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Written by Ted on 2025-01-30 at 08:47

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" 👀

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Written by Ted on 2025-01-29 at 19:48

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

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Written by Ted on 2025-01-20 at 12:43

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 🫤

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Written by Ted on 2025-01-20 at 12:35

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

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

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Written by Ted on 2025-01-17 at 20:12

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 😒

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Written by Ted on 2025-01-15 at 10:28

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 🙃

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Written by Ted on 2025-01-13 at 15:18

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

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Written by Ted on 2025-01-13 at 14:37

I wrote a ✨ new blog post ✨ about privacy in AI: five things that privacy experts know about AI, but that might not be so obvious outside our community 😶‍🌫️

Link here ️➡️ https://desfontain.es/blog/privacy-in-ai.html 🌈

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Written by Ted on 2025-01-12 at 22:09

The extra hilarious bit is that the Frankfurt - Basel SBB train in the middle… stops at Basel Bad Bf 😶

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Written by Ted on 2025-01-12 at 22:08

Totally normal itinerary you've got there, Deutsche Bahn.

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Written by Ted on 2025-01-12 at 21:24

This is so absurd and frustrating. Why can't everything be under a single standardized API so booking systems can just figure out the best prize for a given route?!

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Written by Ted on 2025-01-12 at 21:16

I think it's because each booking system is unaware of the other's saver tickets options. So booking on DB always gives you the regular cost for Swiss trains and vice-versa.

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Written by Ted on 2025-01-12 at 21:14

Been buying train tickets from Zürich to German cities for close to a decade. Just today I realized that I could get cheaper tickets by booking the Swiss and German parts separately.

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Written by Ted on 2025-01-10 at 23:03

On commence par le Lemon Bling Bling de @Owi, qui envoie du zing, du moelleux, et de la joie 🍋

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Written by Ted on 2025-01-10 at 16:20

One of my 2025 resolutions is to lower my own bar to write blog posts — being more OK publishing something that isn't perfect.

I am completely failing at this so far.

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Written by Ted on 2025-01-07 at 20:42

J'ai complété la trilogie @Owi pour Noël 🤩

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Written by Ted on 2025-01-07 at 17:32

Someone sent me an email asking me questions, ending with "and here are a few pics of my cats for compensation". Such a cheap way to push me to prioritize their request over other people's. Urgh. I'd be offended if only I weren't busy fawning at their cats and answering their email right away.

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Written by Ted on 2024-12-25 at 22:16

Bonsoir vous êtes priés d'admirer notre bûche faite maison cette année 😺

Mousse de pommes, pommes caramélisées, deux biscuits aux épices différents, croustillant d'amandes, nappage au caramel 🍎

(Accompagné d'un sorbet maison poires-riesling-gingembre et de champagne parce que c'est Noël 🍐🥂)

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Written by Ted on 2024-12-22 at 17:52

I'll end on this one, because @naominovik is also my major author discovery of the year. Also by her, I've read Spinning Silver this year and I'm halfway through Uprooted, and they're both absolutely fantastic. At once a familiar and fresh look on the fairy tale genre. I can't wait to read the rest of her books next year!

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Written by Ted on 2024-12-22 at 17:47

The Scholomance trilogy, by Naomi Novik (@naominovik) 🧙‍♀️

Come for the hilarious take on the "magic school for teenagers" genre (with an annoyingly dashing hero and a protagonist prophesized to be a world-destroying dark sorceress), stay for the compelling and dark world-building and the masterful pacing across the three novels.

[#]books

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