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Distributed Aggregation Protocol (DAP) Primer

Distributed Aggregation Protocol (DAP) Primer

In last post we covered, Privacy Preserving Measurement (PPM) and discussed how Distributed …

Privacy Preserving Measurement

Privacy Preserving Measurement

In 1982, Andrew Yao proposed the Millionaire Problem which discusses how two millionaires can learn …

Managing Differential Privacy in Large Scale Systems

Managing Differential Privacy in Large Scale Systems

The promise of differential privacy is compelling. It offers a rigorous, provable guarantee of …

Differential Privacy: A Primer

Differential Privacy: A Primer

Differential Privacy (DP) is a mathematical framework that protects individual privacy in data …

Mathematical Guarantee

Mathematical Guarantee

A mathematical guarantee is a formal, provable assurance about the behavior, performance, or …

Engineering excellence is how NASA flawlessly landed Curiosity on Mars

Engineering excellence is how NASA flawlessly landed Curiosity on Mars

We’ve all experienced the frustration of our smartphones crashing or freezing at the worst …

Engineering excellence: the art of doing small things really well

Engineering excellence: the art of doing small things really well

Recently I have been reading Art of Leadership, The: Small Things, Done Well by Michael Lopp. This …

The funnel of relevance

The funnel of relevance

Anyone who has worked with advanced search systems knows the intricacy of boolean operators. AND, …

What is worth of your data to LLM?

What is worth of your data to LLM?

When a machine learning model is trained on a dataset, not all data points contribute equally to the …