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luz de luna sobre Sevilla [jatp]
Posted in pictures, Travel with tags 5thSYSORM, Andalucía, Catedral de Sevilla, full moon, half moon, jatp, Joaquín Barquín y Barón, moonlight, Plaza Del Cabildo, Sevilla, Spain, tapas, Young statisticians on November 11, 2025 by xi'an
Contextual Integrity for Differential Privacy #4 [23w5106]
Posted in Books, Mountains, pictures, Running, Statistics, Travel, University life, Wines with tags 100th birthday, Arrowleaf Cellars, Banff International Research Station for Mathematical Innovation, BIRS, British Columbia, Canada, Canadian wines, contextual integrity, covidtracker, data analysis, differential privacy, ethics, full moon, GDPR, information theory, Kelowna, Lake Okanagan, large language models, natural language processing, Okanagan Valley, Okanagan vineyards, philosophy of sciences, replicability, synthetic data, UBCO, winery, workshop on August 5, 2023 by xi'an
Mostly short talks. First talk by Thomas Seinke (Google) on interpreting ε, with a side wondering of mine on the relation between exp(ε) and the uncertainty that comes with Monte Carlo outcome. Which may relate to this 2022 paper by Ruobin Gong. Second talk by Gautam Kamath (U Waterloo) on large language models under privacy with “public” data. Questioning the appropriateness of ML benchmarks in terms of privacy. Third talk by Mark Bun (Boston U) on replicability, privacy and adaptive generalisation in machine learning, with a strange criticism of confidence intervals on the same parameter not intersecting for two independent studies. And proposing high probability replicable algorithms that can be put in duality with differentially private algorithms at the cost of lowering precision and effective sample size. We also had another group discussion on how to reach out about privacy guarantees, which made me realise there were GDPR compliance software available.
In the afternoon session, Shlomi Hod (Boston U) presented a practical case of designing a privacy preserving protocol for the Israeli birth record. With a strong opposition from stakeholders to use synthetic data, due to a semantic drift from synthetic to manipulated to fake, to lying. Wanrong Zhang did not talk about her stunning recent ICML paper but instead of another practical case connected with mobile based Covid case predictions, by adding minimal noise to mobility data. Nidhi Hegde (U Alberta) gave up talking on Thomson sampling with privacy protection, to focus on an ongoing health application for Alberta as more suited for the workshop. And Ria Safavi-Naini (U Calgary) drew a parallel between information theory and DP versus CI.
While the workshop was scheduled till Friday noon, in usual BIRS habits (!), the morning session was cancelled for most people leaving Kelowna in the morning.
moonlight [jatp]
Posted in pictures with tags full moon, jatp, moonlight on October 31, 2016 by xi'an
moon under the midnight sun
Posted in Mountains, pictures, Travel, University life with tags full moon, Iceland, midnight sun, Nordic-Baltic Biometric conference, Reykjanes Peninsula, Reykjavik on June 6, 2015 by xi'an
