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Martin Kleppmann
@martinkl
Find me at @martin.kleppmann.com on Bluesky, @[email protected] on Mastodon. Author of @intensivedata, Associate Professor @Cambridge_CL. he/him
Cambridge, England
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    Martin Kleppmann
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    Nov 21, 2023
    I’m no longer active on Twitter. Find me at bsky.app/profile/martin… on Bluesky, or nondeterministic.computer/@martin on Mastodon. If I follow you here or know you personally, you can DM me for a Bluesky invitation code. (Sorry, don’t have enough invitation codes for people I don't know.)
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    Martin Kleppmann
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    Mar 9, 2020
    In 1665, the University of Cambridge temporarily closed due to the bubonic plague. Isaac Newton had to work from home, and he used this time to develop calculus and the theory of gravity. cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-ADD-04…
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    Martin Kleppmann
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    Jun 14, 2021
    The G7 summit should be followed by a C major summit to resolve everything.
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    Martin Kleppmann
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    Nov 18, 2020
    ✨New educational materials!✨ Today I'm announcing two new, free resources I've written: an 8-lecture course on fundamentals of distributed systems, and a 30-page tutorial on elliptic curve cryptography. martin.kleppmann.com/2020/11/18/dis…
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    Martin Kleppmann
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    Jan 22, 2023
    My partner and I had a baby! I’m on parental leave for the next 3 months (plus planning to work part-time for a while later). Therefore I probably won’t be tweeting much. Feeling fortunate to be in a place with good maternity care and generous parental leave ❤️
    Me on a snowy road, carrying our newborn in a car seat
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    Martin Kleppmann
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    Jan 10, 2019
    Pro tip: instead of paying $399/year for @safari books online (frankly outrageous), you can get ACM professional membership for $99/year, which includes Safari access.
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    Martin Kleppmann
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    Jun 20, 2018
    I passed my PhD viva (aka thesis defence) yesterday. Yay! 👨‍🎓😎🎉
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    Martin Kleppmann
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    Feb 25, 2023
    This looks like a great resource – a series of distributed systems programming challenges designed by Kyle Kingsbury aka aphyr
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    Fly.io Distributed Systems Challenge
    From fly.io
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    Martin Kleppmann
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    Dec 26, 2021
    My partner is learning programming. When she struggles to figure something out, but I can solve it in a few seconds, I remind her: she can sit at the piano and easily sight-read a piece she’s never seen, while I have to struggle through note by note. Skills require practice.
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    Martin Kleppmann
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    Oct 13, 2018
    Estimated number of clock cycles it takes to do various things on a modern CPU, e.g. atomic CAS or context switch: ithare.com/infographics-o… — useful for a concurrent systems course I'm currently teaching
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    Infographics: Operation Costs in CPU Clock Cycles - 6IT
    Quote: Back in 80s, it was possible to calculate the speed of the program just by looking at assembly. Another Quote: keep in mind that these days compilers ...
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    Martin Kleppmann
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    Jan 1, 2021
    Happy new year 🥂 Ever wondered where the western musical scales come from, and why there are 12 notes in an octave? I wrote up a quick explainer.
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    Martin Kleppmann
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    Jul 30, 2020
    I am concerned that a lot of computer systems research is solving problems that only huge tech companies have (eg. fast datacenter networking, big data analytics systems), rather than working on technologies that empower individual users and the underprivileged.
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    Arvind Narayanan
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    Jul 30, 2020
    By the same token, it should be a sobering moment for computer science academia. With few exceptions, work that tries to bring accountability to big tech companies is relegated to the fringes of our discipline. CS these days cozies up to power far more than speaking truth to it.
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    Martin Kleppmann
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    May 23, 2022
    Very excited to announce that I've been awarded a €1.3m grant to start a research group on local-first software at TU Munich @TU_Muenchen! This will enable us to build the foundation for collaboration software of the future. volkswagenstiftung.de/aktuelles-pres… in.tum.de/in/news-single…
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    Martin Kleppmann
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    Sep 5, 2022
    Hello Munich! I have moved here from Cambridge and will be starting a new position at @TU_Muenchen in October. Excited!
    The Neues Rathaus (new town hall) in Munich
    Some German Brezels and bread