Is everyone ready for the big celebration tomorrow? Ten years since the Higgs boson was discovered. I hear there will be fireworks and all sorts happening in the US.
This week, after messing around using the PlantNet app to identify, or misidentify, the weeds in my garden, I decided to see what it could tell us about the plant life of Equestria. The way it works is you feed it a photo, and it applies the magic of machine learning to reference it against a database of images and identify the best fit. A very useful tool for
Last week turned out much more exciting than expected. We got the first dose of Tell Your Tale on Thursday, which was very nice, but not quite the same level of awesomeness as the announcement from Fermilab on Friday that they’ve measured the mass of the W boson
That display looks like the standard model. I figured it's CERN related. My next guess would have been Batavia, but Google found the answer for me with CERN wooden dome.
5122669 If Homestuck fans can track down the specific random Burger King Dave was staring at in a matter of hours, I think MLP fans can find something that's an actual landmark.
5122610 You win 5122609 Well on the scale of the universe, you're pretty close 51226145122626 Well that's accurate, but not as precise as it could be 5122637 Very close, but it was actualy from the other side of the tramway on the Esplanade des Particules 5122644 C'est exact. Et bravo pour le français
Daniel Terdiman used to publish this sort of guessing game during his tenure at CNET over the course of his annual science and technology “Road Trip.” As the online visual search tools improved from year to year, he was forced to keep upping the difficulty by first stripping out EXIF data, then posting pictures of less frequently photographed places and objects, shooting them from less common viewpoints, etc.
Ye gads. The fandom has some serious investigation skills.
In the course of Silver Glow’s Journal, there were often times where people would send me a link to a Google Streetview or a satellite view (for some of Silver’s flights) and have me confirm or deny that that was where she was . . . in most cases, they were right.
No, I can’t, sorry
Mars? (Hey, you never said the guess had to be correct.)
The Globe of Science and Innovation.
That display looks like the standard model. I figured it's CERN related. My next guess would have been Batavia, but Google found the answer for me with CERN wooden dome.
Wooden Epcot?
This is just a guess, but...somewhere on Planet Earth?
Somewhere on earth
EPCOTs looking a bit run down.
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DIDNEY WUUUURL
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I'd agree. I think Pineta took the picture standing here (though the aerial/satellite view is woefully out of date):
https://goo.gl/maps/DXu4ZVCHtLQL9msi6
Vous êtes à le conseil européen pour la recherche nucléaire!
No clue.
Wherever you are, at least you have the most sciencey of princesses with you!
5122637 Ye gads. The fandom has some serious investigation skills.
Enjoying your time at CERN?
Whoah! All sorts of flags now. When did they put those up?
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If Homestuck fans can track down the specific random Burger King Dave was staring at in a matter of hours, I think MLP fans can find something that's an actual landmark.
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You win
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Well on the scale of the universe, you're pretty close
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Well that's accurate, but not as precise as it could be
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Very close, but it was actualy from the other side of the tramway on the Esplanade des Particules
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C'est exact. Et bravo pour le français
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Aha! So roughly here, or a bit further back?
https://goo.gl/maps/nmSrfZZay6kPfKUc8
Daniel Terdiman used to publish this sort of guessing game during his tenure at CNET over the course of his annual science and technology “Road Trip.” As the online visual search tools improved from year to year, he was forced to keep upping the difficulty by first stripping out EXIF data, then posting pictures of less frequently photographed places and objects, shooting them from less common viewpoints, etc.
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Spot on.
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Or that thing where they figured out where the flag was by looking at contrails in the sky and cross-referencing with airplane flight paths.
You obviously have discerning followers...
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In the course of Silver Glow’s Journal, there were often times where people would send me a link to a Google Streetview or a satellite view (for some of Silver’s flights) and have me confirm or deny that that was where she was . . . in most cases, they were right.