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CMU is responding amazingly well to the covid situation. Shoutout to the staff and faculty.

Brunei is handling the covid situation really well too. MOH efforts, MORA advisory, and the overseas-student communications from MOE. Pretty impressive.

Students who need financial help because of #COVID19 can now apply for 2 different Carnegie Mellon assistance funds. Current students and 2020 grads are eligible and the process takes about a minute. All are encouraged to apply. cmu.is/assistance

CMU S21: 95 days of class, generating ~1100 CMU emails, ~2000 emails if non-CMU included, missing count for DAILY COVID SURVEY emails rage-deleted. <100 of those emails were useful (replied/from advisors). I'd vote for a SBP that campaigns on less spam from admin and orgs...

GPT-3 or reality? "My advisor has a Spotify album featuring otters."

$ ping -c 250 vpn.cmu.edu ... --- vpn.cmu.edu ping statistics --- 250 packets transmitted, 206 received, 17.6% packet loss, time 258510ms rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 220.550/3104.699/16707.652/4374.171 ms, pipe 17 I'm home🙃

I wonder how other people remember deadlock prevention's wound-wait / wait-die? (each stick person's speech bubble describes what they will do if the other person gets the lock; bigger stick person = older transaction)

The future of database education is starting now: youtu.be/MxOKUt6LeeU

I talked to Anupam Gupta Anupam Gupta about his research area, theoretical computer science in general, advice for students, and more... He is one of the kindest and smartest people you'll ever meet. youtube.com/live/RyIMhXgce…

The final projects in this semester's Advanced Database Systems course were *very* impressive. This is the first time I've taught the course not using a DBMS that we were building at CMU. The students picked PostgreSQL + @DuckDB for their implementations: 15721.courses.cs.cmu.edu/spring2023/pro…

Are you running #PgBouncer? Are you disappointed that it is slow + unscalable? @butro's latest VLDB paper shows how to use #eBPF to accelerate this popular PostgreSQL proxy by running on kernel threads. ➡️Paper: vldb.org/pvldb/vol16/p3… ➡️Code: github.com/mbutrovich/tig…

Answer: Because CMU School of Computer Science is the best computer science school in the world and they haven't fired me (yet?).