Marshall and I continued working on our lens prior PDF code, and we also spent some time looking at candidate double-redshift (maybe lens?) objects found in SDSS spectra by Tsalmantza. But the big news for my day is that Foreman-Mackey's code for re-calibrating SDSS Stripe 82 data and finding variable stars scaled up very well; it looks like running it on a single (okay, 12-core) machine will take only a couple of weeks. I hope that is right! We also confirmed that all the imaging is spinning on NYU disks.
Can you benefit from going solid state on the disks?
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