In a day in which Lang and I spent an inordinate amount of time formatting our Comet 17P/Holmes paper for error-free submission to the AJ (this was hilarious but not exactly enlightening scientifically), one bright spot was having lunch with Rob Fergus, his student Li Wan, and my student Dan Foreman-Mackey to discuss the first steps towards our probabilistic theory of everything. The short-term goal is to create a quantitative model of every pixel of digital or digitized astronomical imaging ever taken from any facility anywhere at any time in any bandpass. Once that's done, we will think about bigger projects. But seriously, we came up with some (still vague) first steps, one of which is for the computer scientists to read some astronomy papers, and for the astronomers to read some computer-science papers.
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