A Blog by Matthew Francis-Landau
Prelude / Background Born: Summer 2012 Adopted: February, 2021 Died: May 8, 2026 JoJo was diagnosed with large cell lymphoma with the first symptoms showing up in July 2025. JoJo underwent surgery to remove a mass found on his small intestine, and went through the CHOP chemotherapy protocol to try to address any tumors that ... Read more The post Eulogy for JoJo appeared first on Matthew…
Prelude / Background Born: Estimated in 2015 Adopted: 2017-12-20 Died: 2024-10-02 Patton was diagnosed with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy on 2022-11-28, which caused the muscle around his heart to thicken. This caused heart failure, meaning that his heart did not pump enough blood to his body, and also caused secondary issues such as lungs filling with fluid ... Read more The post Eulogy for Patton…
I did a quick project to scratch a particular itch. Maybe it will be helpful to others as well. Encrypted Messages for the Event of Death at https://in-event-of-death.github.io/v1/ When it comes to passing along digital accounts after death, existing services operate as a dead man switch, sending an email after some amount of time has ... Read more The post Quick Project: Encrypted Messages for…
I think that there are many people who are surprised that Large Language Models (LLMs) that predict the next word act intelligently and are capable of solving many challenging tasks. In my opinion, the success of LLMs is not surprising. In this blog post, I will explain why I think LLM s success was obvious. So, ... Read more The post Language Modeling in the Limit appeared first on Matthew…
My PhD on Declarative Programming Via Term Rewriting, which I completed at Johns Hopkins University, is done. https://matthewfl.com/phd This research project was about developing a declarative, weighted logic programming language for machine learning, artificial intelligence, and natural language processing applications. The programming language we were researching was interesting because it…
To celebrate the one year anniversary of adopting Patton, I would like to take a moment to encourage cat owners everywhere to walk their cat. After a year of walking Patton, I have been able to get him to go up to 4 miles on a single walk. I have come to believe that Patton ... Read more The post Training a cat to walk on a leash appeared first on Matthew Francis-Landau .
https://github.com/matthewfl/redmagic This is a newly published repository from an experiment that I started during the summer to attempt to optimize Python s runtime without impacting compatibility with C models and existing libraries. There currently exists frameworks such as PyPy and Truffle/Graal which will generate a JIT when you design your programming language inside of their framework ...…
This post is from a recent conversation that I had about the cost of abstractions in various languages. In choosing a programming language for a project, it is important to choose a language that gives a good mix of time to develop and performance. The first tends to be obvious from experience. However, for many, ... Read more The post Cost of Abstractions appeared first on Matthew Francis-Landau…
This is a post that I started writing shortly after the Democratic convention, as I started thinking that Trump was going to end up beating Clinton. Now that the impossible has happened (haha all those old media predicting 2% for Trump) I find myself publishing this post as an attempted reflection on how we got ... Read more The post WTF happened this year appeared first on Matthew Francis-Landau…
With the election a few days away, I found myself recently looking at the state of voting in America and contemplating that there is still no online-based voting system in place. The main arguments against online voting or digital-based voting has been that it would be hard to verify and would require a computer security ... Read more The post Theoretical online voting system appeared first on…