@seeachavan

Engineer @awscloud | PhD @umdcs

 San Francisco, CA
cs.umd.edu/~amitc/
Joined July 2013
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I am concerned that a lot of computer systems research is solving problems that only huge tech companies have (eg. fast datacenter networking, big data analytics systems), rather than working on technologies that empower individual users and the underprivileged.
Arvind Narayanan
@random_walker30 Jul 2020
By the same token, it should be a sobering moment for computer science academia. With few exceptions, work that tries to bring accountability to big tech companies is relegated to the fringes of our discipline. CS these days cozies up to power far more than speaking truth to it.
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A look at reasoning under uncertainty -- slatestarcodex.com/2020/04/1… "Uncertainty about the world doesn’t imply uncertainty about the best course of action!"
This, from @HarvardHBS, is the best analysis I've seen on what happened in Italy. hbr.org/2020/03/lessons-from…

Lessons from Italy’s Response to Coronavirus

Policymakers in many parts of Europe and the United States are struggling to bring the rapidly spreading Covid-19 pandemic under control. In doing so, they are repeating many of the mistakes made in...

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The Amazon Builders' Library, a collection of articles that take readers under the hood of how Amazon architects, releases & operates technology, written by Amazon's senior builders is now available. #reInvent amzn.to/2DLpJ9Q
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My university just announced that it’s dumping Blackboard, and there was much rejoicing. Why is Blackboard universally reviled? There’s a standard story of why "enterprise software" sucks. If you’ll bear with me, I think this is best appreciated by talking about… baby clothes!
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Danilo Poccia@danilop8 Aug 2019
It was really interesting going through most of the options here! AWS Lake Formation – Now Generally Available buff.ly/2YADZig #AWS #DataLake
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How to speak Silicon Valley-- theguardian.com/us-news/2019…
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“We would prefer not to foment genocide in Myanmar, but content moderation simply does not scale.”
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Yoshua Bengio, Geoffrey Hinton and Yann LeCun, the fathers of #DeepLearning, receive the 2018 #ACMTuringAward for conceptual and engineering breakthroughs that have made deep neural networks a critical component of computing today. bit.ly/2HVJtdV
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Our @projsidewalk paper is one of the best papers this year!!!! Ecstatic to present it at CHI! Wohoo!!! 🥳🥳🥳 #chi2019 – at Seattle, WA
ACM CHI Conference@acm_chi15 Mar 2019
As if you needed more reasons to come to #chi2019: here are the Best Papers and Honorable Mentions! buff.ly/2TagFAl
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AWS Lake Formation (coming soon) builds up a secure data lake in days. Ingest, catalog, clean, transform & secure your data. Combine analytics with EMR, Redshift, Athena, Sagemaker & QuickSight! #reInvent amzn.to/2TSnDf7
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When the deadline comes too close
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With great pleasure @apanda and I are proud to introduce DeepCoinX. A new crypto-currency where the proof-of-work is a trained neural network architecture and set of weights. Model performance is verified via SGX Remote Attestation. Please stay tuned for our ICO.
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The Real Final Exam, by the late Donald Coffey, PhD. One of the best things I've ever read. My thanks to @Prof_Riggins for sharing this gem of guidance + inspiration
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"Are we alone in the universe?" she asked. "Yes," said the Oracle. "So there's no other life out there?" "There is. They're alone too."
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.@DRichardHipp wins the #SIGMOD17 Systems Award for #SQLite. Previous winners were @postgresql & @MonetDB – at Chicago, IL
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Slides from my talk @SIGMOD17 #SIGMOD17 speakerdeck.com/amitchavan/d…

DEX: Query Execution in a Delta-based Storage System

Talk given at SIGMOD, 2017. Full Paper: http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=3064056 Abstract: The increasing reliance on robust data-driven decisio…

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Sean Rose
@seanrose23 Apr 2017
Writing is hard because it often ends up being the process through which you realize that you don't actually understand something. – at San Francisco, CA
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- wife: u can't put two pizzas at the same time in the oven - me: trust me. I'm an engineer 😎 – at Malaga, Spain
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Paul Graham
@paulg14 Apr 2017
It's remarkable how much better this article is than any of the coverage in the <not-sure-what-to-call-it-anymore>. nakedcapitalism.com/2017/04/…

United Passenger "Removal": A Reporting and Management Fail | naked capitalism

The reporting on United's aggressive removal of Dr. David Dao has been misleading and also neglected the depth of management lapses.

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