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Will be in Harvard Weds through Sunday this week, working with Nick & Chris S.
Have provided “all the information about the atmosphere” to the SNFactory people.
- They will be re-running their calibration.
Two tasks in the last couple of the weeks:
- Checking that high-altitude components are varying on a smooth scale, low-altitude components vary in a more erratic manner. Have shown this to be true.
- Investigating the “z-profile” in the MERRA2 data (this is chasing the aerosol “tau” parameter).
  - No more work from our side expected until they respond.
No progress on the Gaussian process fitting; waiting for news from a collaborator.
- Will not be working on this while at Harvard.
- Will start chasing people.
John Swinbank to chase Robert Lupton with regard to the paper.

Have made lots of brighter-fatter kernels for UC Davis Cam and HSC.
- Need to find somebody to test these on HSC (John Swinbankwill be taking to Yusra AlSayyadabout this today).
- No word yet from Craig as to how well this is working on UCDCam, but no rush.
- This work should get reviewed by somebody else before it merges.
- Most of the code has been reworked by Merlin, no need to assign authorship at the commit level to Craig.
- Should we have “contributor guidelines”? What would they look like?
  - Ideally, contributors would have a fork & atomic commits.
  - And maintaining previous functionality (as appropriate).
  - This is something we should do; perhaps John Swinbankor somebody in SQuaRE, polling Merlin for input.
Now working on Atmospec.
- Based on existing backlog of tickets.
- Will be off on Friday on Monday.
- We should revisit the overall plan & timeline for Atmospec in three weeks (20 May).
Merlin Fisher-Levine to make tickets for:
- A PTC task
- Migrating the BF task runner into pipe_base, where it will be generally useful.
  - And this should just be a couple of hours we can do ~straight away.

Looking at defect-finding code with Robert Lupton
- Who re-wrote Andrés Alejandro Plazas Malagóncode in a cleaner (and helpful!) way.
- And found the cause of the discrepancy between the number of defects reported in two different methods (which was a typo).
  - Now fixed.
- Andrés will now update his own version of the code based on Robert's changes.
- Will then start working on the “wiggles”.
- And once that is done, provide a text file of the outputs to Chris Walter.
- And then finally provide a task for getting this done.
Has also been looking at crosstalk, but so far unsuccessfully.
- Chris Waters is helping out with this.
- Will return to that this week.
Also looked at gains.
- And got slightly different results form Merlin on DM-18052.
Discussion of how robust the calibration product generation has to be during operations.
- Aiming to have the system be as autonomous as possible.
- And that means detailed understanding of everything in the chain, in order.
- And that probably means taking DMTN-101 and turning it into an “action plan”.
  - That defines both the QA plan, and the ordering in which we actually do work.
- Also we need to worry about PipeTask conversion at some point, but probably not until the summer.

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