emeryberger

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Professor, Computer Science, Univ. of Massachusetts Amherst. My students, collaborators, and I build innovative systems, especially focused on performance, reliability, and security -- Scalene, Coz, Hoard, and more. Among other things, I am also the creator/maintainer of https://CSrankings.org.

Twitter (while it lasts): @emeryberger
Home page: https://emeryberger.com
Lab page: http://PLASMA-UMass.org
GitHubs:
* http://github.com/plasma-umass/
* http://github.com/emeryberger

AffiliationUniv. of Massachusetts Amherst
Personal GitHubhttps://github.com/emeryberger
Lab GitHubhttps://github.com/plasma-umass
Home pagehttps://emeryberger.com

✈️The Needling's Top 10 Boeing Headlines of 2024: https://theneedling.com/2024/11/11/the-needlings-top-10-boeing-headlines-of-2024/

Tell us! Which of our real fake Boeing stories this year killed you the most?

The Needling’s Top 10 Boeing Headlines of 2024

What a year for Boeing! The Needling wrote about Boeing literally ten times as much as it has any other year with almost 30 headlines about the local commercial plane manufacturing monopoly. We had…

The Needling

RightTyper: A Python 3.12+ type assistant that adds type hints to your code. https://github.com/righttyper/righttyper, python3 -m pip install righttyper

RightTyper turns type checking into anomaly detection: it captures the most commonly used types, letting a type checker like mypy detect possibly incorrect type mismatches in your code.

GitHub - RightTyper/RightTyper: A fast and efficient type assistant for Python, including tensor shape inference

A fast and efficient type assistant for Python, including tensor shape inference - RightTyper/RightTyper

GitHub
Why the Stakes in this Election Are So Enormously High
 
Democracy itself is on the ballot. If Trump wins, the extreme Right will be in a much better position than ever before to abolish it.
 
Some thoughts from my new piece - while we all nervously wait:
 
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https://thomaszimmer.substack.com/p/why-the-stakes-in-this-election-are
Why the Stakes in this Election Are So Enormously High

Democracy itself is on the ballot. If Trump wins, the extreme Right will be in a much better position than ever before to abolish it

Democracy Americana
#Walz: "He crossed a line ... #Trump over the weekend was talking about using the US Army against people who disagree with him. Just so you're clear about that -- that's you. That's what he's talking about. This is not some mythical thing out there. He called it 'the enemy within.' And to Donald Trump, anybody who doesn't agree with him is the enemy. I tell you that not to make you fearful or anything, I tell you that because we need to whip his butt and put this guy behind us."
Ward Christensen, co-founder of first online BBS system and creator of XMODEM, dies at 78. Peace.
If we do not torrent culture, culture becomes netflixed/ Sharing is Good. Stickers seen in Mexico
I’m going to start replying to everything like I’m on Hacker News. Unhappy with Congress? Why don’t you just start a new country and write a constitution and secede? It’s not that hard once you know how. Actually, I wrote a microstate in a weekend using Rust.
The OOPSLA 2025 Web site is now fully live, including the HotCRP submission site (which is linked to it). Submit away!
https://2025.splashcon.org/track/OOPSLA
SPLASH 2025 - OOPSLA - SPLASH 2025

Announcements The registration is now open. Early Registration deadline: 31 August 2025. Read the travel information page for information about visas, accommodation, and travel tips. Check out our Exploring Singapore guide for attractions and food to try during your visit. Arriving early or staying after the conference? Join the Outdoor Activities on October 11 and 19! Welcome to the website of the SPLASH 2025 conference. The ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Systems, Programming, Languages and Applications: Software for Humanity (SPLASH) embraces all aspects of software construct ...

Hundreds more publications have joined the Fediverse through Flipboard's federation. Here's the first thread, I'll do another tomorrow.

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