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Haven't read the paper yet, but have read the blog posts (which are awesome, BTW!). I'm wondering if you have any thoughts on Frank McSherry's old blog post expressing his distrust…

While this is true, there's some nuance. First of all, there's a lot of recent (and not so recent) work in Local Differential Privacy [1], which uses the "untrusted curator" model.…

Hi Colton! Having worked at LeapYear for just over 3 years now, I can confirm that it's a good place to work and is solving interesting technical problems. I can also answer questi…

> It's the same thing Firefox does with Linux distros who want to add their own patches. "did", I think. I don't know which distros still run into this, but Debian now ships Firefo…

> After using the language for two years I find that the types are actually enough to understand a new library, however, am taking for granted that it's an acquired skill. I think …

> it's just a formula. I also know it doesn't do any logging, or "launch nukes", and that it is thread safe. So the type claims. Without looking at the implementation or using `-XS…

Thank you for doing an AMA! I know I'm late to the party, but I have an experience-report/feature-request/question: I tried to use GitLab in a classroom setting, and it went okay. …

I don't know if this is a definition other people use, but here's one possibility. Intelligence (in a domain) is measured by how well you solve problems in that domain. If problems…

Are you happier with the state of symmetric crypto, which, despite relying on conjectures (like the existence of pseudo-random functions) tends not to rely on _algebraic_ ones? Per…

Except that herd immunity is a thing.

Any chance of an RSS feed?

This comes up often, but it turns out to be pretty crappy, in practice, for a few reasons. First, although it's not ambiguous, it's vague. It's considered good practice to leave em…

I think the problem is not "if you find a frequentist (as opposed to bayesian) statistician", but "if you find a frequentist (as opposed to bayesian) e.g. biologist". Non-statistic…

You might like to check out Brandon Sanderson's work (if you haven't yet). It's all fantasy, but it tends to avoid the "and then something magic happens" problem. I'd interpret the…

If you like math (I mean stuff like set theory and abstract algebra, not arithmetic and high-school math), then Haskell is wonderful. I find programming in it to be more enjoyable …

(Late to the party; sorry) > you can't dynamically check something of a function type Another approach, besides contracts, (one that my lab is working on) relies on whole program t…