I always wondered why Amazon created Aurora and what makes it special. So, this week, I am reading a paper about its architectural design and how it addresses key bottlenecks - storage, compute, and network. After a quick skim of the paper, I found it interesting how they

It might sound cliché, but I can’t express enough how much I love my job as a developer! Nothing compares to the joy of knowing that a system I built made someone’s life easier. After years in grad school, I realized I truly enjoy working in an engineering team, building

reminder, the entry-level tech job market is still totally cooked, like 4.0's from Berkeley are getting 0 job offers

We’re blowing through qps right now on a Monday and I have to ask …are yall listening to Deep Dive at work??

François Fleuret There's three parts. 1. Fitting as large of a network and as large of a batch-size as possible onto the 10k/100k/1m H100s -- parallelizing and using memory-saving tricks. 2. Communicating state between these GPUs as quickly as possible 3. Recovering from failures (hardware,

The stupidity of the Jones Act incentivizes companies to do insane things

Here's how Andreas Nigg 💻 built a content recommendation system using just PostgreSQL "This was the major eureka moment for our company: having modern LLMs available right from our database. No dependency management, no infrastructure, no additional costs. We do not require

The multimodal rocket … 🚀 - Lens has grown to nearly 20B visual searches monthly - Multisearch has grown 3X in the last 9 months - Lens queries are one of the fastest growing query types on Search… - And now you can search w/ pics + voice or video + voice!

Yesterday's joint oversight hearing by the Assembly Education and Higher Education committees had a lopsided set of invitees, and was political theater designed to blame and shame the University of California for upholding the official state-adopted standards for math education,

Simplifying the AI noise by segmenting everything into 3 big use cases: Gods, Interns, and Cogs. dbreunig.com/2024/10/18/the…

SOSP'24 is upon us! This means you should sign up as a mentor or a mentee (PhD students)! Come help make Systems a friendly and welcoming place for everyone. Mentors: tinyurl.com/sosp2024mentors. Mentees: tinyurl.com/sosp2024mentees

How I woke up one day and decided to solve a math conjecture from the 1970s ⤵️

AI-enabled biology is at an inflection point, with the potential for exponential acceleration over the next decade. I'm excited to join the world class team of scientists and engineers at Arc Institute to advance the frontiers of science!

THREAD: THE MOST AMAZING COMEBACK IN CRICKET Cricket has seen many amazing comebacks, ranging from returns from injury and being sacked. But npthing beats a retired player being spotted in a crowd and being asked to play! It happened. July 25, 1i986. Lord's. #Repost

📢 I am recruiting PhD students for Fall 2025 @ Georgia Tech! If you are interested in topics related to DB + AI (multimodal & vector databases, data management support for ML, etc.), apply and mention my name in your application: gradapp.gatech.edu/apply/

I'm not at SOSP but this is brilliant news! Aishwarya Ganesan, Ram Alagappan and their students, Stuart Luo, Shreesha G Bhat, and Jiyu Hu received a Best Paper Award SOSP Conference for their work -- "LazyLog: A New Shared Log Abstraction for Low-Latency Applications" !!

Announcing The Stargate Project The Stargate Project is a new company which intends to invest $500 billion over the next four years building new AI infrastructure for OpenAI in the United States. We will begin deploying $100 billion immediately. This infrastructure will secure

It was an incredible honor to host the legend A.R.Rahman - a huge idol of mine - at OpenAI today for a fireside chat and Q&A. Beyond being an iconic composer, he is also a true innovator—constantly pushing boundaries, from creating the VR film Le Musk to building a metahuman

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