Science and productivity by Dr. Christine Corbett Moran
codeXgalactic hosts polished technical writeups of the work of Dr. Christine Corbett Moran, as well as musings on productivity. For more work in progress notes, check out https://corbettnotes.com/, and for polished writeups on humanties subjects, check out corbett.medium.com
Hi! I’m Christine. My mother calls me “Dr. Moran”, the internet knows me as “@corbett”, and my kids call me “mom”. I like collecting projects and experiences which I hope will one day render me able to solve any problem I find interesting or important. It’s slow going at points but I have a lot Read More ...
I am obsessed with using Obsidian for taking notes, and I have two sets, one for personal notes, and one for professional notes. Obsidian allows for markdown notes, with easy hyperlink, folder, and attachment support. For my personal notes, I’ve been delighted to find a way to easily share them with the world. This week Read More …
Back in the spring, I had some fun doing experimentation around machine learning models for labelling satellite imagery with atmospheric conditions and various classes of land cover/land. You can check out my work in an open source Kaggle notebook. For this I trained on the data provided in the Planet Kaggle competition, Understanding the Amazon Read More …
I’ve now added it to one of my life goals: name an exoplanet! If you could name a planet, what would you call it? Read More …
I wrote a book during my pregnancy on quantum computing. Packt approached me, based on my work in quantum computer simulation and education (kickstarted in this post). They asked me to write a book proposal, which they accepted, and then we negotiated an advance. My writing goals were a chapter a week. After our baby was Read More …
I’m delighted to be back doing numerical relativity research at Caltech after taking a year leave to deploy to the South Pole with the South Pole Telescope collaboration. I will continue to be involved with the South Pole Telescope data analysis in parallel with my work at Caltech to simulate formation pathways for supermassive black Read More …
Since IBM released access to its 5-qubit quantum computer, with accompanying tutorial and ability to simulate and program it easily (via a graphical language that spits out a simple code for archival along with results), I’ve been kind of obsessed. As I worked my way through the tutorials in IBM’s simulator, for my own benefit Read More …
As you might have heard on my website, my newsletter, my Twitter, or, if we’re colleagues at Caltech, at work, I am currently working on the South Pole Telescope (SPT) onsite at the South Pole in Antarctica for January-November 2016 (I am employed by the University of Chicago). I have taken a sabbatical from my NSF Astronomy Read More …
I’m going attempt to give an accessible introduction to general relativity for non-mathematicians without glossing over the mathematical objects one must to get a feel for to be able to follow research in the area. Let me know how successful I am! Read More …
Visit to the Durham University Institute for Computational Cosmology I spent last week hosted by the Institute for Computational Cosmology at Durham University, staying in “Castle” one of the historic colleges of the university, an actual, honest to goodness Castle and a World Heritage Site. Durham University has a lot to offer, a huge cosmology and astronomy department, Read More …
(featured image credit: SpaceX Instagram) I’ll be on the Space Coast for the rest of the week covering the CRS7 Launch, set to go off this coming Sunday June 28, 10:21EDT*. Follow me on twitter for more regular updates. I can also always recommend watching the streaming feeds of the launch, which are available via SpaceX‘s Read More …