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Originally Posted by CraigS
Amy needs to get out of WISE .. its a great learning area for modelling, (something else Amy could easily make a living in   ), but the platform was decommissioned on Feb 17 of this year (and its transmitter switched off).
Her CV reads:
.. if ever there was an area of study destined to not go anywhere, it would have to be this one !
She should get in touch with Lisa Randall !
Lisa is presently speaking boldy about potential findings at the LHC and at a political level, (her other job), about the decommissioning of the Tevatron Fermilab, Illinois.
Move on Amy !! Quick !
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Amy seems to come across as a diplomat.
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Needless to say, sorting through all of this involves a large team of people who are outstanding software engineers and astronomers who specialize in this sort of high volume data reduction. The folks at the WISE Science Data Center at Caltech are real pros at this. But eventually, Joe or Jane Astronomers like me want to take the data products and start working with them. For me, this means learning the WISE data formats and specifications. So I have been spending a lot of quality time lately with my laptop!.....
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......This means that most of the programming I’ve learned has been by practice rather than theory. Consequently, my code tends to veer into brute force all too often instead of elegant solutions, because I’m usually in a big hurry to get the job done rather than spend the time to make the code nice.
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Everywhere else it's known as the vanishing software engineer syndrome
. It seems that NASA are not immune from this. They are never around when you need them, the end result being one is forced to cross over into software development to get the job done.
I know from first hand experience.
From what I have heard about Lisa Randall she can be formidable foe, perhaps Amy should team up to provide a softer side.
Regards
Steven