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Description: ** Unfortunately we lost audio for the main speaker. Please enjoy the recorded mini, though! ** --- Mini Omoju Miller on "All The Cool Kids, How Do They Fit In? Popularity and Demographic Biases in Recommender Evaluation and Effectiveness" (proceedings.mlr.press/v81/ekstrand1……

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Papers We Love @paperswelove.org · 02/10/2026

Summary: "Topology of Numbers" by Allen Hatcher is a comprehensive text that discusses the intersection of algebraic topology and number theory. Published in March 2004, the book covers foundational topics such as quadratic forms, algebraic integers, lattices, and their connections to homology and…

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Papers We Love @paperswelove.org · 02/10/2026

Description: We've got a special edition of Papers We Love tonight as we round up a gang of speakers for Lightning Talks! Each speakers will present for 15 - 20m on a topic dear to their heart related to computers. We're still filling out the list of talks but you can see some of them below: * Tal…

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Papers We Love @paperswelove.org · 01/10/2026

Description: This talk was given at the 15th meeting of the Toronto chapter of Papers We Love, hosted at Shopify Toronto on March 2, 2016: www.meetup.com/Papers-We-Love-Toron… Nate Smith presented "Dynamo: Amazon’s Highly Available Key-value Store" by Giuseppe DeCandia,…

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Papers We Love @paperswelove.org · 01/10/2026

PWLTO#15 – Nate Smith on Dynamo: Amazon's Highly Available Key-Value Store (2023) www.youtube.com/watch?v=RbQuSxqbPTU

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Papers We Love @paperswelove.org · 30/09/2026

Description: --- Over the past two decades, the Internet’s runaway success has caused its end-to-end architecture to be eroded by an organic proliferation of interposers or middleboxes, such as NATs, firewalls, IDS devices, and performance enhancing proxies, which now pose serious roadblocks to the…

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Papers We Love @paperswelove.org · 29/09/2026

Description: PWL Mini Stephen Tu presents: "Random features for large-scale kernel machines" (www.eecs.berkeley.edu/~brecht/paper…) by Ali Rahimi and Ben Recht Kernel methods in machine learning are a popular tool used to express richer function classes. These methods w…

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Papers We Love @paperswelove.org · 28/09/2026

Description: This month Sam presented "Macaroons: Cookies with Contextual Caveats for Decentralized Authorization in the Cloud" by Arnar Birgisson and Joe Gibbs Politz and Úlfar Erlingsson and Ankur Taly and Michael Vrable and Mark Lentczner. Cookies are the ubiquitous method of authorization on…

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Papers We Love @paperswelove.org · 27/09/2026

Description: This talk was given at the sixth meeting of the Toronto chapter of Papers We Love, hosted at Shopify Toronto on April 1, 2015: www.meetup.com/Papers-We-Love-Toron… Max Veytsman presented the paper "The First Level of Super Mario Bros. is Easy with Lexicograp…

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Papers We Love @paperswelove.org · 26/09/2026

Description: PWLConf 2018 Link: pwlconf.org/2018/casey-canfield Slides / Captions: github.com/papers-we-love/pwlconf-i… The Future of the Grid: Policy, Technology, and Market Changes Casey Canfield, Assistant Professor in Engineering Management &…

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Papers We Love @paperswelove.org · 25/09/2026

Summary: The paper "Shor’s Algorithms for Quantum Computation" by Peter W. Shor, published in November 1994, presents groundbreaking quantum algorithms capable of efficiently factoring integers and solving discrete logarithms, tasks which are computationally difficult for classical computers. This…

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Papers We Love @paperswelove.org · 25/09/2026

Description: Mini Adrian Cockcroft on Communicating Sequential Processes (spinroot.com/courses/summer/Papers/…) Main Talk Paul Borrill on Lamport’s unfinished revolution. This talk reviews Lamport’s seminal 1978 paper on Time, Clocks and the Ordering of Events, the 2nd mo…

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Papers We Love @paperswelove.org · 24/09/2026

Description: This talk was given at the first meeting of the Toronto chapter of Papers We Love, hosted at Shopify Toronto on November 5th, 2014: www.meetup.com/Papers-We-Love-Toron… John-Alan Simmons presented the paper "Chord: A Scalable Peer-to-peer Lookup Service for…

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Papers We Love @paperswelove.org · 23/09/2026

Description: This talk was given at the third meeting of the Toronto chapter of Papers We Love, hosted at Shopify Toronto on January 7th, 2015: www.meetup.com/Papers-We-Love-Toron… Dann Toliver presented the paper "Fast Functional Lists, Hash-Lists, Deques and Variable L…

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Papers We Love @paperswelove.org · 22/09/2026

Description: This talk was given at the 17th meeting of the Toronto chapter of Papers We Love, hosted at Shopify Toronto on May 4, 2016: www.meetup.com/Papers-We-Love-Toron… Donny Nadolny presented the paper "Rowhammer.js: A Remote Software-Induced Fault Attack in JavaSc…

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Papers We Love @paperswelove.org · 21/09/2026

