Ratul Mahajan
ratul.bsky.social
Ratul Mahajan
@ratul.bsky.social
I SEE (study, engineer, educate) computer networks. Tweets are facts; retweets are alternative facts
At the 25yr reunion for my college, which offers a variety of engineering degrees, I learned:

to a first order, anyone that didn't study CS or EE--about 75% of the class (mech, civil, bio, chem...)--is now shuffling money.

What a waste of talent!
January 14, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Every complex system has emergent behavior that cannot be explained via the properties of its components. Delhi traffic is no different.

If have you trouble making sense of it, here are 3 emergent laws of Delhi traffic.
January 11, 2025 at 4:56 AM
Did you know that Seoul airport offers free tours for long layovers?

And they also provide coats to combat the cold! (-11C right now)
January 8, 2025 at 11:20 PM
In a good book-reading year for me, the two best ones:

The Fabric of Reality: Lovely synthesis of 4 scientific theories. Bonus: CS is placed alongside physics, evolution.

Why Machines Learn: Quite a readable history of ML with just the right amount of math (but weak puns)
December 17, 2024 at 6:50 AM
Startup marketing: We built something cool!

Big co marketing: Excited for our customers and partners to try foo.
December 6, 2024 at 8:36 PM
Two cool, new pieces by Batfish users on network CI/CD:

How to Deploy Batfish on Kubernetes with Helm & GitLab CI/CD pipeline medium.com/@a.najarian/...

Network intent-based CI/CD with Batfish linkedin.com/pulse/networ...
How to Deploy Batfish on Kubernetes with Helm and GitLab CI/CD Pipeline
Batfish is a powerful network validation and analysis tool that allows engineers to simulate network configurations, identify errors, and…
medium.com
November 23, 2024 at 12:22 AM
6 yo was taught in school that "Thanksgiving is a myth." The reality is that "white Europeans killed indigenous people."

I told him that his mother is a white European. We spent the next 10 minutes him trying to wiggle out of that box, finding creative ways to not blame her.
November 20, 2024 at 7:14 PM