so high up the list -
it's not something I ever included in the events as it seemed too
routine to bother with, and I have the impression that was general
practice. Perhaps the legions of transcribers who only did a page
or two and disappeared were conscientiously including just about
everything?
Devonshire
has 'hands cleaning ship, - 'hands employed cleaning ship,' - hands
employed cleaning ship throughout' EVERY day. :o Most days it occurs in
the log at 7:00am and sometimes again in the afternoon. Must be a clean
ship! ;D
it also likely has to do with keeping decks clean and
safe to walk and work on. A slip on deck and that might be the last of
the crewman! :'(
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Also, a salty ship is a decaying ship - salt water is corrosive -
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Cleaning also keeps the crew occupied - and out of mischief.
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I did include in the edited logs the Captain who had the crew cleaning ship 2 hours before commencing coaling!
For
me (I hate housework) that verges on sadistic. I'll also include
instances where cleaning takes place at odd times or mixed in with odd
activities. But 'cleanliness is next to godliness' is definitely a
naval motto.
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I hate housework too ;D
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;D ;D ;D
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I recognize that long sentence about being in the dockyard for a
refit with the hands in the sailor's home - I had what felt like months
of that on at least one ship I've edited!
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Our Award Certificate Has Arrived! Philip has his to hang on
his office and blogged to give each of the 17,906 of us volunteers our
own!! ;D
Certificated (http://blog.oldweather.org/2013/05/16/certificated/)
(http://oldweather.files.wordpress.com/2013/05/rmets_ibm_award_certificate_small.png?w=479)
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Well deserved - for all of us, but especially for Philip. I
hope he gets a warm glow looking at it! :D :D :D
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Yes indeed. Well done Philip, Zooniverse team and every one of us.
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Amazing what a 'bunch' of us can do!!! ;D ;D
Congratulations to PHILIP and all.
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Richly deserved all round...but especially to the mastermind -
Philip. ;D (Thank you for creating such a lovely family
'game' for us all to play)
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Just think of all the data we have 'rescued' (and even more from the
edited logs when we've filled in ship locations). Hope that
boffins of the future will raise a glass to those who thought of the
project and those of us who have been entertained by it. (Who says
that retirement causes atrophy of the brain when you can get involved
in Zooniverse)
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I think I do know which words will be most prominent in this phase
of transcribing: Cum, Cir, Nimb and any wind direction containing North.
How do I know, you ask?
Just check my keyboard, the C and N are starting to fade. :o
Instead of the award, could I somewhere claim a new keyboard? ;)
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I
think I do know which words will be most prominent in this phase of
transcribing: Cum, Cir, Nimb and any wind direction containing North.
How do I know, you ask?
Just check my keyboard, the C and N are starting to fade. :o
Instead of the award, could I somewhere claim a new keyboard? ;)
:D :D :D I have a worn patch on my touch pad - not all due to OW, but I suspect a fair amount of it is!
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My erase key is like a mirror. ;D
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The deck next to my touchpad, the right end of my space bar, and a
number of letter keys all carry a well-burnished shine. And this
is the new laptop. :)
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Philip has indeed been using our Geographical Help section!
Our lists of ports and sightings make an astonishingly clear map in Philip's new blog (http://blog.oldweather.org/2013/05/21/over-on-the-left/). 8)
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That's so cool. :)
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Not exactly an Old Weather blog but sure to be of interest to those who want to know how the whole thing works.
From Arfon: http://blog.zooniverse.org/2013/06/20/how-the-zooniverse-works-the-domain-model/
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Very interesting. Thanks, Arfon.
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Well, I can now admire the technical team on a higher level even if I
still don't know how they do it. I'm glad they are trying to improve
our experience and I must admit I enjoyed my foray into Serengeti very
much. It was almost too addictive.
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Very interesting. 8) I would also like to hear something about
more mundane stuff such as back-up procedures. Are there off-site
copies of what we have transcribed?
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Very
interesting. 8) I would also like to hear something about more
mundane stuff such as back-up procedures. Are there off-site copies of
what we have transcribed?
This
came up when the cloud collapsed a couple of times during the good old
days - and yes, absolutely everything gets backed up daily. All
analyses, etc., are done on copies. (I also got a little paranoid
about it and needed reassurance. :) )
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Arfon explains stuff (part 2): http://blog.zooniverse.org/2013/06/25/how-the-zooniverse-works-tools-and-technologies/
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Well, all the sentences had a recognisable grammatical construction
and I could identify the function of all the words and I understood
about 5% of it. Arfon, I'm glad it works, I'm glad you can add more
projects quickly and at reasonable cost and I am happy to let you get on
with it and remain thankful that I don't have to understand it to use
it.
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Aren't you glad that their product is full of magic, enough to let us non-geeks use it cheerfully? ;)
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Journey Plotter, or an Old Weather addiction story
(http://blog.oldweather.org/2013/07/17/journey-plotter-or-an-old-weather-addiction-story/)
by our very own Maikel. Three cheers! ;D
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Woo hoo!
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Three cheers!!!
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(http://www.desismileys.com/smileys/desismileys_3190.gif)
(http://www.desismileys.com/smileys/desismileys_3190.gif)
(http://www.desismileys.com/smileys/desismileys_3190.gif)
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(http://www.desismileys.com/smileys/desismileys_0143.gif)
(http://www.desismileys.com/)(http://www.desismileys.com/smileys/desismileys_0143.gif)
(http://www.desismileys.com/)(http://www.desismileys.com/smileys/desismileys_0143.gif)
(http://www.desismileys.com/)
BTW - I'll have to learn to use a PC. ::)
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Yo! Well done! ;D ;D ;D
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Better watch out, Maikel, with your obvious computing skills they
will want to recruit you to maintain the interface software now.
;D
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No problem, what does it pay? :D
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Better
watch out, Maikel, with your obvious computing skills they will want to
recruit you to maintain the interface software now. ;D
That would require offering a salary. Which deprives Maikel of choosing when to work on what. ;)
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Highest bidder wins. ;)
You may read that as an invitation to start using Journey Plotter's Donate button liberally. :D :D :D
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Arfon explains more stuff: http://blog.zooniverse.org/2013/07/23/keeping-it-personal/
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Well I think I understood more of that - at least the intention if
not the code which implemented it. When I think back to the early
OW when things hung around for ages and you could sometimes go and get
another coffee while it moved on and the brisk service we get today then
you can see the remarkable steps they have made.
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I think the selection algorithm might be a bit different for OW. The
system has to select the next available sequential record in a specific
ship's log that has not been seen by the user in question or by any
three other users. This is not a random selection and the set critera
appear to be more complex than in the example provide (if I understood
it correctly).
I am always impressed by the response speed, though.
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I am in awe..and cannot pretend to understand any of this - but I sure like using the end product :D
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I understand SOME of it but I agree whole heartedly I enjoy using the end product!!! ;D ;D ;D
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Had to read it more than once, but I figured it out eventually.
I
assume OW is a little bit different because the logs are sorted by ship
and ordered chronologically (well, most of the time ::)).
But yes, I do very much like to use the end product.
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A new blog out, Ice Station Jeanette (http://blog.oldweather.org/2013/08/08/ice-station-jeannette/) by Philip.
Her log is also now on vimeo: http://vimeo.com/62031717
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8)
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You really have to feel for that poor ship - :(
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This is personal news from/for the OldWeather team:
Zooniverse, GitHub and the future (http://blog.zooniverse.org/2013/08/13/zooniverse-github-and-the-future/) by Arfon
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:o :o :o :'( :'( :'(
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:o :o :o :'( :'( :'(
As they say in the song -- 'I second that emotion!!!!!' ??? :'(
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:o :o :o :'( :'( :'(
As they say in the song -- 'I second that emotion!!!!!' ??? :'(
I third it. Arfon's leaving some very big shoes to fill.
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Your successor will have some big boots to fill. Hope whoever
will be as successful and interact with the volunteers as well as you
did.
Good luck.
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:o :o :o :'( :'( :'(
As they say in the song -- 'I second that emotion!!!!!' ??? :'(
I third it. Arfon's leaving some very big shoes to fill.
I
fourth it... THANK YOU for all your help ;D 8) - and for leaving
such a healthy team looking after us ;D 8). Good luck! ;D ;D
But sorry that you will be leaving :'( :'(
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What? No more Arfon?
I.... I don't believe it! :'( :'( :'(
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Indeed! We will miss him.
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New blog out by Philip, with a very scary vimeo.
Melt season (http://blog.oldweather.org/2013/09/10/melt-season/)
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Phew!!
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Not exactly a blog. News from the Daily Zooniverse:
http://daily.zooniverse.org/2013/09/18/jeanette-the-first-ice-station/
:)
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Not exactly a blog. News from the Daily Zooniverse:
http://daily.zooniverse.org/2013/09/18/jeanette-the-first-ice-station/
:)
I think this is the first time we've managed their Daily Event. :)
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Goodbye from Arfon.
http://blog.zooniverse.org/2013/10/04/so-long-and-thanks-for-all-the-fish/
:'(
He says the nicest things.
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And long may you travel safely with your towel... ;) 8) :'( :'(
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Happy birthday to us ....
Brightening the world (http://blog.oldweather.org/2013/10/12/brightening-the-world/) from Philip.
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8)
Slice the main cake!
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Well, that shows what 3 years of work and a lot of fun can
accomplish. When we've finished the editing and put locations on
another tranche of data there will be a few more data points to
add. Add in the US logs and all the other projects which have
started and the whole system will be a lot more robust.
Well done everyone
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And this blog is looking at us as community, rather than the project. :)
Learning from our experience (http://blog.oldweather.org/2013/10/17/learning-from-our-experience/)
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Interesting papers. Thanks Charlene, Alexandra and Laure.
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And here is a blog looking at the bottom of the world.
Frost in the South (http://blog.oldweather.org/2013/10/21/frost-in-the-south/)
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We made the Daily Zooniverse again, with one of Philip's Vimeos.
Spot the difference (http://daily.zooniverse.org/2013/10/28/spot-the-difference/)
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Frightening!!
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What a dull life I live. ;)
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We made the Daily Zooniverse again, with one of Philip's Vimeos.
Spot the difference (http://daily.zooniverse.org/2013/10/28/spot-the-difference/)
Hopefully that will attract a few new people ;)
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And another oldWeather blog, this time Philip posting for Kevin, who is currently up in the arctic.
Too low, terrain! (http://blog.oldweather.org/2013/10/29/too-low-terrain/)
Kevin is clearly on board Kermit, not Miss Piggy. :)
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8)
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I'm having trouble viewing the Vimeo video in that post.
