A. Jesse Jiryu Davis
- New Paltz Zen Center's precepts retreat
My Zen sangha held its first sesshin, and two members took jukai and received dharma names.
- The Dharma of Alex Honnold
He climbed a skyscraper and risked dying on live TV. Here's what I learned from Honnold about climbing, living, and practicing the precepts.
- 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- YCSB Is Obsolete, We Need New Benchmarks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.