PhD from @neu_prl. @uWaterloo alumnus.

San Francisco Bay Area
Joined November 2011
Today, I successfully defended my Ph.D. thesis. Thank you to everyone who was part of this journey.
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Bye Boston, I'll miss you! Hello Bay Area!
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It's official: I'm looking for PL/compilers jobs. If you have anything interesting, please hmu!
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Gather 'round children, it's time to learn the story of the ozone hole Last year on a lark, I flew to visit @recoolit in Jakarta to see their climate tech ambitions in action. That trip kickstarted my most ambitious writing yet. The first part is out now, on @every (link in 🧵)
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All of these tips are equally valid for academic research talks!
So, you want to give a conference talk? Great! First, though, watch this 5-minute lightning talk I gave at @pytexas: "Five Ways To Keep Your Audience Off Of Their Phones." youtu.be/xmLjd6X-d14?t=1154
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Hi! I'm finishing my PhD this spring and looking for industry work in 🇨🇦🇺🇸; Europe if fit is right. Experience: compilers/PL impl, static analysis, recently code LLMs Website: mhyee.com If you're hiring or think I should apply somewhere, please DM! (And retweet!)
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This will be my 8th year in Boston, which is longer than I lived in Waterloo (7 years).
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Left: Not Mount Rainier as seen from the University of Washington, 2013 Right: Mount Rainier as seen from the University of Washington, 2023 Ended up waiting 10 years to get the second photo.
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"wan dee bee" won, but it looks like the answer is "wand bee"! xitter.cf/weights_biases/status/…
How do you pronounce wandb?
0%double-you and bee
57%wan dee bee
43%wand bee
0%other (please reply!)
14 votes • Final results
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How do you pronounce wandb?
0%double-you and bee
57%wan dee bee
43%wand bee
0%other (please reply!)
14 votes • Final results
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It was a thrill to drive evaluation for StarCoder with a multi-institution team. Its multi-PL performance is validated with our work on MultiPL-E. Several members of the MultiPL-E team joined this effort, including @linguistcarolyn, @mhyee, Yangtian Zi, and Claire Schlesinger!
Introducing: 💫StarCoder StarCoder is a 15B LLM for code with 8k context and trained only on permissive data in 80+ programming languages. It can be prompted to reach 40% pass@1 on HumanEval and act as a Tech Assistant. Try it here: shorturl.at/cYZ06r Release thread🧵
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I want to run tsc (TypeScript compiler) on a string, without creating a temporary file. These don't work: $ tsc <(printf "42") $ printf "42" | tsc /dev/stdin I can't believe this works: $ ln -s /dev/stdin fake.ts $ printf "42" | tsc fake.ts
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The first two don't work because tsc wants a .ts extension... but seems we can work around that with a symlink!
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"He learned Rust in a week. You could learn it in a day." "I'm not a 7x programmer!"
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Problem: I don't like conference tea. Solution: Bringing my own tea.
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The code I want to write The R code I end up writing
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First image source: the National Congress of Brazil building in Brasília, by Oscar Niemeyer en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:B…
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Second image source: the William Livingstone House, in Detroit, Michigan, by Albert Kahn. Demolished in 2007. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:W…
Made some tea I don't make very often, because I like it a lot and want to save it, but I think it's gotten a bit stale because it's been sitting in my cabinet for four years.
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