The Analysis of FRB 180916.J0158 + 65 that May be a Signal of Extraterrestrial Civilization
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Abstract
Some time ago I pointed out that radio telescopes in the North Pole of the Earth are most likely to find information transmitted by advanced extraterrestrial civilizations. Reading the news recently, I noticed that the Canadian CHIME telescope has obtained repeated fast radio burst (FRB) signals in the past few years. The FRB 180916.J0158 + 65 detected in September 2018 has a very fixed 16-day oscillation mode. From the results of CHIME Collaboration analysis, this FRB signal is from a spiral galaxy 0.03 redshift outside the Milky Way. However, the results of my analysis also show that the signal is actually highly likely to come from the interior of the Milky Way, even stellar systems that are very close to the solar system. If the signal comes from the inside of the Milky Way, the energy required to propagate it to the solar system does not need to be so large, so it is likely that it is a signal transmitted by extraterrestrial civilizations, and it will carry a lot of extraterrestrial civilization information. It is worth our in-depth study. This article also puts forward some suggestions for improving the CHIME telescope.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.003 | 0.001 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".