Cristina Abad
@cristinaabad.bsky.social
Teacher, Researcher, Distributed Systems, Cloud Computing, Big Data, Professor @ ESPOL, CS @ Illinois alumni, Fulbrighter
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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
December 28, 2025 at 6:23 AM
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
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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/...
GitHub - disel-espol/KV-replay: Forked version of Yahoo! Cloud Serving Benchmark with support for replay of workload traces
Forked version of Yahoo! Cloud Serving Benchmark with support for replay of workload traces - GitHub - disel-espol/KV-replay: Forked version of Yahoo! Cloud Serving Benchmark with support for repl...
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December 21, 2025 at 10:16 PM
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/...
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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...
Doc: abseil.io/fast/hints.h...
December 19, 2025 at 10:25 PM
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...
Doc: abseil.io/fast/hints.h...
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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.
December 16, 2025 at 11:31 PM
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.
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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?
What the absolute shit is this? ACM using AI summaries instead of abstracts in search results?! So, if I understand correctly, instead of the author's own summary of the work (i.e. an abstract) we are better off with some regurgitated slop version of that summary instead? @chi.acm.org
December 16, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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?
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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.
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.
December 16, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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.
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.
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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.
November 28, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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.
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Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching
November 3, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching
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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
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
October 29, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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
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
Know a recent PhD w/ a standout dissertation in benchmarking or performance evaluation? 🎓
Nominate them for the SPEC Kaivalya Dixit Distinguished Dissertation Award! They could win $1,000 & recognition at ICPE 2026.
Learn more: ow.ly/Rliz50WBA2E
#PhD #Research #CompSci
Nominate them for the SPEC Kaivalya Dixit Distinguished Dissertation Award! They could win $1,000 & recognition at ICPE 2026.
Learn more: ow.ly/Rliz50WBA2E
#PhD #Research #CompSci
August 13, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Know a recent PhD w/ a standout dissertation in benchmarking or performance evaluation? 🎓
Nominate them for the SPEC Kaivalya Dixit Distinguished Dissertation Award! They could win $1,000 & recognition at ICPE 2026.
Learn more: ow.ly/Rliz50WBA2E
#PhD #Research #CompSci
Nominate them for the SPEC Kaivalya Dixit Distinguished Dissertation Award! They could win $1,000 & recognition at ICPE 2026.
Learn more: ow.ly/Rliz50WBA2E
#PhD #Research #CompSci
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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
August 9, 2025 at 11:07 PM
"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
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We’re not sure who needs to hear this, but ‘blueberry’ has two b’s.
August 8, 2025 at 8:38 PM
We’re not sure who needs to hear this, but ‘blueberry’ has two b’s.
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📢 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...
🧑🔬 To learn more/nominate yourself for the AEB, visit forms.gle/PJzS81AhN2TA...
Self-Nomination for JSys Artifact Evaluation Board
The Artifact Evaluation Board (AEB) for the Journal of Systems Research (JSys) assists with the review of two kinds of submissions. "Tool/benchmark papers" present new, open-source tools and benchmark...
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July 22, 2025 at 4:50 PM
📢 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...
🧑🔬 To learn more/nominate yourself for the AEB, visit forms.gle/PJzS81AhN2TA...
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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.
July 18, 2025 at 8:20 PM
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.
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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...
www.aisnakeoil.com/p/could-ai-s...
Could AI slow science?
Confronting the production-progress paradox
www.aisnakeoil.com
July 17, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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...
www.aisnakeoil.com/p/could-ai-s...
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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...
July 9, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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...
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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.
June 16, 2025 at 1:16 PM
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.
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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 s.murdoch@ucl.ac.uk
June 6, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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 s.murdoch@ucl.ac.uk
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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!
May 19, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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!
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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.
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.
May 8, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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.
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.
Only 1 week until #ICPE 2025! Join researchers & industry experts in Toronto from May 5-9 to discuss the latest in system performance & #benchmarking. Check out the great speaker line-up and register today!
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Welcome to ICPE 2025: ICPE 2025
Join us at ICPE 2025 at York University, Toronto, Canada, from May 5-9, 2025, for the latest in performance engineering research and practice.
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April 28, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Only 1 week until #ICPE 2025! Join researchers & industry experts in Toronto from May 5-9 to discuss the latest in system performance & #benchmarking. Check out the great speaker line-up and register today!
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never ask a distributed systems engineer what time it is
February 15, 2025 at 11:54 PM
never ask a distributed systems engineer what time it is