When I play it, I only get audio - the screen stays black the whole time.
Viewing it on the Vimeo website doesn't help, and emptying my cache doesn't solve the problem either.
I have Google Chrome and Windows 7 64-bit.
Can anybody help me?
EDIT: Tried using Internet Explorer 10. Same problem.
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I watched it earlier and I just checked now. It works finf for me with Firefox and Windows 7 ???
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I also have Google Chrome and Windows 7 64-bit.
I had no troubles
at all watching it, although it used a very narrow portion of the vimeo
screen. Which remained unchanged if viewed on the blog, or on
Vimeo site, with 'scaling' on or off.
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Firefox works. Thanks!
EDIT: I just checked Vimeo.com, and the same problem seems to affect EVERYTHING there when I'm using Chrome.
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I always have problems with Vimeo's :( and I also
have Chrome - though I only have Vista. They take forever to load,
although they seem to play eventually. I haven't even attempted
to view the latest one as it is Tuesday, and for reasons I have never
been able to fathom, my Internet connection is always incredibly slow on
a Tuesday evening. :'( (If anyone can suggest a possible
reason for this phenomenon I'd be very interested to know!)
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I always
have problems with Vimeo's :( and I also have Chrome - though I
only have Vista. They take forever to load, although they seem to
play eventually. I haven't even attempted to view the latest one
as it is Tuesday, and for reasons I have never been able to fathom, my
Internet connection is always incredibly slow on a Tuesday
evening. :'( (If anyone can suggest a possible reason for
this phenomenon I'd be very interested to know!)
Could it be that in the week - Tuesday is half of Thursday so it only runs at half speed??!! :P
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Daily Zooniverse: http://daily.zooniverse.org/2013/11/14/old-space-weather/
An old favourite. :)
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And now the Old Weather Blog (http://blog.oldweather.org/2013/11/26/scientific-progress-goes/) is honoring our OW BOINC Team (http://forum.oldweather.org/index.php?topic=2028.0). ;D
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:D :D
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:)
"Why is the computer so noisy?" My daughter never expected the answer she got...
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(http://www.desismileys.com/smileys/desismileys_3266.gif)
Thank you, Philip!
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Great blog, great team. ;)
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Today's Zooniverse blog (http://blog.zooniverse.org/2013/12/01/our-2013-advent-calendar-begins/) announces the Zooniverse Advent Calendar (https://www.zooniverse.org/advent) is up.
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A blog from Gordon: Remember the Royal Navy (http://blog.oldweather.org/2013/12/05/remember-the-royal-navy/)
:)
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Ah, the good old days when 24 WR/day was the exception, not the rule, and ships were being finished every week.
Will we ever get to do any more RN logs? I sure miss 'em!
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I don't know whether there will be any more RN logs to transcribe; there are still plenty that need editing though.
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Last I heard, the RN - which had been very reluctant about us at the
start - liked what we did so much, I was asked to tell some commodore
what moderators and volunteers needed if they set up their own in house
equivalent interface. A true case of us changing the entire
attitude of a large bureaucracy, which is very rare. I don't know
if they ever followed up on that. I wouldn't know how to check
that out, what exactly to google.
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A blog from Gordon: Remember the Royal Navy (http://blog.oldweather.org/2013/12/05/remember-the-royal-navy/)
:)
WOW!!! ;D ;D
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An amazing list, Gordon. :)
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This Zooniverse blog, Zooniverse by Numbers: 2013 Edition
(http://blog.zooniverse.org/2013/12/07/zooniverse-by-numbers-2013-edition/),
is downright fun. Makes us look quite powerful. 8)
(http://zooniverseblog.files.wordpress.com/2013/12/kheops-pyramid.jpg)
(double the height)
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Very creative!
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Today's Advent Calendar (https://www.zooniverse.org/advent) blog
(day 8 ) is pure fun -- But they forgot to include Caro's Ships
Cat!!! :o
http://blog.zooniverse.org/2013/12/08/cats-love-the-zooniverse/
(http://zooniverse-resources.s3.amazonaws.com/advent/8.jpg)
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Haha! I like the nollege warrior best, because that's what I feel
like when classifying: A crusader, selflessly giving countless hours in
the name of science, and never stopping the fight until it's all done.
(http://www.games-workshop.com/MEDIA_CustomProductCatalog/m1240760_99060101236_SMBTEmperorschampmain_873x627.jpg)
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Handsome. :o :)
According to today's window in the
Zooniverse Advent Calendar (https://www.zooniverse.org/advent), I am
best suited to Old Weather. Well I never.
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Help scientists recover worldwide weather observations made by Royal Navy ships.
??? :o
No, no, that is my ex ;D
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Well, apparently I ought to be taking part in Plankton Portal.
This is probably because I had no idea what I was choosing between in
many of the questions - I'm far too busy with OW to watch films or drink
cocktails or do any of the other activities they presupposed ....
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Same here Helen, except in my case I got Notes from Nature as my answer.
But my code of honor says I must finish what I have already started before starting something new.
So
therefore, I must finish my voyages on the Pioneer, the Bear, and the
Unalga (in that order) before I can even consider taking up another
Zooniverse project.
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You mean there are OTHER Zooniverse Projects??!! ;)
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They gave me to Listening to Whales!!!! Don't like swimming that deep, staying on surface is preferred. ;)
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Same here Helen, except in my case I got Notes from Nature as my answer.
But my code of honor says I must finish what I have already started before starting something new.
So
therefore, I must finish my voyages on the Pioneer, the Bear, and the
Unalga (in that order) before I can even consider taking up another
Zooniverse project.
I'm
glad I'm not alone! I've got just over three months left of
editing Minerva (and rather longer of dealing with the yellow
highlights) and then I'll be back onboard Pioneer.
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You'd better be!
Otherwise we will send Maikel's bounty hunters after you ;D
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Aye, aye, cap'n! I'll be there as soon as I can.
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New blog!
Archives Update: 300,000 pages and Counting (http://blog.oldweather.org/2013/12/09/archives-update-300000-pages-and-counting/)
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According
to today's window in the Zooniverse Advent Calendar
(https://www.zooniverse.org/advent), I am best suited to Old Weather.
Well I never.
I
went through it giving the answers I thought would give me Old Weather,
but got Cyclone Center instead! I've had two more goes, trying to
give more honest answers (though I also have the problem of not having
seen the films or read the books!) and got Bat Detective and Moon
Zoo. So I guess I am not suited to Old Weather after all - perhaps
I should get my coat. :(
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I see that they changed most of the questions since I last did it :o
Some of my answers this time were really "none of the above" :P
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I just did it again, and got Planet Hunters (Definitely wrong!). This app needs a lot of work.
A 'none of the above' choice would be great, for example.
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There is one set of questions that almost guarantees anyone on this forum a match with Old Weather.
I've got those questions twice, and once a set of questions that matched me with the whales.
It's just a bit of fun. ;)
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Just did it again and got Solar Stormwatch this time .... ::)
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It took three tries, and I finally got OW. I guess I
should have expected Cyclone Center when I chose apocalyptic weather and
a dark and stormy!
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Got OW on the first try -
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I got OW on my first try, Notes from Nature on my second, and Planet Hunters on my third.
If I didn't have OW, Notes from Nature would probably be a good fit.
I
did a bit of Planet Hunters some time back, but there are only so many
hours in a day and I never had a lot of confidence in my decisions.
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Got OW on the first try -
:D :D :D
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We are most definitely part of the Zooniverse and ...
Google
confirms that the Zooniverse is awesome!
(http://blog.zooniverse.org/2013/12/12/google-confirms-that-the-zooniverse-is-awesome/)
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Good news indeed. Maybe you should copy the link to the RN and we
might get them to give us some nice RN logs with 6 or 7 weather reports
per day and terse events to transcribe - WW2 perhaps.
Meantime - man the yards & three hearty cheers for the Zooniverse
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:)
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Nice to be noticed on a large scale. ;D
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Good
news indeed. Maybe you should copy the link to the RN and we might get
them to give us some nice RN logs with 6 or 7 weather reports per day
and terse events to transcribe - WW2 perhaps.
Meantime - man the yards & three hearty cheers for the Zooniverse
I second that. Give us some RN logs and I'll be on 'em in ten seconds flat.
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Great news!
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Good
news indeed. Maybe you should copy the link to the RN and we might get
them to give us some nice RN logs with 6 or 7 weather reports per day
and terse events to transcribe - WW2 perhaps.
Meantime - man the yards & three hearty cheers for the Zooniverse
I second that. Give us some RN logs and I'll be on 'em in ten seconds flat.
YES to all of the above!!!!!!! ;D ;D
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If you really like 6 -7 weather obs per day, join the Jamestown
1844! That's all they record when they're in port, and they seem
to be in port most of the time right now.
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And often you only get wind direction and perhaps a temperature or
pressure if they are feeling good. But they most often have wind
strength and weather conditions in the remarks.
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When they're in port, even the temps/pressure are recorded in the remarks!
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Sorry, but my code of honour says I must finish what I have already started before taking on any new ships.
So first I must complete my voyages on the Pioneer, the Bear, and the Unalga, in that order.
But perhaps I will try out the Jamestown 1844 after that.
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When they're in port, even the temps/pressure are recorded in the remarks!
You're
right that at times the log keeper is quite assiduous, Carolyn, but at
other times he is pretty lax. When they get their new barometer he goes
all out for a month or so and then the readings become less and less
frequent. I think he stops altogether for a while and then starts up
again. Temperatures in the Remarks are sometimes only present for two
watches out of seven. I felt like sending him an e-mail to smarten up
sometimes but he probably wouldn't listen to a landlubber ;D
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The Pioneer does have some good times. She just stayed in port for
over 2 months (April, May and a bit of March 1931), so I made some nice
progress - but now my arms are sore from all that clicking and typing!
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Sounds like fun but at the moment I'm 2 years into 6 years of logs for Ark Royal. 8)
I
join when I get her finished - HOPEFULLY before the 100 Anniversary of
the First War- if you folks don't finish Jamestown first!! :P
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I'm transcribing at about the same rate that the log keepers were
writing, so there will be many pages left you for you, Dean!
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I'm transcribing at about the same rate that the log keepers were writing, so there will be many pages left you for you, Dean!
Sometimes
I think the logkeeper WROTE faster than I TYPE!! Glad to know
there is another 'speedy, highly skilled typist' out there besides me!
;)
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I'm sure the logkeeper WROTE faster than I TYPE!! :P
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:D Me, too, Randi and Dean, especially with all the
tabbing and numbers! I like being able to read the remarks while I
enter weather observations for this ship.
