Oliver Kennedy

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Oliver is a CSE Prof teaching databases and data structures. He enjoys HEMA, cooking, photography, home automation, and coding random stuff. He built a notebook for collaborative, reproducible data science called Vizier (https://vizierdb.info) and now works on scaling datalog on commodity hardware (https://git.odin.cse.buffalo.edu/Norn/Draupnir)

Expect posts here to be mostly about #draupnir, #vizier, bad puns, #photo graphy, and/or travel logs.

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Find joy where you can, today.
With the LLM labs raising prices - I’ve been working on a great new set of tools. They’re called “Integrated Development Environments.” They work with formal specification languages, and a series of language processing models to turn that formal language into working software. Best of all, there is little to no cost and they can be hosted entirely locally - even on very old hardware. And they work with the platforms you support today. All without usage limits.

RE: https://mas.to/@brian_gettler/116506332823026464

Oh, and taxes. Brought to you by taxes. Of which many of us could pay more.

Williamsville Lehigh Valley Railroad Depot, Hasselblad 503CX, Zeiss Planar T* 80mm F/2.8 CFE, Kodak Tri-X 400, more at https://photo.jzola.org/Film/UrbanX/ #photography #filmisnotdead #filmisalive #filmphotography #believeinfilm #blackandwhite #kodaktrix400

For anyone in #WesternNewYork (#WNY), and specifically the #Buffalo/#Niagara area, #UBuffalo will hold its bi-annual UB CSE Demo Day in Davis Hall on May 5th at 2:00

https://ub-cse-demo-day.github.io/

This is one of the big highlights of the semester, and always features a lot of really neat student efforts. If you're in the area, check it out.

I know I'm supposed to be prepping material for in-class review for my final...

... but if "ACID-compliant laser marmots" isn't an existing band name, it needs to be.

Wanna do a PhD on formal verification for cryptography? Sabine Oechsner and Kristina Sojakova are looking for a motivated PhD student to join them at VU Amsterdam. See more information below, or reach out to Sabine ([email protected]) or Kristina ([email protected]) if you have any questions.

https://workingat.vu.nl/vacancies/phd-position-in-formal-methods-for-concurrent-cryptographic-protocols-amsterdam-1288339

Vacancy — PhD Position in Formal Methods for Concurrent Cryptographic Protocols

The goal of this project is to use formal methods to develop a systematic way to describe concurrent cryptographic protocols and to reason about their security. If this sounds interesting to you, please apply at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU).

The question is not how fast someone can create software. The question is how long after creating the software will someone support it.

half the point of programming-tool design is to reduce the need for hypervigilance on the user.

if we're designing tools that require you to be *more* hypervigilant, legitimately what use are they?

Shout out to libraries. The original data centres.