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maximeago

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About maximeago

Cofounder of Sarus (YC W22, https://sarus.tech), previously cofounder of AlephD (acquired by Verizon).

Recent public activity

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    Comment #49111201

    I remember that it was a lot easier if I had 10 instances of Winamp running at the same time, it was not just that time slowed, the physics was different. Was this ported?

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    Comment #39841520

    Nice way to make differential privacy approachable to everyone with open source. Was it peer-reviewed?

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    Comment #30780204

    Yes, Sarus is on https://www.linkedin.com/company/sarus-technologies , feel free to follow us or add the founders directly.

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    Comment #30751515

    Privitar and Leapyear are indeed part of competition on the more mature side of the spectrum. Even if all three of us use differential privacy, I would say that each company's core…

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    Comment #30720647

    That's a great suggestion actually! We'll definitely work on it and thanks for your help.

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    Comment #30711006

    You're correct, Sarus never sees the data. The software runs directly on the data infrastructure of the client. It's typically deployed on the public cloud for instance. And here, …

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    Comment #30708727

    No, we don't do federated learning at Sarus today. We operate in the trusted curator model: a party has a centralized database and lets external practitioner leverage it. This is t…

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    Comment #30708690

    If the model training is designed to profile just one user, no, the model won't work by design. What you describe is an attack on the privacy of that user and we do want to make su…

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    Comment #30708621

    This person just joined last month! ;)

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    Comment #30703035

    Thanks for catching it! will fix it.

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    Comment #30702336

    Yes, there are many parallels with Duets we can look at Sarus as a productized version of it. There are some differences though: - we designed for the trusted curator model where D…

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    Comment #30700694

    Thanks! Our goal is that no matter what preprocessing function they pass, the only end up accessing outputs that comply with the privacy policies. The code gets access to the real …

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    Comment #30700069

    We developed our own generative model for synthetic data generation. It is an autoregressive model where each variable/attribute is derived from previously generated ones using Tra…

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    Comment #30699881

    The product solves the problem of the time it takes to access sensitive data for analytics and machine learning. When you work in a large healthcare or financial organization, each…

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    Comment #30699827

    Here is how it would work in theory (not including the scalability question of working with heavy DICOM files and huge DNN). I'm assuming your data is made of records composed by a…

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    Comment #30699637

    We developed our own generative model for synthetic data generation. It is an autoregressive model where each variable is derived from previously generated ones using Transformers …

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    Comment #30699621

    1. Sarus works on data that is organized in records. The intuition is that one record should not transpire in the results (hence protecting their privacy) but studying all records …

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    Comment #30699421

    No, we do not. Pysyft was mostly first designed to do federated learning. Sarus targets organizations that have their data in one central repository in a trusted curator model. It …

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    Comment #30699358

    Sarus is designed for all data use cases, provided that access to a given user's information is not the objective. This is the case for all of BI, analytics, or machine learning. I…

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    Comment #30699025

    The API is designed to be hosted by our clients so that the software runs directly on their data infrastructure and no sensitive data leaves their systems. In this demo, it is obvi…

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    Comment #30698860

    Yes, this is a very rich resource. Thx

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    Comment #30698789

    You can use Google SSO without a token. If you don't have a Google account, can you contact us with the contact form? we'll send you a token.

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    Comment #30698583

    The first link is the corporate website, it may not include all the product details you expected, sorry about that. You should get a lot more details on how it works if you try the…

  24. story
    Launch HN: Sarus (YC W22) – Work on sensitive data with differential privacy

    Hi HN! Maxime, Nicolas, and Vincent here, founders of Sarus ( https://www.sarus.tech ). Sarus is a privacy engineering software that lets data scientists work on data without the n…