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🚨 This week colleague Olya Ohrimenko is at ACM CCS 2025 2024 presenting our work ElephantDP 🐘 on state continuity for securely maintaining privacy budgets for differential privacy 🕵️. Led by Jiankai Jin JasonJ with Yuval Yarom Toby Murray Chitchanok Chuengsatiansup. 1/N

Predictions are a fool's game, so I'm happy to play: Tim Winton's "Juice" for the Booker 2025.

Kind of makes me wish I’d put a spoonerism into my DPhil thesis, though “Analysing the Pecurity Properties of Object-Capability Satterns” sounds almost astronomical

To paraphrase Einstein, let me pose a provocation: As far as mathematical specifications refer to real software they are not certain, and as far as they are certain they do not refer to real software.

I can attest last night’s 7pm show was indeed an excellent gig.

I'm hiring for a postdoc position (women-only applicants) to work with the Ida Asadi Someh and Tapani Rinta-Kahila on designing decision support tools to tackle skills erosion and boost skills building. 1/2

A great and timely initiative. Props to all involved

“Optimism is a discipline. It's something that you put on. It's something that you seek and meet and wear and arm yourself with in order to endure, to persist, and to make life bearable and bearable for others.” Tim Winton, 2024 podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/rea…

Discovery is the reward. No one understands anything fully. Optimism pays off. Everyone has skills you lack. There are no new ideas. Learning is never over. You don't own ideas, ideas own you.

Today's timeline is awash with "Please read my op-ed explaining why the Democrats would have won yesterday's US election, if only they had discarded the policies I disagrees with while promoting more of the policies that I prefer."

Minimum age of criminal responsibility in Australia: 10 years ACT: 12 NSW: 10 NT: 12 (for now) QLD: 10 SA: 10 TAS: 10 VICE: 10 WA: 10 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age_of_cr… Proposed minimum age to legally use social media: 16

Agreed. The age of criminal responsibility is far too low!

“Did I know Kurt Cobain was a drug addict? Anthony Kiedis? Trent Reznor? I think so, but I'm not sure. I was too busy sorting those CD singles in alphabetical order.” podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/jus… Not sure than teenage me has ever felt more seen

So much fuss about AI “finally” aiding scientific discovery. But “AI” has been helping humans “discover” theorems and proofs for decades.

If you want to understand why “predict when people will do crimes” is utter snake oil, check out Arvind Narayanan and Sayash Kapoor’s excellent book “AI Snake Oil”. Along the way you’ll learn also why not all AI is snake oil and how to sort the wheat from the chaff. Highly recommended

A cautionary tale also with relevance to those writing LLM powered “agents”