<story><title>China Built the World’s Largest Telescope, Then Came the Tourists</title><url>https://www.wired.com/story/china-fast-worlds-largest-telescope-tourists/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>zcbenz</author><text>It is interesting that the tourism income from FAST telescope, has far exceeded its construction costs.&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.guancha.cn&amp;#x2F;society&amp;#x2F;2017_08_25_424435.shtml&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.guancha.cn&amp;#x2F;society&amp;#x2F;2017_08_25_424435.shtml&lt;/a&gt; :&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; 据悉，平塘县依靠旅游观光，上半年的营收达46亿人民币，较去年同期增加了40％。&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; It is reported that relying on tourism, the revenue of Pingtang town in the first half of the year has reached 4.6 billion yuan, an increase of 40% over the same period last year.&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.wenxuecity.com&amp;#x2F;news&amp;#x2F;2017&amp;#x2F;10&amp;#x2F;03&amp;#x2F;socialnews-144514.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.wenxuecity.com&amp;#x2F;news&amp;#x2F;2017&amp;#x2F;10&amp;#x2F;03&amp;#x2F;socialnews-144514....&lt;/a&gt; :&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; 7天80万人贵州看“大锅” 五星酒店最贵一夜4888&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; In 7 days, 800,000 people went to Guizhou to see the &amp;quot;big pot&amp;quot;. Most expensive room in five-star hotel has reached 4888 yuan.</text></comment>
<story><title>China Built the World’s Largest Telescope, Then Came the Tourists</title><url>https://www.wired.com/story/china-fast-worlds-largest-telescope-tourists/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>xevb3k</author><text>“At other telescopes, astronomers are developing machine-learning algorithms that could identify, extract, and compensate for dirty data“&lt;p&gt;Whenever I see “machine-learning” in the context of scientific development I just mentally replace it with “magic”.&lt;p&gt;Employing machine learning, at the data acquisition stage, is a really bad idea. It can easily introduce biases...</text></comment>