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Jess Sorrell

@optimistsinc.bsky.social

2.7K followers 217 following 50 posts

Assistant prof at JHU CS. Interested in theory of ML, privacy, cryptography. All cat pictures my own and do not represent the cats of my employer

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Jess Sorrell @optimistsinc.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Marco gave me the remainder of his box when he graduated from UCSD, but now I know who to ask when I run out. Thanks!

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Jess Sorrell @optimistsinc.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Yessssss I got a lecture hall with sliding chalkboards, this rules

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Jess Sorrell @optimistsinc.bsky.social · 11/12/2023

Thanks to all the mentors who took the time to share their advice and expertise with WiML Workshop attendees at NeurIPS!!

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Jess Sorrell @optimistsinc.bsky.social · 11/12/2023

Our first attendee 😍

A pigeon preparing to present it's poster at WiML

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Jess Sorrell @optimistsinc.bsky.social · 10/12/2023

The calm before the WiML Workshop storm

An empty hall in the New Orleans Convention Center, being prepared to support the Women in Machine Learning Workshop at NeurIPS 2023

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Jess Sorrell @optimistsinc.bsky.social · 10/11/2023

Extremely disappointed that I'm not staying in NH long enough to visit the American Precision Museum, which is undoubtedly cool and weird, and so I will never learn what this is.

A gadget with wheels, gears, and cranks, which presumably enables a task to be completed with high precision, but I'll never know what task, because I cannot visit the American Precision Museum.

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Jess Sorrell @optimistsinc.bsky.social · 21/10/2023

Tried to go to my visitor office, but it was filled with sleeping undergrads who were all tuckered out from the hackathon that I guess is happening today? I let them rest, but as payment, I am helping myself to some funky fresh GNU stickers, coffee, and snacks #snackathon23

Upper left: a sticker with the GNU gnu and Tux the penguin in superhero gear, flying towards the viewer.

Upper right: a sticker with a pixelated image of "Gnu Emacs" printed on a sink for reasons I'm sure I would understand if I was more hip.

Lower: a Free Software Foundation sticker.

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Jess Sorrell @optimistsinc.bsky.social · 18/10/2023

Working from train. See you soon, Boston!

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Jess Sorrell @optimistsinc.bsky.social · 13/10/2023

This is me btw. When you don't accept my workshop invitation, this is who you're being mean to

The comfiest cat there ever was, peacefully dozing on a fuzzy blanket, secure in the knowledge that a bunch of cool people are gonna come hang with him at NeurIPS

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Jess Sorrell @optimistsinc.bsky.social · 12/10/2023

Omg

"Throughout history, several researchers have collected thousands of coin flips. In the 18th century, the famed naturalist Count de Buffon collected 2048 uninterrupted sequences of 'heads' in what is possibly the first statistical experiment ever conducted."

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