Ratul Mahajan
@ratulm
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I SEE (study, engineer, educate) computer networks. Tweets are facts; retweets are alternative facts
Joined May 2008
Better lie detectors on the horizon -- for good and for bad.
nytimes.com
In a recent study, scientists successfully decoded not only the words people tried to say but the words they merely imagined saying.
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When Dave Patterson speaks, we should listen. "As a scientist, I’m scared. As a taxpayer, I’m livid. We built a lead. Now Washington is ready to give it away.".
I just went to NSDI, a top venue for computer systems research. Change in papers' src country:. 2015 2025.USA 76% 45%.China 10 42.Other 14 13. China's research investments are bearing fruit, while the US is gutting science funding.
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TeamA was winning in regular time, but the heroics of TeamB took the match to overtime and then to penalties. Penalties went really, really deep and Team2 player with a broken leg had to come out. Team2 finally lost when the last player missed the penalty.
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No good way to describe what happened in to non-cricket people. But I'll try . .
espncricinfo.com
IND 247 & 367 vs ENG 224 & 396 - India won by 6 runs in London, ENG vs IND 2025, July 31 - August 04, 2025
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A window into the Spanish psyche: They almost never use the word 'vacacion' -- it is almost always 'vacaciones.'.
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Passing through Frankfurt, my 3-hr flight was 1.5 hrs late and 4 gate changes had us ping-ponging in the airport. I wondered if it's just the planes and the Germans can still run the trains on time. The answer: "German trains almost never run on time anymore.".
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Coding agents are proof how far you can get in life with just pattern matching.
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RT @NINeSconference: 📢 We are excited to announce NINeS, a new online conference dedicated to bold, foundational ideas in networked systems….
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Congrats to Batfish and Tofino! . Personally, it is quite satisfying to see the impact of Batfish recognized. It was birthed by curiosity-driven research and nurtured by use-case-driven engineering.
2025 SIGCOMM Networking Systems Award Winner goes to two groundbreaking systems (:.🏆Batfish: An Open-source Network Configuration Analysis and Verification Platform .🏆The Barefoot Tofino Programmable Switch Chips and the P4 Programming Language.Congrats!.
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RT @ACMSIGCOMM: Do you know an exceptional young researcher who is transforming the field of communication networks? Nominate them for the….
sigcomm.org
The annual SIGCOMM Rising Star Award recognizes a young researcher who has made outstanding research contributions to the field of communication networks. Description Each year, ACM SIGCOMM will...
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Curious emerging pattern: I frequently review docs at Amazon, and now when I complain about writing style, people blame AI.
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RT @Adrian_Perrig: 🚀 Join the SCION Weekly Research Meeting!.Curious about cutting-edge networking and secure Internet architecture?. We're….
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RT @sgblank: How the US gave up being a science superpower
steveblank.com
This article previously appeared in Nature. US global dominance in science was no accident, but a product of a far-seeing partnership between public and private sectors to boost innovation and econ…
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NSF stops awarding new grants and funding existing ones
nature.com
Nature - US science funder also plans to screen grant applications for compliance with ‘agency priorities’.
I just went to NSDI, a top venue for computer systems research. Change in papers' src country:. 2015 2025.USA 76% 45%.China 10 42.Other 14 13. China's research investments are bearing fruit, while the US is gutting science funding.
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I just went to NSDI, a top venue for computer systems research. Change in papers' src country:. 2015 2025.USA 76% 45%.China 10 42.Other 14 13. China's research investments are bearing fruit, while the US is gutting science funding.
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If everyone is using their personalized AI to read papers, who should I be writing for? . How does one write a paper for AIs?.
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