aaroth.bsky.social
Professor at Penn, Amazon Scholar at AWS. Interested in machine learning, uncertainty quantification, game theory, privacy, fairness, and most of the intersections therein
👤 Joined on 20 October 2023
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@aaroth.bsky.socialI want to highlight 2 theorists who have distinguished themselves as true scholars: Sankeerth Rao Karingula & Shachar Lovett They have done exceptional work in simplifying and expositing recent breakthroughs on Komlos, 3SUM, etc. They have my highest respect.
Show Post”Stochastic Parrot” was a derogatory intuition pump. It was intended to belittle LLM-based AI. This is not a mystery
Show PostI understand being amazed, bewildered, upset, horrified, excited, depressed, and many other things about this. I do not understand people saying it should be ignored or isn't real. I don't see how you can claim it doesn't matter without also claiming pure math doesn't matter.
Show PostThe Gaussian mechanism is a key technique in differential privacy, used to make a bounded-sensitivity vector differentially privacy. Its analysis usually assumes the ability to perform computations with real numbers, so implementations must approximate the mechanism without breaking its guarantees.
Show PostAnthropic system prompt change that shows how careful you need to be with words: Opus 4.1: "Claude never curses unless the human asks for it" Opus 4.5: "Claude never curses unless the person asks Claude to curse"
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