28 April 2026 Tuesday

Time Block

   
9 To Campus / mailed check
  Setup
10 4b code base
  4b code base
11 4b code base
  4b code base
12 MAC Meeting
  MAC Meeting
1 Hep Lunch
  Hep Lunch
2 HEP Lunch
  coffee
3 Mans Meeting
  Mans Meeting
4 Mans Meeting
  Talking points

W: 7 DW: 3 OT: 2 No ex

The One Thing:

Run3 CI Update Run3 fourTag 3T1M

Up at 8

Did the mortage check 5421 Kentucky

Filled out local tax

To campus with M

  • work by 9:30

Chat Titziana

  • Scott would have shouting matches with the dean (I think she meant the new dean?)

4b code base

  • Se above

Run3 Hemisphere Mixing

  • See above

Lab Techs Spring 2026

Cooper is out :(

  • Easy come easy go…
  • He will work for us part time until August though.

CMU HGC Mac Meeting 28 April 2026

Group Chat:

  • SM: to CERN
  • Planning….
  • AI institute

HGC Management Meeting

  • See above

HEP lunch.

Talking points for the retreat

#1 priority for department should be AI for physics institute

  • Benifits the whole department and plays into CMU strengths
  • From Particle POV EIC fits this nicely
    • Medium Energy group is excited about this oppurunity
    • Group has history/expertise in this kind of physics their obvious next step
    • Brings access to big data / serves the rest of the department well eg: detector development / computing / UG students research ect
  • Joint Hires: maybe 1+1 > 2 x 0.5 ?
  • Current Computing model not working. If we want to grow AI this will need to be thought through carefully.

Plan for AE student

  • …. Set up physics agent
  • I will also have a UG…

Estimating Expenses

From Steph….

Category Cost
Marlo Ballet $65.00
Garmin (Henry's Watch) $10.00
Apple Storage $2.99
Disney+ $14.00
Erlich Exterminator $72.00
Netflix $20.00
Prime $15.89
T-Mobile $75.00
SimpliSafe $50.00
Amazon Recurring Purchases (Coffee and Shakes) $120.00
Yoga $99.00
Car Insurance $147.00
1st Mark $300.00
AES $104.00
Costco $700.00
Gas $120.00
Groceries $1,400.00
Misc. (Birthdays/Holidays/General Acknowledgments) $300.00
Total $3,614.88

Total: $3,614.88

Starting FNAL Trip July 2026

  • See above

Relative Humidity vs Dew point

Home with M

More FNAL access see above

Looking into Openclaw Memory management

cmaster

  • See above

Reading

Investigating youbikey lighting up

Quick how-to:

  • Next time the YubiKey blinks/lights up: run tail -50 ~/ClaudeBrain/logs/yubikey-watch.log (or just tell me and I'll grab it). The lines closest to the blink time will name the requesting process.
  • To stop the watcher later: kill $(cat ~/ClaudeBrain/logs/yubikey-watch.pid).
  • The log will accumulate forever if left running — fine for a few hours/days, but truncate it (> ~/ClaudeBrain/logs/yubikey-watch.log) if it gets large.

Note: predicate filters on eventMessage CONTAINS "YubiKey|Yubico|FIDO|U2F|PIV|smartcard|ctkpcscd|scdaemon|CryptoTokenKit". If a process talks to the key without using any of those keywords (rare), we'll miss it — but that covers ~all real cases.

Tell me when it next lights up.

Reading

Seting up cworkers to respawn workers