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Fantastic new blog post by Nicholas Carlini on LLMs memorizing their training data and what it means (and doesn't mean) for copyright:...

Fantastic new blog post by Nicholas Carlini on LLMs memorizing their training data and what it means (and doesn't mean) for copyright: https://nicholas.carlini.com/writing/2025/privacy-copyright-and-generative-models.html

I got annoyed couldn't find a good glossary of DP terms, so I wrote one: https://desfontain.es/blog/differential-privacy-glossary.html...

I got annoyed couldn't find a good glossary of DP terms, so I wrote one: https://desfontain.es/blog/differential-privacy-glossary.html ✨

Simple definitions, links to further reading, and some mild snark about how bad we are at naming things sometimes 🙃

joke spoilerboba kitty 😺

joke spoiler

boba kitty 😺

Tired: bouba/kikiWired:

Tired: bouba/kiki
Wired:

FUCK YES 🥳Onwards to 2000 now!!! 🚀

FUCK YES 🥳

Onwards to 2000 now!!! 🚀

I just noticed that the equations on my blog are now displayed in a weirdly tiny font on Chromium (see e.g....

I just noticed that the equations on my blog are now displayed in a weirdly tiny font on Chromium (see e.g. https://desfontain.es/blog/dp-vision.html). I don't get the bug on Firefox. Does it do that for you too? Does anyone know how to fix it? =/

Strongly recommend the Mille et Une Orchidées exhibition in Paris. It felt like @jerry's personal paradise 🤩

Strongly recommend the Mille et Une Orchidées exhibition in Paris. It felt like @jerry's personal paradise 🤩

Tonight I learned how to sharpen knives at https://www.lorenzimesser.ch/ and I had a great time — Reto is an absolute pro and an excellent...

Tonight I learned how to sharpen knives at https://www.lorenzimesser.ch/ and I had a great time — Reto is an absolute pro and an excellent teacher. I strongly recommend it 🔪

Projet "un gâteau par chapitre du livre de @Owi": Lemon Bling-Bling 🍋, Fraise & Gingembre 🍓🫚, Fol Noix 🌰, et le...

Projet "un gâteau par chapitre du livre de @Owi": Lemon Bling-Bling 🍋, Fraise & Gingembre 🍓🫚, Fol Noix 🌰, et le Brownie Passion qui était tellement bon qu'on a oublié de faire une photo 🍫

Et bah tout est merveilleux hein. 10/10 j'ai hâte des chapitres suivants 🤤

Today's unusual praise for my blog: "I really liked the post about converting your PhD thesis from LaTeX to HTML, especially the...

Today's unusual praise for my blog: "I really liked the post about converting your PhD thesis from LaTeX to HTML, especially the whole 'keep going through the pain' vibe of it" 🤔

Idle question: is there a strong reason why Python, which generally tries to have a super simple syntax for everything, doesn't allow...

Idle question: is there a strong reason why Python, which generally tries to have a super simple syntax for everything, doesn't allow iterators like `for key, value in d` where d is a dict, but instead forces users to write `for key, value in d.items()`?

Friend lamp!!! 😺https://machinelearning.apple.com/research/elegnt-expressive-functional-movement

Friend lamp!!! 😺
https://machinelearning.apple.com/research/elegnt-expressive-functional-movement

Fun idea found on Reddit: Wordle, except you have to find a chess mating position ️♟️https://www.matle.io/

Fun idea found on Reddit: Wordle, except you have to find a chess mating position ️♟️
https://www.matle.io/

Nothing motivates me to write more blog posts about synthetic data than synthetic data vendors being defensive in my LinkedIn mentions...

Nothing motivates me to write more blog posts about synthetic data than synthetic data vendors being defensive in my LinkedIn mentions whenever I say things like "there's no silver bullet" 👀

Just published a ✨ new blog post ✨ on synthetic data generation! In which I dismantle the marketing-fueled myth of synthetic data as a...

Just published a ✨ new blog post ✨ on synthetic data generation! In which I dismantle the marketing-fueled myth of synthetic data as a silver bullet, and talk about fundamental trade-offs instead 📊

https://www.tmlt.io/resources/fundamental-trilemma-synthetic-data-generation

This was stressful to write and even more stressful to publish, but I've had to have this conversation too many times with too many...

This was stressful to write and even more stressful to publish, but I've had to have this conversation too many times with too many different people, and it seems worthwhile to have everything summarized in a single place 🫤

I wrote a blog post about Diffprivlib, a well-known differential privacy library.https://desfontain.es/blog/diffprivlib.html

I wrote a blog post about Diffprivlib, a well-known differential privacy library.

https://desfontain.es/blog/diffprivlib.html

Weirdly specific gripe: when searching "fireplace" on YouTube, it's annoyingly hard to find atmosphere videos that are real...

Weirdly specific gripe: when searching "fireplace" on YouTube, it's annoyingly hard to find atmosphere videos that are real wood fires. A ton of it is AI and much of the rest is gas fires pretending to be wood logs burning 😒

I'm out there writing blog posts like "an evil adversary could design clever attacks to extract some personal data from LLMs!"...

I'm out there writing blog posts like "an evil adversary could design clever attacks to extract some personal data from LLMs!" and meanwhile Google's Gemini is just leaking the user's home address, unprompted, while playing chess 🫠

https://youtu.be/0a_gYIO47Ac?feature=shared&t=504 🙃

Maybe for the shortform social media audience I should have chosen one of the spicier diagrams as a teaser image 🤔

Maybe for the shortform social media audience I should have chosen one of the spicier diagrams as a teaser image 🤔