The logkeepers will
pass me up soon - we leave on our Christmas travels later this
week and I will be offline. In the meantime, Happy Holidays
to all!
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If you read today's entry on the blog
(http://blog.oldweather.org/2013/12/16/the-honourable-work-of-data-rescue/)
you'll see we've added another laurel to our wreath - an honourable
mention from the 2013 International Data Rescue Award in the
Geosciences.
Gil Compo represented us at the award ceremony, and
when reporting back he said "It was an honor representing such a great
group". That's a comment that resonates strongly with me. I get to
represent oldWeather pretty often, at all sorts of events, and
just-about always several people will say how tremendous they think
oldWeather is. It's a privilege and pleasure to front for you on such
occasions - thank you all.
Congratulations to everyone on another
award, and don't forget to admire Kevin's excellent poster
(http://oldweather.files.wordpress.com/2013/04/ow_general.pdf) which
includes a lot of forum material.
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Thank you Philip, for the blog and the kind words. Congratulations all round!
The posters are superb.
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Great!
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Congrats to all the Phase 3 volunteers and the Science Team.
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Wonderful news. This is what the certificate looks like. ;D
(https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-rAZ00rEhDE4/UqbOzgwQnGI/AAAAAAAACqQ/XKqmeT9nRYA/w724-h552-no/International+Data+Rescue+Award+2013+-+HonMen.GIF)
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That is an awesome poster! Great job Kevin. I like how you used such
a wide variety of images - from ships and log pages to Caro's artworks
and forum avatars. The certificate is nice too.
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Great news!! Congrats to everyone :D :D
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Congratulations! Great poster!
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Well done to us!
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Congratulations to us all, and to all the scientists who have worked
to set up the project and to use the information. It's nice to be
recognized!
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And this blog is about the editors. :)
http://blog.oldweather.org/2013/12/21/documenting-world-war-1-at-sea/
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I must admit that I have a much better understanding of WW1 Naval
engagements now I've read the actual logs. The most informative
was "Inflexible" at the Falklands. Her Captain left the line of
battle without orders as he could not see for smoke and produced a typed
(Yay!!) 3 page (small) battle summary which I suspect would have formed
his defense in case of Court Martial.
I'm hoping that we can
interest people in the Navy as well as the Army. If I get chance I
might try to interest the local schools in HMS Glasgow - Coronel,
Falklands and sinking of Dresden for starters. I think for some of
the children a focussed look at a ship may highlight the horror of war
more than conventional statistics.
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Gordon has amassed a huge amount of information on Naval History in preparation for the centenary of the Great War.
He has done a great job and I'm proud that our ship histories now form an important part of this invaluable archive.
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One reason I want to learn how to reference sites on Wiki, is
Gordon's info is so much more complete that I'd like to bring more
traffic to him, if he doesn't mind. He's like having a full WW1
library in one site.
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Now this is nice advertising from Google. :)
http://blog.zooniverse.org/2013/12/24/season-of-giving/
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:) :) :)
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But why is Old Weather not on the projects list? >:( :'(
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Maybe they've chosen the ones where a newcomer can hope to do
something useful in 30 minutes? I suspect we're not the only one
to be omitted (trying hard not to feel put out ???)
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Only five of the 19 projects have been included.
I objected (mildly) via Twitter.
@the_zooniverse replies. :)
@Caro601 24 Dec
@the_zooniverse Listing all the projects here would be nice: http://giving.zooniverse.org/#
@the_zooniverse 14h
@Caro601 We wanted to but it wasn't possible for that project - we'll update it in 2014
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They didn't get us into the Advent Calendar, but I got a personal
apology today and we made it into the Daily Zooniverse as a replacement.
http://daily.zooniverse.org/2013/12/27/old-weather-art/
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Well done, Janet! I like the choices.
Returno (GY264) is one of my favourites. :)
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Only the first one was my example to them, they read the Gallery and chose the others. You do good work. :)
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The Zooniverse is asking for social help in today's Daily blog
(http://daily.zooniverse.org/2014/01/03/help-measure-the-seas-health/).
Part of the blog:We
have set up a Thunderclap for Plankton Portal
(http://www.planktonportal.org/) to see if we can give it a social
boost, and we need your help to make it happen. You can lend your
support here http://thndr.it/1ajfdyJ
Could anyone help explain to me what this Thunderclap is? I signed up and then didn't know what would happen.
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I took a look at their FAQ. The idea is that you sign up for a
campaign with your Twitter/Facebook account, and if the campaign's goal
of XX supporters is reached in time, every account signed up sends the
same message out at once, flashmob style.
More info from their homepage:
WHAT IS THUNDERCLAP?
Thunderclap is the first crowd-speaking platform that helps people be heard by saying something together.
HOW DOES IT WORK?
If
enough people support it, Thunderclap will blast out a timed Facebook
Post or Tweet from all your supporters, creating a wave of attention.
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Definitely worth a try. If it works for Plankton Portal, all
us other zoos can get in line for our own boost. I just hope it
doesn't overwhelm my Facebook with responses aimed at me.
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We have a new blog, demonstrating what we are doing for weather
re-analysis in remote regions. We were presented to the world's
climatologists again. :)
Old New Zealand, HMS New Zealand, & new New Zealand (http://blog.oldweather.org/2014/01/14/old-new-zealand-hms-new-zealand-new-new-zealand/)
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... and the power of us! Daily Zooniverse: http://daily.zooniverse.org/2014/01/20/the-power-of-oldweather/
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We are wonderful - does the Zooniverse require a volunteer proof-reader or editor!!
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I have volunteered more than once. ;)
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New Blog Entry (http://blog.oldweather.org/2014/01/31/certificated-2/)!
OW got honorable mention in the 2013 International Data Rescue Award in the Geosciences :)
Congrats to everyone!
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Simple but very, very nice.
(http://oldweather.files.wordpress.com/2014/01/data-rescue-award.jpg)
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We made the DAILY ZOONIVERSE again:
Saturday Status - Old Weather (http://daily.zooniverse.org/2014/02/22/saturday-status-old-weather/)
Congratulations to us for reaching a milestone!
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Fantastic. Well done everybody!
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(http://www.desismileys.com/smileys/desismileys_0522.gif)
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Very nice! We are AWESOME!!
P.S. Love your dancing M&Ms, Randi. :D
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;D
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This one is really deserved, and makes me feel really good. :)
A number considerably above the average (http://blog.oldweather.org/2014/03/13/a-number-considerably-above-the-average/)
To achieve a million
(http://blog.oldweather.org/2012/05/08/1-million-pages/) once may be
regarded as good fortune; to do so twice looks like carefulness, skill,
enthusiasm, and dedication.
Yes!!!
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Amazing! Best blog post EVER!!!!
(https://i.chzbgr.com/maxW500/4998920704/h3F61AABF/)
P.S. Here's some very appropriate music for the occasion: We Are Unstoppable (http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=BgyhXEqYZPo)
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:D
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:D :D :D 8)
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When you see the breakdown of what 'a WR' contains, it's not
surprising that we don't seem as fast as other projects - we are
definitely AWESOME!
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Amazing! Best blog post EVER!!!!
I couldn't have put it better, Hanibal!
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A talk by Kevin in Washington (http://blog.oldweather.org/2014/05/08/a-talk-by-kevin-in-washington/)!
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8)
Afraid I can't make it!
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Our personal archivists are hosting this - nice chance to advertise
OW. Wish it was closer to my home, tho, it sounds
interesting. :)
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Atmospheric conditions have been very unfavourable lately
(http://blog.oldweather.org/2014/05/21/the-atmospheric-conditions-have-been-very-unfavourable-lately/)
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Now that is a completely interesting and understandable explanation
of our American frigid winter of 2013-14!!! Polar vortexes and
depressions haven't existed or been that bad in almost 35 years.
Much too cold for rain, but you should have seen our snow!!!
No question, the whole global earth is suffering.
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It's nice to see that some of our data were used for that
simulation. We need to provide them with some Arctic data for that
period. Unfortunately, our ships don't tend to stay up there very long,
even if they get to the Arctic.
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They never get into the polar ice cap, except poor Jeannette. But we are definitely doing something useful!!
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New crew members at Naval-History.net (http://blog.oldweather.org/2014/05/23/new-crew-members-at-naval-history-net/)
:)
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Wow! Very nice entry with lots of neat info! 8)
And I don't even like history! ;D
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;D ;D
I hated history until I got a textbook that explained why things happened rather than just saying what happened when.
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OK, to clarify: I don't like the kind of history being done during
the ship editing, but there is a kind of history
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horrible_Histories_(book_series)) I do
like....
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;D
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Is there anything this group of people can't do? 8)
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Is there anything this group of people can't do? 8)
I believe the terms 'Nope!' and 'AWESOME!' fit in here!! ;D ;D ;D
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;D
We couldn't do it, without the support of all the volunteers. We are one wonderful community!!! 8)
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I'm glad all the work that Gordon, Don and other volunteers is in
such safe hands. It's such a great resource and growing all the
time.
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Great blog - good to see our wonderful editing crew getting recognition!
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Arts and Music (http://blog.oldweather.org/2014/07/17/arts-and-music/) in Reading, UK.
:)
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(http://www.desismileys.com/smileys/desismileys_4547.gif)
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Be there on September 11 if you can!
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We have "offspring"!
http://blog.oldweather.org/2014/08/04/a-daughter-weatherdetective-net-au/
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You even get a chance to win a tablet device after you have transcribed 20 observations.
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I think there is a geographical restriction on that, Craig. Sorry.
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I guess I won't join, then ;D
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Your heart wasn't really in it, was it? ;)
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Not if he wants it to stay in his body it wasn't ;D
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;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
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My heart can be stretched a long way for a good cause, but without a
forum I wouldn't have nice Mods like you to keep me in line ;D
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;D
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Great blog (http://blog.oldweather.org/2014/08/18/in-search-of-lost-weather/) from Philip about the Bear.
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WOW!
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That's nice, although I hope Philip won't be disappointed if I forego watching all the pages in review ;D
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Woohoo !
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YES!!!
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WOW!!!!!!
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Not a blog, but a tweet:
@oldweather
One of
Franklin's ships found:
http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/lost-franklin-expedition-ship-found-in-the-arctic-1.2760311
? (But I haven't much hope for a legible logbook).
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8)
Yes, the log book pages may be a little faded ;)
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Apparently they think it is possible some photographs may have survived, so why not the log book?
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8)
Yes, the log book pages may be a little faded ;)
That's something new? ::)
;D
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Depending on what photo technology was used, it might be something
like glass plates, which I would've thought are somewhat more durable
than paper when it comes to getting soggy. Never say never, though!
