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2024

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2023

Adiós, Arecibo

Mourning and celebrating a scientific giant of my childhood

Asymptotic Intelligence

AI is growing smarter by feeding it the internet. What happens when it starts to eat itself?

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2022

Contemplating conference considerations

Earlier this month, the 54th annual meeting of the Division for Planetary Sciences (DPS) of the American Astronomical Association took place in the very town...

The Horizon Glow-Up

Recently, I began a project to try to compare remote sensing data (multiple radar datasets with different wavelengths as well as thermal infrared from Divine...

Topographic Corrections: Final Boss Edition

In a previous blog post, I talked about the many, many issues I’ve had with handling the complexity that is accurate modelling of the temperatures of planeta...

Analog Arcana

As I discussed in a previous post, electronics has been an on-again-off-again hobby of mine ever since a childhood friend introduced me to the world of passi...

BEAM me up!

Today I wanted to share a little bit about my journey with a subject tangential to science that I didn’t end up pursuing as a career, but that nonetheless ha...

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2021

God Rest Ye MIDI Instruments

So, the semester is almost done, we’re in the home stretch on assignments, the snow is falling (well, was falling), and soon I’ll be on my first real break s...

T+50 days

Well well well, my little blogosphere echo chamber, we meet again. Almost two months into the semester, I figured I should take a moment to look back and tak...

Divination Explanation

Okay, I get it, y’all are probably tired as hell of me blabbing on about “LRO this” and “Diviner that”, but today I thought I should give an overview of just...

The PhD at the end of the world

The title of this one is a little tongue-in-cheek, but it captures the spirit of a problem I’ve grappled with my whole life. I’ve been thinking a lot lately ...

Creating a website with GitHub Pages

I’ve finally started migrating my writing from Medium over to here, in order to have a centralized platform with all of my professional work in one place. Ha...

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