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> Most of this list is about how to dress for senpai; figuratively speaking. A pretty depressing take on "how to do important research that matters".

How is that the case? The tips seem to aim for impactful research: picking good ideas and executing well on them. There's a tacit assumption that such impactful research will win best paper awards, but that's actually not substantiated and isn't obviously correct, since best paper selection committees can't see the future. For example, many (maybe most?) winners of retrospective awards (test-of-time / influential paper) aren't papers that won a best paper award when originally published.

Most of the author's papers he cites in the post, including the membership inference paper which is one of the papers the author is "most proud of," didn't win best paper awards.

You should also check out the Maple Tree (https://docs.kernel.org/core-api/maple_tree.html).

It's the data structure used to track non-overlapping intervals in the Linux kernel's virtual memory subsystem.

If you don't mind sharing, what's your use case for such a data structure?

Company politics? According to this tweet, parts of Intel did know about this attack: https://twitter.com/bsdaemon/status/1688978152201015301

The Cuckoo Trie, an ordered index data structure explicitly designed to have memory-level parallelism, which out-of-order processors can exploit to execute DRAM accesses in parallel:

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2201.09331.pdf

Is this comparison work available?

I submitted an interesting response to this rant a while back.

It makes some good points, despite the inflammatory technique of characterizing Linus' rant as being caused by a "C-hacker syndrome".

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3416863

You are assuming that all the objects that will be accessed are known up front, before any one of them is accessed. Is that what happens in Python?