The chickens almost succeeded in stopping me.

(specifically, a giant eagle rotisserie chicken from last week)

Maybe that's why they permanently decommissioned the CSD coffee machines 🥲

DOOMQL max fps as a new database benchmark? You could release a new workload trace every year by capturing a multiplayer session.

The report of my death was an exaggeration. I am still alive and will be in SFO this week to speak about using LLMs to automatically tune databases. Wed Aug 6th @ 5:30pm at Databricks MTV: lu.ma/ha0dc4nj

I just got a MMR booster last week! Fully covered by student insurance, experienced no side effects. The only downside was the 5 minutes to walk there, pretty cheap for peace of mind.

From another angle, admiralcloudberg's plane crash investigation summaries go into safety's complexity.

e.g., half mm part error admiralcloudberg.medium.com/a-matter-of-... , automation surprise admiralcloudberg.medium.com/one-hundred-... , human factors admiralcloudberg.medium.com/painted-into...

It was great chatting with you!

(also, we're @db.cs.cmu.edu not @cmudb.bsky.social :) )

Carnegie Mellon University - Nonprofit Explorer - ProPublica Since 2013, the IRS has released data culled from millions of nonprofit tax filings. Use this database to find organizations and see details like their executive compensation, revenue and expenses, as...

This is the case at CMU too: projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/o...

Our exec compensation tends to stay at around 0.6-0.7% of total expenses. Other universities that I checked have it at 0.2-0.3%, but the absolute amount is roughly the same (~10m).