Description: Meetup: www.meetup.com/papers-we-love/event… Paper: www.ics.uci.edu/~eppstein/261/BenFa… My favorite problems are always those with the highest ratio of difficulty in solving to difficulty in stating. The lowest common ancestor problem exemplifies…

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Papers We Love @paperswelove.org · 20/09/2026

Simon Peyton Jones on Getting from A to B fast route finding on slow computers [PWL London] (2017) www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1XDdy-hOH8

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Papers We Love @paperswelove.org · 19/09/2026

Description: Info: pwlconf.org/2017/chas-emerick Slides: bit.ly/2y27f3C Transcription: bit.ly/2g48tnQ Chas's Site: cemerick.com ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Platinum Sponsors: Two Sigma (@…

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Papers We Love @paperswelove.org · 18/09/2026

Summary: This paper, published in November 2017, examines the challenges and design considerations that arise when integrating imperfect machine learning algorithms into high-stakes medical decision-making processes. The authors, Zafar et al., focus on understanding the cognitive difficulties faced…

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Papers We Love @paperswelove.org · 18/09/2026

Description: Papers We Love NYC - June 28, 2021 Jake Moshenko, CEO of Authzed, presents Zanzibar: Google’s Consistent, Global Authorization System (research.google/pubs/pub48190) In this talk, Authzed’s CEO Jake Moshenko, will talk about what makes Zanzibar a paper worthy of dropping…

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Papers We Love @paperswelove.org · 17/09/2026

Description: This talk was given at the 18th meeting of the Toronto chapter of Papers We Love, hosted at Shopify Toronto on June 1, 2016: www.meetup.com/Papers-We-Love-Toron… James MacAulay presented the paper "The Mechanical Evaluation of Expressions" by Peter Landin:…

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Papers We Love @paperswelove.org · 16/09/2026

Description: Peter Bailis presents the "Managing Update Conflicts in Bayou, A Weakly Connected Replicated Storage System" paper by Doug Terry, Marvin Theimer, Karin Petersen, Alan J. Demers, Mike J. Spreitzer, and Carl H. Hauser in SOSP 1995. db.cs.berkeley.edu/cs286/papers/bay……

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Papers We Love @paperswelove.org · 15/09/2026

Description: Meetup: bit.ly/2uSFBlB Paper: bit.ly/2u2Nwj2 Slides: bit.ly/2w0VBSI Audio: bit.ly/2wgaqju ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sponsored by Two Sigma (@twosigma) and QCon NYC -----------------------------…

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Papers We Love @paperswelove.org · 14/09/2026

Join the Papers We Love NYC Chapter for: What Saltzer & Schroeder knew in 1975 about the agents we're building in 2026 Wednesday, September 30 in #NYC 6:30 PM - 8:30 PM EST 📆 RSVP: luma.com/ql1q4sys 📜 Paper: www.cs.virginia.edu/~evans/cs551... #paperswelove #meetup

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Papers We Love, Espresso AI, and Antithesis are pleased to present the September edition of PwL. Papers We Love is a community of programmers who love reading…

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Papers We Love @paperswelove.org · 14/09/2026

Description: Info: pwlconf.org/2017/fabienne-serriere Slides: bit.ly/2y8Qgwi Transcription: bit.ly/2gpgMYm Fabienne's Site: fabienne.us ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Platinum Sponsors: Two…

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Papers We Love @paperswelove.org · 13/09/2026

Description: Meetup: www.meetup.com/papers-we-love/event… Paper: bit.ly/1IzyXA7 Slides: bit.ly/1GBP4y3 Audio: bit.ly/1D5Rdkw ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sponsored by Two Sigma (@twosigma), Dropbox (@Dr…

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Papers We Love @paperswelove.org · 11/09/2026

Summary: This paper introduces a novel approach for extracting alpha mattes from images, particularly focusing on complex backgrounds. The authors describe a methodology using minimal user input in the form of strokes that define foreground, background, and unknown regions. The solution involves co…

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Papers We Love @paperswelove.org · 11/09/2026

Digital Matting Using Color Matched Nearest Neighbor [2001] By: Chuang Yung-Yu, Curless Brian, Salesin David H., et al. grail.cs.washington.edu/projects/di… #paperswelove #research #compsci

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Papers We Love @paperswelove.org · 11/09/2026

Description: "Deny Capabilities for Safe, Fast Actors (2015)" by Sylvan Clebsch et al. lays out the core novel idea behind the Pony programming language: reference capabilities. Reference capabilities take object capabilities, turn them on their head and then apply them to variable aliases. Not su…

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Papers We Love @paperswelove.org · 10/09/2026

Description: Info: pwlconf.org/2017/elaine-chew Slides: bit.ly/2fUhbBn Transcription: bit.ly/2xuhh9e Elaine's Site: www.eecs.qmul.ac.uk/~eniale ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Platinum Sponso…

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Papers We Love @paperswelove.org · 09/09/2026

