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Rural Electrification Administration

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Rural Electrification Administration create electrification throughout cities. Most of American infrastructure still 1930s.

Russel Howard

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Observations from studying the comedian Russel Howard.

  • Stretching analogies
  • Using language/motion/figure do describe something on the opposite end of the spectrum
    • Take, for instance, age: 5Y/O: “cheers mum, wasen’t on my to-do list”
    • A surprisingly sentimental dog: “because when I wake up tomorrow I want to see you, and I want to go for a lovely walk”
  • Large motions + deadpan after
  • Endless extrapolations of a normal setup: setup: Russian hackers were controlling people’s toys; punchline: “5 men were dildo’d to death, we don’t have a recording but here are their final words — ‘oh yeaaah’, ‘oh fuck yeaaah’”

Setup: gweneth paltro Punchline: “put an egg up there, you will feel more femenine. no! you will feel like a chicken”

Rust Paper

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  1. if paper has software isolation using Rust, sort into software isolation categories
  2. if the paper does not, scan for incorrect claims and then sort into either irrelevant or wrong mutability (keywords: mutable, borrow, reference, invariant)

  1. IM/PUI does not cause an issue because of narrow extension interface (NetBricks)
  2. IM/PUI does cause an issue, and is handled
  3. IM/PUI does cause an issue, and is deferred to future work
  4. IM/PUI does cause an issue, and is ignored (RedLeaf, Splinter)
  5. No User Language Extension/No Isolation Needs
  • How many papers use Rust, how many use Rust for language extensions? (a count on these would be nice if possible)

Rust Systems Index

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Setting the Stage

“What does the systems research landscape change when you start writing things in Rust? What are the most important open research challenges for software written in Rust?”

  • GC is now a thing if you write go
  • Lots of debugging tools were shaped by pointers, etc.

Lectures

Ruth 2025

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(Ruth et al., n.d.)

One-Liner

Governments’ security guidance lack overall consensus in both formatting as well as actual practice; we find this out using treeeeees.

Novelty

  • new tree similarity mechanism similar to edit distance
  • first hand-labeled ontological dataset for security guidance

Notable Methods

  1. download security guidance
  2. label guidance into multi-level controls
  3. tree distance metric for similarity
Ruth, Kimberly, Raymond Buernor Obu, Ifeoluwa Shode, Gavin Li, Carrie Gates, Grant Ho, and Zakir Durumeric. n.d. “A First Look at Governments’ Enterprise Security Guidance.” In USENIX Security Symposium.