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Tom Bäckström

X by design

From privacy to explainability, trust and robustness

6 min readJan 5, 2022

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X by design

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Towards Data Science

Information bottlenecks

8 min readSep 3, 2021

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Lattice quantization

5 min readSep 1, 2021

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Log-normal magnitudes

4 min readAug 16, 2021

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Notes about Speech Processing: 6dB per octave

2 min readAug 13, 2021

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Remote academic research

Lessons learned during the pandemic

8 min readAug 5, 2021

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Remote academic research

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Tom Bäckström

Grown askew

A year later I got myself invited to a party of the old crew. I was just visiting in the city, but I knew they’d have a gig with an…

4 min readJul 31, 2021

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Grown askew

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Opinion: Proactive Digital Intelligence for Law Enforcement

There has been a great deal of discussion in the public about the need for law enforcement agencies to actively pursue surveillance. The…

4 min readJan 14, 2021

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Opinion: Proactive Digital Intelligence for Law Enforcement

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Fallacies of Forgiveness

In response to the podcast “A bit of optimism” by Simon Sinek

6 min readDec 30, 2020

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Fallacies of Forgiveness

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Existential threats and control theory

In response to “Owen Cotton-Barratt on epistemic systems and layers of defense against potential global catastrophes” on The 80,000 Hours…

4 min readDec 30, 2020

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Tom Bäckström

Tom Bäckström

An excited researcher of life and everything. Associate Professor in Speech and Language Technology at Aalto University, Finland.

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