I was able to download my files just as the walls were crumbling with nginx messages. 51 hours until the NeurIPS deadline. 😬

Simson Garfinkel's addition to our Essential Knowledge Series, "Differential Privacy," is a robust yet accessible introduction to the idea, history, and key applications of differential privacy—the gold standard of algorithmic privacy protection: mitpress.mit.edu/978026255165... @simson.net

Perhaps they have a bad deal sourcing large cups!

There's a rule of thumb in coffee that drinks that look alike should be priced alike. That's why a chai latte, despite being relatively easy and cheap to make, is often priced around a flavored latte.

A chronicle of the rise and falls of effective altruism from
@wired.com magazine

A look at a pragmatism in the early 20th century from @jhideas.bsky.social

A pre-DP data privacy paper that introduced the notion of a quasi-identifier.

@sciam.bsky.social's look at a nineteenth century legal battle between evolutionary theory and spiritualism.

@joeldavidhamkins.bsky.social's thought experiment on the continuum hypothesis.

Here are some highlights:
The @economist.com's reflections on the generational dominance of US politics. An interesting time capsule from this year!

@peculiarbookclub.bsky.social, you may be interested in a fun side project I've been working on looks back at research from 100, 150, and 200 years ago. Some stuff is well known, others have been forgotten, and still others were never read at the time. Below is my look at 1874.

John Ramsay McCulloch’s Discourse on Political Economy from 1824 is the first history of economic thought from the era of the classical economists.

Ballyhoo! by Jon Langmead (2024) is a history of professional wrestling and combat sports from its outlaw roots in the late nineteenth century through the first half of the twentieth century.

William Stanley Jevons’ The Principles of Science is a wide-ranging treatment of logic and philosophy of science from 1874 that’s bursting with ideas - some more developed than others.

Here's the list:
Wisdom’s Workshop (2016) by James Axtell is a history of the American research university from Medieval times to the present.

I walked by your poster and really liked this work. Added to my reading list!