<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><feed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xml:lang="en_US"><generator uri="https://jekyllrb.com/" version="3.10.0">Jekyll</generator><link href="https://johnchood2.github.io/notes/feed.xml" rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" /><link href="https://johnchood2.github.io/" rel="alternate" type="text/html" hreflang="en_US" /><updated>2026-09-29T16:04:21-05:00</updated><id>https://johnchood2.github.io/notes/feed.xml</id><title type="html">John C. Hood II</title><subtitle>Astrophysicist and postdoctoral researcher at the University of Chicago specializing in time-domain astronomy, AGN monitoring, and millimeter wavelength observations.</subtitle><author><name>John C. Hood II</name></author><entry><title type="html">Welcome to my Notes</title><link href="https://johnchood2.github.io/notes/2026/09/29/welcome-to-my-notes/" rel="alternate" type="text/html" title="Welcome to my Notes" /><published>2026-09-29T00:00:00-05:00</published><updated>2026-09-29T00:00:00-05:00</updated><id>https://johnchood2.github.io/notes/2026/09/29/welcome-to-my-notes</id><content type="html" xml:base="https://johnchood2.github.io/notes/2026/09/29/welcome-to-my-notes/"><![CDATA[<p>This is where I write up things I’m working on and learning: research methods,
tools, papers I’m reading, and whatever else I’m figuring out.</p>

<h2 id="how-posts-are-organized">How posts are organized</h2>

<p>Posts are listed newest first on the <a href="/notes/">Notes</a> page.
Each post has one or more tags, and the <a href="/notes/tags.html">tags page</a>
groups posts by tag.</p>

<h2 id="a-code-example">A code example</h2>

<div class="language-python highlighter-rouge"><div class="highlight"><pre class="highlight"><code><span class="k">def</span> <span class="nf">mean_flux</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">flux</span><span class="p">):</span>
    <span class="s">"""Return the mean of a light curve."""</span>
    <span class="k">return</span> <span class="nb">sum</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">flux</span><span class="p">)</span> <span class="o">/</span> <span class="nb">len</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">flux</span><span class="p">)</span>
</code></pre></div></div>]]></content><author><name>John C. Hood II</name></author><category term="meta" /><summary type="html"><![CDATA[What this section is for and how posts are organized.]]></summary></entry></feed>