busy week but good
work
This week was more packed than I had expected. I did more work on my S&P reviews, and I'm bracing for the R2 submissions to that conference, because I think it'll overlap with the Eurocrypt submissions as well. I also made a new connection with someone working at Anthropic this week. They're working with a few other people on preventing model exfiltration, which has some really interesting technical problems. I'm hoping that I can contribute to the project, because I think the ideas have a good chance of getting deployed, and it is a nice application of theory to practice. Other than that, I stayed busy by just constantly working and writing on my papers.
non-work
I had a pretty busy and exciting week! I had a lot of fun playing, continuing our Baldur's Gate run. I'm playing as Karlach and Shadowheart this time, and I'm excited to pay more attention to the character plots in this playthrough. I also was able to go to a King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard concert with my friend! I honestly wasn't super familiar with the band beforehand, but I listed to a lot of their songs before the concert and the actual concert was really cool. They had an orchestra playing alongside the band, which added some depth to the songs.
things i saw this week
An EFF article about how zero-knowledge proof are not enough for ID systems
A 3Blue1Brown guest video which is a great and accessible intro to how video diffusion models work
A Washington Post article about a vulnerability in Microsoft SharePoint that's affecting lots of systems
A list of questions that Gil Kalai has received about his argument against quantum computing recently
questions
What would an anonymous routing and steganography-friendly internet look like?
As bandwidth becomes cheaper, maybe there could be a network of constant flows of information, which enable people to send information without even revealing that they're communicating.
Thanks for reading to the end! Here's a picture from the Van Leeuwen that opened this week in Hoboken:
