Location: The most beautiful place on the planet.

@dan did you feel at any point that this might be another Arrakis-Ix situation? 😂

Back in black

https://colossal.com/direwolf/

So a company has successfully de-extincted the dire wolf!!!

One step closer to Jurassic Park :)

And yes, my toxic trait is that I really want to pet the dire wolf puppies.

https://youtu.be/vPX4tm-J2bU?si=WWnEN7gcs1OEkoGz

I am still reeling from the HotOS rejections so I decided to do some stats analysis of my submissions over the entire duration of my career (grouped by conference ofc):

Here is the format:

Conference: (#submissions)-(# acceptances)-(# revisions)-(#rejections)

SOSP: 2-1-0-1
NSDI: 3-1-1-1
OSDI: 0-0-0-0
SoCC: 4-1-0-3
GRADES/NDA: 1-1-0-0
VLDB: 1-0-0-1
HotOS: 3-0-0-3
HotCarbon: 1-1-0-0
HotCloud: 1-0-0-1
AIOps: 2-2-0-0
QuantumOS:1-0-0-1
Computing Surveys: 1-0-0-1
JSys: 1-0-0-1
PDMCS: 1-0-0-1 (Not enough submissions so paper returned/rejected)

Total: 22-7-1-14

>60% rejection rate in the last 6 years! I wonder how far this will fall in the coming years....

HotOS rejections came in earlier than expected :/

2/2 rejections

Traveled 12hrs round trip in a day to do something that took nearly 5 minutes.
Sigh.

Hi everyone, it’s that time of the year again, when the air smells fresh, the flowers are blooming and systems researchers are locked in a windowless room because it’s the SOSP deadline! I wrote these hints on how to write an SOSP paper quite some time ago but I think it’s still a great reference for new and old students. https://irenezhang.net/blog/2021/06/05/hints.html

@ricci Well its only called the Cambridge comma if it is actually from Cambridge, otherwise it is just a sparkling Oxford Comma.

@vish 🎊

@irene I find that anything artistic helps -- playing an instrument or writing some music or doing some painting.
There is always video games but I have found that playing video games when I am angry/frustrated/annoyed really doesnt help much 😅

Visited ETH Zurich today! What a wonderful place :)

@dan @irene 🎊🎊🎊🎊🎊

Oh no my post made it to the orange website https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43385268

@dev its top of HN now!

@secretasianman Thanks Ch----, I mean secret asian man whose name I dont know.

I went for a blue tie for the proposal but thinking of switching to either a red tie or a purple tie for the defense whenever it happens.

This past week I presented my thesis proposal.
I am now one step closer to the edge.

Want to feel old? The COVID19 pandemic started half a decade ago on this day.

I updated my blog post with some more lessons learned and links to the ChatGPT generated docs. 😂
https://discuss.systems/@irene/114107367744329151