A. Jesse Jiryu Davis

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Cleaning Up Rikers Island Photos and story: faith leaders and incarcerated boys work side by side to repaint a youth jail.
Paper review: Scaling Large Production Clusters with Partitioned Synchronization A clever algorithm for reducing conflicts in a distributed task scheduler.
Current and Future Tools for Interactive TLA+ A talk I gave at the 2021 TLA+ conference with Samy Lanka.
Paper Review: Programming as Theory Building Peter Naur (of Backus-Naur form) wrote that programmers' main job is not coding, but building a theory of the problem and solution.
Coaching For All 2021 PyGotham Speakers Opera singer Melissa Collom will help you give a terrific talk.
Priest ordination for Shōmon at the Village Zendo August 2, 2021. This summer's head trainee, Willie Mukei Smith, was ordained and received the name Shōmon.
The MongoDB Versioned API For MongoDB 5.0, I designed a new stable API that permits you to upgrade without code changes.
Paper review: Strong and Efficient Consistency with Consistency-Aware Durability Don't wait for data to be durable when you write it, wait before you read.
July 4, 2021 People watching NYC fireworks from the FDR highway.
How To Understand Non-Self: Buddhism And Conway's Game Of Life John Conway's Game of Life is a math puzzle that gives us insights into the Buddha's teaching of anatman.