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Apparently they think it is possible some photographs may have survived, so why not the log book?
Talk about watered down ink!!! :D
It
really is a fantastic find, and I wish the paper and ink could have
somehow survived. Very interesting to compare her hardships with
Jeannette's 35 years later.
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Maybe when the divers go in they will find a waterproof container -
perhaps a tin box clumsily soldered with lead - containing a
carefully-preserved copy of the ships's papers.
I suppose it's
not absolutely impossible, but it's pretty high on the unlikeliness
scale. Is there an emoticon for 'wishful thinking'.
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I've just heard a short item on the R4 news to say that Canadian
divers say they've found the RN ship Erebus, lost in the Arctic - no
word about logs though ....
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There was something I read awhile back about 'papers' tossed into the wind...
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They interviewed a descendant of one of the captains - Crozier, I
think - on CBC this evening. He claimed that they had a brass or copper
tube that could be sealed in which they could store all their documents.
He didn't say where he got this information.
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https://www.youtube.com/embed/M3IuUspyhpo
First underwater video of one of Franklin's historic shipwrecks
Published on Sep 9, 2014
This
is the first underwater video of one of Sir John Franklin's ships that
was discovered by the Parks Canada underwater archaeology team. The
video was captured using a remotely operated vehicle (ROV).
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8)
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I'm not sure about this .... http://blog.oldweather.org/2014/09/11/uncertainty-uncertainty/ :)
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Was that written in English? I'm unsure - ;D
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;D
Well, congratulations to Philip, as well as Kullback?Leibler, for this! 8)
It
seems intuitive to me that increasing the observations in areas
of the world where there are big gaps will reduce the uncertainty but
this impression probably just shows my ignorance. If the new
observations were inaccurate this could of course increase the
uncertainty. For example, if the ships' barometer readings are
consistently low then this would affect the mean but not the standard
deviation of the air pressure reading. But the uncertainty Philip is
trying to measure is that of the ensemble simulations rather than that
of the individual data points, if I understand correctly.
But the meaning of life has to be an integer value. Of this I have no doubt. ;D
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I'm not sure about this .... http://blog.oldweather.org/2014/09/11/uncertainty-uncertainty/ :)
Makes
sense to me! :D (I'm a stats major so I know what he's refering to with
the bootstrap method, but I'm not too far into the degree).
And
to anyone who's wondering why some areas would get "worse" with the
uncertainty levels (the first one) (he explained in the article but I'll
just explain it another way to help anyone who got confused plus to
procrastinate homework), in statistics (and definitely bootstrap
distributions) there is always uncertainty about any conclusion reached
(he states a 2.5% for each side, so I'm assuming he's using 95%
confidence for his testing (I'm unfamiliar with testing for changes in
standard deviation (i.e. uncertainty). 99% is usually only used for
situations like medicine where making a bad conclusion is DANGEROUS, and
100% is completely impossible). Uncertainty in conclusions can't be
escaped, and the more you do the specific test, which he did for many,
many points of information, false conclusions are going to happen. I
THINK there is a 5% chance for each individual observation to be
considered an improvement or deprovement when it is not, and the chance
an observation would not be seen as a significant change when it is
would vary from observation to observation.
tl;dr Areas get
"worse" because statistics is not an exact science and can never escape
uncertainty. These areas are probably not from us and if they didn't
appear, then this wouldn't have been a good test of the change of the
uncertainty of the uncertainty.
(Note: If any statisticians or
Philip are reading this and I said something wrong, feel free to correct
me. I'd hate to be spreading false information plus it would help with
me studying statistics.)
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Thanks for the explanation, tastiger. I read it, then reread the
blog entry, and now I understand it well enough to know all I want to
know.
Gotta say, I'm glad I don't have to do that kind of stuff - cranking out more transcriptions is good enough for me.
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Good clarification, Tastiger. Philip does surmise that the red areas
are chance results (greater than the 2.5% error assumption) and not
systematic ones because they are not in areas where our OW ships (the
yellow) are located. But there could be systematic (non-statistical)
errors because of instrument bias and other factors. I was just
wondering about that.
Gil Campo, who is working on the 20th
century reconstruction project, posted some links to papers describing
the simulation methodology but it was too advanced for me. Perhaps you
can get something out of it.
http://forum.oldweather.org/index.php?topic=16.msg85298#msg85298
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Made total intuitive sense to me - as long as I kept skimming and
not getting entangled in vocabulary detail. All those "worse"
areas in the equatorial oceans must be nearly devoid of any data - the
better data density gets everywhere else, the more relatively sparse the
existing data is there. And if naval ships don't travel there, I
have no idea at all how to improve their data density.
Also
regarding land readings, the US seems to be the only place with a
historically stable grid of white dots, although all other continents
had varying white dots appearing through out. I'm assuming those
are the 19th century weather stations set up by the Smithsonian?
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Good
clarification, Tastiger. Philip does surmise that the red areas are
chance results (greater than the 2.5% error assumption) and not
systematic ones because they are not in areas where our OW ships (the
yellow) are located. But there could be systematic (non-statistical)
errors because of instrument bias and other factors. I was just
wondering about that.
(Just
to clarify, my post wasn't in response to yours; I started typing it up
before you posted yours. Didn't mean to try to reduce legitimacy in
your point. But yeah, that is a really good point. I could see them
handing that by comparing it to other ship observations while in a port
or near each other at sea and keeping the adjustment while at sea, but I
wonder how they handle ones where it's just one ship that can't be
compared to anyone or just a temporary problem, like an ant's nest...)
Gil
Campo, who is working on the 20th century reconstruction project,
posted some links to papers describing the simulation methodology but it
was too advanced for me. Perhaps you can get something out of it.
http://forum.oldweather.org/index.php?topic=16.msg85298#msg85298
Cool, I'll be sure to check it out! Should be a fun read. :D
Thanks
for the explanation, tastiger. I read it, then reread the blog entry,
and now I understand it well enough to know all I want to know.
Gotta say, I'm glad I don't have to do that kind of stuff - cranking out more transcriptions is good enough for me.
Thanks,
glad to help! :D And about the second line, I feel the same way about
computer codes and even the idea of using C++ to say "Hello world." :)
Good thing the world is diverse; everyone has their thing. :D
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The weather of HMS Beagle (http://blog.oldweather.org/2014/09/17/the-weather-of-hms-beagle/) :)
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8)
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Here's another. (I didn't know that word existed before! :) )
Sesquimillional (http://blog.oldweather.org/2014/09/27/sesquimillional/)
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(http://www.desismileys.com/smileys/desismileys_3177.gif)
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Go OW! ;D
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Celebratory grog and/or cake all round!
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Cake!
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Wowee! ;D ;D ;D
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And the PTB are celebrating our birthday with us. ;D
43 years in the North (http://blog.oldweather.org/2014/10/12/43-years-in-the-north/)
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8) 8) 8) 8) 8)
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Very cool! I love getting to see the fruits of our labors!
I've
been working on Alaska ships for so long, I was able to recognize
several of the places they stopped at - Unalaska, Juneau, Anchorage,
Prince Rupert...
And I think I saw the Bear rush over to Siberia to acquire reindeer for the hungry Inuit!
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;D
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Thanks Philip.
Another great visual representation of the hard work done by our happy volunteers. :)
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Into the top 500 (http://blog.oldweather.org/2014/10/29/into-the-top500/)
Supercomputers still need us. Thanks Philip. :)
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Great blog post, thanks Philip!
I like this part:
But
although we need these leading-edge systems to reconstruct past
weather, they are helpless without the observations we provide. All
these computers together could not read a single logbook page, let alone
interpret the contents.
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Me too!
;D ;D ;D
Thanks, Philip!
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More powerful than a pack of petaflops ;D
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A very simple blog from Philip for Remembrance Sunday in
Britain. Every poppy on the blog is a link to one of our log pages
recording a death, so this is a very personal remembrance for me.
Seas of red (http://blog.oldweather.org/2014/11/09/seas-of-red/)
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A
very simple blog from Philip for Remembrance Sunday in Britain.
Every poppy on the blog is a link to one of our log pages recording a
death, so this is a very personal remembrance for me.
Seas of red (http://blog.oldweather.org/2014/11/09/seas-of-red/)
quite touching. sniff.
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Thank you for that, Philip.
Remembering the war dead of all nations today.
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I see that one of the poppies commemorates the death of a German POW
- just saying, and not meaning to suggest this should not be so.
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Wow - what a lot of poppies - what a waste :'(
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Wonderful idea, Philip.
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Credits reel II (http://blog.oldweather.org/2014/11/28/credits-reel-ii-this-time-its-colourful/)
Happy Thanksgiving, USA. :)
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;D What a 8) Blog!
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8)
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Love it - very creative!
P.S. I think Philip must have
counted everyone from Phases 1 and 2 as well - if I add up all the
numbers of crew on all the Phase 3 ships, it doesn't come close to half
of 19.683.
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Certainly understood it as numbers since original start date. Impressive! Even spotted me drifting through. :) ::)
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I saw my name at the very beginning - at a time when lollia paolina was the only other name on the screen.
I think this means I am now the second most prolific transcriber in terms of WR!
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There's a very small number of you super-transcribers. :D
I'm not quick because I'm not that good on the keyboard - so for every line I must take time to re-check. ::)
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I was never quick with large numbers. Not only am I a slow
typist needing to check for errors, I get distracted when the comments
get interesting and I want to google the background events. You few
super-transcribers are amazing. :)
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Credits reel II (http://blog.oldweather.org/2014/11/28/credits-reel-ii-this-time-its-colourful/)
Happy Thanksgiving, USA. :)
Saw my name relatively early. Wow, I'm surprised I'm still up near the top. Thought I would have dropped down at this point. :P
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I
was never quick with large numbers. Not only am I a slow typist
needing to check for errors, I get distracted when the comments get
interesting and I want to google the background events. You few
super-transcribers are amazing. :)
I
am very fast at typing - maybe even the fastest, as I have managed to
do a 24 WR page in under three minutes - I don't get distracted by
interesting comments because nothing interests me except sea ice,
animals, mondegreens and stuff lost overboard, and I never want to
google any background events.
Plus, I really enjoy finishing off individual months - I even write them down in my journal!
Saw my name relatively early. Wow, I'm surprised I'm still up near the top. Thought I would have dropped down at this point. :P
As I said, it counts your Phase 1 and 2 numbers as well - and you were a lot more prolific back then, if my memory is correct.
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Very much so, I'm afraid.
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We have blog out today, this one written by members of our NHN team.
