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Ryan Marcus

rmarcus.info/blog

Ryan Marcus, assistant professor at the University of Pennsylvania. Using machine learning to build the next generation of data systems.

DatabasesAI / ML

’15’20’25
Posts
25 from 9 Mar 2013 to 12 Jul 2026
Posting
monthly (6 in the last year)
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personal blog
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2026 5

  1. Page2
  2. Page3
  3. How not to complain about peer review
  4. Compiled and vectorized evaluation in columnar engines
  5. list of current projects

2025 3

  1. Neo, 6 years and 600 citations later
  2. 2024's hottest topics in databases (a bibliometric approach)
  3. Related work search for database papers

2024 1

  1. Ten years of improvements in PostgreSQL's optimizer

2023 1

  1. Most influential database papers

2022 1

  1. Generating bios with large language models

2021 1

  1. Applying Bao to distributed systems

2019 1

  1. Machine learning for systems

2018 3

  1. Good comment, bad comment
  2. Overflow in consistent hashing
  3. Pretty pictures with Perlin noise fields

2017 2

  1. Computer-generated lines with a human feel
  2. The often-overlooked random forest kernel

2016 1

  1. The Weierstrass Transform

2015 1

  1. Vulcan: A JavaScript Automated Proof System

2014 3

  1. A JavaScript Connect Four AI
  2. A Dirty JSON Parser
  3. rdtheory.js: relational database algorithms in JavaScript

2013 2

  1. Fallthrough Sort: Quickly Sorting Small Sets
  2. TopNTree: A merge-sort inspired data structure