KITP: what I learned

So what did I learn...

Flying fish make great "rationality tokens"

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  • Multiple Populations are probably real and a problem.
    I owe Bob, Jay, Chris and others an apology, they've been saying this for decades...
  • Intermediate Mass Black Holes are Important and Interesting.
    But, we need to calm down a little bit about them.
  • We don't understand as much as we used to.
  • Δ Y?
    Really?
    Maybe.
    Interesting...
  • Somebody Really Really Really needs to go and compile a HST level quality, homogenous catalog of globular cluster parameters etc
    Existing catalogs rely too much on heterogenous, largely pre-CCD data
    This could be the most cited paper of all time in stellar astronomy
    ie it'd get about 4.7% of the number of cites of the average "new model for dark energy" paper...
  • I should have paid attention when people talked about 2nd Dredge-Up...
  • I don't know nearly enough about Systematic Errors in Finite Aperture High Precision Photometry.
    But I will.

Do NOT mess with Alison...

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DUCK Melvyn!

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