A centennial: The Battle of the Falkland Islands (http://blog.oldweather.org/2014/12/08/a-centennial-the-battle-of-the-falkland-islands/)
Everyone
involved in transcribing in phases 1 and 2 of the project doing Royal
Navy ships is part of the large team that correlated all this
information. Those discussions have been merged and that topic is
in our forum Library Magazine.
http://forum.oldweather.org/index.php?topic=119.0 We all deserve
each other's thanks for a job well done.
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Janet made writing the blog a lot easier by collating all those links and posts. :)
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Good job, you two.
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wow 8) job here lots of hard work. Way to go everyone!
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Impressive job combining all those logs!
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Great job!
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Tour de Force - congratulations to all involved. It is a great blog. Brought a tear to my eye.
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Yes, I did Inflexible and am working on Glasgow so I feel a real
involvement with those two battles. The bravery of the sailors can only
be admired. RIP all those on both sides who lost their lives.
Thanks for collating the logs.
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I did love the way Caro interweaved the 9 logs. Impressive. :)
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Wow, this is both impressive and fascinating. Kudos to all of
those who took the time to transcribe the events of that day. I
know it is obvious, but I am still in awe of the fact that we are
reading the hand of the young (and older) men who actual participated
and wrote down what happened each and every day a hundred years (or
more) ago. No IM or Twitter or even thoughtful blog posts for
them. A clear case of making history come alive.
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Brilliant bit of weaving together the logs. I'm very moved by
the fact that having battled to sink the German ships, they then go all
out to pick up survivors.
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Yes, that struck me too.
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Inflexible: launched all boats that would float.
This
followed the entry recording that Gneisenau had sunk and brought home to
me that even the victors had not escaped unscathed. As I read the
account of the sinking, behind the entries I felt there was a respect
for the dogged way the German Battleships had fought and tried to
protect the lighter ships of the convoy.
It's hard for us to
imagine what it must have been like to be on one of those ships, I don't
know if it would be better to be on deck and so able to see what was
happening or down below with the illusion of safety.
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Pioneer! O Pioneer! (http://blog.oldweather.org/2015/01/04/pioneer-o-pioneer/)
;D
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Funny how it seems to come back from Hawaii before it went there. I
guess the logs were not in the right order (I have forgotten a lot
already but I do remember recording both the out and back voyages in
that order). And then the ship seemed to cross paths with itself going
from Honolulu to one of the northern islands. How can that happen?
Ok,
I got it :-[. Philip has obviously shown all three
transcriptions. He wouldn't have had time to edit them yet to obtain a
single copy.
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Nice to have been noticed .... :D
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Funny
how it seems to come back from Hawaii before it went there. I guess the
logs were not in the right order (I have forgotten a lot already but I
do remember recording both the out and back voyages in that order). And
then the ship seemed to cross paths with itself going from Honolulu to
one of the northern islands. How can that happen?
I
wondered too, but I think the explanation may be the comment: "Records
from all 14 years are combined into a single calendar year for this
visualisation."
Congratulations captain Hanibal, lieutenants gastcra, helenj, jill, pommystuart, 84 other crew, and Philip!
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Really nice vimeos, showing our work and that multiple-exposure of
the 14 years overlaid. Kudos to captain Hanibal, lieutenants
gastcra, helenj, jill, pommystuart, 84 other crew, and Philip indeed!
;D
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I
wondered too, but I think the explanation may be the comment: "Records
from all 14 years are combined into a single calendar year for this
visualisation."
You have the excellent habit of reading comments, Randi. ;D
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OCD
;D
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Thanks a lot for making this, Philip - it's really great to know our hard work is appreciated so much!
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Nice! :)
I'm glad Philip managed to get locations despite the lack of lat/longs in the logs.
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That was fun! Thank you ;D
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A history of the world in 1,399,120,833 observations (http://blog.oldweather.org/2015/01/08/a-history-of-the-world-in-1399120833-observations/)
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Completely fascinating. Thanks, Philip. 8)
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Whizzy and interesting! 8)
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Fascinating - thanks Philip.
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Thanks a lot, Philip - that was really good!
....
including, of course, a large group of Royal Navy ship observations in
the period around the First World War (starting about 05:00) clearly
distingishable just from their locations, as Naval ships move in a quite
different pattern from commercial shipping. (Our US Arctic ships are
not in this database yet ? they will be in the next version).
Great to know our work is so useful!
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Nice to see all those changes - the drop in traffic around Cape Horn as the Panama Canal opens is very sudden!
Note that points 2 and 4 are identical, though; I guess someone really likes the Suez Canal!
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Note that points 2 and 4 are identical, though; I guess someone really likes the Suez Canal!
Thank you. Fixed.
It's amazing how big an error you can miss when proofing your own work.
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Really interesting. It looked like Africa was re-entering the
Earth's atmosphere around 1970 or so. I wonder if there aren't some
trove of observations from fishing vessels. They probably would diverge
from the shipping channels where most of the data appear.
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From the Daily Zooniverse:
Spanish Flu Hits HMS Africa (http://daily.zooniverse.org/2015/02/02/spanish-flu-hits-hms-africa/)
Su's post on HMS Mantua and the Spanish Flu outbreak in West Africa is also recommended:
http://forum.oldweather.org/index.php?topic=2801.msg42293#msg42293
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I saw this and the first thought that leapt to mind was... how many of the sick crewmen survived, and how many perished?
I
actually just finished reading a sci-fi novel that used Spanish flu as a
major plot point. I didn't really love the book, but it was an
interesting use of history in fiction.
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I saw this and the first thought that leapt to mind was... how many of the sick crewmen survived, and how many perished?
Deaths
beginning in August 1918 are available on Naval-History.Net
(http://naval-history.net/xDKCas1003-Intro.htm) - go to each relevant
month and then use your browser search on that page for "Mantua" (no
space after). Starting in August, we get 12 deaths:
Thursday, 15 August 1918
Mantua, armed merchant cruiser
MCFARLANE, Patrick, Fireman, MMR, 792790, illness in Freetown
Tuesday, 20 August 1918
Mantua, armed merchant cruiser
SUTTON, William, Able Seaman, J 1441, illness in Freetown
Wednesday, 21 August 1918
Mantua, armed merchant cruiser
GLAZZARD, William J, Private, RMLI, 20336 (Ch), illness in Freetown
TILLING, Herbert, Ordinary Seaman, RNVR, Mersey Z 2081, illness in Freetown
Friday, 23 August 1918
Mantua, armed merchant cruiser
BROWN, Gilbert F, Petty Officer, 226773, illness in Freetown
Saturday, 24 August 1918
Mantua, armed merchant cruiser, all illness in Freetown
DAWSON, Edward T, Able Seaman, J 25497
MORRIS, Ponny, Steward, MMR, 765790
TAYLOR, Henry A, Leading Seaman, 237440
YOUNG, Albert G, Able Seaman, J 66345
Sunday, 25 August 1918
Mantua, armed merchant cruiser
DURSTON, Sidney, Steward, MMR, 552974, illness in Freetown
Tuesday, 27 August 1918
Mantua, armed merchant cruiser
COPLAND, Daniel, Lance Sergeant, RMLI, 12995 (Ply), illness in Freetown
Sunday, 1 September 1918
Mantua, armed merchant cruiser
MORRIS, George H, Steward, MMR, 852523, illness in Freetown
That's all there was from their own crew. But they
had 400 on the sick list because they were made the hospital ship for
the port, freeing the other ships and shore facilities for doing the
ordinary things with a healthy crew. If I search instead for
"illness" instead, I get 125 deaths in August alone from all over the
globe. We would have find out which ships were stationed at or
near Freetown, South Africa, and search for each of them by name in the
same months to get the full list. It was a truly enormous tragedy.
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Red, red roses (http://blog.oldweather.org/2015/02/14/red-red-roses/)
Thank you Philip. :)
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That is wonderful! It says something about the joy of
community within the Old Weather forum. Thank you, Philip, for being
such a good scientist-leader of this project. We couldn't do it without
you.
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Many thanks, Philip - that's beautiful.
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Ditto Janet's comment
Wonderful indeed!
Thank you!
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Click on the hearts! ;)
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Oooooh! Even better .... :D
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Almost like a forum diary!! Philip, what a lovely idea for
Valentine's Day. It's been a pleasure working on OW and part of it has
been the support we've had from 'Head Office' as well as the Mods OWers
and of course Gordon who has done so much work on the history side.
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Wow! Nice job gathering all those posts, Philip
Took me some time to figure out the pattern - each one contains the word love, or a similar word like lovely.
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Wonderful, thanks Phillip. Managed to find at least one of mine in there.
K
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Almost
like a forum diary!! Philip, what a lovely idea for Valentine's Day.
It's been a pleasure working on OW and part of it has been the support
we've had from 'Head Office' as well as the Mods OWers and of course
Gordon who has done so much work on the history side.
;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
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Breathtaking Phillip. I shed a tear for some old memories there. How
wonderful a family this is. It feels very special that you put this
blog together for us all. It really is very special. THANK YOU! :D
:D :D
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We have a new blog.
Two million (http://blog.oldweather.org/2015/03/13/two-million/) by Philip.
And congrats to us all again. 8)
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Woohoo!
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Thanks, Philip!
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Oh gosh...that's an awfully big number! ;D ;D ;D
Thanks Philip!
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Alright! I was beginning to ask myself if we ever gonna get recognition for that - and we have!
Now on to three million!
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Crossovers (1) (http://blog.oldweather.org/2015/03/16/crossovers-1/)
A 'citizen science/documentary records/historical weather crossover', in fact. :)
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8) 8) 8)
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Aaaand Crossovers (2) (http://blog.oldweather.org/2015/03/17/crossovers-2/).
:)
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8)
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Brilliant - that's been a very speedy response to conversations on the forum.
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I was doing some of the science gossip pages and ran into one that
had a table of altitudes of various snow lines. Its not temperatures or
pressures, but its good to know that we can now tag things like that. I
hope someone may find it useful.
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Aaaand again... Crossovers (3) (http://blog.oldweather.org/2015/03/18/crossovers-3/).
Do
follow the links to the Old Weather node
(http://lifeofdata.org.uk/node/old-weather) of The Secret Life of a
Weather Datum. Joan and Helen were our heroes here. :)
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Good work Joan and Helen !
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Thank you - it was an interesting interview to do. Though I
wince a bit to see all my 'you knows' faithfully transcribed - I'd have
been happy for a bit of editing there! It's fascinating to see how
they've used the information, and how it fits into the bigger project.
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Very nice interviews! Great job you two.
P.S. I loved trying to decode the names in Joan's interview (Mine is "Harry", correct?).
