pvPatil
@peepultree.bsky.social
Computer systems researcher. He/him.
A wandering human who tends to procrastinate. Believer in equity and empathy towards all, irrespective of race, caste, class, gender, or sexual orientation.
A wandering human who tends to procrastinate. Believer in equity and empathy towards all, irrespective of race, caste, class, gender, or sexual orientation.
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No group ever gained safety and security by the marginalization and humiliation of another.
May 7, 2025 at 9:46 PM
No group ever gained safety and security by the marginalization and humiliation of another.
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Fantastic New Yorker essay by author and artist @amitava.bsky.social, Professor of English on the Helen D. Lockwood Chair.
bit.ly/4iyUUq8
bit.ly/4iyUUq8
Travelling Through India on the Himsagar Express
This was not a luxury train, but even here, as in Indian society as a whole, the distinctions between the haves and the have-nots were clear.
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March 10, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Fantastic New Yorker essay by author and artist @amitava.bsky.social, Professor of English on the Helen D. Lockwood Chair.
bit.ly/4iyUUq8
bit.ly/4iyUUq8
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Very excited that Ramprasad will be teaching a short course at IITGN *this weekend* on the math behind card magic!
If you can't join in person, we will be hybrid, and the easiest way to join is to register on the NPTEL elearn platform:
elearn.nptel.ac.in/shop/iit-wor...
If you can't join in person, we will be hybrid, and the easiest way to join is to register on the NPTEL elearn platform:
elearn.nptel.ac.in/shop/iit-wor...
Old and New Tricks with Cards – NPTEL+
elearn.nptel.ac.in
March 13, 2025 at 3:33 AM
Very excited that Ramprasad will be teaching a short course at IITGN *this weekend* on the math behind card magic!
If you can't join in person, we will be hybrid, and the easiest way to join is to register on the NPTEL elearn platform:
elearn.nptel.ac.in/shop/iit-wor...
If you can't join in person, we will be hybrid, and the easiest way to join is to register on the NPTEL elearn platform:
elearn.nptel.ac.in/shop/iit-wor...
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It me, your geriatric advisor accessing your SIGCOMM LaTeX via git and complaining that your shit doesn't compile outside Overleaf's wildly over permissive env.
an older man is typing on a keyboard in front of a computer monitor ..
Alt: an older man is typing on a keyboard in front of a computer monitor. the computer looks to be from about 1995 maybe?
media.tenor.com
January 31, 2025 at 8:19 PM
It me, your geriatric advisor accessing your SIGCOMM LaTeX via git and complaining that your shit doesn't compile outside Overleaf's wildly over permissive env.
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Sharing some results of my experiments with sched_ext to speed up micro-VM boot time. A modified bpfland provides ~11% faster boot time than the default Linux scheduler. This doesn't make bpfland a better scheduler, but it shows the potential of sched_ext:
arighi.blogspot.com/2025/01/acce...
arighi.blogspot.com/2025/01/acce...
Accelerating micro-VM boot time with sched_ext
Overview Booting short-lived virtual machines (VMs) can be a highly CPU-intensive workload. In scenarios like serverless computing, where b...
arighi.blogspot.com
January 18, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Sharing some results of my experiments with sched_ext to speed up micro-VM boot time. A modified bpfland provides ~11% faster boot time than the default Linux scheduler. This doesn't make bpfland a better scheduler, but it shows the potential of sched_ext:
arighi.blogspot.com/2025/01/acce...
arighi.blogspot.com/2025/01/acce...