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Anti-hype LLM reading list

Goals: Add links that are reasonable and good explanations of how stuff works. No hype and no vendor content if possible. Practical first-hand accounts of models in prod eagerly sought.

Foundational Concepts

Pre-Transformer Models

jun-lsh

What Exactly Are TEEs?

Before we can discuss the application of TEEs for blockchain related programs, we first have to establish what Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs) are.

At a high level, TEEs can be described as an isolated processing environment found on the CPU, a sort of separate secure area where whatever code and data enters remains confidential, where processes outside of a TEE cannot read or tamper with the data within it. These private regions of memory are known as enclaves.

By running code in this isolated, tamper-resistant processing environment, it "guarantees the authenticity of the executed code", where remote attestation can be provided to prove its trustworthiness to a third-party and untrusted code should not be able to interfere with the execution of a program within the TEE.

Ref: "Trusted Execution Environment: What It is, and What It is Not", Sabt et al.

Remote Attestation

MCastens

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║     DEEP AUDIT: NVIDIA NEMOTRON-3-NANO CLAIMS VALIDATION     ║
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📊 TEST MATRIX:
   Questions: 9
   Configurations: 5
   Runs per config: 3
   Total tests: 135