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| author | Yuchen Pei <me@ypei.me> | 2019-03-21 14:35:36 +0100 |
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| committer | Yuchen Pei <me@ypei.me> | 2019-03-21 14:35:36 +0100 |
| commit | 59ae851668972bc21595531c74b17d59af2ab8ac (patch) | |
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| parent | 178ffbfb864b5dad12f682353c61195ebda58246 (diff) | |
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diff --git a/posts/2019-03-13-a-tail-of-two-densities.md b/posts/2019-03-13-a-tail-of-two-densities.md index 34d563e..4aa2b56 100644 --- a/posts/2019-03-13-a-tail-of-two-densities.md +++ b/posts/2019-03-13-a-tail-of-two-densities.md @@ -9,7 +9,8 @@ This is Part 1 of a two-part post where I give an introduction to the mathematics of differential privacy. Practically speaking, [differential privacy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Differential_privacy) -is a technique of perturbing database queries so that query results do not leak information. +is a technique of perturbing database queries so that query results do not +leak too much information while still being relatively accurate. This post however focuses on the mathematical aspects of differential privacy, which is a study of [tail bounds](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concentration_inequality) |