Astronomical Techniques I was working a lot on the project this week. I wrote the final report, made a lot of different figures, prepared my presentation on it, and presented it. Not super exciting...

Astronomical Techniques This week in class we discussed maximum likelihood, regression, and information criteria. I was working a lot on the project this week. I implemented dimensionality reducti...

Astronomical Techniques This week in class we discussed non-parametric tests like the U test. I was working a lot on the project this week. I spent about a day reading up on MCMC techniques and ti...

Astronomical Techniques In class over the last two weeks we’ve discussed basics of machine learning and non-parametric tests. We also started our class projects in earnest. My part so far has been...

General This week I needed a break from debugging so I worked on a bunch of miscellaneous tasks that have been on the backburner for awhile; the university also had a 1 day break I also had some ex...

Astronomical Techniques More discussion of error propagation. Started planning class projects and discussed hypothesis testing. Numerical MHD Still working on bug hunting. I tested a bunch of di...

Astronomical Techniques We had an in depth study of bootstrap methods and implemented a simple one. Also, started discussing error types and propagation. Numerical MHD Still working on debugging m...

Astronomical Techniques Homework 3 was due this week, we were studying the spread and biases of various location and dispersion estimators on Gaussian data and data with outliers. We also started t...

Astronomical Techniques This week has mostly been a discussion of various statistics for finding distribution centers and spreads. Numerical MHD Finished debugging the HLLD solver. I didn’t find a...

Astronomical Techniques Started discussing statistics (the things not the subject) and I fixed some issues with the homework from last week. Overall uneventful Numerical MHD More bug hunting this ...