Archive for Syrah
Loup du Pic
Posted in Mountains, Travel, Wines with tags Chateau Puech-Haut, CIRM, Coteaux du Languedoc, French wines, Luminy, mourvèdre, Pic Saint Loup, Syrah on February 20, 2024 by xi'an
Contextual Integrity for Differential Privacy #3 [23w5106]
Posted in Books, Mountains, pictures, Running, Statistics, Travel, University life, Wines with tags Arrowleaf Cellars, Banff International Research Station for Mathematical Innovation, BIRS, British Columbia, Canada, Canadian wines, causal inference, contextual integrity, data analysis, differential privacy, ERC, ethics, Frind Estate winery, GDPR, George Box, John Maynard Keynes, Kelowna, Lake Okanagan, Maréchal Foch, mass spectrometer, Okanagan Valley, Okanagan vineyards, philosophy of sciences, pinot noir, record linkage, Syrah, UBCO, winery, workshop on August 4, 2023 by xi'an
Morning of diverse short talks. First talk by Bei Jiang (Edmonton) on locally processed privacy for quantile estimation, which relates very much to our ongoing research with Stan, who is starting his ERC funded PhD on privacy. Randomised response, in having a positive probability of replacing indicators in the empirical cdf by a random or perturbed version whose bias can be corrected. I may have overdone the similarity though in confusing users with agents. Followed by a hacking foray by Joel Reardon (Calgary) into how much information is transmitted by apps on completely unrelated phone activity. (Moral: Never send a bug report.)
The afternoon break saw us visiting the Frind Estate winery on the other side of the lake. Meaning not only wine tasting (great Syrah!), and discovering an hybrid grape called Maréchal Foch, but also entering the lab with its mass spectrometer. (But no glimpse of the winemaking process per se…)
Mas Foulaquier [Pic Saint-Loup]
Posted in Wines with tags French wines, grenache, Languedoc wines, Mas Foulaquier, Pic Saint Loup, red wine, Syrah, tanin on August 20, 2022 by xi'an
La Clape [Côtes du Languedoc]
Posted in Wines with tags Côtes du Languedoc, French wines, grenache, Languedoc wines, Languedoc-Roussillon, mourvèdre, Shiraz, Syrah on June 20, 2022 by xi'an
Carlines du Larzac
Posted in Wines with tags carignan, grenache, Languedoc wines, Larzac, red wine, Syrah, Terrasses du Larzac on July 20, 2021 by xi'an
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