Chief Architect @PureStorage. Recovering social media Luddite, Builder of things, taker of photos, and all-around troublemaker.
California, USA
Joined May 2016
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Week 4 of the #WFH experiment. With the uptick in remote collab and communication, staying on top of emails is critical. It’s important to get help wherever you can. – at Pacific Grove, CA
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... another notch in the declarative systems column. And continued resurgence of SQL. – at Pacific Grove, CA
Could the future of machine learning computation be... SQL query engines? Jankov et al. show the power of distributed databases for large scale machine learning. blog.acolyer.org/2019/09/13/…
Not a marine biologist, but I played one on TV! @CHANGINGSEAS produced a great documentary about Cordell Bank National Marine Sanctuary which aired on PBS last night - including BAUE’s ongoing work with NOAA to document and conserve. changingseas.tv/season-11/11… @GUEhq – at Pacific Grove, CA
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Tremendous continued growth - thank you to our customers, partners and employees! #WeWinTogether
According to IDC, Pure grew faster than any of the top 5 vendors at 22% year over year in 2019 Q1. purefla.sh/2L4dD0s #ThankYouCustomers #IDCTrackerQ12019
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Pure Storage elbows way on to storage industry top table - @Chris_Mellor, @BlocksandFiles: purefla.sh/2FcTC3Z
Things you don’t want to hear on your plane “one of the flight computers is broken - but we have 2, so maintenance is just going to disable one and we’ll be on our way”. 🙄 – at California, USA
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I wrote a blog about NVMe over Fabrics on @PureStorage FlashArray and why RoCE is available before Fibre Channel.
blog.purestorage.com/pure-de…
Disturbing on several levels 🙄
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As programmers grow in experience, they develop their own unique styles. The stylistic fingerprints survive even compilation to binary executables with optimisations and basic obfuscation enabled! It's hard to be anonymous as a programmer... blog.acolyer.org/2018/03/16/…
Interesting paper from Google that @svitlanacs shared highlighting the relative (and hidden) complexity in ML systems: papers.nips.cc/paper/5656-hi…
tl;dr; the actual ML is dwarfed by everything around it managing data
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Does anyone have a picture of sheep in a really unusual place? It's for pranking a neural net.
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It takes a human being about 14 thousand brain-hours to learn to run. An AI can learn to do it in less than half as many CPU-hours, but the results are like this.
Storing off my weekend VR project, managed to brick my consumer HDD NAS device into "Emergency Mode" with partition table corruption. Paying for the sins of my past I guess - looking for a good data recovery outfit. Should have been using a #FlashBlade 😀
Busy putting some GPUs to work on something other than neural network training and cryptocurrency mining 😃
