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About Me My name is Marc Brooker. I ve been writing code, reading code, and living vicariously through computers for as long as I can remember. I like to build things that work. I also dabble in brewing, cooking and skiing. I m currently an engineer at Amazon Web Services (AWS) in Seattle, where I lead engineering on AWS Lambda and our other serverless products. Before that, I worked on EC2 and EBS.
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In his classic paper How to Build a Highly Available System Using Consensus Butler Lampson laid out a pattern that s become very popular in the design of large-scale highly-available systems. Consensus is used to deal with unusual situations like host failures (Lampson says
IIT Madras Robert Bosch Centre presents Distinguished Fellowship to world-renowned researchers IIT Madras Robert Bosch Centre presents Distinguished Fellowship to world-renowned researchers
The IIT Madras Robert Bosch Centre for Data Science and Artificial Intelligence (RBCDSAI) has awarded the RBCDSAI Distinguished Fellowship to three world-renowned researchers from International Institutions for their valuable contributions to Data Science and AI.
The Fellows will engage in long-term collaborations with the Centre, by inspiring, mentoring and initiating meaningful collaborations.
As part of welcoming the Distinguished Fellows, RBCDSAI is holding a series of events interacting with them on topical issues in Data Science and AI.
In the first of these events, a fireside chat with Prof. Srinivasan Parthasarathy on the topic AI Ethics: Separating Perception from Truth has been scheduled for January 21 and you can check out the official website to register for the same.
week as those students call for action. president trump last night saying he supports changes to some background checks. watch that story. alicia: griff jenkins is live in washington what s the white house saying? good morning. we ve seen this movie before. a push for gun control following tragic events and nothing gets done in washington maybe because of these students things will be different this time. they rallied all weekend and took to the airways in full force. after a few days of intense pressure the white house announces the president will hold a listening session with students on wednesday. last night the white house issued a statement saying the president spoke to senator cornyn on friday about the bipartisan bill to strek en the f.b.i. s database systems. discussions are ongoing and revisions considered the president is supportive of efforts to improve the federal background check system. then deputy press secretary raj shah elaborated a little more this morning.
we saw the robot going inside. and bringing in agents to work the suspect shooting scene and the redlands house. he said is it a marathon and not a sprint and cautioned everyone to step back a minute because they weren t sure what is happening. there is a lot being talked about on social media and a lot of names put out there. terrorism? not sure. possibly it is but we don t know yet. perhaps at this press conference they might be able to go down that road. can they learn that information that quickly, jim? it dependents how the intel comes in. as the fbi gets involved the fbi has database systems that generate a massive amount of information. and we have sources remember sources are a big part of this which we haven t talked about. the fbi has sources all over the world. we can start to generate and see if it is terrorism if we believe there is a potential it has to