01 April 2026 Wednesday

Up at 5:30

Uber to Ariport

Emacs

  • Setting up automatic gcal syncs… nice!

Snakemake for 4b Workflows

  • See logs

Created barista-console to monitor lpc Snakemake jobs

  • Added to aliases.org

4b code base

  • See above

Reading The Marginal Revolution: Rise and Decline, and the Pending AI Revolution

Flight To Charlotte

emacs pdf-view

M-g g to go to page

Landed in Birmingham

Stephs 1st day as Ass Prof !!!

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Finished The Marginal Revolution: Rise and Decline, and the Pending AI Revolution

Jevons Paradox: making energy use more efficient increases total energy consumption.

CMU Reimbursement Forms

Getting CERN login automatically setup

Good lunch outside

Converting more Relativity lectures

  • Not great … Not bad… Proabably could be a good use of agents. A critic and a plot maker.
  • Transcription Tool

Making some low-pt Plots

pourover label: Low-Pt-RunII

Chat with AE: Ideas for next steps:

  • I think my next step is to get Evans classifier in our code
  • We should probably also add the option to include btagging inputs in to the SvB and FvT
  • I guess it would also be good to do an apples to apples comparision of the classifiers Im pretty sure ours is better esp out of sample

Chat AE re:Analysis categories

  • Seems like boosted jets selection much looser than clara

Walk around Birmingham

  • Very young city ! The railroad network that made the site viable only reached that part of Alabama after the Civil War It sat atop massive deposits of all three ingredients for making iron (coal, limestone, iron ore) within a 30-mile radius, earning it the nickname "The Magic City" for its explosive growth.

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Uber back to the airport

Reading

Ride with TJ, Vaia, and Lisa (Taking over from TJ)

  • Drive to Tuscaloose..
  • Check in

Swanky dinner at the UA University Club

Brian Boudouris (know Theresa Meyer from Purdue) / Sergie / Emanuele Usai / Konstantin Matchev (Theorist on CMS) / Paolo Rumerio