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.

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.

I did a quick project to scratch a particular itch.

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.

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, art…

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.

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.

This post is from a recent conversation that I had about the cost of abstractions in various languages.

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.

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.