A. Jesse Jiryu Davis

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Will the Training of Junior Engineers Be a Tragedy of the Commons? We still need senior engineers, but there's less economic incentive to create them.
What Does Privacy Mean Now? Do you care if an LLM sees you naked?
Deduplicate Your Zotero Library: A Plugin For The Forgetful Scholar Find all the papers you added multiple times.
Snow Grooming Grooming trails for cross-country skiing.
A Zen Talk: AI OMG! What is an LLM? How does it work? Is it conscious? Why is this all happening now?
Knowledge and Common Knowledge in a Distributed Environment, Part 3 In this episode, clock skew meets epistemic logic in a battle to the death!
Review: Rethink the Linearizability Constraints of Raft for Distributed Systems Some worthwhile Raft enhancements and some mistakes. Caveat lector.
YCSB Is Obsolete, We Need New Benchmarks Closed loop benchmarks are too polite, they don't push systems past their limits.
LeaseGuard: Raft Leases Done Right! A new Raft enhancement for fast, consistent reads.
The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Creation Walter Benjamin misforecast back in 1935: copies only enhance the aura of the original. What about AI?