Ted

@desfontain.es

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A little pinch of randomness here and there and poof, your data is now protected. Magic! ✨ (I don't read DMs. Send me an email instead.) 🌉 bridged from ⁂ https://hachyderm.io/@tedted, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact

A white and brown/grey kitten lying on a wooden floor, his big eyes looking at the camera
A picture of Edwige Cyffers presenting a slide. It reads: Danger of Banning Large epsilon → When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure Goodhart's Law - Label DP. If the features enable non-trivial prediction, what are we doing? - Public-private learning. Public data is often contaminated by the private data. - Adoption risk. Overly rigid norms can push practitioners toward non-DP privacy wash Practical questions What is counted, over what horizon, for which task, and against which alternative? Privacy budget interpretation also benefits from contextual integrity
a kitten on its back under a black couch, paws on the bottom part of the couch, looking straight at the camera like "oops you caught me"
a video of a 3-month black & white kitten wearing a pink and blue harness, and held on a leash by the person shooting the video. he's walking from one tree to the next in a green area
A square light brown cake with white icing on top. It looks vaguely geometric, but not very good overall.
a white and tabby kitten standing on low vegetation, looking around curiously. he is wearing a blue and pink harness
A kitten sleeping on its side on a grey blanket. His eyes are closed, his white belly is visible, and his tongue is out. Blep!
a white & tabby kitten lying on his back on a grey couch, surrounded by orange pillows. his mouth is fully open, in the middle of a biiig yawn
Two kittens lying on someone. One is sleeping and the other is looking straight at the camera
a close-up picture of a white and brown kitten, with blue text around it: hello my name is Miso i like: - hiding - high places - sleeping - SOFT head scritches - hiding - pouncing on my brother while he eats dinner, spilling food everywhere i don’t like: - sudden noises - being perceived - people coming towards me faster than 0.8m / minute
two 2-month kittens sitting on a bathroom mat. they both have a white belly, the left one has a brown back and patches of brown around the eyes while the right one has a black black and a patch of black around one eye
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A cropped screenshot of the Lichess UI (in french), indicating 15 successive victories on June 2nd, 2026
A stylized coral in orange and bordeaux, along with the name "Hiding Nemo" in all caps, where "Hiding" is in bolder font.
A short video of a very dirty terrasse floor being cleaned with a pressure washer, leaving a white trace on an otherwise grimy surface
A Sophie's scarf, crocheted using a variegated yarn that goes from a warm orange to a soft grey. It's folded in four, and shown on top of a darker grey couch.
a man wearing a brown crochet hat in a bathroom, with a cute pompon on top of the hat
the same blue kawaii crochet cat than in the previous picture, next to a white crochet bunny, in a very similar style, with longer bunny ears and two little feet
a tiny little blue crochet plush toy in the form of a stylized cat head with a tail behind, with black eyes, nose, and stripes on the sides
a plate of fried spring rolls on salad leaves
A close-up of the instructions on a rice noodle package. The French version says to soak the noodles for 20 minutes. The English version says to soak the noodles for 30-45 minutes
The same blanket as in the previous message, laid flat against a bed. It looks complete, except…
A folded baby blanket, with a wavy pattern in white, green and blue, resting against a large grey pilow.
7 open containers full of bright green wild garlic pesto, next to a big blender with some perso still in the bowl
A row of 4 egg cartons filled with soil, with little signs indicating that various herb seeds just got planted in the soil
A selfie of the author in front of a sign indicating "Burg Dagstuhl", "Schloss Dagstuhl", and "Schlossgarten"
A bathroom selfie of a happy looking guy proudly wearing a brown, warm-looking crochet hat
a screenshot of the bullet statistics on the Lichess app, showing a new personal record of 2002 ranking
A bottle of Rivella on a table, with a glass next to it
a tiny white kitten sleeping under a dark blanket on a blue couch. his two tiny little back paws and their tiny little brown toebean are visible outside the blanket
a tiny white kitten lying on a grey blanket, on top of a blue couch. his eyes are half closed and he is absurdly cute
A happy-looking bonsai elm tree on a stove. A bunch of small branches with light green leaves sprout from all sides, making the whole picture quite chaotic.
A photo of a TV screen with a news program from MDR on it. The news host is speaking while, in a background, a picture depicts a display of various sausages.
A crocheted black hat with cat ears, worn by the author, half of whose face is visible on the picture
A buffet table with various foods on them.
Un panneau annonçant une aire routière qui s'appelle "OWi-Land"
An orchid plan t with a lot of pale orange flowers, with a dark pink and white center.
A circular diagram with four boxes and arrows between them. "Discover a new way AI models memorize and leak verbatim training data" leads to "Come up with a brand new ad hoc mitigation that seems to fix the problem", which leads to "Deploy the fix to production, self congratulate", which leads to "Some random PhD student creates a novel attack that breaks known mitigations", which leads to the first box. At the bottom, disconnected from the rest, an arrow links five question marks lead to a box that says "Build actually robust AI models"
Les trois livres de Owi Owi Fouette-Moi: à foutre au four, chaud froid, et le gâteau dont tu es le héros
The front cover of A Deadly Education, by Naomi Novik.
The front cover of The Death of Vivek Oji, by Akwaeke Emezi.
The front cover of When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain, by Nghi Vo.
The front cover of The Secret Lives of Baba Segi's Wives, by Lola Shoneyin.
The front cover of The Remains of the Day, by Kazuo Ishiguro. The cover mentions that the book won the Booker prize, and the author the Nobel prize in literature.
Two cats, a tabby one and a black one behind him, lying on a yellowish white duvet. The tabby one looks like he has exactly one brain cell left and he's not sure what to do with it. The black one looks directly at the camera with a knowing look.