Michael Cafarella

Research Scientist, MIT CSAIL, formerly @Michigan. Cofounder of Nutch, Hadoop, Lattice Data, but the bad ideas are mine alone.

[hazyresearch @HazyResearch]

The Great American AI Race. I wrote something about how we need a holistic AI effort from academia, industry, and the US government to have the best shot at a freer, better educated, and healthier world in AI. I’m a mega bull on the US and open source AI. Maybe we’re cooking something bigger… stay tuned or contact us.

[Michael Cafarella @MikeCafarella]

A very cool, interesting new paper on how to orchestrate and optimize data processing tasks with LLMs

[Liana @lianapatel_]

Super excited to share our work on LOTUS, a query engine for reasoning over large corpuses of data with LLMs!

Joint work w/ the amazing @sid_jha1, @matei_zaharia & @guestrin

Read the paper: https://t.co/5BdLT7Atrm
Try out the code: https://t.co/y7eRsHlbqi

🧵👇

[Michael Cafarella @MikeCafarella]

This project has been a ton of fun to work on. If you think it can solve a problem that's important to you, please get in touch!

[Matthew Russo @RussoMatthew]

Finally, this work is the product of a great research team:

Chunwei Liu (@Tranway), Michael Cafarella (@MikeCafarella), Lei Cao, Peter Chen, Zui Chen (@ZuiChen), Michael Franklin (@franklinmj), Tim Kraska (@tim_kraska), Sam Madden (@samrmadden), Gerardo Vitagliano (@gerarvita)

[Michael Cafarella @MikeCafarella]

Check out the paper, code on GitHub, and colab demo

[Matthew Russo @RussoMatthew]

If this (very high-level) summary of our work has piqued your interest -- go read our full paper!

📄Paper: https://t.co/x7K4fmb2MX
💻Code: https://t.co/XwDp6K2mtM

We would love to hear any feedback, ideas for more use cases, and/or opportunities for collaboration.

[Michael Cafarella @MikeCafarella]

@RussoMatthew This is a project we've been working on for some time, and which I think is really exciting. If you're doing AI or data work, I think it will be exciting to you, too

[Matthew Russo @RussoMatthew]

We’re excited to announce a pre-print and prototype system for Palimpzest: A Declarative System for Optimizing AI Workloads.

Check out our full paper, blog post, and demo:
- 📄Paper: https://t.co/x7K4fmb2MX
- 📬Blog Post: https://t.co/8BQJs8FNcA
- 💻Demo: https://t.co/kKArKizJI9

[Michael Cafarella @MikeCafarella]

@etzioni Oren: Happy birthday to the best advisor in the business!

[Adam Marcus @marcua]

I’ve been intrigued by the world of tools that automate what typically takes data practitioners days to weeks of error-prone/not-so-repeatable work. I call this space autodata, and wrote a blog post about it: https://t.co/6PlqNsGdED

[Michael Cafarella @MikeCafarella]

@simonw @marcua Ten years ago I tried to work on a project for a smart data ingestor modeled partially after Kathleen Fisher et al's LearnPADS system. One challenge was that I couldn't build a good dictionary of schemas to match against. Would be worth another try

[Michael Cafarella @MikeCafarella]

I love Election Day.

[Marshall Cohen @MarshallCohen]

A photo is circulating online of Trump holding up the New York Post with Hunter Biden on the cover. A White House spokesman told CNN the photo is real. The alleged emails underpinning the NY Post stories may be part of a Russian disinformation campaign. https://t.co/5hweP0b2rl

[Michael Cafarella @MikeCafarella]

@infoxiao This would be great

[Michael Cafarella @MikeCafarella]

This is a shame

[The Michigan Daily @michigandaily]

“Sadly, our company has not survived the coronavirus pandemic."

Espresso Royale Coffee permanently closes its doors after 33 years. https://t.co/tbc1DMo3fk

[Froyo☆Tam @FroyoTam]

Jerry Lawson (1940-2011), the developer of the first interchangeable cartridge video game console with a microprocessor, the Fairchild Channel F (1976).

This console predated the Atari 2600 by one year!

[Michael Cafarella @MikeCafarella]

Congrats! Very well deserved

[Daniel Abadi @daniel_abadi]

Very proud that my student @jmfaleiro won this year's ACM SIGMOD Jim Gray award for the top PhD dissertation in the area of data systems. https://t.co/6Iq5mrwnfc Jose's thesis focused on scalable, multi-core transaction processing.

[Michael Cafarella @MikeCafarella]

Some of the cruelest things I’ve ever seen in print were in a female colleague’s course evaluation.

[Aubrey Hirsch @aubreyhirsch]

Are you even a woman in academia if your course evaluations don’t give you feedback about your physical appearance?

[Michael Cafarella @MikeCafarella]

@bariskasikci If I recall correctly there was a big effort to fund tons of postdocs in wake of financial crisis faculty hiring crunch. We should do it again.

[Michael Cafarella @MikeCafarella]

Goodness. I ran the same trends query again. First image is from 11pm eastern on Thursday night. Second image is from 240pm eastern on Friday.

[Michael Cafarella @MikeCafarella]

This seems concerning