Sasho Nikolov ([email protected]) @thesasho
Associate professor at U of T. Computer science and math research: (differentially) private data analysis, geometry, discrepancy, optimization. cs.toronto.edu/~anikolov/ Toronto, Ontario Joined September 2014-
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Who eats thick slabs of raw Brussels sprouts, stem and all? @thepicklebarrel
Major surprise by 3 @Berkeley_EECS grad students: Meghal Gupta, @HongxunWu, Mihir Singhal. *Deterministic* eps-approximate quantiles in O(1/eps) mem. The previous best was the KLL sketch, which was randomized and used O(lglg(1/p)/eps) mem, p = fail prob arxiv.org/abs/2404.03847 1/
We've put on arXiv a paper in which we solve the following long-standing open problem: You want to sort a set of items using as few comparisons as possible when someone already performed some comparisons. Turns out you can do this in near-linear time! arxiv.org/abs/2404.04552
Now imagine if they decided to go independent (like CCC or SoCG in theory) and have open access proceedings published with, say, LIPIcs for a (tiny) fraction of the cost. What a world that would be..
Now imagine if they decided to go independent (like CCC or SoCG in theory) and have open access proceedings published with, say, LIPIcs for a (tiny) fraction of the cost. What a world that would be..
By that point I had been in grad school for 2.5 years, and for most of them I thought I’d never have a publishable result. Having these two papers was such a relief. I try to remember these things when advising students.
From the Bulgarian part of the family, happy baba Marta to all who are yearning to welcome spring
Come see me if you're in the area! It'll be just like any other time you've seen me, but more distinguished!
Come see me if you're in the area! It'll be just like any other time you've seen me, but more distinguished!
Happy #LunarNewYear to everyone celebrating!
Next Tuesday, Feb 13, join us for a special panel discussion on the topic of #MAID with #UofTLaw Prof. @TrudoLemmens, @Psych_MD (@uoftmedicine), Kerri Joffe (@ARCHDisability) and @orlando_lsm (JD 1993). Moderated by @theannasu. Register now: cvent.me/LPLOlD
The most Toronto thing ever
The Workshop on Efficient Algorithms for High Dimensional Metrics will be held at DIMACS on May 6-9, 2024. (@thesasho will be a tutorial speaker!) Registration is open and students may apply for (limited) support. For details: dimacs.rutgers.edu/events/details…
Truly the brightest minds solving the most important problems of our times!
Truly the brightest minds solving the most important problems of our times!
NeurIPS 2023 Outstanding Paper: Privacy auditing in just one run differentialprivacy.org/neurips23-op/
They are delivering a university system in decline to the British people.
They are delivering a university system in decline to the British people.
Neural Net Training Dynamics, Winter 2022 cs.toronto.edu/~rgrosse/cours…
Too relatable
I decided to write out a part of the story of my illness for my #LongCovidMoonshot holiday letter, which I am sending tomorrow to @RepRaulGrijalva, @SenMarkKelly, and @SenatorSinema. 🌼
Is this common in US high schools? It’s mind blowing to me. I needed to write five handwritten pages of analysis of a literary work to *enter* high school, let alone graduate from it.
Is this common in US high schools? It’s mind blowing to me. I needed to write five handwritten pages of analysis of a literary work to *enter* high school, let alone graduate from it.
