This is... deeply unsettling. Source: futilitycloset.com/2018/02/02/bre…

Interesting article on LEGO’s quest to make bricks out of sustainable materials: nytimes.com/2018/08/31/bus…

The improvements to the module system are going into FCP; please give feedback! users.rust-lang.org/t/module-syste…

ITS HERE!!!! Rust 1.31 and Rust 2018 is finally out! blog.rust-lang.org/2018/12/06/Rus… Thank you so much to everyone who has contributed over these past three years. ❤️❤️❤️

Learned profilers estimate codepath performance dynamically at runtime, enabling lower overhead and more accurate estimates than alternatives like cProfile and statprof: shoumik.xyz/static/papers/… (with Shoumik Palkar, Me, Matei Zaharia at NIPS ML for Systems Workshop)

Glad KDD is trying out double-blind, but preventing prior ArXiv subs is regressive & against early dissemination of ideas. "... non-anon. papers ... issued as tech. reports or similar, in particular in arXiv, either prior to .. submission or during .. review, cannot be submitted"

Jeff Dean Paroma Varma is a huge reason I do research today! gave me great balance of ownership and guidance— so grateful to work with such an awesome human! 😃👋

Great #snorkelML workshop at Stanford this week- thanks to our friends from industry (Google, Microsoft, Facebook, Salesforce, VMware, NG), gov't & medicine who attended! Tutorials bit.ly/2JpeINZ & slides bit.ly/2Nue0Eq; more soon w/ v0.9 snorkel.stanford.edu

Nice interview with my PhD student Shoumik Palkar on Weld!

Cool work by my student Shoumik Palkar. Many groups are building compilers for data & ML apps, but this is time-consuming and complex. Shoumik Palkar shows you can get most of the speedup with existing library functions (NumPy, pandas etc) by managing data movement: dawn.cs.stanford.edu/2019/10/22/spl…

Without checking, what do you think is the output of this Python snippet? def f(x=[]): x.append(1) return x print(f(), f())

thanks for an awesome grad school experience Matei Zaharia!

This is a pretty big deal -- Databricks is launching a new native execution engine for Spark SQL at this #SparkAISummit, which runs existing workloads up to 18x faster. It's optimized for cloud storage and Delta & Parquet formats. Reynold Xin is giving a talk about it on stream now.

I'm getting closer to graduating (hoping by Nov 1), and it's time to figure out what's next! I'd like to continue working on Rust Language and its ecosystem, ideally on open-source libraries and tools, so if you know of a good fit that supports remote work from LA, please reach out!

Tomorrow at around 11:15am ET I will be presenting some exciting in-progress work at Hotnets on a new way to think about offloads. You - yes, you - are invited to watch! YT livestream: youtube.com/watch?v=gkz-A9… Paper: akshayn.xyz/res/bertha-hot…

Congrats Paroma! 🥳

The CFP for the SOSP Student Research Competition is up: sosp2021.mpi-sws.org/cfsrc.html Excited to chair this with Aurojit Panda and looking forward to the amazing work of undergrad and grad students. This is a great way to increase the visibility of your work and get feedback. Please submit!

Databricks Photon engine just hit public preview, bringing significant speedups to SQL workloads! It's also now the default in SQL Endpoints. databricks.com/blog/2021/06/1…

Apache Spark has won the SIGMOD Systems Award, and Photon won the Best Industry Paper Award! This is a great testament to the adoption and impact of these two systems. If you are at SIGMOD this wk, please come by and say hi. databricks.com/blog/2022/06/1…