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Re:GPUs Mine Astronomical Datasets for Golden Insight Nuggets by tehsauce on Tuesday April 17, 2018 @12:54PM (#16860073)
At my university's astronomy dept we've developed gpu software and used it to discover many new objects in the kuiper belt. It's robust enough that it can also be used to detect airplanes.

https://github.com/DiracInstitute/kbmod

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Re:GPUs Mine Astronomical Datasets for Golden Insight Nuggets by calebh on Tuesday April 17, 2018 @05:15PM (#16862381)
That's really neat! What do you use for training data?
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Re:GPUs Mine Astronomical Datasets for Golden Insight Nuggets by twtw on Tuesday April 17, 2018 @07:20PM (#16863175)
GPUs can do things besides machine learning. It uses a maximum likelihood estimator, so no training data.
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