 Thanks Loc. Good morning. It is a beautiful day And today Daniela and I are gonna go get coffee with Meredith Rawls. Should be fun I'm always down for coffee Yeah, we can make that happen I know it's sunny out. So of course we're all wearing our raincoats Because you can't trust it. That's right. It's true. All right, so we're gonna go get some coffee Except for are we actually getting coffee? I'll get coffee. I may get a sandwich, too It was wonderful The whole week in Mexico with board games and fellow nerds And I wish I could bring like all of my nerding five friends with me because it was a blast We've met some people the previous years we've gone they have a bunch of panels and fiction authors and Musicians you're saying about ridiculous things that are fun, but they're like actual musicians. It's a famous on the internet This one and then you go to the actual musicians. They just happen to be famous on the internet. I like Yeah, it's like it's like you but a musician you're famous on the internet, right? I'm not famous on the internet I am a postdoc here at UW and I work with the LSST did management groups Large synoptic survey telescope. This is a giant telescope. They're building in Chile It's gonna take a high-resolution movie of the whole southern sky Probably not Correct that is very true Yeah, so this is a kind of unique postdoc and working a lot more of as a software developer with a little bit of research on the side but mostly what I'm working on right now is Processing the images from like the telescope takes a picture and it has a bunch of garbage in it that is not I think having any to do a science right has cosmic rays that made part of the image really bright What do you do To the field of view at Alice's There are a lot of really interesting we're gonna 3.2 giga pixels, I think yeah, it's it's it's ridiculous. I downloaded the The wave of Kepler picture yesterday. Oh sure and it's so the whole so one picture was 406 Just for one picture and that's because it's in raw right like it's not in JPEG astronomers shooting But we don't call it that yeah Fits that's the real deal But way also I'm excited because it's like actually taking shape like where you can see the construction kind of happen right well time-lapse videos Which is really fun because it's like this real thing. That's actually do you think we can find one and include it in this Episode probably good. I believe in you time-lapse now. Wow. That's cool Movie magic or if we didn't find it we'll delete this so you made the transition from science to Software plus science yep PhD was about Astero seismology, which is Starquakes and binary stars, which is two stars orbiting each other and having Starquakes at the same time Which is fun to kind of disentangle. Let's do a lot. How many students are you working with? three Yes, three. There's an undergrad here at UW. There's a grad student here at UW And then there's a grad student in Vanderbilt. Did you work with students during your entire PhD or did something you started? No, this was like at the very end of my PhD She came to my office when I happened to actually be in town and said I'm trying to use your software to do Something and I was like all my software is horrible. I'm so sorry And then we started collaborating Like I want to use your software the usual common is my software is terrible I don't want to use my software. I true story. I got a sticky note on my door this morning From Locke. Oh, yeah, they did a whole undergrad sticky note information program. I got one too. It's amazing Yeah, I was very uplifted by the sticky note. So thank you for that But the sticky note said thank you for making your code open source and I was like, oh, no That's very true. My code is an open source bear trap You are free to put your foot in Yes, I've learned a lot about properly structured packages in my phone, for example I can say just a script that does everything at once and there's no functions. There's no modules. There's no classes There's none of that. It was just Meredith wants to do some things and now she's doing them one after another and everything's Hardware to less of that how much your time is spent doing documentation versus coding More should be meant to spend documentation Three things you like about LST. Oh No pressure there But your boss may see it top three favorite things about LST actually funded and happening I'm honestly really excited for the surprise discoveries So money the unexpected I like this multi-fill multi-filter multiple colors Top three things they're paying for Couple My favorite things are they have been helping fund so money as well They have been helping fund the hack week or hack days And so thus helping change the culture of astronomy and how we get projects and how we collaborate to I like that The code base is open source from the go and number three I like that they're here at UW. I like that. It's it's something we've been involved in from day one and I'm a I'm a longtime husky. So I got hometown pride. Goodbye to these trees They I think they're gonna get destroyed One time I saw a tech pro here