Todd Lipcon @tlipcon
Engineer on Google Spanner, formerly @cloudera. Founder of @ApacheKudu. PMC @hadoop @HBase @ApacheImpala. @BrownCSDept alumnus, wannabe pianist and cellist Menlo Park Joined October 2008-
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Anyone else having flashbacks to early X11 experiences with this new twitter logo? looks an awful lot like `xlogo`
uarch experts: do not-taken forward branches (eg to exceptional paths never expected to be taken) pollute BTB? Is it better to transform the code to produce an invalid pointer load and catch it in a signal handler? (cc @trav_downs)
Cool to see this blog from Meta eng on adapting the @ApacheKudu raft implementation to run their MySQL replication! engineering.fb.com/2023/05/16/dat…
Happy to see the open source release of the Python "causalimpact" library: github.com/google/tfp-cau… - very useful tool for evaluating impact of software optimizations when A/B simultaneous tests are not possible.
My favorite Cellar Tracker feature is definitely "Un-drink Bottle". I wish that option were available in real life.
It's funny that we now have AIs that can pass Google algorithms interviews, but apparently don't yet have AIs that can take my PDF hotel receipt with 30 line items and itemize it into Concur. Pretty sure the 10 minutes I spent entering $2 tax fees separately was not +ROI.
Anyone aware of research on IO-scheduler-aware caching policies? ie an algorithm that understands that miss cost of 5 adjacent small pages is approximately the same as miss cost of a single page due to IO coalescing? Surprisingly turning up little on this topic
We're also investing in a Rust experiment. Looking for a senior staff level TLM to lead our Europe-based team (Munich or remote within TZ) to show that we can build high performance bidi interop between Rust and C++ and bring our monorepo into the future. careers.google.com/jobs/results/1…
We're also investing in a Rust experiment. Looking for a senior staff level TLM to lead our Europe-based team (Munich or remote within TZ) to show that we can build high performance bidi interop between Rust and C++ and bring our monorepo into the future. careers.google.com/jobs/results/1…
Lazy web: for moderna vaccine in 2-3yr old, when is the immunity mostly there? Can't seem to find simple data/answers here. Before 2nd dose? 2wk after? (Assuming 1mo b/w doses)
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3K Followers 85 FollowingBut I am certain that lots of experienced OSS devs can think of a few large and crucial projects where they fairly easily could have hidden something small in a larger change. Without a lot of prior contributions to the project.
My favorite SQLite column affinity 🤣 ’If the declared type for a column contains any of the strings "REAL", "FLOA", or "DOUB" then the column has REAL affinity.’ materializedview.io/p/durable-exec…
@criccomini We did this to Kudu - which provides a great storage engine, but no query planner or query language. This project: github.com/twilio/calcite… was designed to create the query plan and tell kudu to execute it.
David Attenborough is now narrating my life Here's a GPT-4-vision + @elevenlabsio python script so you can star in your own Planet Earth:
Happy 1700000000 to everyone who does mental timestamp heuristics
Once AI systems become more intelligent than humans, humans we will *still* be the "apex species." Equating intelligence with dominance is the main fallacy of the whole debate about AI existential risk. It's just wrong. Even *within* the human species It's wrong: it's *not* the…
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🗣️ @kelseyhightower on his demos: That happy path gets people out of their chairs. They’re going back to the computer, like: “Yo, I’m gonna try it right now.” Come on… I’d rather have that. And I’ll take the bit of criticism that comes with it.
"My Favorite Bits of OSDI/ATC'23", new blog post looking at some trends, some papers I enjoyed, and a few random themes from this week's conference: brooker.co.za/blog/2023/07/1…
@rbranson Deploying often works well for certain applications, data warehouses aren’t one of them. Don’t want a new version of my data warehouse every 5 mins.
My toddler is mad that the sports bar at the airport won't turn on Bluey and honestly, same, kid.
@davidtgoldblatt I'm currently at osdi, the operating systems conference where no one publishes any operating systems
Very excited to return to UC Berkeley as a professor starting this week. I’ll be collaborating with the Sky Lab, @UCBEPIC, @berkeley_ai and others!
@Berkeley_EECS welcomes @matei_zaharia, who returns to Berkeley EECS as an Associate Professor. Matei’s research interests include computer systems and machine learning. He is also the co-founder and Chief Technologist of Databricks. Welcome back, Matei!
It’s a gorgeous day. Husband and I are drinking coffee in our garden. Roses are blooming, cats are napping. Husband: what are you thinking about? Me: Oracle’s business model. Want to hear more? Husband: No, thanks 🙏
An entrepreneur/close friend was pitching another VC. They realized they both knew me. VC called me “the Larry David of VC”. I’ve never been more Proud of anything anyone has ever said about me.
Something I've wondered about: why do airplanes care about weighing your carryons, instead of your body weight + carryons? Why is a 95kg person + 5kg carryon fine, but a 60kg person + 40kg carryon gets a heavy penalty?
I've engineered a hand-crafted Transformer to do long-hand addition. All of the weights were hand-chosen by me. It is perfectly accurate. How? Fall down the rabbit hole here: colab.research.google.com/github/newhous… Short on time? Here's a summary 👇 1/
@eatonphil Thread/core is awesome assuming CPU and possibly memory demand per shard is reasonably balanced. I feel like we either forget those assumptions or are too optimistic about them and then have just moved the problem elsewhere (chasing hot spots, at least for web-scale). 1/