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Helen on the forum:
https://archive.org/details/1407100052InterviewOW01V1 - Pages 9 to 13
Joan on the forum (and BOINC ;)):
https://archive.org/details/1407240054InterviewOW02V1 - Pages 9 to 12
;)
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Thank
you - it was an interesting interview to do. Though I wince a bit
to see all my 'you knows' faithfully transcribed - I'd have been happy
for a bit of editing there! It's fascinating to see how they've
used the information, and how it fits into the bigger project.
Oh
Helen I so know what you mean ::) ;D - I CRINGED when I
heard all my 'you knows' and even more so when I saw them written down.
Ouch! :o I really enjoyed your interview :D
I
noticed several bloopers in the transcription. JanetJ had turned into
'Jenny' and I think that Hannibal has turned into 'harry' (haven't quite
got to that one yet). Frankly I'd almost completely forgotten about
it! :)
Paula said how much she'd enjoyed your interview when I met her on Monday. :)
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I'm so glad it isn't just me, Joan. I was able to fill in a
few gaps when I saw the transcript (which I thought was certainly a sign
of addiction!) but I don't think I checked for total accuracy - it was
hard to remember exactly what I'd said in any case.
I've begun to
read yours and enjoyed the parts I've got to so far - especially liked
your description of the theology department at Oxford as full of very
strange people! Having heard a few of them lecturing I'm not
especially surprised ....
I'm glad Paula enjoyed the interview with me - I enjoyed doing it too.
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Very nice interviews! Great job you two.
P.S. I loved trying to decode the names in Joan's interview (Mine is "Harry", correct?).
Thanks
Hannibal! I haven't quite got that far in the written version
yet. I just mentioned to helenJ that Janet became 'Jenny' so it's quite
likely that you are now 'Harry' ;D CANCEL that!! - I just saw the
search thing, and yes - you are now 'Harry', even funnier is that Pommy
Stuart is now 'Pam' (sorry Stuart ;D ) ;D Perhaps we should
have invented a 'speech' version of the Forum's odd handwriting thread
to help them out? ;D
Fun and games eh? :D
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There is a note on the first page saying that names were changed to protect anonymity.
https://archive.org/stream/1407240054InterviewOW02V1/140724_0054_interview_OW_02_v1#page/n0/mode/2up
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There is a note on the first page saying that names were changed to protect anonymity.
https://archive.org/stream/1407240054InterviewOW02V1/140724_0054_interview_OW_02_v1#page/n0/mode/2up
Yes, I saw that.
I don't mind being called Harry - in fact, I should say thanks for protecting our anonymity.
Just
wanted to mention that I don't do Cell Slider anymore - I got
frustrated by the monotony, the tediousness, and lack of feedback or
community.
Oh, and one question:
Pam
was up until I don't know when in the middle of the night determined,
either he or Harry were determined to be that millionth transcriber.
I
don't remember competing with Stuart about anything like this (it was
when we passed the 1 million pages mark in Phase 2, shortly before the
end, so would have been early 2012). Does anybody else remember
anything?
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There is a note on the first page saying that names were changed to protect anonymity.
https://archive.org/stream/1407240054InterviewOW02V1/140724_0054_interview_OW_02_v1#page/n0/mode/2up
Yes, I saw that.
I don't mind being called Harry - in fact, I should say thanks for protecting our anonymity.
Just
wanted to mention that I don't do Cell Slider anymore - I got
frustrated by the monotony, the tediousness, and lack of feedback or
community.
Oh, and one question:
Pam
was up until I don't know when in the middle of the night determined,
either he or Harry were determined to be that millionth transcriber.
I
don't remember competing with Stuart about anything like this (it was
when we passed the 1 million pages mark in Phase 2, shortly before the
end, so would have been early 2012). Does anybody else remember
anything?
Good that they protected even our avatar names then :)
Sad
to hear about cell slider Hannibal. I know you were doing a lot for it
at one time. One of the constants that I hear about citizen science
projects is that 'no community' often means 'no action'. I've seen that
myself even amongst the Zooniverse projects who struggle along with the
current, and rather creaky, version of 'Talk'. It's insane that
international projects end up working on about 6/7 people. :( Those
folks are often very expert, but so few in numbers...
I must have
mis-remembered about the 1 million pages thing - I'm not surprised that
I got something wrong, but I do recall the electrified feeling as we
all headed into that second million. It was great fun! I don't
think anyone was quite prepared for that - or the speed with which we
wound up the WW1 ships. I reckon I could almost smell the scent of
burning keyboard plastic. ;D Even though we'd hate to
run out of transcribing it seems like we still can't help going for
gold when a race is on :D
I'm looking forward to getting back to some real work = more pages of the Patterson - yum ;D
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Based on previous transcription projects that were totally boring
WRs from stationary ground stations with zero history comments, they
assumed it would take a minimum of 5 years to complete the RNs - our
18-month completion left everyone flat footed surprised. ;)
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Based
on previous transcription projects that were totally boring WRs from
stationary ground stations with zero history comments, they assumed it
would take a minimum of 5 years to complete the RNs - our 18-month
completion left everyone flat footed surprised. ;)
What about our progress with these ships? Did they think we'd get them done in a matter of weeks? :D
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Philip has frequently told us that all the RN ships, being from one
agency and confined within the same decade, were the low-hanging fruit
of what he needed. Every other set of ships he wanted would be
much harder. He is pleased that we are sticking with the project,
and trying hard to try to come up with ways to break the pages up into
easier bits. He can't give us lots of easy ships again because
they don't exist within the history dates he needs.
Sigh.
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Double sigh. Oh, well, this way we know what we'll be doing for the next while. ;)
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Hi - as a newbie, I really enjoyed Joan and Helen's
interviews. Not having done the previous logs, I rather like the
Thetis with its 24 observations a day (now that I have some idea what I
am doing :)) but found the interviews about the original project
and the transition to the new logs very interesting. And as to the
Forum - I don't know where I would be without it.. it helps when I am
stuck and I enjoy the lighter side of it. Helen - could you hear
me laughing from Australia about the 'towing a carpet'... Gale
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Gosh - I hope that didn't sound rude (about towing the
carpet). It is just that I have had many similar ones myself which
I laughed about when I finally made sense of them.. and loved the
carpet one. Gale
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Here is a comment from Philip from the start of the US ship phase:
We
knew these logs were going to be quite a bit harder than the ones we're
used to, and we've had some serious debates in the science team about
whether it was worth the effort. But we are in no doubt - these are the
logs we need to be looking at - we're not inflicting all this trouble on
you for no reason.
If you've got 48 seconds to spare, watch the
video at http://vimeo.com/43723075 (http://vimeo.com/43723075). It's a
bit frenetic (and it goes backwards in time) but it does show the
observations that we've currently got - that's what we're using to
understand how the climate varies and changes over decades and
centuries. If you look at the North Pacific, you'll see that in the
nineteenth and early twentieth centuries there are almost no
observations, and that's a big problem - Pacific climate variability
matters to a lot of people. That's why Kevin is currently shivering up
in the Chukchi sea and it's why we're asking you to battle with these
more challenging logs. We need these observations even more than we
needed the RN WW1 ones.
When we did the Royal Navy logs we knew
what they all looked like when we started building the website. The US
logs are older, more variable, and we're finding the logs and building
the website at the same time. This makes Arfon and Stuart's job much
harder, and that makes it harder for us all. It will get better - but
it's always going to be a different challenge from the old version.
So
there's a strong science payoff for all the hassle, and almost
certainly some fascinating new stories and history - certainly I'm
expecting more strange and unexpected events to occur in these logs.
Remember also that it's not a race - relax: if the site's misbehaving,
knock off for a tot of rum (or a Devon cream tea), it'll still be there
when you return. And rest assured that we hear what you're saying and
we're trying hard to put up lots of really interesting and valuable
logs, and to knock the bugs out of the user interface.
Philip
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We have a whole topic for misreadings!
Oldweather mondegreens (http://forum.oldweather.org/index.php?topic=1229.0)
;D
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Randi - thanks for the link. I loved them !
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Gosh
- I hope that didn't sound rude (about towing the carpet). It is
just that I have had many similar ones myself which I laughed about when
I finally made sense of them.. and loved the carpet one. Gale
Not
rude at all - I hoped telling that story would make people laugh, so
success! The rapid and cheerful response I got to my query was
also one of the things which make me stick around this project, so it
was really worth posting the question.
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Randi - thanks for the link. I loved them !
Hi
Force 9....sounds like you'll soon be popping entries into Signs of OW
addiction
(http://forum.oldweather.org/index.php?topic=1432.msg100505#msg100505)
;D
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Hi Avast MH - I would love to be amoung the OW addicted. When I
log off each day, I can't wait to find the next spare minute or two to
'find out what happens next' :) Even sitting in dry dock has
its little interesting snippets. Alas my time is very
limited. How I would love to be a super transcriber! I am in
total awe. How does anyone transcribe so fast ??? While
ST's read a chapter, I read a page... but accuracy, I console myself...
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Same situation for me! Time spent on paying my mortgage gets horribly in the way. ::) ;D
Joan
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Everyone contributes, I hope to the best of their ability, and
mostly enjoys the process. I will admit to finding 6 weeks in dry dock a
bit tedious. The speed is less important than the direction, you do
what you can, when you can, and the whole picture emerges from
everyone's efforts. We haven't yet needed OW anonymous because more work
emerges but if and when the supply of logs dries up we may need the new
group!! Keep transcribing.
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The trick is to stick with it!
I am very slow and have
somewhat limited time, but I keep going. Because of that I have passed
people who have done several thousand weather records in a week and then
quit.
Like studentforever says ;)
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I am one of the super fast transcribers - maybe even the fastest in terms of pure speed.
Here's how I do it:
1.
I don't transcribe any events except sea ice and animals. I'm only
interested in the scientific part of this project, not the historical
one.
2. I have AutoHotKey (http://www.autohotkey.com/), which I have
used to reassign double and single quote marks (the doubles are used as
dittos). Normally, I would have to use the Shift key for quote marks,
but with AutoHotKey I don't have to do that - much more efficient!
3. I use the Tab button, not the mouse, to switch between input boxes. Once you get used to it, the Tab button is A LOT faster.
4. Other than that, you will need plenty of practice. It took me some time to reach super speed, but it was worth it.
5.
Oh, and persistence is very important too, like Randi said. I always
try to do a bit every day, even if it's just 120 weather readings (WR).
Just. Keep. Going.
If you do all this (okay, maybe not the first
one, if you even enjoy the stuff in dry dock - I don't!), perhaps you to
will be able to transcribe a 24 WR page in less than 3.5 minutes, like I
can.
