Andrew M Wells
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Andrew M Wells
@WellsAndrewM
Code reasoning for fun and profit


Hedged requests (apparently inspired by the Tail at Scale paper by myself and Luiz Barroso) applied within a single machine to replicating data across DRAM channels and issuing reads to all channels, using the one that comes back first. ~5-15X reduction in p99.99 read latency. github.com/LaurieWired/ta… Cool stuff, @lauriewired! Accompanying video forwarded to me by a friend, which is how I learned about it: youtube.com/watch?v=QFi2WV…

The advanced research tool used to do this analysis




A striking statistic about the state of academia: About half of all academic papers are read only by the author and reviewer.

relationship is getting serious (adding her macbook to my tailscale network)




whenever old people tell me "your baby is soooo cute", i ask them, "would you tell me if he wasn't?". it throws them off for a bit until i explain the importance of epistemic calibration.





HE WROTE THE PAPER LMAOOOO

Luigi Mangione's backpack was repacked by the officers after seizing and searching it at McDonalds. They later brought it to the Police Department and found the gun. If his attorney's motion for unlawfully obtained evidence is granted, all evidence would be inadmissible in court







