Kurtis Heimerl
Associate professor @uwcse.bsky.social
Co-founder at Endaga. Co-chair of GAIA @ IRTF
First generation college student. AS 54429
- Reposted by Kurtis HeimerlProud #UW alum @armon.bsky.social, co-founder of high-flying @hashicorp.com, stays grounded by lifting up the next generation of innovators and entrepreneurs. He and Joshua Kalla recently gave $3M to support #UWAllen research and student success. #UWinnovates news.cs.washington.edu/2025/05/14/d...
- Reposted by Kurtis HeimerlSpencer Foundation joins Kapor Foundation, the William T. Grant Foundation, and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to launch a rapid response bridge funding program (up to $25,000) for education scholars impacted by the abrupt grant cancellations by the National Science Foundation (NSF)! #AcademicSky
- What's funny is I talk about this a lot in my networks class; it wasn't just the NSF, the DoD built the Internet. It goes to show how much an ideology (decentralization) can have massive repercussions on designs and how technology isn't wedded to its funders in the way lots of people presuppose.
- Reposted by Kurtis Heimerlkey to the healthiness of many hunter gatherer pops of antiquity was VARIETY. one major area where the carnivore bro guys go wrong is imagining these ancient humans as eating just meat. in fact the majority of their calories came from vegetarian sources ajcn.nutrition.org/article/S000...
- Nice article linked by my student Innocent on equating monocultures and the Internet: www.noemamag.com/we-need-to-r...
- I'm starting to feel a little uncomfortable speaking to the "thin waist" of the Internet. I guess it's least accurate to its time?
- Reposted by Kurtis HeimerlAndor has so far made the very intelligent decision to make the Emperor a character in absence. this is because you can't see that big goofus laugh and not love the sonovabitch
- What sort of crazy situation would someone need to be in to only need to print the "even" pages of a document?
- Reposted by Kurtis HeimerlWavely Diagnostics is a #UWAllen startup from the lab of the amazing #ShyamGollakota - www.amazon.com/dp/B0DVNQ7P41
- As ostensibly a networking professor doing computer things, I want to sadly note the passing of Dave Taht, an absolutely amazing engineer and person. These are the people who make the world go around and it's sad there's one less today (libreqos.io/2025/04/01/i...)
- I don't think people quite understand how much of current US electoral politics is simple outlandish contrarianism. Like a whole country of oppositional defiant disorders.
- I think an underappreciated element of the current electorate (both sides) is that they literally just want someone to do something, anything. Democrats being the party of staid management is a losing play. I do think this a quintessentially American perspective though.
- Reposted by Kurtis HeimerlAllen School’s Shangbin Feng and Rock Yuren Pang earn IBM Ph.D. Fellowships for seeking to change the narrative around AI news.cs.washington.edu/2025/02/27/a...
- Reposted by Kurtis HeimerlACM HotMobile workshop registration rates are unbelievable... just for a two-day workshop. I don't understand why they do this. What;s wrong with these people? It's the academics :(
- Reposted by Kurtis HeimerlCatching up on the news during my lunch break is my new least favorite daily activity
- While the look is great, I don't understand how these guys aren't too warm all the time. It's like the opposite of how women always look like they are cold.
- A voice of america post has to be like being on an icebreaker in Alaska right? That doesn't seem like a place to put a mover and shaker.
- Mountain's out!
- We're doing degrowth in class today which always brings the question of "why are you doing science right now?". This post (dothemath.ucsd.edu/2023/12/conf...) sorta exemplifies this question. I've found a lot of value in thinking about my work as art. I use science to show alternative realities.
- I like this insight. Like with everything through this era, even the fascist esthetic is a literally cartoonish facsimile of an ideal. Like, it just has to be and look stupid.
- Reposted by Kurtis HeimerlSPD Sweeps Homeless Encampment: bit.ly/41gRanR
- This is truly one of the things I love about the US; it's like when "personal jesus" was playing in the local Fred Meyer. Just a constant delight how our culture doesn't give a fuck.
- I sorta want a way to quote someone without quoting them as I'm seeing some awful takes that I want to talk about but I don't really want to call anyone in particular out. They're just saying culturally normative (for their community) things for clout like everyone else.
- I love decentralization arguments as it is a largely political choice that has concrete technical affordances. We federalized the US government not because it was more efficient (quite the contrary) but because we didn't trust large centralized systems. Then, at scale, it became more efficient.
