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by mad44 8y ago
After the test, I unblocked Aleksey, and this tweet includes the video where we saw that Aleksey could see my tweets in his timeline again. Something went wrong after that I guess. https://twitter.com/muratdemirbas/stat
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by mad44 8y ago
Yes, for O-instance it could be as small as the command id.
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by mad44 8y ago
1) Yes. 1& 2) In fact the C-instance messages do not conflict with each other and gets accepted immediately. These messages do not even need a ballotnum, but the ballotnum used is that of the O-instance to denote sort of an epoch of whi
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by mad44 8y ago
A summary of the article the talk was based on and some discussion on this. http://muratbuffalo.blogspot.com/2018/07/if-youre-not-writin...
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by mad44 8y ago
I sometimes read less rigorously to determine whether the paper deserves a rigorous reading. However, I don't get much out of a casual reading. This may be a quirk of my brain: maybe ADHD tendencies at play, or maybe I really need to g
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by mad44 8y ago
Reading with a pencil, and active reading, and arguing with the paper is what works for me for reading research papers. http://muratbuffalo.blogspot.com/2013/07/how-i-read-research...
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Azure Cosmos DB(muratbuffalo.blogspot.com)
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by mad44 8y ago
Very similar to how I read http://muratbuffalo.blogspot.com/2013/07/how-i-read-research...
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by mad44 8y ago
Leaders don't decide. They propose values (such as a block of transactions). There may be multiple leaders with different proposals and participants get to a consensus about which proposal gets accepted for a given slot. You speak auth
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by mad44 8y ago
https://muratbuffalo.blogspot.com/2018/03/anatomical-similar... Proof of work is the leader election phase of consensus. It is followed by the accept phase, where the leader broadcasts the decision to be accepted.
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by mad44 9y ago
To give a recent example, compared to Borg, Mesos exemplifies "worse is better" approach. https://muratbuffalo.blogspot.com/2017/02/mesos-platform-for... What are other recent examples you can think of?
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by mad44 9y ago
I have been trying to see why full p2p decentralization matters, but am unable to find much support for it. [1] https://muratbuffalo.blogspot.com/2018/03/change-my-mind-abo... [2] https://muratbuffalo.b
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Blockchain consensus explained from a Paxos perspective(muratbuffalo.blogspot.com)
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Paper review: IPFS – Content addressed, versioned, P2P file system(muratbuffalo.blogspot.com)
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by mad44 9y ago
Oh my God. She just gave Mark Zuckerberg a rallying chant; he will write this on all Facebook walls and rally developers to improve Facebook video.
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Best of 2017 in MuratBuffalo(muratbuffalo.blogspot.com)
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by mad44 9y ago
Good advice. Here is my advice for reading research papers. http://muratbuffalo.blogspot.com/2013/07/how-i-read-research...
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by mad44 9y ago
Here is a brief summary of the approach. http://muratbuffalo.blogspot.com/2017/12/paper-summary-case-... I like it. This is a natural trend: we will see databases and distributed systems become more data-aware to
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On dataflow systems, Naiad and Tensorflow(muratbuffalo.blogspot.com)
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by mad44 9y ago
I had read this paper, last week and took notes. Here is my summary of the paper. It was a fun read. http://muratbuffalo.blogspot.com/2017/07/paper-summary-two-d...
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by mad44 9y ago
The world needs more Hamzehs.
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by mad44 9y ago
Another advice on the topic. http://muratbuffalo.blogspot.com/2013/07/how-i-read-research...
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by mad44 10y ago
(Pre-apology. I am not trolling, please don't get my comment below more than what I intended: another perspective to look at the strong reaction Cuban's comments incited.) Reading through the comments, I see that Cuban's stat
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by mad44 10y ago
Here is a summary of the TensorFlow Fold paper. http://muratbuffalo.blogspot.com/2017/01/deep-learning-with-...
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by mad44 10y ago
If you are interested in thought experiments, this book does a great job of providing you "tools for thinking". The book is called intuition pumps and other tools for thinking by Daniel Dennett. https://www.amazon.com&#
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by mad44 10y ago
[SPOILER ALERT] If you found the ideas in this book about time and fate and freewill, you will also enjoy TimeQuake by Kurt Vonnegut from 1997. Highly recommended. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timequake
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by mad44 10y ago
EDIT: SPOILER alert for the sensitive gents I read the "Story of Your Life", which Arrival was based on. It was a very good read. I read it 2 hours in one breath. Here is a tongue-in-cheek review. The aliens were using a declarati
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Realtime Data Processing at Facebook(muratbuffalo.blogspot.com)
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by mad44 10y ago
Here are brief reviews of The War of Art as well as Pressfield's most recent book: Nobody wants to read your shit http://muratbuffalo.blogspot.com/2016/04/book-review-war-of-... http://muratbuffalo
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by mad44 10y ago
Applying Winston's Star method on itself. Meta-star if you wish: Symbol: star is the symbol of this method, it makes the idea visual and memorable Slogan: With these 5-star tips, you can 5x the impact of your good ideas Surprise: You

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