[jamesblonde]

It is very interesting that Eugene does this work and publishes it so soon after conferences. Traditionally this would be a literature survey by a PhD student and would take 12 months to come out as some obscure journal behind a walled garden. I wonder if it is an outlier (Eugene is good!) or a sign of things to come?

[drodgers]

> a sign of things to come

Isn't this, like, a sign of what's been happening for the last 20+ years (arxiv, blogs etc.)?

[jamesblonde]

To some extent. But it's hard to find quality. Eugene's stuff is quality. For example, i'm in distributed systems, databases, and MLOps. Murat Demirbas (Uni Buffalo) has been the best in dist systems. Andy Pavlo (CMU) for databases. Stanford (Matei) have been doing the best summarizing in MLOps.