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Hanibal94, what you and a few of the others do is wonderful.
However, if I concentrated that much on speed, it would take much of the fun out of transcribing.
(I do use the Tab button to switch between input boxes - and I have learned to do it faster ;))
P.S. I'll give AutoHotKey a try. I currently have pages that have a pretty fixed format.
I'll PM you if I can't get it to work ;D
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Same situation for me! Time spent on paying my mortgage gets horribly in the way. ::) ;D
Joan
I'm there!!
As
an Editor of the ships who works with the 'history' and NOT being a
fast typer (Two fingers at best :P) I have to thank those folks who put
in even snippets of history in as it makes it much easier to follow and
better to edit and write the logs for Naval-History.net. I've been a
transcriber who's 'off course' a bit right now with the Editing but
still enjoying and learning and hoping to contribute to the cause.
;)
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As so often happens, we have gotten far off the topic ;)
I have
created a new topic: AutoHotkey
(http://forum.oldweather.org/index.php?topic=4336.0), and moved Force
9's question and Danny252's answer.
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Meeting at the Maritime Museum London
(http://blog.oldweather.org/2015/04/01/at-the-national-maritime-museum-london-april-15th/)
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I wonder if we could describe Faury as the father of OldWeather? 8)
Looks like it will be a great day - but don't think that my achy leg will manage the trip :(
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Bit too far for me but sounds good and nice to think that OW will be
getting some credit thanks to Philip. Maybe we could get a summary of
the presentation after the event.
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News from the U.S. National Archives: Over a Half Million Digitized Logbook Pages (http://blog.oldweather.org/2015/04/20/news-from-the-u-s-national-archives-over-a-half-million-digitized-logbook-pages/)
Thank you, Mark and Gina and your whole crew. :)
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But come the summer there will be many new ships and voyages to explore.
So that's when they'll be coming out at last? Oh boy oh boy oh boy oh boy!
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How many of the 1,026 boxes of logbooks have we gotten through at
this point!? I read that blog post with a bit of a pit in my
stomach, fearful of whats to come!
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But come the summer there will be many new ships and voyages to explore.
So that's when they'll be coming out at last? Oh boy oh boy oh boy oh boy!
;D ;D ;D
How
many of the 1,026 boxes of logbooks have we gotten through at this
point!? I read that blog post with a bit of a pit in my stomach,
fearful of whats to come!
Yep - is 1026 enough? We get through them fast enough ;) :D
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oldWeather at the Smithsonian spring festival
(http://blog.oldweather.org/2015/05/06/oldweather-at-the-smithsonian-spring-festival/)!
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Woohoo ! ! !
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Great!!
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Doesn't it make your heart swell with pride? :)
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Doesn't it make your heart swell with pride? :)
It sure does - Publicity is always awesome!
Here's hoping we get some new members - and some dedicated ones, too!
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8)
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Your intrepid reporter went down to Natural History today, to see the Old Weather display....
It was Friday and Saturday only... :o ;D :'(
So, I watched part of a movie on a Greenlandic village and then headed home -
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:'(
I'm glad you made the effort, tho. Sorry for the disappointment.
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:P :P :P
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Gosh - that's a shame Kathy. just 2 days - eek! :'(
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Sorry about that - I should have been more specific about the times.
On
the other hand, if you had turned up on Friday or Saturday you'd never
have got away again - you'd have been co-opted instantly into the
presentation team, so you might have been luckier than you think.
I've put a couple of Gina's photos from the event onto the blog.
Your intrepid reporter went down to Natural History today, to see the Old Weather display....
It was Friday and Saturday only... :o ;D :'(
So, I watched part of a movie on a Greenlandic village and then headed home -
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That would be this one: 1085 conversations (http://blog.oldweather.org/2015/05/11/1085-conversations/)
Sorry you missed it, Kathy.
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They looked like all were really enjoying learning about us.
Thank you Gil, Mark and Gina - and Kevin and Philip - for the effort.
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I was just thinking if they had been there yesterday, it would have been 1086 conversations ;D
I
almost went on Friday - Natural History is across Constitution Ave from
my nominal work office - I don't go downtown for work very often, but
when I do, that is where I go...
(Fixed street - lived here for 29 years and I still get them mixed up ::) )
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All will be assimilated (http://blog.oldweather.org/2015/05/29/all-will-be-assimilated/)
Resistance is futile. ;)
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And we are on the side doing the conquering. ;D 8)
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;D
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Congrats all the US transcribers! 3 ships assimilated - how many more to go.
:) ;)
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DIY for digital humanists (http://blog.oldweather.org/2015/06/05/diy-for-digital-humanists/)
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;D ;D
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;D 8)
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"Rewarding" might be a better word than "fun", although OW does have it's fun moments :)
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Philip's new blog celebrates International Archives Day
(http://blog.oldweather.org/2015/06/09/international-archives-day/),
archives being the source of our material that we try to send back to
them improved with an added transcription. I simply adore his
choice of a sample page - one of all time specials that got everyone's
attention, both for the science and humanity.
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A classic. :)
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;D
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A classic. :)
Definitely!
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Archives are amazing. For me, they rival the greatest diarists. The
ship's logs still surprise me - the looking glass into the lives that
created the world we live in today. 8)
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Mentioned in despatches (http://blog.oldweather.org/2015/07/28/mentioned-in-despatches/)
"... we fit nicely." :)
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Too much technobabble in that paper for me - but I did notice OW listed as contributor 45 in the first table! 8)
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Thanks, Philip!
I'm afraid the paper is beyond me, but it is very satisfying to see "45. Oldweather.org".
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From Twitter:
@ed_hawkins
Citizen science
benefits: new historical sea level pressure observations from
@oldweather in international databases
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/enhanced/doi/10.1002/gdj3.25
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Note that the second named author, Gil Compo, is a member of the OW
team that attends regular staff teleconferences - he doesn't visit the
forum only because he has no responsibility at all in collecting the
data - that remains Philip's bailiwick. He does all the reanalysis
for climate change using our data. :)
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I did glance through the paper (not that I am going to claim to
understand any of it either!) but I was slightly puzzled by this:
"A
decrease during the World War I years is evident, while an increase
during the World War II years is attributed to the inclusion of 1.6
million ICOADS records digitized from the UK Royal Navy Ships' logbooks
(Brohan et al., 2009; Woodruff et al., 2011)."
This is in the paragraph just below Fig 3.
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Once logbooks become originally typed, OCR lets computers read
them. I think. Not anything like as complex as century-old
scribbles.
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Another blog from Philip - he really does pay attention to what we ask about. :)
Floating Forests (http://blog.oldweather.org/2015/09/22/floating-forests/)
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That's a good blog - thanks Janet for pointing it out. Thanks Philip for writing it :)
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There she blows! (http://blog.oldweather.org/2015/10/01/there-she-blows/)
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We've been announced. Softly. 8)
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and very nicely if I may say so 8)
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Indeed! ;D
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Yes, an excellent introduction. Does this mean Whaling has now
gone public, and we can expect an influx of eager new transcribers?
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Yes,
an excellent introduction. Does this mean Whaling has now gone
public, and we can expect an influx of eager new transcribers?
It means everyone in Zooniverse who is signed up for a oldWeather news blog is now in the know.
It means we and the devs know this is still a work in progress and we welcome and need more feedback. :)
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In Mark, it would be nice if there was an option to mark a page as
blank instead of having to cycle through all the options. :)
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I think that has already been mentioned in Learning the Ropes &
FAQ (http://forum.oldweather.org/index.php?board=35.0)
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In Mark, it would be nice if there was an option to mark a page as blank instead of having to cycle through all the options. :)
Hi
Tastiger! :D I'm not sure I've been able to update all of those
queries in Randi's link -so just to let you know that we've noted that
there is a need for 'blank page' - it's on the menu with the developers,
but a low priority just now because there are more problematic bloopers
whittling themselves out of the woodwork and need a quick cure.
Please do keep us in touch with any other oddities that you find - thank you! :D
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A double century of centennial records (http://blog.oldweather.org/2015/10/22/a-double-century-of-centennial-records/)
Howzat! :)
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Good show!
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Congratulations, Caro et al. 8) 8) 8)
But I am still waiting to see HMS Blenheim. ;D
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Well, if it bothers you both so much, why not become editors and help. :D
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;D
HMS Blenheim, with the slightly undersized images, was a real joy to transcribe...
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In that case, please stop criticising the editors.
You have no idea how much work is involved.
You're insulting their fabulous work by stating they take forever to complete edits.
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This conversation is now over, OK?
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I wondered how to find the original old weather ships! It
would be nice if there was a link from the main page- just to show what
has been accomplished so far, as well as for those who may be
interested.
Also, could this blog post be added somehow to the
Operation War Diary talk or blog page? This seems ripe for some
cross-fertilization.
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OldWeather phases 1 and 2 (Royal Navy) are permanently parked at http://old.oldweather.org/
It
is an economy harbour, with limited functions. No one can sign in
anymore, and no editing or changes can be made. But all vessel
pages (http://old.oldweather.org/vessels?status=all) still honor their
Captain and top 10 crew. You can access every scan from each ship
by clicking "View all logs". The small link "Help Verify Results"
is active, and is a short term thingy put together by Philip to use
crowd sourcing to help speed up analysis of the date to get it ready for
global data bases. It worked, but the data has all been dumped
and it is also now obsolete.
I personally think the richer source
to publicize is Naval-History.Net, it has all those scans plus the
comment transcriptions combined online in a much easier format,
including the dozen or so 'stowaway' ships that were wrong logbooks
pulled by the RN and buried in the requested files. The site
itself has many more resources right there, including a full list of
casualties, for any historians looking for the ships' backstories.
Just click the "World War 1" link in the Home page heading
(http://www.naval-history.net/index.htm).
ROYAL NAVY LOG BOOKS - THE SHIP HISTORIES (http://www.naval-history.net/OWShips-LogBooksWW1.htm)
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A new view of new ships (http://blog.oldweather.org/2015/12/03/a-new-view-of-new-ships/)
Here we go. :)
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Alea iacta est!
That was a good post - he did a nice job
explaining why this new interface was created, the advantages over the
old one, and mentioned both the Whaling logs and the classic
interface. :)
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Yes, an excellent post. I'm assuming this means everything has now gone public?
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Yes, an excellent post. I'm assuming this means everything has now gone public?
Today!! in another hour or so - they are waiting for the Americans to wake up this morning. :)
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Alea iacta est!
