Week 5

It has been a grey week. I am still exhausted. It is still January.

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Summary

Project asterism: I debugged the model as I when testing could never be close to finding the slope of the heliumenrichment law, which is kinda crucial. I found the bug (related to my set-up of the scatter around the law), fixed it, and tested it a bit further. I did not expect to spend time on this so this meant I had less time to evolve the model further, which I find slightly frustrating. Furthermore, I have been writing on the draft.

I am not as far as I wanted to be which is frustrating. However, it will be fine. I am working on it, I see progress, that is fine this week.

Project PBJAM2.0: I gave feedback on the draft.

Project rockyrocks: I gave feedback on the updated draft and reply to referee.

Project gmork: I computed the orbit and gave feedback and comments on the draft.

PLATO: I wanted to finish my modules this week, but I didn’t find time to this. I find that frustrating because I wanted to be done with this prior to our telecon next week. I should probably have prioritised this and allocated (most of) an entire day to this, as I do expect this to be less straight-forward. I have not received the updated code, but I do have the new requirements and the new set-up I should implement.

Teaching:

• I am teaching Tuesday and Thursday afternoon.
• I corrected their handed-in worksheets.
• I supervised ~1 hour Tuesday. I helped out debugging Sunday.

Postdoc rep:

• I sent out a new invitation to the jamboree.
• I pinged invitees for the jamboree and got a full line-up.
• I send out an email about the postdoc coffee next week.
• I wrote the news thing.
• I should write the two emails I need to send Monday and plan a meeting with Anjali re. April.

Admin:

• None

Other:

• I did SOC work this week. I was good at being proactive and that felt good.
• I helped other people with orbits this week, but otherwise not much.
• I went to the astrophysics seminar and was inspired by one of the slides to have a look at more advanced techniques of communicating plots. I procrastinated (or well, worked on this dumb idea in the evenings) and started learning how to make and host (some kinds of) interactive plots. The project have taught me a bit about plotly, dash, HTML, and (:P) JS, mostly through the attempts that did not work, but now I have a working first prototype of the idea: Billy’s zoo .

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Key things

• I did not hit my priorities from last week and I spend more time debugging this week than I thought I would.
• I received two co-author papers with short deadlines for feedback. I met those deadlines.
• I did other things, but if this pattern repeats itself next week, I need to use sharper tools to get the progress I want.

I have been using, liking and appreciating the daily/weekly note set-up. That works well. I do think there must be a good time allocation method that works for me out there. I will search for this at some point this weekend.

Challenges for next week

• More progress on asterism
• Actually finish a PLATO module before Friday

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