A Puzzle about Filesystems
There are many possible explanations for why designing good APIs is hard. Here are three that come to my mind: Developers are bad at sympathy...
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Mo Bavarian
I work on frontier AI, with a focus on reasoning and memory. Previously, I worked on language model pretraining, optimization, and scaling.
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5 entriesWrite Contention and Optimistic Concurrency II
In the last post, we saw how to reduce global contention in a concurrent key-value store and provide some limited transactional support through versioning. In...
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The goal of concurrent programming is to organize code in a way that multiple threads of execution can do independent work without losing consistency. When...
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Since the start of my work in tech, I’ve been fascinated with both the technological and the business aspects of it. A big open problem...
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