File systems unfit as distributed storage backends: lessons from 10 years of Ceph evolution Aghayev et al., SOSP'19 Ten years of hard-won lessons packed into just 17 pages (13 if you don’t count the references!) makes this paper extremely good value for your time. It’s also a fabulous example of recognising and challenging implicit assumptions. … Continue reading File systems unfit as distributed storage backends: lessons from ten years of Ceph evolution
Month: November 2019
An analysis of performance evolution of Linux’s core operations
An analysis of performance evolution of Linux’s core operations Ren et al., SOSP'19 I was drawn in by the headline results here: This paper presents an analysis of how Linux’s performance has evolved over the past seven years... To our surprise, the study shows that the performance of many core operations has worsened or fluctuated … Continue reading An analysis of performance evolution of Linux’s core operations
Optimized risk scores
Optimized risk scores Ustun & Rudin, KDD'17 On Monday we looked at the case for interpretable models, and in Wednesday’s edition of The Morning Paper we looked at CORELS which produces provably optimal rule lists for categorical assessments. Today we’ll be looking at RiskSLIM, which produces risk score models together with a proof of optimality. … Continue reading Optimized risk scores
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