akshayn
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Comment · 7 years ago
> We also recommend to save the command used to generate a figure in the LaTeX file
An approach I have adopted recently is Knitr[1], so this layer of indirection goes away. With knitr, my data goes directly into the paper repository, and then my Makefile has something like this:
%.tex: graphs/%.Rnw
Rscript -e "library(knitr); knit('$?')"
Comment · 7 years ago
While HP's "The Machine" specifically appears to never have gone beyond the marketing phase, I think your excitement about the underlying technologies - silicon photonics combined with nonvolative memory combined with resource disaggregation - is valid [0], and they are probably coming.
You can buy NVM today [1], and building systems for resource disaggregation work is an active problem [2].
[0] https://www.usenix.org/conference/fast14/technical-sessions/...
[1] https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/memory-stor...
Comment · 7 years ago
Often a research university will interview many candidates, give offers to/recruit many candidates, and yet find that for each individual it recruited, there was a competing university which worked better for that candidate.
Usually (from what I have seen) candidates on the academic job market don't end up in industry (at least not immediately) - they are in the job market because they are passionate about academia.
Comment · 8 years ago
The Jacquard loom is what started [1] the punched card era. Check out this episode [2] of the podcast 99 Percent Invisible for an accessible explanation.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacquard_loom
[2] https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/kids-clothes-articles...
Comment · 8 years ago
As I commented here [1], one of my biggest issues with Zulip is that the mobile apps don't have a "jump to most recent" feature, and whenever I open the app I have to manually scroll past hours (or days or weeks, since I dislike opening the app so much) of old conversations.
Has this been fixed/improved?
Comment · 8 years ago
My research group (at MIT) also uses Zulip for messaging.
While I agree with everything jremmons said (hi john), it's important to note that their mobile apps are so bad that they're basically unusable - there's a particularly aggravating bug in the iOS app where if you don't open the app for a while, it forces you to load and scroll through days of messages to read the most recent ones.
Comment · 9 years ago
I think this is unlikely. Part of the advantage of having built your own datapath is being able to change it on a whim; I don't see Google giving this up by agreeing to stick to some fixed specification.
Comment · 9 years ago
You should compare this to the cost of buying an FPGA. It can be cost-effective.
Comment · 9 years ago
"If, instead, we had identified sessions using only layer 4 data, then mobile IP would have worked perfectly."
Mobile IP can still work with the current infrastructure -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_IP
This proposal was basically a service which would host a static IP for you (similar to the LTE structure but with IP underneath instead of L2), and forward to whatever your "real" IP was using IP-in-IP encapsulation.
As the author states, layers are only ever added :)
Comment · 9 years ago
You may be interested in the following:
Practical BFT: http://pmg.csail.mit.edu/papers/osdi99.pdf The Night Watch: https://www.usenix.org/system/files/1311_05-08_mickens.pdf
Generally the idea is to assume that there will be fewer than k failures out of the n nodes you have.
Comment · 9 years ago
If you want to see a Buran without hiking through the desert for 3 days, you can go to Technik Museum Speyer [1] - they also have other great air&space related exhibits (notably including an Antonov An-22 and a retired Boeing 747-200).
Comment · 9 years ago
This is no longer true in most of the USA (and many other countries) [1].
Comment · 9 years ago
Highways (tolls) tend to be far less profitable than rail systems (ticket sales). If the US didn't like government subsidies, we wouldn't have built all these highways.