2024 - My Year in Review

I'm introducing my first-annual Year in Review! ... My work as a field consultant at Ab Initio this year has been all about enabling a smarter, faster, more robust, more intuitive, more scalable, and more sovereign data platform at existing and prospective customers.

Five Years at Ab Initio

I'm celebrating 5 years at Ab Initio! 🎉

After graduating from Yale, I resisted the trend to move to San Francisco and join a big tech company / startup. I wanted to work closely with customers on a diverse range of business problems where dealing with data was a principle challenge.

SParC: Cross-Domain Semantic Parsing in Context

We present SParC, a dataset for cross-domain Semantic Parsing in Context. It consists of 4,298 coherent question sequences, obtained from controlled user interactions with 200 complex databases over 138 domains.

Column Attention in SQLNet Spider Task Architecture

I experiment with a baseline SQLNet model applied to the Spider large-scale, complex, cross-domain dataset for semantic parsing in the form of text-to-SQL question answering.

Distributed Computation with Mutual Exclusion

I propose a model of distributed parallel computation that observes both precedence and mutual-exclusion constraints...I suggest a simple "minimum computational unit" programmer-level technique that fits within existing frameworks to deal with both constraints.

Coding Exercises Inspired by Enderton's Mathematical Introduction to Logic

Herbert B. Enderton wrote the standard university textbook on mathematical logic. At Yale I worked through this dense and enlightening work with the help of the remarkable professor Sun-Joo Shin. I invented these coding exercises as a bit of enrichment material to the textbook.

Bold Tweets: Female Politicians Shed Classical Language Norms

This data suggests that female politicians, in attaining their positions, have shed much of the gendered language norms that may exist; meanwhile, Twitter followers are becoming increasingly (but not yet completely) equally supportive of women's powerful speech patterns.