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Can we also start a general "Andy Pavlo" appreciation comment chain? Please comment below if Andy has in any way positively improved your life or helped you fu

Can we also start a general "Andy Pavlo" appreciation comment chain? Please comment below if Andy has in any way positively improved your life or helped you further your education/career. I can start: - Early in 2022, I decided I wanted to learn how databases like Postgres work and build one from scratch. If it wasn't for the CMU lectures available to the public on YouTube, I don't think I would have been able to give myself anywhere near a decent education. - This year, Andy even made the homework-grading platform available to the public, so you could submit solutions to the database coursework and get graded as if you were a student attending CMU. - Not only does Andy take the time to record, edit, and upload his lectures to the public, but he hosts a yearly seminar series where he interviews speakers from all over the database industry (https://db.cs.cmu.edu/seminar2022 https://db.cs.cmu.edu/seminar2022) - Andy does all he does (Professorship) on top of running OtterTune, I have no idea how he functions. He truly is the realest of all gangsters, and a secret member of the Wu-Tang Clan. Andy makes databases fun.

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polskibus 4y ago
Can you point me to the homework-grading platform ? Can one use it outside of standard course schedule ? It would be great to do the task in my own pace.
- gavinray 4y ago
  The homework solutions are submitted to a platform called "Gradescope", see this tweet and the tweets above it in the thread for more details: https://twitter.com/andy_pavlo/status/1564305764730167303 https://twitter.com/andy_pavlo/status/1564305764730167303 Also, I should mention there is a very large (unofficial) Discord server (+1,000 people) where some of the TA's from this DB course and myself hang out if anyone is interested: https://discord.gg/7HPufafdsW https://discord.gg/7HPufafdsW And if you find database engineering interesting in general, I might also invite you to come hang out in Phil Eaton's hacker-space Discord, which is quite good: https://discord.gg/SAqUyrPkY7 https://discord.gg/SAqUyrPkY7
  - polskibus 4y ago
    Seems that I can’t access it without a gradescope account. I can’t create such account because I’m not a student anymore. What a pity, I would love to do those assignments and see their results.
    - apavlo 4y ago
      You don't need to be a student to access Gradescope: https://15445.courses.cs.cmu.edu/fall2022/faq.html#q7 https://15445.courses.cs.cmu.edu/fall2022/faq.html#q7

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polskibus 4y ago

Can you point me to the homework-grading platform ? Can one use it outside of standard course schedule ? It would be great to do the task in my own pace.

gavinray 4y ago
The homework solutions are submitted to a platform called "Gradescope", see this tweet and the tweets above it in the thread for more details: https://twitter.com/andy_pavlo/status/1564305764730167303 https://twitter.com/andy_pavlo/status/1564305764730167303 Also, I should mention there is a very large (unofficial) Discord server (+1,000 people) where some of the TA's from this DB course and myself hang out if anyone is interested: https://discord.gg/7HPufafdsW https://discord.gg/7HPufafdsW And if you find database engineering interesting in general, I might also invite you to come hang out in Phil Eaton's hacker-space Discord, which is quite good: https://discord.gg/SAqUyrPkY7 https://discord.gg/SAqUyrPkY7
- polskibus 4y ago
  Seems that I can’t access it without a gradescope account. I can’t create such account because I’m not a student anymore. What a pity, I would love to do those assignments and see their results.
  - apavlo 4y ago
    You don't need to be a student to access Gradescope: https://15445.courses.cs.cmu.edu/fall2022/faq.html#q7 https://15445.courses.cs.cmu.edu/fall2022/faq.html#q7