Papers

Running list of papers (and a few blog posts) I’ve read, newest first. Not sorted by year — just appended.

• Cryptanalytic Extraction of Neural Network Models (Carlini, Jagielski, Mironov, 2020)
  • recovering a trained neural net’s exact weights from query access, framed as cryptanalysis — differential-style attacks to peel off layers.
  • crypto × ML; the model-stealing threat model.
• First-in-human quantum entanglement imaging
  • PET scan observing entanglement on a 68Ga - observed annihilation photons
• EML: All elementary functions from a single binary operator
  • eml(x, y) = e^x - ln(y)
  • gives you all the cos, sin, tan
  • cute. practical? who knows!
  • i sketched a bit what making circuits with this would look like.
• Intel Skylake hyperthreading bug
  • Skylake series of Intel processors had a hardware bug when using certain registers in tight loops, with hyperthreading enabled.
  • Manifested as crashes in OCaml programs.