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120: Materialize Origins: A Timely Dataflow Story with Arjun Narayan and Frank McSherry

The Data Stack Show

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The Importance of First Principles Thinking

Frank: There were many papers that I'd read in sort of increasing confusion. The default experience of reading a incremental piece of the new, you know, new set of publications come out and you sort of go through them on my wand. And so that was the sort of rough experience that I had reading that research paper. You read that paper and you go, oh my goodness, I get it now. These people are wrong.These people are onto a partial solution. Those people with a slight twist, I have a suspicion would be able to reproduce that on top of NIAID but very much simplify it. That's just really helpful first principles thinking.

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