Archive for August 2009

Silly, but funny.

August 7, 2009

This was my first attempt. Then I was surprised by a failure to converge! But then I got it in one with my next attempt. Mary found a nice one in an old favorite. She thought lyrics might give good results, but not Penny Lane. A base slander led to a three-part loop. Some things [...]

Science vs Consumer Detectors: Thank you, Mary.

August 4, 2009

I have been trying to figure out recently why people don’t understand what IR detector data looks like, given that we have examples and studies and in a few cases specifications of what we’ll get from JWST, and examples and analysis of NICMOS, Spitzer and some Keck data.  My wife explained it to me, and [...]


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