• vzq@lemmy.world
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      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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        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.

      • misk@sopuli.xyzOP
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        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.

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        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