Anyone of you got the certificate of discovering a pulsar?

Castaris
Castaris
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Hi!

I was browsing the website of einstein@home and found out that users who manage to discover a pulsar get a nice certificate (https://einsteinathome.org/content/lucky-ones). I know that its a "lottery" and that people with more credits have bigger chances of getting one... Among the users who frequent this forum there are many people who have a lot of credits.

So I was wondering if anyone of you have been awarded that certificate or even if somebody has two or more... If we consider that most of the crunching its done by the top 100 or maybe top 500 of einstein@home users, its highly probable that if you continue to crunch for many years with a high enough RAC then you will end up discovering a pulsar eventually... Much like Bitcoin mining.

OFF-TOPIC: Why the profile picture is not showing for me? And how can I get the fancy signatures many people use? Is there a website that generates them?

mikey
mikey
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None here:

None here: https://einsteinathome.org/account/certs

Yes signatures are form a 3rd party site at http://signature.statseb.fr/

ie my signature is 

GWGeorge007
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Castaris wrote: OFF-TOPIC:

Castaris wrote:

OFF-TOPIC: Why the profile picture is not showing for me? And how can I get the fancy signatures many people use? Is there a website that generates them?

Go to your Einstein main webpage for your Account, then go to Preferences -> Community, and there you will find the tools necessary to create your signature file.

George

Proud member of the Old Farts Association

mikey
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GWGeorge007 wrote: Castaris

GWGeorge007 wrote:

Castaris wrote:

OFF-TOPIC: Why the profile picture is not showing for me? And how can I get the fancy signatures many people use? Is there a website that generates them?

Go to your Einstein main webpage for your Account, then go to Preferences -> Community, and there you will find the tools necessary to create your signature file. 

You can upload your profile picture there too but I think it has size restrictions that you must pay attention too

Tom M
Tom M
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No. And no. That is why I

No. And no.

That is why I compete on the RAC list. I never get that lucky and successful.

A Proud member of the O.F.A.  (Old Farts Association).  Be well, do good work, and keep in touch.® (Garrison Keillor)

mikey
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Nope not me either

Nope not me either

GWGeorge007
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Me neither, also!I have

Me neither, also!

I have received nothing from anything/anyone for doing any crunching, Einstein or otherwise.

...and I compete on both lists, the Total Credits and the RAC list in E@H.

...though I'm not making it into even the Top 10 on either one.   :^(

George

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mikey
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GWGeorge007 wrote: Me

GWGeorge007 wrote:

Me neither, also!

I have received nothing from anything/anyone for doing any crunching, Einstein or otherwise.

...and I compete on both lists, the Total Credits and the RAC list in E@H.

...though I'm not making it into even the Top 10 on either one.   :^( 

I have found a BUNCH, to me, of Prime Numbers thru Prime Grid

http://www.primegrid.com/primes/?section=primelist&userid=37043

and

http://www.primegrid.com/ap.php?userid=37043

GWGeorge007
GWGeorge007
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mikey wrote: I have found a

mikey wrote:

I have found a BUNCH, to me, of Prime Numbers thru Prime Grid

http://www.primegrid.com/primes/?section=primelist&userid=37043

and

http://www.primegrid.com/ap.php?userid=37043

I am IMPRESSED!!  Way to go Mikey!!

George

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Keith Myers
Keith Myers
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I think the project stopped

I think the project stopped awarding discovery certicates for pulsars quite a few years ago.

Only thing of significance I have done is to discover two ecm factors found at yoyo.

Been part of contributions to scientific publications at GPUGrid.

 

mikey
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GWGeorge007 wrote: mikey

GWGeorge007 wrote:

mikey wrote:

I have found a BUNCH, to me, of Prime Numbers thru Prime Grid

http://www.primegrid.com/primes/?section=primelist&userid=37043

and

http://www.primegrid.com/ap.php?userid=37043

I am IMPRESSED!!  Way to go Mikey!! 

Thank you, time is on my side

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