Upcoming Session(s)

SF Systems Reading Group with Cognition event poster

#15

#15

Systems Reading Group with Cognition

Systems Reading Group with Cognition

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Monday, October 5, 2026 · 7pm PDT

Monday, October 5, 2026 · 7pm PDT

TOPIC

Globally distributed RL training

SPEAKERS

Silas Alberti

Carlo Baronio

RESOURCES

Async RL & Pipeline RL

Delta weight updates

Sparsity of RL gradients

Past sessions

Past sessions

AI for Science Symposium with Altara artwork

#14

AI for Science Symposium with Altara

AI for Science Symposium with Altara

Event Link

August 27, 2026

TOPIC

Lightning talks from AI for Science startups

Lightning talks from AI for Science startups

TALKS

Verification in the age of AI scientists

Catherine Yeo | Altara

Derek Deming | Altara

Intersection of AI, Bio, and Robotics

Sai Vinayak Ganesh | Medra

Self Improving Synthesis Engines

Brandon Wang | Onepot

How do you Benchmark an AI Scientist?

Kenny Workman | LatchBio

Generating Antibody Drugs Developed on a computer

Matthew McPartlon | Chai Discovery

Systems Reading Group with Resolve AI event artwork

#13

Systems Reading Group with Resolve AI

Systems Reading Group with Resolve AI

Event Link

June 24, 2026

TOPIC

Scaling RL Compute

Scaling RL Compute

SPEAKERS

Sean Bell, Head of Resolve AI Labs

RESOURCES

The Art of Scaling Reinforcement Learning Compute for LLMs

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#12

Systems Reading Group with Humans& & ARC-AGI

Systems Reading Group with Humans& & ARC-AGI

Event Link

April 9, 2026

TOPIC

ARC-AGI

ARC-AGI

SPEAKERS

Jeremy Berman

Niloofar Mireshghallah

RESOURCES

ARC-AGI Prize

Jeremy’s highest score blogpost

Searching Latent Program Spaces Paper

Systems Reading Group with Harbor and Terminal-Bench event artwork

#11

Systems Reading Group with Harbor/Terminal-Bench

Systems Reading Group with Harbor/Terminal-Bench

Event Link

March 10, 2026

TOPIC

Harbor Framework

Harbor Framework

SPEAKERS

Alex Shaw

Ryan Marten

RESOURCES

Harbor Framework

Terminal-Bench

Systems Reading Group with Abnormal AI event artwork

#10

Systems Reading Group with Abnormal AI

Systems Reading Group with Abnormal AI

Event Link

February 4, 2026

TOPIC

Agent Systems for Cyber Defense

Agent Systems for Cyber Defense

SPEAKERS

Shrivu Shankar, VP AI @ Abnormal

RESOURCES

Shrivu’s AI Blog

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#9

Systems Reading Group - AI for Performance Engineering

Systems Reading Group - AI for Performance Engineering

Event Link

November 20, 2025

TOPIC

KernelBench & SWE-fficiency

KernelBench & SWE-fficiency

SPEAKERS

Simon Guo - Author of KernelBench

Jeffrey Ma - Author of SWE-fficiency

RESOURCES

KernelBench Blog

KernelBench Paper

KernelBench Techniques

Kevin: Multi-Turn RL for Generating CUDA Kernels

SWE-fficiency Website

SWE-fficiency Paper

Systems Reading Group with Warpstream Labs and Datadog Husky event artwork

#8

Systems Reading Group with Warpstream Labs/Datadog Husky

Systems Reading Group with Warpstream Labs/Datadog Husky

Event Link

November 12, 2025

TOPIC

The Unbundled Data Store: A Case Study of Datadog’s Husky

The Unbundled Data Store: A Case Study of Datadog’s Husky

SPEAKERS

Richard Artoul, Co-founder, Warpstream Labs

Ryan Worl, Co-founder, Warpstream Labs

RESOURCES

Introducing Husky

The Husky Query Engine

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#7

Systems Reading Group Featuring vLLM

Systems Reading Group Featuring vLLM

Event Link

October 20, 2025

TOPIC

vllm

vllm

SPEAKERS

Simon Mo

RESOURCES

vllm Open Source Code

Step-3 is Large yet Affordable: Model-system Co-design for Cost-effective Decoding

Systems Reading Group with Forge event artwork

#6

Systems Reading Group with Forge

Systems Reading Group with Forge

Event Link

October 7, 2025

TOPIC

Programming Languages: Algebraic Effects

Programming Languages: Algebraic Effects

SPEAKERS

Hima Tammineedi

Sikan He

RESOURCES

Concurrent System Programming with Effect Handlers

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Systems Reading Group Biotech Edition

Systems Reading Group Biotech Edition

Event Link

August 20, 2025

TOPIC

Lightning talks from Arc Institute, LatchBio, & FutureHouse

Lightning talks from Arc Institute, LatchBio, & FutureHouse

TALKS

LData: A Distributed Filesystem Built on Postgres and S3

Aidan Abdulali | LatchBio

A Family of High-Performance Binary Formats for Nucleotide Sequences

Noam Teyssier | Arc Institute

Edge of Tomorrow Algorithms

James Braza | FutureHouse

Scaling Deep Learning to 1B+ Single Cells

Abhinav Adduri | Arc Institute

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Systems Reading Group with LanceDB

Systems Reading Group with LanceDB

Event Link

August 19, 2025

TOPIC

Lance Multimodal Lakehouse (MMLH) and Storage Format

Lance Multimodal Lakehouse (MMLH) and Storage Format

SPEAKERS

Lei Xu

RESOURCES

Lance Storage Format

Systems Reading Group with AGIHouse on RL event artwork

#3

Systems Reading Group with AGIHouse on RL

Systems Reading Group with AGIHouse on RL

Event Link

July 27, 2025

TOPIC

RL Superpowers for LLMs

RL Superpowers for LLMs

SPEAKERS

Jiayi Pan

Tyler Griggs

RESOURCES

Adaptive Parallel Reasoning

TinyZero

SkyRL

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#2

Systems Reading Group with Prime Intellect

Systems Reading Group with Prime Intellect

Event Link

June 23, 2025

TOPIC

Verifiable Inference - TOPLOC

Verifiable Inference - TOPLOC

SPEAKERS

Jack Min Ong

Johannes Hagemann

RESOURCES

TOPLOC Paper

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NYSRG in SF - Firecracker VMM

NYSRG in SF - Firecracker VMM

Event Link

May 27, 2025

TOPIC

Firecracker VMM

Firecracker VMM

SPEAKERS

Eric Zhang

RESOURCES

Firecracker VMM Source Code

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