The NEW Designing Data-Intensive Applications dropped on my desk this morning and at 600+ pages it landed with a thud! If you work in data, this book definitely belongs on your shelf. It's undoubtedly one of the most, if not the most, important and relevant data systems book you could read.

I made a tiny tool for quickly sharing small datasets (< ~1000 rows) without uploading any data to a server. 🔗 ziptbl.com It compresses the data into the link itself, so there’s no account, hosting, or storage layer involved. Here's Florence Nightingale's famous 📊 data: ziptbl.com#d=eNpdlE-LGz...

By popular demand* Analog Library now generates minimum viable BibTeX. *one person asked

It’s easy to think writing is mainly the transcription of ideas you already have—that is, until you try to write something worthwhile, and you find what you thought were saying transform into something far more interesting in the process. This skips that last step, and that is *not* an improvement.

this is a well executed and interesting study. The conclusions are worrisome, even though the absolute amounts are small for now.

[new blog post] Do You Think I Am a Goldfish? muratbuffalo.blogspot.com/2026/02/do-y...

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What is wild to me is the defense, BY THE NEURIPS BOARD, that fabricated citations do not mean "the content of the papers themselves [is] necessarily invalidated" It does. It very much does. What do you think citing other work is for? What do you think writing a paper is for? What do you *think*?

I'm trying to find scholars who have studied how scientists assimilate the discoveries of other scientists. I'm trying to understand the potential impact of AI-assisted acceleration of scientific discoveries beyond the short term. Can anyone point me to people and publications?

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New on my blog: "Why Study CS? Thoughts on LLM-assisted software engineering" kmicinski.com/claude-code-...

Last month started doing daily Wordle & Sudoku with my kids via Discord. I will just say that today's Wordle was evil.

I'd like to propose the following norm for peer review of papers. If a paper shows clear signs of LLM-generated errors that were not detected by the author, the paper should be immediately rejected. My reasoning: 1/ #ResearchIntegrity

Couldn’t you run a bunch of YCSB clients to fix this? Also, we have a modified version of YCSB that replays traces and support open-loop replay (though our validation tests focused more on the replay accuracy than on evaluating the limits of the open loop implementation). github.com/disel-espol/...

My colleague Sanjay Ghemawat & I have done a fair bit of performance tuning of various pieces of code. We wrote an internal Performance Hints document ~2 years ago as a way of identifying some general principles & we've recently published a version of it externally. Doc: abseil.io/fast/hints.h...

The ACM Digital Library, where a LOT of computing-related research is published (I'd say at least 75% of my own publications), is now not only providing (without consent of the authors and without opt-in by readers) AI-generated summaries of papers, but they appear as the *default* over abstracts.

Why read a 300-word "abstract" summary of a paper written by the actual authors when one can read a 300-word summary produced by an AI prone to hallucinations?

Is there anything more annoying in this universe that an AI assistant on the phone? If I am picking up the phone to call a company its because I have tried every other alternative through websites, apps, etc. It isn't going to be cleared up by an AI assistant. Get me to a real person.

I don’t know if anyone else notices or cares, but when I see a presentation in which the speaker uses obviously generated-AI images to illustrate their slides, it makes me immediately less confident in whatever other content they’re presenting.

Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching

My day is half over, and so far I've been ... takes deep breath... PhD Advisor/budgeting strategist/event planner/comms expert/product manager/strategy thinker. Do a Ph.D they said. Become a prof they said. You'll have infinite time to think they said. Academics don't live in the real world HA

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"PhD-level experts in your back pocket" is a completely nonsensical description of AI but a pretty good description of social media if you follow the right people

We’re not sure who needs to hear this, but ‘blueberry’ has two b’s.

📢 The Journal of Systems Research (JSys) is looking for senior graduate students, postdocs, and early-career researchers to serve on its Artifact Evaluation Board (AEB). #OpenScience 🧑‍🔬 To learn more/nominate yourself for the AEB, visit forms.gle/PJzS81AhN2TA...

Beautiful, and thoughtful. For just one example, see this excerpt. I'm increasingly captivated by the idea that "attention is all you need" is both the rallying cry for transformers and an exhortation for us to preserve ours.

Fabulous post by @randomwalker.bsky.social & Sayash raising the same concern many of us have about whether we're on the right track with how we're using AI for science. Everyone should read it, take a deep breath & think through the implications. www.aisnakeoil.com/p/could-ai-s...

today's a great day to make sure "require alt text before posting" is enabled in your settings and to continue to make bluesky more accessible and inclusive bsky.app/settings/acc...

100% this! Worse, plenty of authors now take a sentence worth of information and pad it out to paragraphs using AI; only for someone to strip out all the padding, with some more AI, to render it a sentence again. Claude Shannon would have something to say about it all.

I am recruiting mental-health experts (clinical psychologists and psychiatrists) for an in-person workshop in London to discuss a mobile app for mental health care. Participants will receive £500+expenses for their time. If you might be interested please email [email protected]

All @acm.org publications will be 100% Open Access as of January 2026. When we announced this at POPL and CHI this year, conference participants spontaneously erupted in applause. The CS community is excited about ACM's move to OA!

A few thoughts on AI and education, from someone who uses AI and also teaches many levels of student. 1. Most importantly, it's not possible to know what will happen because no one knows what skills AI will or will not replace in the next few years.

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never ask a distributed systems engineer what time it is