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Manish Gill retweeted
The 4th round of SIGMOD 2027 has *659* submissions. This is 2-3x more than previous years!
I downloaded the abstracts & compared against last 10yrs of SIGMOD/VLDB papers. I then evaluated them to see how writing changed since ChatGPT in 2022. Many papers are clearly LLM written.
ALT Analysis of SIGMOD 2027 4th Round Abstracts
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Manish Gill retweeted
Cool new project - Microsoft LiteBox.
It's like Microsoft's version of gVisor.
The cool thing is, unlike gVisor, it can run on both Linux and Windows.
Going to get it running and deploy an Agent in it. Maybe @agentgateway as the Gateway to call out to an LLM?
github.com/microsoft/litebox
#agenticai #ai #kubernetes
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Manish Gill retweeted
This is how calculus should’ve been taught from day one
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The report button doesn’t do anything here. For all the cool people here, there is so much trash discourse and despicable content and I hate it. It’s frustrating how so many people are not just okay with it, but like it, because they hate some abstract woke stuff.
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Whatever happened to that super fast obsidian alternative that the guy used to share videos about but never released?
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Manish Gill retweeted
Staff engineer in 1937: has 16 patents in electronics field
Staff engineer in 2026: "chat bpp why it no woooork"
"Staff" as an engineering rank predates the existence of software. Pacific Telephone had staff engineers in 1937.
Here's an announcement in a 1958 IEEC publication celebrating a promotion from senior to staff engineer:
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Manish Gill retweeted
MIT's "Performance Engineering of Software Systems" (6.172)
by Charles Leiserson & Julian Shun
Lecture notes: ocw.mit.edu/courses/6-172-pe…
Videos: piped.video/playlist?list=PL…
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Manish Gill retweeted
Honest question:
What happened.
It used to be one global tech ecosystem online (esp in the west) trying to move technology forward. Push tech, opensource, decentralize power, enable the newcomers, use tech to move the world forward.
Now literally everything is about isolationist politics. You cant even celebrate a tech achievement anymore without bashing someone else.
No positivesum. Only zerosum.
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Manish Gill retweeted
“If Nazis frequent your bar, and you don't kick them out, more Nazis will come, the rest of your clientele leaves, and your bar will become a Nazi Bar.”
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The Parable of the Nazi Bar
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Manish Gill retweeted
Thanks for the shoutout! I presented work I did at @wiscdb w/@xiangyao_yu. HetMatch is a GPU-accelerated pattern matching algorithm directly implemented in @nvidia's cuDF :)
. @abigale_kim presented her ADMS 2026 paper today in ClickHouse's internal #papers group meeting: abigalekim.github.io/assets/…
Check out her work!
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. @abigale_kim presented her ADMS 2026 paper today in ClickHouse's internal #papers group meeting: abigalekim.github.io/assets/…
Check out her work!
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I love how anpad BJP goons and some Silicon Valley right wing bros both got offended by this tweet.
Goes to show that having the ability to write code isn't the pinnacle of intellectual achievement.
People in tech need to get more into Humanities.
If you are an Indian working in Tech and you support BJP, you are patently supporting a majoritarian right-wing fascist govt.
If you also happen to live in the West, you have no right to complain about how you get treated here.
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Manish Gill retweeted
One of my key concerns is exactly this
In the absence of a proper identity, Indians are either given an identity that doesnt work or fall into a tribal identity.
Either we are NRIs. Translation- social orphans in another land. No leader, no symbols. Only nostalgia as a guiding anchor
Or we are south asians. Translation- a blended mix of people who do not want to be Indian. Inherently effacing our Indianness.
Or we are browns. Pfft. Half the world is brown. That doesnt say a thing about me.
Or we are our communities- sikhs, gujjus, mallus, stressfully banding together for survival needs, afraid someone else will snatch it from us.
We need to re do the identity matrix. We are global indians. A unique brand of the indian identity thats global in its expression and approach. An Indian for whom his ambitions and nightmares are larger than India.
We exist in huge numbers. Ask the racists, they know. They deeply know. We just dont know we exist and that we are in it together.
The next 2 decades are from India 🇮🇳 to the World 🌍.
Haters can hate.
A lovely young Indian man was manning the bar at my Arlington hotel. Hardworking, amiable, adept at banter with his American customers, an INDIVIDUAL. Not surprisingly, he was a 27-year-old from Pune/Poona, trying to make his way in the world, not one of the usual Gujarati or Punjabi Indians who are innately tribal, perhaps because there IS a tribe behind them, a vast hinterland of Gujjus and Punjabis to which they retreat after the day is done, and where they discard the costume of integration and assimilation and retreat from America. This young man was here On His Own, no biradari, no caste-cocoon, no language-langar after work. I talked to him just as I would to an American bartender, even as I shared with him my immense disappointment that the dish I saw on the menu and wanted to order was, on closer inspection, not "Chicken Korma" but "Chicken Roma." We had a laff about that. I ordered quesadillas instead, on his say-so: "tasty but not too heavy, and I'll bring you some Sriracha", he said. I tipped him "nicely" (Indians will know what I mean). God bless him. He told me his name was Vedant.
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