Description: Meetup: bit.ly/2sPHrDU Paper: bit.ly/2y9jUCS Slides: bit.ly/2MGIMW6 Audio: bit.ly/2lj6gUM ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sponsored and hosted by Two Sigma (@twosigma) ---------------------------------…

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Papers We Love @paperswelove.org · 08/09/2026

Description: PWL Mini Jeff Carpenter presents Design Principles Behind Smalltalk by Daniel H. H. Ingalls. Jeff tells us: This a paper I love because it frames programming language design as a means to "provide computer support for the creative spirit in everyone." The paper describes the design p…

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Papers We Love @paperswelove.org · 07/09/2026

Description: Meetup: bit.ly/2sPHrDU Paper: bit.ly/1QlcaxD Slides: bit.ly/2JMeza6 Audio: bit.ly/2t5EwqL ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sponsored and hosted by Two Sigma (@twosigma) ---------------------------------…

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Papers We Love @paperswelove.org · 06/09/2026

Description: This talk was given at the 22nd meeting of the Toronto chapter of Papers We Love, hosted at Shopify Toronto on December 7th, 2016: www.meetup.com/Papers-We-Love-Toron… David Kua presented the paper "The Weakest Failure Detector for Solving Consensus" by Tus…

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Papers We Love @paperswelove.org · 06/09/2026

PWLTO#22 – David Kua on The Weakest Failure Detector for Solving Consensus (2016) www.youtube.com/watch?v=4v2EVATaqJM #computerscience

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Papers We Love @paperswelove.org · 05/09/2026

Description: This paper is seminal in graph theory. It describes the maximum matchings blossom algorithm, which finds a decomposition of a graph in the maximum number of pairs connected by an edge. It is also the base of the famous minimum weight maximum matchings algorithm, a very important algor…

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Papers We Love @paperswelove.org · 04/09/2026

Summary: The paper titled "The Scalable Commutativity Rule: Designing Scalable Software for Multicore Processors" was published in March 2013 by authors Austin T. Clements, M. Frans Kaashoek, Nickolai Zeldovich, Robert Tappan Morris, and Eddie Kohler. It introduces the scalable commutativity rule w…

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Papers We Love @paperswelove.org · 04/09/2026

Description: Meetup: bit.ly/1GqLaHG Paper: bit.ly/1ff8AXK Slides: bit.ly/1SkIRLK Audio: bit.ly/1BAU6eC ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sponsored by Two Sigma (@twosigma), The Ladders (@TheLaddersDev). ---------------…

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Papers We Love @paperswelove.org · 03/09/2026

Description: Meetup: bit.ly/2upZow2 Paper: bit.ly/2E2pmFH Slides: bit.ly/2GSUY3v Audio: bit.ly/2Giocrb ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sponsored and hosted by Two Sigma (@twosigma) ---------------------------------…

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Papers We Love @paperswelove.org · 03/09/2026

BBR Based Congestion Control with Hannes Sowa [PWL NYC] (2018) www.youtube.com/watch?v=__aWbKC7EN8 #twosigma #pwl #tcp

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Papers We Love @paperswelove.org · 02/09/2026

Description: Meetup: bit.ly/2y3Qc1j Paper: users.cs.duke.edu/~parr/jmlr03.pdf Slides: bit.ly/2wkPmsN Audio: bit.ly/2xyqSQw ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sponsored and hosted by Two Sigma (@twosigma) ----------------…

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Papers We Love @paperswelove.org · 01/09/2026

Description: This talk was given at the 13th meeting of the Toronto chapter of Papers We Love, hosted at Shopify Toronto on November 4, 2015: www.meetup.com/Papers-We-Love-Toron… Raveesh Nagpal presented the paper "An Error Model for Pointing Based on Fitts’ Law" by Jaco…

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Papers We Love @paperswelove.org · 01/09/2026

PWLTO#13 – Raveesh Nagpal on An Error Model for Pointing Based on Fitts’ Law (2016) www.youtube.com/watch?v=fqJG0OPtUEw

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Papers We Love @paperswelove.org · 31/08/2026

Description: PWLConf 2018 Link: pwlconf.org/2018/dan-piponi Slides / Captions: github.com/papers-we-love/pwlconf-i… Stable Fluids Dan Piponi, Software Engineer Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) plays an important role in movie production. Back in 19…

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Papers We Love @paperswelove.org · 30/08/2026

Description: Info: pwlconf.org/marius-watz Slides: bit.ly/2cRQ60N Transcription: bit.ly/2g344Si Marius's Site: mariuswatz.com Marius's Twitter: twitter.com/mariuswatz ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------…

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Papers We Love @paperswelove.org · 29/08/2026

Description: Many messaging systems that are widely used in the industry, e.g., Kafka, use centralized distributed systems services to achieve reliability and consensus between servers. Companies in the industry use the services; however, only a few of them understand the details of the protocols.…

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Papers We Love @paperswelove.org · 29/08/2026

Consensus algorithms, Paxos and Raft by Yifan Xing [PWL BOS] (2018) www.youtube.com/watch?v=fcFqFfsAlSQ #kafka #paxos #raft

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