Today we had a long discussion about the degree to which hardware-blanking and software-blanking RFI-rejection mechanisms should match one another. Matt wanted to be cautious, but Dan proposed that matching isn’t essential if one scheme simply works better than another. Jeff wanted to quantify the group's continuing efforts:

Jeff: How would we represent priorities? How do we decide whether matt should be working in data quality or backend analysis?
Dan: If we have a 90% confidence that our data is OK, we should work on the candidates list. If we are really nervous that we’ve got problems processing the data, then Matt should be full-time on that. But we should be willing to partition tasks.
Jeff: How do we do that? How do we know if it’s 90% and what’s the definition of nervous?
Dan: Just make a decision. Go at it a week, see if it’s ok, and if not go at it another week.

As always, we are hard at work getting the list of best candidates up on the site.