A. Jesse Jiryu Davis

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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.
Review: The Scout Mindset Julia Galef's book points out the dangers of motivated reasoning, and encourages us to be skeptical of ourselves.
Paper review: Paxos vs Raft Which consensus algorithm will win?
Get a Coach for your PyCon 2021 Talk A speaking coach will help you make make your PyCon video polished, convincing, and fun.
Aragog: Scalable Runtime Verification of Shardable Networked Systems An efficient invariant checker for network protocols.
Pegasus: Tolerating Skewed Workloads in Distributed Storage with In-Network Coherence Directories A clever research paper describing a rack-sized distributed KV store.
RIP Gertrude Gertrude Berg Armstrong Davis was an industrious homemaker and affectionate sister.
Give Something Away to a Stranger Rich countries and drug firms are acting selfishly during the pandemic. Selfishness is natural, but we can strengthen our universal goodwill through training.
Nighttime meditation in East River Park November 28, 2020. Members of the Village Zendo meditating outdoors at night in Manhattan's East River Park.
These Unreliable United States We're shocked how fragile our country is, but Buddha told us nothing lasts. We can rely only on the truth. A talk at Village Zendo, November 8, 2020.