I worked more today on my slides on self-calibration for the 2017 Neugebauer Lecture at Caltech. I had an epiphany, which is that the color–magnitude diagram model I am building with Lauren Anderson (Flatiron) can be seen in the same light as self-calibration. The “instrument” we are calibrating is the physical regularities of stars! (This can be seen as an instrument built by God, if you want to get grandiose.) I also drew a graphical model for the self-calibration of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey imaging data that we did oh so many years ago. It would probably possible to re-do it with full Bayes with contemporary technology!
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