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porridgeraisinyesterday at 7:03 PM1 replyview on HN

Differentially private means that:

training_algorithm(training data with a row that has "ForHackernews blood test report...") hard to distinguish from training_algorithm(training data without that) upto a factor of epsilon. They have explained further in the article itself with concrete values for epsilon.


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drdaemantoday at 2:46 AM

I got that from the article, but I'm not getting what does it means in practice? What's the use case?