That
was a good post - he did a nice job explaining why this new interface
was created, the advantages over the old one, and mentioned both the
Whaling logs and the classic interface. :)
Rubicon
crossed...no way back...yep...Alea iacta est indeed. Glory and Laurel
Wreaths await us or (if we bung up) a trip to a Roman Trireme in
irons. :D 8)
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Collectively awesome (http://blog.oldweather.org/2016/01/10/collectively-awesome/)
Yes, indeed. :)
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oh my - that was breathtaking. Thank you so much Philip!
Just delightful :D
And inspiring :D
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That was amazing - definitely collectively awesome. Thank you, Philip. :)
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Useable data already? Wow!
But the homepage still shows 0% complete ???
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Useable data already? Wow!
But the homepage still shows 0% complete ???
Just because we have not completed any ships doesn't mean Philip can't download some data and work at how to use it. :)
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Oh - I thought the progress tracker on the new OW worked like the
one on OW Classic: Calculate a value based on all ships, not just the
ones that are 100% complete.
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Perhaps it does but the number completed was less that .5% of the total so it was rounded down to zero?
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I feel a little guilty to confess that I haven't a clue...as long as
there's work to do I'm happy to go to it...and would just be unhappy if
we ran out of the goodies :o
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Philip has said (I can't find the complete quote) that he waits
until a ship is complete until giving the data to their database.
Any time he wants to do his own analysis work, he downloads everything
currently done as of that date, complete or not. This sounds
exactly like that.
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Thanks Janet :D
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I
feel a little guilty to confess that I haven't a clue...as long as
there's work to do I'm happy to go to it...and would just be unhappy if
we ran out of the goodies :o
With 2,600 logbooks in the Bedford Museum, I don't foresee an imminent shortage. ;D
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So far we have made 2 naval powers greedy for more, and more than 5
climate study groups equally hungry. Not counting nations like the
Netherlands beggin for some too. We are NEVER going to run out of
logbooks!!! ;D
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I think Philip said he has access to all transcribed data a day or so after it has been submitted.
I'm sure he will correct me if I'm wrong. :)
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Thanks Michael and Janet...hurrah for oodles of old log books then. ;D
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This is one of the nicest acknowledgement of a milestone I've seen
from Philip in my opinion - and all our ship transcribers deserve
it. My lack of a classic education made me google the title, which
is very appropriate. Heroic indeed are we all.
neon katalogos
http://blog.oldweather.org/2016/01/15/neon-katalogos/
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Very nice!
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Thanks, Philip!
We may not be as flashy as Pulsar Hunters with their TV coverage and playing with the Jodrell Bank telescope but we still rock.
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Thank you, Philip. Heroically awesome. ;D
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Very nice one, Philip! I especially like the second paragraph and all that comes after it. Thank you!
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Fabulous -thanks Philip. This project certainly does seem like an Homeric Odyssey :D :D :D
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Thank you Philip - very classy!
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The USS Jeannette: Arctic explorer and Space Weather pioneer (https://blog.oldweather.org/2016/04/13/the-uss-jeannette-arctic-explorer-and-space-weather-pioneer/)
It's all happening today. ;D
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It's great to see the outcome of what began as simply a sideline of this amazing project - Old Weather for ever!
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8) 8) 8)
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Too windy for Zeppelins (https://blog.oldweather.org/2016/05/31/too-windy-for-zeppelins/)
Well done, Philip. :)
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Great work, Philip! (http://www.desismileys.com/smileys/desismileys_3266.gif) (http://www.desismileys.com/)
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Super blog Philip. I loved the weather simulation. :D
Looks like the Zepplin Captains must have been pretty cross about that wind. :o
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Better bad weather with oldWeather (https://blog.oldweather.org/2016/06/16/better-bad-weather-with-oldweather/)
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(http://www.sherv.net/cm/emoticons/hand-gestures/awesome-smiley-emoticon.gif)
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Even bad things are better with OW! Thanks for sharing this Philip, and enjoy the conference.
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:)
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Very nice!
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Nice to have the value of our work confirmed.
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Wow!! Makes you burst with pride doesn't it :D
have a great time at the conference Philip :D
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Something else to make you feel proud:
Free at last (https://blog.oldweather.org/2016/06/29/free-at-last/)
;D
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Congratulations, Philip.
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Great, that's always been the goal and we're now close to achieving it. Everyone should be proud of their contribution.
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3 Cheers for US!
(https://keystrokesandwordcounts.files.wordpress.com/2011/11/3cheerscard_01_860-640x496.jpg)
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:)
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Thanks - it's really great to hear that all this hard work has been worth it. I am proud.
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Oh wow! I will feel proud - very proud indeed. :D :D :D
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At 5 ft 2 inches I'm always glad to have a reason to stand taller! This is great - thanks Philip.
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Global Warming as you've never seen it before
(https://blog.oldweather.org/2016/10/31/global-warming-as-youve-never-seen-it-before/)
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Beautiful but disturbing, Philip.
It's nice to see the data
coverage increasing with time and the changing perspective does make it
more interesting. A funeral dirge might be more appropriate by way of
musical accompaniment but let's remain optimistic.
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Global
Warming as you've never seen it before
(https://blog.oldweather.org/2016/10/31/global-warming-as-youve-never-seen-it-before/)
8) 8) 8)
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Beautiful but disturbing, Philip.
It's
nice to see the data coverage increasing with time and the changing
perspective does make it more interesting. A funeral dirge might be more
appropriate by way of musical accompaniment but let's remain
optimistic.
Craig
these are some of Bach's Goldberg Variations. They were written for
Count Kaiserling of Saxony who was prone to fits of sleeplessness. He
had Bach write the pieces for his own musician Johann Gottlieb Goldberg
to play during those fits of insomnia. So this is quite suitable for the
climate reality that has generated sleepless nights, certainly for me,
at times :)
Amazing map work Philip, sobbering and scarey. I just
went and turned the heating down again (well it's actually still off,
but just in case it decides to think of coming on etc...) :)
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Thanks for that explanation, Joan. I didn't know the background on
them. I was wondering if it weren't Canada's own Glenn Gould playing. He
had a lot of sleepless nights.
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Thanks
for that explanation, Joan. I didn't know the background on them. I was
wondering if it weren't Canada's own Glenn Gould playing. He had a lot
of sleepless nights.
Oh
the magnificent magnificent Glenn Gould Goldbergs - heavenly 8)
8) 8) I didn't realise he was Canadian - oops! :-[
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The four million (https://blog.oldweather.org/2016/12/11/the-four-million/)
(https://oldweather.files.wordpress.com/2016/12/ppdppps.png?w=479)
With art. :)
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Wow, fantastic visualization! 8) 8) 8)
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Oh that's really cool :D :D :D
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Brilliant idea! I love it! 8)
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8)
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Very nice! 8)
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8) 8) 8)
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Gordon Smith (https://blog.oldweather.org/2016/12/29/gordon-smith/)
Thank you, Philip.
Fair winds, Gordon.
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Very nice tribute, Philip. I hope someone has drawn his family's
attention to it. It might make a nice addition to our bit of the NHN
site as well.
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Excellent!
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I've sent a link to Gordon's son Nick, as I had his e-mail address.
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Very well done, Philip. I had no idea Gordon was such a great person.
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Excellent piece, thanks, Philip.
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Editing the weather observations (https://blog.oldweather.org/2017/03/22/editing-the-weather-observations/)
Thanks Philip. ;D
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(http://www.desismileys.com/smileys/desismileys_3266.gif) (http://www.desismileys.com/)
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All I can see are yellow dots or dashes :(
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Try enlarging the page, Craig. There is a mixture of red and yellow dots.
Unless you have trouble seeing red (so to speak) I guess. :)
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Another great post, like always!
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I really enjoyed that blog. Fascinating, a chance to see what all
this work is doing, and some nice words to keep us hard at the
transcription grindstone. Nice one Philip :D
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Great to know that the edited logs are still being mined for new
information. As my last completed log (Bacchus) hardly ever
bothered to record her position almost every latitude/longitude was
added during the edit, and it's good to know that this is helping the
scientists as well as the historians. Thank you Philip as ever for
sharing this with us.
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Interesting info from the sister project weatherrescue.org
1 million observations!
https://weatherrescue.wordpress.com/2018/03/12/1-million-observations/
and
International data rescue efforts:
https://www.zooniverse.org/projects/edh/weather-rescue/talk/1198/572574?comment=948830
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Very interesting articles. Thank you Zovacor :D
I caught this from the BAMS article:
The
following example (Fig. 7) shows the case of a typhoon on 18 Sep. 1906
that hit Hong Kong. The ERA-20C reanalysis, which only included
one station within the region displayed (Hong Kong), did not reproduce
the typhoon. Within ERA-CLIM, data from the South China Sea were
digitized (large dots), and they were assimilated into CERA-20C. The
CERA-20C ensemble mean produces a low pressure system, albeit too weak.
However, ensemble member 9 of CERA-20C shows a stronger cyclone. In
ERA-CLIM2, the South China Sea data set has now been extended
substantially, so that future reanalyses will be able to better simulate
typhoons over South Asia in the early years.'
It's so good to see all the work coming together in this way :D
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New blog from Philip - The Sitka Hurricane of 1880.
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Here you go: https://blog.oldweather.org/2018/09/03/the-sitka-hurricane-of-1880/
:)
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Thank you Philip and Kevin!
Wonderful to see our data being used!
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Great work - wonderful to see all the connections which go to make up improved analysis.
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I'll second what Randi said - always great to hear about the fruits of our labor!
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Yay team! That's a great incentive to keep going!
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8)
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Woohoo! Go Jamestown! (I was pretty partial to that old one).
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Woohoo! Go Jamestown! (I was pretty partial to that old one).
Same here!
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A Better Centenary.
https://blog.oldweather.org/2018/11/11/a-better-centenary/
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Thanks, Philip!
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Fitting tribute from Philip. There have been lots of mentions of the
'Unknown Soldiers' but little thought for so many sailors from the
Royal and Merchant Navies who have not even a location in the ship's log
to mark their passing. Let us also remember their families.
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A Better Centenary.
https://blog.oldweather.org/2018/11/11/a-better-centenary/
That's a great blog. Thanks Philip. :D
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Getting oldWeather data ship-shape for science
(https://blog.oldweather.org/2018/12/04/getting-oldweather-data-ship-shape-for-science/)
by Larry Spencer
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Fascinating blog - who would have thought our project would be so widely used, and is having so much additional value added?
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Wonderful !
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Awesome post, thanks Larry!
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Good to know that our work is appreciated.
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It's motivating me to carry on! :) :) :)
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Thanks ever so much Larry - very inspiring. It's always good to hear
that we're in the great process of sorting out our climate:D :D :D
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Very cool! 8)