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Mae Milano
@mpmilano.bsky.social
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Computer Science professor at Princeton. Loves all things programming languages and distributed systems. Including YOU! https://languagesforsyste.ms
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geekryan.bsky.social
Scientists have created an actual treatment for prions, the cause of Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease in humans, chronic wasting disease in deer, & mad cow disease.

"Brainwide silencing of prion protein by AAV-mediated delivery of an engineered compact epigenetic editor". #ShareGoodNewsToo
Brainwide silencing of prion protein by AAV-mediated delivery of an engineered compact epigenetic editor
Prion disease is caused by misfolding of the prion protein (PrP) into pathogenic self-propagating conformations, leading to rapid-onset dementia and death. However, elimination of endogenous PrP halts...
www.science.org
February 3, 2025 at 3:55 PM
mpmilano.bsky.social
If you are a PhD student in computer science who is directly impacted by the last two weeks of orders, please know that it's ok to not be in a headspace for research

If anyone is pushing you to be productive despite it all, please reach out to me, or SIGPLAN CARES, or computingconnections.org
Computing Connections Fellowship
Website for computing connections fellowship
computingconnections.org
January 30, 2025 at 6:20 AM
mpmilano.bsky.social
Hey all! Who's at POPL? If you're here and looking to do a PhD at Princeton, let's chat!
January 20, 2025 at 8:22 PM
mpmilano.bsky.social
You should work with Fabian, he's one of the best PhD mentors I know!
fmbck.bsky.social Fabian Muehlboeck @fmbck.bsky.social · Jan 20
Are you interested in getting a PhD in Programming Languages, particularly on practical and theoretical aspects of gradual typing? Consider working with me at the Australian National University.

PhDs in Australia take 3-4 years, see tinyurl.com/ANUPLPhD . If you're there, find me at POPL this week!
January 20, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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fmbck.bsky.social
Are you interested in getting a PhD in Programming Languages, particularly on practical and theoretical aspects of gradual typing? Consider working with me at the Australian National University.

PhDs in Australia take 3-4 years, see tinyurl.com/ANUPLPhD . If you're there, find me at POPL this week!
January 20, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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tpwrtrmnky.bsky.social
Academia has such enormous fake email job vibes except at random checkpoints you get tested on the side project that's your actual job you only have time for between the emails
January 4, 2025 at 10:54 PM
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Thrilled to share that our paper “Flo: A Semantic Foundation for Progressive Stream Processing” (with @mpmilano.bsky.social, Alvin Cheung, and @joehellerstein.bsky.social) will appear at POPL 2025! Check out the preprint at arxiv.org/abs/2411.08274, and read on for more!
Flo: a Semantic Foundation for Progressive Stream Processing
Streaming systems are present throughout modern applications, processing continuous data in real-time. Existing streaming languages have a variety of semantic models and guarantees that are often inco...
arxiv.org
December 3, 2024 at 8:26 PM
mpmilano.bsky.social
Looks like PL found Bluesky!! Welcome all, let's all quit X together 🫠
November 16, 2024 at 2:09 AM
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idillig.bsky.social
Please convince your friends to join this platform (or whatever else other than X) so we can see interesting content that we **actually** want to see
November 14, 2024 at 1:40 AM
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I guess it has fallen to me, the humor columnist, to endorse Harris for president wapo.st/3UqHWRM
The Washington Post is not bothering to endorse a candidate in the 2024 presidential election. (Jeff Bezos, the founder of Blue Origin and the founder and executive chairman of Amazon and Amazon Web Services, also owns The Post.) We as a newspaper suddenly remembered, less than two weeks before the election, that we had a robust tradition 50 years ago of not telling anyone what to do with their vote for president. It is time we got back to those “roots,” I’m told! Roots are important, of course. As recently as the 1970s, The Post did not endorse a candidate for president. As recently as centuries ago, there was no Post and the country had a king! Go even further back, and the entire continent of North America was totally uninhabitable, and we were all spineless creatures who lived in the ocean, and certainly there were no Post subscribers. But if I were the paper, I would be a little embarrassed that it has fallen to me, the humor columnist, to make our presidential endorsement. I will spare you the suspense: I am endorsing Kamala Harris for president, because I like elections and want to keep having them. Let me tell you something. I am having a baby (It’s a boy!), and he is expected on Jan. 6, 2025 (It’s a … Proud Boy?). This is either slightly funny or not at all funny. This whole election, I have been lurching around, increasingly heavily pregnant, nauseated, unwieldy, full of the commingled hopes and terrors that come every time you are on the verge of introducing a new person to the world. Well, that world will look very different, depending on the outcome of November’s election, and I care which world my kid gets born into. I also live here myself. And I happen to care about the people who are already here, in this world. Come to think of it, I have a lot of reasons for caring how the election goes. I think it should be obvious that this is not an election for sitting out. The case for Donald Trump is “I erroneously think the economy used to be better? I know that he has made many ominous-sounding threats about mass deportations, going after his political enemies, shutting down the speech of those who disagree with him (especially media outlets), and that he wants to make things worse for almost every category of person — people with wombs, immigrants, transgender people, journalists, protesters, people of color — but … maybe he’ll forget.” “But maybe he’ll forget” is not enough to hang a country on! Embarrassingly enough, I like this country. But everything good about it has been the product of centuries of people who had no reason to hope for better but chose to believe that better things were possible, clawing their way uphill — protesting, marching, voting, and, yes, doing the work of journalism — to build this fragile thing called democracy. But to be fragile is not the same as to be perishable, as G.K. Chesterton wrote. Simply do not break a glass, and it will last a thousand years. Smash it, and it will not last an instant. Democracy is like that: fragile, but only if you shatter it. Trust is like that, too, as newspapers know. I’m just a humor columnist. I only know what’s happening because our actual journalists are out there reporting, knowing that their editors have their backs, that there’s no one too powerful to report on, that we would never pull a punch out of fear. That’s what our readers deserve and expect: that we are saying what we really think, reporting what we really see; that if we think Trump should not return to the White House and Harris would make a fine president, we’re going to be able to say so. That’s why I, the humor columnist, am endorsing Kamala Harris by myself!
October 26, 2024 at 10:50 PM
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petridishes.bsky.social
link here wapo.st/3UqHWRM
Opinion | It has fallen to me, the humor columnist, to endorse Harris for president
Isn’t this what a newspaper is supposed to do?
wapo.st
October 26, 2024 at 10:51 PM
mpmilano.bsky.social
Oh hey, I was (barely) in the first 1% of users on here! Fun!
September 17, 2024 at 4:18 AM
mpmilano.bsky.social
Quote of the morning from FARM@ICFP: "we are in Italy, so if you forgot your wineglasses, you can just use algebraic geometry!"