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44K Followers 507 Following Assistant Prof of CS @UWaterloo, Faculty @VectorInst, Canada @CIFAR_News AI Chair. Co-EiC @TmlrOrg. I lead @TheSalonML. Privacy, robustness, machine learning.Jelani Nelson @minilek
22K Followers 184 Following Professor @Berkeley_EECS. Research Scientist (part-time) @GoogleAI. Founder @addiscoder. 🇻🇮🇺🇸🇪🇹Boaz Barak @boazbaraktcs
17K Followers 422 Following Computer Scientist. See also https://t.co/EXWR5k634w, https://t.co/SEVX6it6z3 ( @[email protected] , boaz.barak in threads ). Opinions my own.TCS blog aggregator @cstheory
6K Followers 9 Following Posts from the Theory of Computing Blog Aggregator maintained by @nimaanari, @abhatt2, and @thegautamkamath.Dan Roy @roydanroy
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10K Followers 639 Following CS professor at Penn. Amazon Scholar at AWS. Author of The Ethical Algorithm (w/ Michael Kearns). I study machine learning, privacy, game theory, and fairness.Thomas Steinke @shortstein
9K Followers 454 Following Computer scientist interested in (differential) privacy & related topics, e.g., generalization. @GoogleDeepMind Opinions are mine ©. 🇳🇿𝖬𝖺𝗁𝖽𝗂 .. @mahdi_tcs
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861 Followers 636 Following Researcher in ML and Privacy. Distinguished Postdoc at @KhouryCollege. PhD @UofT & @VectorInst. Prev. Research Intern @GoogleDeepMind,@ServiceNowRSRCHNiloofar (Fatemeh) Mi.. @niloofar_mire
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365K Followers 362 Following Pi creature caretaker. Contact/faq: https://t.co/brZwdQfdifToday we're very lucky to welcome Adam Smith to @UWCheritonCS as a Distinguished Lecturer! His talk is about Privacy, Learning, and Inference.
Inspiring! Also, rang so many bells. Being a first-gen is difficult. Fun fact: An uncle of mine, who has always maintained that I am good for nothing, tells people that I do shady business in Canada by bringing people from other countries (as I recruit students). :p
At 18, my academic advisor told me that “higher education might not be for you” as I struggled my 1st year at Uni. I was determined to prove him wrong. Yesterday, this first-generation, state-schooled student graduated from Cambridge with a PhD. State school kids, you can do it!
It's hard to search for formulas. It's possible the new formula I came up with is known. MathOverflow helps with that, except if no one answers you can never tell whether it's not known or if no one who knows noticed the question: mathoverflow.net/questions/4701…
for classically cut suits and sports coats, your trousers should have some relationship to your jacket so there is a coherent silhouette. here is what i mean
About a month ago, my 9-y.o nephew, Phil, called me, asking whether I'd like to play with him I was so touched to hear his voice, let alone this invitation! Eversince, each Saturday morning we virtually meet+play When it comes to love, kids always find their way
when i first went viral, i saw someone say "how much longer can someone talk about suits?" and the last 15 years of my wasted life flashed before my eyes
@shortstein As long as they also open up a craft beer track I’m all in favour.
@blgtylr That part where he makes the sandwich, mindblowing.
This package has such a weirdly threatening aura. I don’t think I’d want to meet 6 very large British eggs in a dark alley
@Aaroth Truly amazing! With a hint and some back and forth, only several times slower than it would take to do it yourself in Python, and dozens of times slower than writing one line in bash!
@mahdi_tcs How about the storming of the US embassy by the Iranian students in 1979 that led to the hostage crisis.
Last week I had the strange but very positive experience of attending a conference in celebration of my 60th birthday (which was a few months ago). The talks were wonderful but slightly hard to find on YouTube, so I've made a playlist of most of them. 🧵 youtube.com/playlist?list=…
I’m on a flight in US and an old lady has caused confusion, hilarity and then amazement as the crew expected her to be an infant. She is actually 101 and the computer can’t handle an age that high so just put her down as a 1 year old on the manifest. She laughed it off. Legend.
@thegautamkamath I was walking through a campus back to my hotel rocking this look, and someone walking by, without additional context, said, "Good luck!" nodded encouragingly, and continued walking
I forgot the part where your kid is sick, you can totally end up sicker
Proof that the 1000th root of 2 is irrational: If it were equal to p/q then p^1000 = q^1000 + q^1000 ... contradicting Fermat's Last Theorem.