A. Jesse Jiryu Davis
- 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- YCSB Is Obsolete, We Need New Benchmarks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?
- How I Write a Related Work Section with Zotero and Overleaf
The worst part of writing a research paper, made less bad.
- This Senior Staff Engineer Vibe-Coded for the First Time, What Happened Next Will Shock You
Spoiler alert: it was both productive and annoying.
- Aerial Silks in the Gunks, part 2
Kelsey Roman performing with aerial silks while hanging from the West Trapps cliff in the Gunks.
- Versions of The Eternaut
A classic of Argentine sci-fi comics, now a Netflix series in Spanish.