computer doctor from UW, Apple engineer, fan of mountains
San Francisco, CA
Joined April 2010
- Tweets972
- Following125
- Followers266
- Likes879
Brandon Holt retweeted
Have been spending a lot of time thinking about what it’s like being a woman in tech and sexism, and thought of this simple analogy based on an episode of my favorite TV show, Better Off Ted. (1/n)
What is this, you trying to be the new @crazyiIIusions?
This Post is from an account that no longer exists. Learn more
Brandon Holt retweeted
Happy to announce that our ConSysT was accepted at @splashcon! ConSysT is a distributed object-oriented language. Objects can be replicated with different levels of consistency. The type system ensures that consistency levels are mixed safely.
consyst-project.github.io
Brandon Holt retweeted
Unidentified stormtroopers. Unmarked cars. Kidnapping protesters and causing severe injuries in response to graffiti.
These are not the actions of a democratic republic.
@DHSgov’s actions in Portland undermine its mission.
Trump & his stormtroopers must be stopped.
Great resources by Campaign Zero with real data and concrete solutions. Let’s do this. #BlackLivesMatter #8CantWait 8cantwait.org
Brandon Holt retweeted
My dad asked me why I was speaking so softly at home.
I told him I was afraid Mark Zuckerberg was listening
He laughed. I laughed.
Alexa laughed.
Google Assistant laughed in silence.
Siri said “here’s what I found on the web for laughing”
Brandon Holt retweeted
Midwest language be like:
No Yeah = Yes
Yeah no = No
Yeah no for sure = Definitely
No yeah no = Oh no, you’re fine
Yeah no yeah = I’m sorry, but unfortunately, the answer is yes
Brandon Holt retweeted
Here's the moment when the first black hole image was processed, from the eyes of researcher Katie Bouman. #EHTBlackHole #BlackHoleDay #BlackHole (v/@dfbarajas)
Brandon Holt retweeted
Cocktails for the Revolution:
- World w/o a #GreenNewDeal: a Bitter Dark n’ Stormy
- Clean transport: an Aviation, but hold the crème de violette
- Bridges, Not Walls: a Mezcal Greyhound
- Paid Parental Leave: Mocktail margarita
- Policy Failure: anything w/ Goldschläger
😉
This quoted post is unavailable.
Brandon Holt retweeted
Broke: Send your DNA to @23andMe, deanonymizing your relatives and descendants
Woke: Don’t send DNA to @23andMe but risk a relative defecting
Bespoke: Use CRISPR to encode a computer virus in your DNA, send DNA to @23andMe and Stuxnet their database
Holy crap. Malware hidden in a strand of DNA hijacks the computer that analyzes that particular gene sequence. wired.com/story/malware-dna-…
Brandon Holt retweeted
This post by @drin_montana recaps a bunch of recent work on language-level support for mixed-consistency programming, then goes on to discuss how you might use those kinds of abstractions to support mixed consistency in a programmable storage system. composition.al/CMPS290S-2018…
ALT The need to use a range of consistency levels in the same application motivates the need for language-level support for mixed consistency. Recent language-level abstractions such as QUELEA, IPA, and MixT aim to make programming in a mixed-consistency world safer and easier.
Brandon Holt retweeted
I'm looking for new Ph.D. students here at @ucsc to work on {programming languages, distributed systems, verification}! (Curious about what that means? Check out my students' blog: xitter.cf/lindsey/status/1061863…)
Applications due December 16: gradapp.ucsc.edu/apply/CMPS-…. Come join us!
🎉 The blog for my Languages and Abstractions for Distributed Programming course launches this week!
Here's my introductory post: composition.al/CMPS290S-2018…
I'm really excited about what the students have planned. The first student post will go up tomorrow!
Brandon Holt retweeted
Want to learn to leverage domain insights to create blazing fast software and efficient architectures? My group is looking for students! Please apply to UCSC:
grad.soe.ucsc.edu/admissions
