• vzq@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    Their purpose is studying nuclear physics, in particular subatomic particles.

    Building AI models to diagnose Alzheimer’s disease is, well, not that thing.

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      3 months ago

      It’s in the opening paragraph. They apply it to make radiation machines more precise and smaller. This is kinda their wheelhouse.

      Edit: this also shows the importance of research. You never know where it might also be applicable.

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      3 months ago

      Builldng the frigging world wide web is not tha thing either but nobody’s complaining.

      CERN is awesome both when doing nuclear research or when they create actual awesome other content

    • misk@sopuli.xyzOP
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      3 months ago

      CERN is so huge they do a lot of non-core research so that they improve their tooling, academic processes etc. This is how we got World Wide Web for example.