72 Signals 'From Alien Galaxy' 3bn light Years Away... Maybe.

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What was really meant -but presumed boring by those Journalists who are better than their readers, was...

'...In August of 2017, the Listen science team at the University of California, Berkeley SETI Research
Center observed FRB 121102 for five hours, using digital instrumentation at the GBT.

Combing through 400 TB of data, they reported (in a paper led by Berkeley SETI postdoctoral researcher
Vishal Gajjar, recently accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journal a total of 21 bursts
 All were seen within one hour, suggesting that the source alternates between periods of quiescence and
frenzied activity.

 Now, Zhang and collaborators have developed a new machine learning algorithm, and reanalyzed the 2017
GBT dataset, finding an additional 72 bursts that were not detected originally.
They trained an algorithm known as a convolutional neural network to recognize bursts found by the classical
search method used by Gajjar and collaborators, and then set it loose on the 400 TB dataset to find bursts
that the classical approach missed.

"Gerry's work is exciting not just because it helps us understand the dynamic behavior of FRBs in more detail,"
remarked SETI Institute Bernard M. Oliver Chair for SETI Dr. Andrew Siemion, "but also because of the promise
it shows for using machine learning to detect signals missed by classical algorithms." 

But being the Chairman fro SETI, he had to add...

'...He went on to say that “these new techniques are already improving our sensitivity to signals from
extraterrestrial technologies.”...'

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He could've inserted the word 'assumed' near the end of his sentence, but since Dr. Siemion's chairmanship
involves searching for extraterrestrial life and their ways of signalling they exist, one can see why he would say it.