Irene Zhang

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Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research. OS hacker. Cat wrangler. Shoe lover.
Websitehttps://irenezhang.net/
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Irene Zhang8h ago
Show threadAdrianna Tan10h ago

I’ve only been in Atlanta a day and obviously there’s a lot I need to learn about it.

But it makes me sad that the city I live in has displaced its Black population but still thinks it is liberal and open and welcoming to all.

https://law.stanford.edu/publications/disinvestment-of-san-franciscos-african-american-community-1970-2022/

Disinvestment of San Francisco’s African American Community 1970-2022 | Stanford Law School

The San Francisco Human Rights Commission (SFHRC) has been tasked by the San Francisco Board of Supervisors to propose policies to repair enduring his

Stanford Law School
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Mike Sheward9h ago

with the 2 line now open, Seattle visitors can take in the coffee and culture of downtown, before hopping on an eastbound train across the lake to explore the finest parking structures bellevue has to offer

#seattle

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Stefano Volpe 6d ago
If any PhD students are following your account, boosting would be appreciated.

Fellow PhD student: hello! ​​ I hope you had a good Monday.

0) In which country are you pursuing your PhD?
1) What is the official duration of your PhD programme? Does it assume you already have a Master's?
2) How many academic credits (e.g., ECTS) are you required to get in order to complete your PhD?
3) If you are paid for TAing, can you estimate the number of teaching contact hours you need in order to supplement other sources of funding?

My union and Ph.D. committee have been asking for feedback, and I have a theory I'd like to test. Feel free to use private mentions if you want.

Edit: I am now using "academic credits" to make myself more understandable to non-EU people.
Irene Zhang1d ago
Dan Ports1d ago

Multi-tier deployment, optimized for maximum purrformance.

#cats #catsofmastodon

Irene Zhang2d ago

RE: https://discuss.systems/@dan/116302979802085614

I only recently discovered that podcasts are random people talking about random things. And Dan is good at talking about random things.

Irene Zhang2d ago
I made a crotchet bandana for @elba’s dog Gigi. She is the cutest but it’s hard to get her to sit still when you are paying attention to her. She gets so excited.
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GM70772d ago
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Genuinely Gary 🌤️2d ago

Why mathematicians are boycotting their biggest conference: More than 1,500 mathematicians are demanding that their field’s most prestigious meeting be moved from the U.S.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-mathematicians-are-boycotting-their-biggest-conference/

(While unfortunate, this needs to happen. Everyone should move their meet-ups away from the US for now) #uspol

Why mathematicians are boycotting their biggest conference

More than 1,500 mathematicians are demanding that their field’s most prestigious meeting be moved from the U.S.

Scientific American
Irene Zhang3d ago
Via the Microsoft women mailing list, there are a few job openings for senior and principal level engineers. I don't know anything about these positions but thought I would share. https://apply.careers.microsoft.com/careers/job/1970393556824233
Senior Software Engineer | Microsoft Careers

Work with BingAds stakeholders to determine requirements for new features to drive up Ads business. Create system design for feature requirements. Assure system meets security and compliance requirements and expectations. Creates a clear and articulated plan for testing and assuring quality solutions. Implement the features with high efficiency, extensibility, diagnosability, reliability, and maintainability with few defects. Maintain operations of live service as issues arise on a rotational, on-call basis. Identifies solutions and mitigations to simple and complex issues and escalates as necessary. Acts as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI) working on call to monitor system/product feature/service for degradation, downtime, or interruptions. Responds within Service Level Agreement (SLA) timeframe. Escalate issues to appropriate owners. Build knowledge, share new ideas, and share pinpoints of engineering tool gaps to improve software developer tools to support other programs, tools, and applications to create, debug, and maintain code for product features. Contribute to the development of automation within production and deployment of a product feature. Profile and analyze distributed system performance and capacity bottlenecks. Propose and implement solutions to improve system latency and capacity to meet BingAds online serving requirements. Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 4+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python These requirements include but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings: Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 6+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 8+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR equivalent experience. Experience in Azure. Experience in Machine learning and online system design, implementation and qualification. 2+ years' experience in Distributed Systems and Big Data Technologies such as Spark, Hadoop, HDFS, Kafka, Flink, Scala.