Casey Meehan

PhD student at UCSD — ML privacy. Most opinions are not my own; I’m highly impressionable.

[AI at Meta @AIatMeta]

Do SSL models have Déjà Vu?

Meta AI researchers uncovered previously unknown privacy risks resulting from unintended memorization of image-specific information in SSL models + suggest practical mitigation strategies for new models.

Paper ➡️ https://t.co/RGUKqr4sj8

[Casey Meehan @kc_meehan]

Can shuffling offer formal ~inferential~ privacy guarantees 🧐 come check out my and @AmritaRoyChowd8’s ICLR poster tomorrow April 24 at 10:30am PDT, slot D3! https://t.co/nY9QzivivM

[Casey Meehan @kc_meehan]

Stoked to see what is possibly my favorite paper in data privacy receive a SIGMOD Test of Time award! Congrats @machanavajjhala and Dan Kifer!

https://t.co/orKI1yrDj7

[Casey Meehan @kc_meehan]

UCSD Chancellor's office has chosen to more than double its salaries since 2012 (now costing us $42M/yr). Those very same admins have jacked up grad student rent by 50% since 2016. Our pay increase since then? 13%... #UCSD https://t.co/Oa8JtiAlsk

[zach @offtargeteffect]

Today the CFO of UCSD who makes $430K a year had the gall to lecture me about budgeting when I explained to him that graduate students cannot be made to pay 75% of their income in on-campus rent.

[Casey Meehan @kc_meehan]

Dear autocorrect,

There are :) moments and there are 🙂 moments, but not all :) moments are 🙂 moments. So stop 🙂ing all my :)’s.

[Casey Meehan @kc_meehan]

@Kevin_Faulconer The notion that basic education and literally avoiding the apocalypse are “tradeoffs” is a slimy illusion 🤢

[Casey Meehan @kc_meehan]

So today I learned that the word ‘quixotic’ exists. I feel directly trolled by the English language. We will be taking a break over the holiday.

[Casey Meehan @kc_meehan]

If you’re like me, and your bday is New Years Eve... this year, the whole damn planet gonna party hardcore exactly when your bday ends. No easy way to say it 🎉 😞

[Casey Meehan @kc_meehan]

🚨🚨 all you NeurIPS-goers: stop by our Privacy-Preserving ML virtual workshop this Friday December 11 for some mind blowing keynotes and a *career altering* poster session!! #NeurIPS2020 #PPML2020

https://t.co/NluuM8C5zE

[Casey Meehan @kc_meehan]

Car got broken into. First I felt irritated that someone was rummaging through my stuff. Now, just offended that apparently *none* of my stuff is worth stealing!! At least have the decency to steal some jumper cables yeesh. No common decency...

[Marco Rogers @polotek]

You can learn a lot by really examining what is happening with Timnit Gebru. Both how she was used to bolster Google's brand and credibility and how she was ultimately sacrificed when she wouldn't fall in line.

[Casey Meehan @kc_meehan]

Who can help me get the loud motorcycle industry in touch with the sensitive car alarm industry?

[Casey Meehan @kc_meehan]

Nobody:

The New Yorker:

[Ashwin Machanavajjhala @machanavajjhala]

Words of wisdom from Adam Smith on the importance of privacy definitions. It's ok to argue about the strengths and weaknesses of different privacy definitions, but it is not ok to develop algorithms with no precise definition of privacy and claim they are privacy-preserving.

[Casey Meehan @kc_meehan]

Tip: argue that ~luxurious~ warming climates will make American workers demand universal PTO 🏖 . Better stop the warming soon!

[Casey Meehan @kc_meehan]

First person to convince the American right that their next boogieman 👻 is climate change gets free pizza on me.

[Casey Meehan @kc_meehan]

It’s hard to watch the pure exhaustion my fellow Californians’ faces after a full week (!) of thinking and learning about other states 😰 Preparing for an historic statewide detox juice cleanse. #election2020

[Casey Meehan @kc_meehan]

@zacharynado ew.

[Casey Meehan @kc_meehan]

@KhalilMrini About time!