Today featured a blackboard talk by Soltan Hassan (NYU), about a semi-analytic model to explain the various bits of data we have about the reionization of the universe at redshifts around 7. The model is baroque, but there are no options when it comes to problems that are deep in gastrophysics.
After lunch I spent an hour on a panel organized by NYU Libraries about reproducibility in the natural sciences. That was fun; so many ideas! One interesting idea is that it is transparency, more than reproducibility, that is important. Another was a technical suggestion: If you want your students to be good at making reproducible code, they shouldn't bring you plots of their results, they should bring you code that you can run to make those plots! Haha, genius.
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