I've gotten like four emails now from a professor in France who watches my distributed systems videos. The most recent one, today: "With time passing, I came a fan of your class on distributed systems CSE138. It is an amazing work, and I am recommanding it to my students as a class very consistent with what we are teaching. Also your american is slow and very understandable, so it is also a reason to listen your videos !"
My American is slow and very understandable 👍
Questions he's asked me:
- can he use one of my blog posts to help design an exam? (yes)
- does Liquid Haskell have any particular support for reasoning about physical time? (nope)
- are the sequence numbers used by Paxos the same thing as Lamport clocks? (not quite)
- do I have a video on Chord? (not specifically, but I have one on consistent hashing)
I love this guy
@lindsey I have one correspondent on the internet who randomly messaged me, and I have the same feelings for that person!
[off topic]
They were looking for deep understanding of how to run ten year old hardware[1] and I was the only person they could track down to ask!
[1] IBM QS20 blades (Cell Broadband Engine) in an IBM BladeCenter
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