The first year of Moonshots will cover civic discourse, accelerating science, frontline healthcare, and workforce reskilling. Very excited to watch this unfold in the coming years!

This Perplexity cofounder wants to help AI breakthroughs graduate from university labs Andy Konwinski, with help from Google’s Jeff Dean and other AI luminaries, has launched a new institute to help turn promising academic AI breakthroughs into open-source tools, startups, and real-worl...

Andy Konwinski and team are launching a very unique effort with a “ship your research” philosophy and the resources to back it up. Laude Institute has a real chance of making an exciting difference in AI for the public good. www.fastcompany.com/91356712/dat...

The HotNets deadline is coming up on July 1! We’re working extra hard this year to emphasize interesting papers that make people curious about new problem domains or techniques, spark a debate, or maybe even change some minds. Hope to see a submission from you!
conferences.sigcomm.org/hotnets/2025/

0x19 @netdevconf keynote by @bgodfrey.bsky.social
on "Understanding and Improving Robustness of Networked Systems With Machine Learning" (netdevconf.info/0x19/session...) is now up!

Enjoy! youtu.be/9Mjyo8NqMAA #netdevconf

I asked ChatGPT to describe a really good bagel, and then do it again to make it sound more epic, five times. Here is the result

Seen in a UIUC ECE department restroom

And here's a postcard from Zagreb...

Last week I was lucky to attend NetDev for the first time. An enjoyable week filled with Linux networking, from AI networks to TCP to time-sensitive container communication. NetDev has an amazingly involved audience – we had over an hour of discussions after my talk! Hope to you at a future NetDev!

It's an honor to be invited to give the keynote at NetDev this year! If you're at the conference this year, I hope to see you today.

Now that we have AI can someone please invent a toaster that pops any bread up to exactly the right height to easily remove it

The savory and sweet stomachs are well known but I postulate the existence of a third stomach — the bread stomach

A piece of a different era found in the files of a relative

Throwback to last fall: just a sidewalk in my neighborhood

How to Write Music on Piano | Vinheteiro | YouTube video by Vinheteiro

How to Write Music on Piano

Once again doing my part to increase the ratio of capybaras to creeping authoritarianism by incrementing the numerator

Take a 30-second break to watch this butterfly enjoy a grain of salt.
(At #Iguaçu Falls, which on the Argentinian side has the chillest and most numerous butterflies I've ever seen.)

Plush-crested jay watching the passersby at Iguaçu Falls

Final tally looks like ~48% more submissions this year vs. 3 years ago.

More than double the number of submissions in 2022 — but not all registrations will turn into submissions, so let’s see what happens

Iguaçu Falls, Paraná, Brazil

Shouting in the Datacenter YouTube video by Bryan Cantrill

Please use your inside voice so you don't startle the spinning disks.
(Old, but a classic)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDac...

@nytimes.com Sep 20 1944: "Pizza, a Pie Popular in Southern Italy, Is Offered Here for Home Consumption"
"Prices range from 50 cents to $2 depending on the type desired. Each one will make four portions, although many people can do away with a whole pie single-handed."
Full article: nyti.ms/4iruHL6

Paper writing rule of the day:
Using mathematical notation does not mean your description is precise.
Describing something in prose does not imply it must be imprecise.

This social network needs more capybaras