The personal website and blog of Ryan Marcus, a graduate student at Brandeis University. Previously worked at HPE Vertica and Los Alamos National Laboratory.
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About Me
I'm currently a CS Ph.D. student at Brandeis University (advisor: Olga Papaemmanouil). I've worked at Microsoft Research, Vertica, and the Los Alamos National Lab.
Microsoft Research
Research intern, 2017
HPE Vertica
Software engineer, 2016 - 2017
Los Alamos National Lab
HPC software engineer, 2007 - 2015
Brandeis University
CS Ph.D. student, 2014 - present
University of Arizona
Undergraduate, 2010 - 2014
Blog Posts
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No, really, what's a monad? 14 Dec 2016
My attempt at the infamous monad tutorial. Explains the concepts of monads using concrete examples in C++, Python, Java, and JavaScript
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The Weierstrass Transform 09 Sep 2016
An interactive demo of the Weierstrass transform, a data smoothing technique found in image processing, signal processing, physics, and statistics
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Vulcan: A JavaScript Automated Proof System 02 Sep 2015
An interactive demo of resolution-based theorem proving, and an explaination of how it works
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A JavaScript Connect Four AI 23 Dec 2014
A demo of a Connect Four AI, and an explanation of the minimax search technique + heuristic used
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A Dirty JSON Parser 05 Oct 2014
A JSON parser that works on malformed JSON… or least does its best
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rdtheory.js: relational database algorithms in JavaScript 09 May 2014
A tool to compute database normalizations in your browser
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Fallthrough Sort: Quickly Sorting Small Sets 01 Jul 2013
A technique for sorting small sets using switch statement fallthrough
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TopNTree: A merge-sort inspired data structure 09 Mar 2013
A data structure that sorts by key but maintains constant-time access to the top k values
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