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Micah Learns

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Google Geo SRE 🗺️📍, prev @mapbox, @strava. Following my curiosity and writing about CS/AI/Systems research - https://t.co/aRJWZub62X.

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Love the Google Slicer paper, although I’ve never gotten the chance to write about it 😅

Google Slicer: Auto-sharding for the data center apps. research.google/pubs/slicer-au… This is one of my favorite papers because externally, there’s very little written about the design and implementation of sharding systems that help to build planet scale stateful systems. If you…



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Yeah, Gemini-exp-1114 is pretty good :)

Massive News from Chatbot Arena🔥 @GoogleDeepMind's latest Gemini (Exp 1114), tested with 6K+ community votes over the past week, now ranks joint #1 overall with an impressive 40+ score leap — matching 4o-latest in and surpassing o1-preview! It also claims #1 on Vision…

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super cracked AI blogs u gotta follow🧵: - colah's blog (colah.github.io) - Lil'Log (lilianweng.github.io) - @karpathy's (karpathy.github.io) - denny’s blog(dennybritz.com) - bair blog(bair.berkeley.edu/blog) - Chip Huyen(huyenchip.com)


I've been catching up on CS papers from the past six months, and wow...DBLP is so awesome. It makes it so easy to find all of the papers in a single place. Great example from Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI): dblp.org/db/conf/nsdi/n…

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This is a really good read about how to approach your career as a series of “I’m here to achieve X” tours of duty especially the part where you explicitly handshake on it with your employer hbr.org/2013/06/tours-…


Signal boosting @offlinemark’s awesome stream on kernel dev!

week 29, streaming kernel dev in 2 hours topic: continue implementing interrupts! this will be a good one, i have a ton of momentum from last week and have been looking forward to this all week 🤓 also, celebrating 3k subs!? thank you! see ya ✌️

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Very excited to attend this!

We announced this yesterday afternoon and already have 100s of signups from industry & academia. I think it struck a nerve since many people have run into similar pain points in building AI agents. Lucky to have such a knowledgeable speaker lineup! Register to receive Zoom link.

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25 years ago today I officially started at a small search engine company, wedged into a tiny office space above what's now a T-Mobile store in downtown Palo Alto. Since then, I have had the incredible pleasure of working with awesome colleagues on software used by billions of…

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Very excited for this!

The SF Distributed Systems Meetup (now under the SF Systems Club umbrella) is back! Join us 8/29 at @Databricks SF for an exciting evening featuring talks by Ben Hindman (co-creator of Mesos) and community members! lu.ma/x17bg5fh



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"The Moral Implications of Being a Moderately Successful Computer Scientist and a Woman" by Irene Zhang at SIGOPS Blog, sigops.org/2024/the-moral…

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Starting today, open source is leading the way. Introducing Llama 3.1: Our most capable models yet. Today we’re releasing a collection of new Llama 3.1 models including our long awaited 405B. These models deliver improved reasoning capabilities, a larger 128K token context…


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Bugs are unavoidable, and software resilience is crucial, especially in modern systems composed of hundreds of services. Check out the first paper on Cross-System Interaction (CSI) failures from @tianyin_xu 's team. From yesterday's outage: one click to update, but it took…

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CEO casually informs threat actors they have removed EDR from their systems

We just deleted Crowdstrike from all our systems, so no rollouts at all



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This was only "the biggest IT outage ever" if you exclude the period from 13.7 billion BC to the mid 20th century


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CloudStrike post-mortem meeting


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According to @George_Kurtz, the #CrowdStrike incident is a classic Cross-System Interaction (CSI) failure. CSI failures are on the frontline of system reliability challenges. With the rapid increase of intricate (often opaque) interactions *across* interdependent systems,…

EXCLUSIVE: CrowdStrike founder and CEO @George_Kurtz speaks on TODAY about the major computer outages worldwide that started earlier today: “We’re deeply sorry for the impact that we’ve caused to customers, to travelers, to anyone affected by this.”



This is going to be an interesting postmortem...I have so many questions. Was there no change supervision? Did they roll it out to 100% of desktops immediately? Sending positive vibes to any CrowdStrike SREs fighting this fire.😢

I don't think you guys fully grasp how big this is. Around a billion computers are bricked worldwide, mostly corporate ones. This isn't just an online service going down for a few hours. Every affected computer needs to be rebooted in fail mode and have a driver manually…

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I recently manually annotated 4,600+ images to train TF-ID models. Here's my workflow: 1. I deployed a **cvat** annotation tool on my own mac. It's free under mit license. 2. I divided my dataset by 20:80 and created two tasks in cvat. 3. I manually annotated the 20% dataset.…

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Do you want to really learn from research papers? The best advice I got in grad school was: take notes! Summarize the key points of the paper in your own words as you're reading. This isn't so you can refer to the notes later, but because the act of taking good notes forces you…


Happy Sunday. It's time to build - messing around with some cheap A100s today... :)


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