Michael Mior·Aug 7, 2024Game of FirstsA lot of things seem to serve to unintentionally nerd snipe me. Over the weekend, a friend introduced me to The Initials Game. The gist of…
Michael Mior·Jul 18, 2023LLMs for Schema AugmentationI have recently been experimenting with the use of large language models (LLMs) to augment JSON Schemas with useful features. While ChatGPT…
Michael Mior·Mar 23, 2018Zotero reMarkable syncI’ve really been enjoying my reMarkable tablet the past several months. (I wrote a short review last year if you care to see a few more…
Michael Mior·Mar 2, 2018LaTeX SkeletonA repeated task I run into when I start working on a new paper is the laying out the initial structure of the repository to store the paper…
Michael Mior·Feb 4, 2018Reinforcement learning for Las VegasDuring a department board games night, we were playing Las Vegas when a fellow player remarked that he wondered how an AI for the game…
Michael Mior·Oct 31, 2017reMarkable reviewAs an academic, I spend a lot of time reading papers. I generally hate the idea of printing out a paper for a one-time read since it feels…
Michael Mior·Mar 11, 2017Benchmarking ScyllaDBScyllaDB is an alternative to Apache Cassandra which claims to have 10x higher throughput than Cassandra while remaining the same positive…
Michael Mior·Feb 20, 2016A Calcite adapter for Apache CassandraFor those not familiar, Apache Calcite is a generic SQL query optimizer which can execute SQL queries over multiple backend data sources…
Michael Mior·Sep 24, 2015Automated Testing of DotfilesSeveral years ago I started managing my dotfiles based on Zach Holman’s dotfiles repo. His setup is quite nice and I found it relatively…
Michael Mior·Aug 21, 2014Apache Cassandra benchmarkingI was recently trying to run some benchmarks against Apache Cassandra on EC2 since unfortunately the servers I had in our machine room were…
