Would the article have been any less helpful without encouraging the geek shaming? When they talk breathlessly and nonsensically about AI software -- or Physics or Astronomy or ... -- do they say "it would bore you to tears"?
Berkeley is opening up a Data Science undergrad major this fall. There are 780 students already signed up. I cannot overemphasize how much deeper and broader this is than most coder school and even MS programs. Check it out.
OK people, I did the thing. #ChatGTP can hallucinate relational databases. With full credit to Jonas Degrave's creative prompt for hallucinating a Linux prompt.
Want a strong start in Data Science? Data 8 at Berkeley is a very big deal. Literally thousands of students take this course on campus, and Prof John DeNero won the campus teaching award. Now you can take it too via edX.
Celebrating 150 years of @UCBERKELEY's leadership in public education with the launch of Data 8X: Foundations of Data Science on @edXOnline. The fast growing course in UCB history allows anyone, anywhere to think critically about data. #berkeley150edx.org/professional-c…
Care about distributed systems? Programming the Cloud? Consistency? CAP? Spent some time over break finishing up what I hope is an approachable overview of the CALM Theorem and related results with @palvaro. CALM divides what's possible from what's not.
Is it possible to have fast, correct, available distributed systems? When?
It took a while, but the CALM Theorem overview paper with @palvaro is finally in this month’s @CACMmag. Includes a snazzy socially-distanced video produced by the CACM folks.
bit.ly/3hsAb8b.
I’m super excited about the new chapter emerging in our research on a programmable cloud. This is what comes after serverless, people.
In this thread, a few recent talks/papers on the vision. First off — 10 minute pitch from CIDR is here. youtube.com/watch?v=FeRg-7…
And here it is! Michael Whittaker's PhD talk: "Paxos: Hacks, Facts and Filling in the Cracks". An introduction to his work on Compartmentalized Paxos, and an example of his tour de force whiteboard lecturing. He's one of the best explainers I've ever met.
#Postgres fans: I contributed the Postgres chapter to the new Stonebraker Turing Award reminiscence book from ACM. Full book available for $$ at bit.ly/2Erf3yK. My chapter is free, and I'm maintaining a version on arXiv and github -- see databeta.wordpress.com/2019/01/09/a-h….
