Sam King

Inventor, tinkerer, engineer, hacker, and hater of fraud and fake accts. CS prof @UCDavis. Formerly @lyft @Twitter and @IllinoisCS.

[Sam King @stk]

I'd accuse my son of trolling me if he didn't absolutely nail it #AcademicTwitter

[Chris Sperandio @sperand_io]

A sneak peak of automatic card verifications in Radar for transactions flagged as high risk from @stripe Sessions. Enabled with the flip of a switch.

Go Bouncer team go! @stk

[Sam King @stk]

Some exciting news https://t.co/GAKjUVFXW8

[Sam King @stk]

@marius I'll see your static type checking and raise you anything that includes a SAT solver

[Sam King @stk]

@TaliaRinger Closed loop insulin delivery https://t.co/Qibe16iGUi

[marius eriksen @marius]

Advice for junior engineers: Probably fewer problems than you think can be solved with code.

Advice for senior engineers: Probably more problems than you think can be solved with code.

[Sam King @stk]

Can anyone recommend interesting non-fiction pod casts? I've never listened to one before but I'm looking for something to listen to at a time when I can't read.

[Sam King @stk]

@jhasomesh @mustach_io You guys are making me want to grow my mustache again. However, "intimidating" is never a word I've heard used in reference to mine, so the bar is high.

[Suhail @Suhail]

Building speaks louder than words.

[Jason Lowe-Power @jlowepower]

Lots of exciting news from the Davis Architecture Group! We've had FOUR recent papers including two best paper nominees at ISPASS! Tweet ⛈️ coming. https://t.co/Zh3R1xOOWu

[Yuri Sagalov @yuris]

It's been almost 10 years since one of my most embarrassing fundraising moments as a founder.

A moment so embarrassing that I couldn’t talk about it for years.

It taught me the difference between raising a Seed round and a Series A, as well as some well needed humility.🧵👇

[Sam King @stk]

Here is a tip of the hat to all of the volunteers out there reviewing papers for top conferences. It's easy to get jaded when you get bad reviews, but the PCs for both Usenix Security and OSDI have been amazing. So much thought and rigor goes into decisions, y'all should be proud

[Sam King @stk]

@thedavidbrumley @clintgibler Thanks for sharing, it turned out great.

[Sam King @stk]

@tst Wow, go Illini!

[Haohui Mai @wheat9]

@stk @cskama Good writing clear your thoughts then lead to succinct code

[Sam King @stk]

@cskama At this point I love both but for very different reasons. Coding is the invention -- this is where the art happens and when you're writing you are forced to learn exactly it is that you invented. I've always loved coding but my love for writing was gradual.

[Sam King @stk]

@harshita_kk The ability to reason about difficult problems consistently is a good indicator of success in grad school... :)

[Sam King @stk]

@jhasomesh If it's an incremental idea in an existing area I do what you described. But if it's a new area I'm stubborn, sometimes continuing to improve the work for years before it gets in. Once the first paper gets in for a new area, you'll have momentum and the next N are easier.

[Sam King @stk]

@dave_andersen 10x parenting, I love it

[Sam King @stk]

@ProfBootyPhD @GolferSpace @KVanValkenburg Completely agree, he nailed a bunch of the subtleties -- I watched the whole thing and enjoyed it thoroughly

[✨ Jean Yang ✨ @jeanqasaur]

The periodic reminders that we are hiring will continue until enough people have joined the team. 😊

If you're a systems programmer or programming languages/compiler person who wants to help us build a better API observability tool, I'd love to hear from you.

Please share!