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creatives and the experience of experience
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creatives and the experience of experience
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

Position: Certified Robustness Does Not (Yet) Imply Model Security
Andrew C. Cullen, Paul Montague, Sarah M. Erfani, Benjamin I. P. Rubinstein
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.13024

Position: Certified Robustness Does Not (Yet) Imply Model Security
While certified robustness is widely promoted as a solution to adversarial examples in Artificial Intelligence systems, significant challenges remain before these techniques can be meaningfully deployed in real-world applications. We identify critical gaps in current research, including the paradox of detection without distinction, the lack of clear criteria for practitioners to evaluate certification schemes, and the potential security risks arising from users' expectations surrounding ``guara…

ChartBlender: An Interactive System for Authoring and Synchronizing Visualization Charts in Video
Yi He, Yuqi Liu, Chenpu Li, Ruoyan Chen, Chuer Chen, Shengqi Dang, Nan Cao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.13129

ChartBlender: An Interactive System for Authoring and Synchronizing Visualization Charts in Video
Embedding data visualizations in video can enhance the communication of complex information. However, this process is often labor-intensive, requiring designers to adjust visualizations frame by frame manually. In this work, we present ChartBlender, a novel system that streamlines this process by enabling users to create data visualizations, embed them seamlessly into video scenes, and automatically synchronize them with both camera motion and moving objects. Particularly, ChartBlender incorpor…

Certifying spatial entanglement between non-degenerate photon pairs with a camera
Emma Brambila, Raphael Guitter, Ren\'e Sondenheimer, Markus Gr\"afe, Hugo Defienne
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.14300

Certifying spatial entanglement between non-degenerate photon pairs with a camera
We investigate transverse spatial entanglement between photon pairs of different wavelengths using a camera-based coincidence technique. By adapting the correlation measurements to the photons frequencies, we certify the presence of entanglement between the pairs through violation of an Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen criterion. Additionally, we examine how parameters such as pump waist and crystal length influence these correlations. Our results highlight key differences from the frequency-degenerate …

6 ways AI can partner with us in creative inquiry, inspired by media theorist Marshall McLuhan https://theconversation.com/6-ways-ai-can-partner-with-us-in-creative-inquiry-inspired-by-media-theorist-marsha…

6 ways AI can partner with us in creative inquiry, inspired by media theorist Marshall McLuhan
By engaging consciously with technology, students learn to use AI critically and creatively — without surrendering their agency.

Selling Certification, Content Moderation, and Attention
Heski Bar-Isaac, Rahul Deb, Matthew Mitchell
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12604 https://

Selling Certification, Content Moderation, and Attention
We introduce a model of content moderation for sale, where a platform can channel attention in two ways: direct steering that makes content visible to consumers and certification that controls what consumers know about the content. The platform optimally price discriminates using both instruments. Content from higher willingness-to-pay providers enjoys higher quality certification and more views. The platform cross-subsidizes content: the same certificate is assigned to content from low willing…

Fiat-Collateralized Stablecoins are gift certificates registered on a blockchain.
Which is a fancy way of saying a solution to a problem that doesn’t really exist.
You don’t need a blockchain to process micropayments, you could use that, but you don’t need to.
Is this cryptobro bait? 🎣

Position: Certified Robustness Does Not (Yet) Imply Model Security
Andrew C. Cullen, Paul Montague, Sarah M. Erfani, Benjamin I. P. Rubinstein
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.13024

Position: Certified Robustness Does Not (Yet) Imply Model Security
While certified robustness is widely promoted as a solution to adversarial examples in Artificial Intelligence systems, significant challenges remain before these techniques can be meaningfully deployed in real-world applications. We identify critical gaps in current research, including the paradox of detection without distinction, the lack of clear criteria for practitioners to evaluate certification schemes, and the potential security risks arising from users' expectations surrounding ``guara…

Certified randomness from quantum speed limits
Caroline L. Jones, Albert Aloy, Gerard Higgins, Markus P. Mueller
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.14526 https://

Certified randomness from quantum speed limits
Quantum speed limits are usually regarded as fundamental restrictions, constraining the amount of computation that can be achieved within some given time and energy. Complementary to this intuition, here we show that these limitations are also of operational value: they enable the secure generation of certified randomness. We consider a prepare-and-measure scenario with some (experimentally determined or promised) upper bound on the energy uncertainty of the average prepared quantum state, but …

Few Single-Qubit Measurements Suffice to Certify Any Quantum State
Meghal Gupta, William He, Ryan O'Donnell
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11355 https://…

Few Single-Qubit Measurements Suffice to Certify Any Quantum State
A fundamental task in quantum information science is \emph{state certification}: testing whether a lab-prepared $n$-qubit state is close to a given hypothesis state. In this work, we show that \emph{every} pure hypothesis state can be certified using only $O(n^2)$ single-qubit measurements applied to $O(n)$ copies of the lab state. Prior to our work, it was not known whether even sub-exponentially many single-qubit measurements could suffice to certify arbitrary states. This resolves the main o…