Jess Sorrell

@optimistsinc.bsky.social

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Assistant prof at JHU CS. Interested in theory of ML, privacy, cryptography. All cat pictures my own and do not represent the cats of my employer

A pigeon preparing to present it's poster at WiML

An empty hall in the New Orleans Convention Center, being prepared to support the Women in Machine Learning Workshop at NeurIPS 2023

A gadget with wheels, gears, and cranks, which presumably enables a task to be completed with high precision, but I'll never know what task, because I cannot visit the American Precision Museum.

Upper left: a sticker with the GNU gnu and Tux the penguin in superhero gear, flying towards the viewer.

Upper right: a sticker with a pixelated image of "Gnu Emacs" printed on a sink for reasons I'm sure I would understand if I was more hip.

Lower: a Free Software Foundation sticker.

NYC skyline viewed from the Amtrak

The comfiest cat there ever was, peacefully dozing on a fuzzy blanket, secure in the knowledge that a bunch of cool people are gonna come hang with him at NeurIPS

"Throughout history, several researchers have collected thousands of coin flips. In the 18th century, the famed naturalist Count de Buffon collected 2048 uninterrupted sequences of 'heads' in what is possibly the first statistical experiment ever conducted."