Science and productivity by Dr. Christine Corbett Moran
CodeXgalactic hosts writings by polymath Christine Corbett Moran on a variety of topics including: science, science fiction, productivity, philosophy, humanities, motherhood, culture, sports, politics, music, quantum computing, programming, physics, AI, biology, art, and more.
Hi! I’m Christine. My mother called me “Dr. Moran”, the internet knows me as “corbett”, my colleagues call me “Chris”, 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. My portfolio of projects is Read More ...
I seem to make a lot more progress on my hobbies than others, something I’m grateful for as a busy parent where if I didn’t have some tricks up my sleeve I might not be taking time for hobbies at all. The only one I know who makes more is my partner. I have a Read More …
I’ve previously talked about my rejection from the Astronaut Candidate Class of 2017, marking my second attempt. My first rejection came via a postcard, the second through a phone call after an in-person interview and medical evaluation, and the third via a letter with a personalized note. Undeterred, I’m now on my fourth application. I’m Read More …
I’ve done a lot of hard things in my life — accomplishments or experiences that most would find difficult to achieve or endure. I won’t go into too much detail here, but you can check out my website for more christinecorbettmoran.com. Everything from two degrees from MIT, multiple books, multiple children, running multiple startups while completing a Read More …
Back in 2020 there began a meme “Random things in my X that just make sense”. Now that I’ve had the chance to live in the company of ~10 other families for 4 weeks, I’ve spotted some ways our family is unique. I know each of the other families could write a blog just like Read More …
A full-time working parent with a decent “work-life-family” balance might spend 40 hours at their job and 40 hours with their children per week. Assuming a traditional nine-to-five alongside 3–6 hours with kids per day weekdays, and 6–12 hours per day with kids weekends, we are talking equivalent of two full-time jobs. Likewise with a Read More …
I enjoyed slow traveling beginning before college, before it had a name. From the age of 18 on in non-chronological order: A year in Denmark, three months in Baltimore, Jerusalem, New Jersey/New York, San Francisco, Tromsø (Norway). A month in Cairo, in Manila, on trains in Europe. Nearly a year at the South Pole in Read More …
Update: After a year hosting technical in progress works via Obsidian publicly, I decided to go back to using it personally (one vault) and for work (a second vault) without using the publish feature. I find Obsidian great but the interface for browsing didn’t provide a substitute for a blog, which is what I was 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 …
Because of my blog series on freezing my eggs in my early thirties a lot of people have contacted me over the years, some friends and some strangers. Some of these are people considering freezing their own eggs, others are going through a fertility journey where egg extraction is likely in the cards. They happen Read More …
I just did my six month check-in for my Passion Plan, a process I currently use to focus on the bigger picture. I use a paper planner, called https://passionplanner.com/, to help integrate higher level aspirations into my mundane day-to-day tasks. This branded planner helpfully outlines the method and there are free resources to print on Read More …