Stop by if you're around!

Performance evening at 7pm, Auditorium San Fedele. Free!
September 2, 2024 at 8:19 AM
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johannamation.bsky.social
Courtesy of user @ xdanielArt on the former birdsite:

This is the most comprehensive and up-to-date list of Adobe alternatives I’ve seen, sharing here to save an artist’s life, wallet and livelihood 🙏
A full comprehensive list of adobe software alternatives categorized by type
June 15, 2024 at 6:03 PM
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apocalypticanow.bsky.social
NYPD is encircling protesters. Kids are running, trying to escape per WKCR reports
May 1, 2024 at 1:10 AM
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abbyhiggs.bsky.social
WHO LIVES IN A PINEAPPLE UNDER THE SEA—
Sign advertising “Brunch Club Porn Cakes”
November 3, 2023 at 9:56 PM
mpmilano.bsky.social
So strangeloop posted a video of my talk a couple of days ago, and y'all, it already has about 10,000 views. Apparently people really love using programming languages research to build distributed systems! youtu.be/Mc3tTRkjCvE?...
"Programming Distributed Systems" by Mae Milano
Our interconnected world is increasingly reliant on distributed systems of unprecedented scale, serving applications which must share state across the globe....
youtu.be
October 14, 2023 at 7:20 AM
mpmilano.bsky.social
The reception to this has been so kind!! I'm glad everyone liked it 💜
miadoestech.bsky.social Mia Villasenor @miadoestech.bsky.social · Sep 21
Just saw @mpmilano.bsky.social’s talk at #strangeloop - incredible tour of distributed systems, and one of those talks that expands your mental model on a topic. I especially loved when she said: “The speed of light is slow - 4 inches per clock cycle! [at 3 Ghz]” 😄
Slide that says “The speed of light is slow, we have outgrown Paxos, and replicas will (temporarily) diverge”
September 23, 2023 at 1:46 AM
mpmilano.bsky.social
Hey so does anyone else see HotCRP down right now? I'm getting a 502 error from nginx
August 9, 2023 at 2:45 PM
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laurejt.bsky.social
Do you study politics, law, society, and/or culture and use computational analyses of documents to do so? Then, please consider submitting an abstract to TADA 2023! Abstract submissions are due August 11 (deadline extended!)

Please share!

https://tada2023.org/
TADA 2023: New Directions in Analyzing Text as Data
tada2023.org
August 7, 2023 at 11:08 PM