Oliver Kennedy

@okennedy@discuss.systems
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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.

[He/Him]

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Oliver Kennedy6d ago

My new grader is ruthless...

#caturday

Show threadOliver KennedyJan 4
Looks to have paid off...
Oliver KennedyJan 1
Overly ambitious new year's ball drop this year didn't quite work out, but at least I got the big red button working again.
Oliver KennedyDec 21
@ZachWeinersmith Ow. Just ow.
Oliver KennedyDec 18

Proposal: Henceforth O(1) algorithms shall be known solely as S-Tier algorithms.

(side note: I can't believe the picture below didn't yet exist in a search result)

Oliver KennedyDec 17
It's alive. ALIVE!
Oliver KennedyDec 16

Wired headphones are working again after a good resoldering. Just added a coat of gorilla glue to replace the load-bearing melted plastic sleeve that I had to tear off.

#TodayInRepair

Oliver KennedyNov 10

Congratulations to Dr. Balakrishnan, #PhD.

Her thesis applies database techniques to make compilers faster, through the use of incremental view maintenance (avoid repeated tree traversals during optimizer passes), view re-use (inlining optimizer rewrites and IVM), and optimization (share pattern-matching work between rewrite rules).

Darshana, unfortunately, had to be remote... but #UB_DBPL turned out in force to support her.

Oliver KennedyNov 8
Running late for #UBHacking. Had to submit a patch first...
Oliver KennedyNov 7
Be afraid of the refrigerator. Be very afraid.