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Sign-off for 2019, Hello 2020! - A summary of 2019 on EOU, and what may be coming in 2020. Also, a word about Radbot... #2019wrapup #podcast - https:/…

Sign-off for 2019, Hello 2020!
A summary of 2019 on EOU, and what may be coming in 2020. Also, a word about Radbot... #2019wrapup #podcast

from my link log —
Who invented vector clocks?
https://decomposition.al/blog/2023/04/08/who-invented-vector-clocks/
saved 2025-12-01

Private Realizable-to-Agnostic Transformation with Near-Optimal Sample Complexity
Bo Li, Wei Wang, Peng Ye
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.01291 https://arxiv.o…

Private Realizable-to-Agnostic Transformation with Near-Optimal Sample Complexity
The realizable-to-agnostic transformation (Beimel et al., 2015; Alon et al., 2020) provides a general mechanism to convert a private learner in the realizable setting (where the examples are labeled by some function in the concept class) to a private learner in the agnostic setting (where no assumptions are imposed on the data). Specifically, for any concept class $\mathcal{C}$ and error parameter $α$, a private realizable learner for $\mathcal{C}$ can be transformed into a private agnostic le…

PreprintToPaper dataset: connecting bioRxiv preprints with journal publications
Fidan Badalova, Julian Sienkiewicz, Philipp Mayr
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.01783 https://…

PreprintToPaper dataset: connecting bioRxiv preprints with journal publications
The PreprintToPaper dataset connects bioRxiv preprints with their corresponding journal publications, enabling large-scale analysis of the preprint-to-publication process. It comprises metadata for 145,517 preprints from two periods, 2016-2018 (pre-pandemic) and 2020-2022 (pandemic), retrieved via the bioRxiv and Crossref APIs. Each record includes bibliographic information such as titles, abstracts, authors, institutions, submission dates, licenses, and subject categories, alongside enriched p…

Futzing around with Narrator (because of its new Braille viewer, which I am working on testing) and reminded of the new speech log (“Speech Recap”):
Narrator Key Alt X
Wanted to confirm this is also true with Narrator:
https://adrianroselli.com/2020/08/speech…

Speech Viewer Logs of Lies
The headline is intentional hyperbole, chosen mostly for the sloppy alliteration. When sighted users test with a screen reader it is common to rely on the visual output — checking to see where focus goes, confirming that controls behave, watching the spoken output in a text log. The problem is…

RSF says Chinese journalist Zhang Zhan, jailed from 2020 to 2024, has been sentenced to four more years on a charge of "picking quarrels and provoking trouble" (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/china/chinese-c…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Roadhouse
Blaze Foley:
🎵 Picture Cards (Live)
#BlazeFoley
https://jbself.bandcamp.com/track/picture-cards-cant-picture-you-blaze-foley-2020
https://open.spotify.com/track/6IdnFwwOfAcvJHfMFq4pnM

Permutation closure for multiple context-free languages
Andrew Duncan, Murray Elder, Lisa Frenkel, Mengfan Lyu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.22239 https://arx…

Permutation closure for multiple context-free languages
We prove that the \emph{permutation closure} of a multiple context-free language is multiple context-free, which extends work of Okhotin and Sorokin [LATA 2020] who showed closure under \emph{cyclic shift}, and complements work of Brandstädt [1981, RAIRO Inform. Théor.] (resp. Brough \emph{et al.} [2016, Discrete Math. Theor. Comput. Sci.]) who showed the same result for regular, context-sensitive, recursively enumerable (resp. EDT0L and ET0L) languages. In contrast to Okhotin and Sorokin who…

Oh great. Sales of pesticides containing PFAS 'forever chemicals' growing explosively, as more and more types are allowed on the market.
https://www.nieuweoogst.nl/nieuws/2025/11/12/afzet-gewasbeschermingsmiddelen-met-pf…

Afzet gewasbeschermingsmiddelen met PFAS neemt enorm toe
De afzet van PFAS-houdende gewasbeschermingsmiddelen is flink gestegen. In de periode 2010-2020 lag dit rond de 150.000 kilo, in 2023 was dit ruim 250.000 kilo. Fungiciden hebben het grootste aandeel. Dit blijkt uit onderzoek van adviesbureau CLM.

Zündstoff – Der Bozen-Krimi (S01/E12) #ARD
https://www.ardmediathek.de/video/der-boze…

A Combined TESS and Ground-based Study of Transit Timing Variations in HAT-P-16, TOI-1516 and TOI-2046 Systems
E. Sonbas, K. Kaplan, M. Tanriver, A. Keskin, K. S. Dhuga, A. Bulut, E. Gogus, W. Ogloza
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.21551

A Combined TESS and Ground-based Study of Transit Timing Variations in HAT-P-16, TOI-1516 and TOI-2046 Systems
We present new results for the hot Jupiters HAT-P-16b, TOI-1516b, and TOI-2046b, based on photometric observations collected using both space- and ground-based facilities. Ground-based data were collected in the 2020-2024 time span with the 0.6 m telescope (ADYU60) located at the Adiyaman University Application and Research Center (Adiyaman, Türkiye) and the 1.0 m telescope at the Türkiye National Observatory (TUG, Türkiye). Through a combination of fits to our ground-based data, the mid-tra…

mist: MIST protein interaction database (2020)
The Molecular Interaction Search Tool (MIST) is a comprehensive resource of molecular interactions, assembled from severla primary sources. MIST currently supports several species, including:.
This network has 66 nodes and 65 edges.
Tags: Biological, Protein interactions, Unweighted

Localised Arrowheads: The building blocks of elastic turbulence in rectilinear, sheared polymer flows
Theo A. Lewy, Rich R. Kerswell
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.26168 https://

Localised Arrowheads: The building blocks of elastic turbulence in rectilinear, sheared polymer flows
Pressure-driven flow of a dilute polymer solution has been numerically observed to possess a form of elastic turbulence which is organised around the interactions of localised versions of 2-dimensional `arrowhead' travelling waves (Page et al. Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 154501, 2020). As a step to confirming this theoretically, we identify spanwise-localised arrowhead travelling waves by tracking a symmetry-breaking bifurcation of the known spanwise-invariant (2D) arrowhead to a spanwise-periodic st…

PitchBook: European defense tech startups have raised €2.4B since 2022, including €1.4B in the first 7 months of 2025, up from €30M in 2020 and €150M in 2021 (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/a194942b-93ff-49a0-8aa9-02460055748e

Europe’s defence tech start-ups attract investment surge
Russia’s war in Ukraine and fears over US security relationship drive wave of VC funding

49ers, OL Colton McKivitz reach 3-year, $45 million extension: Sources https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6610481/2025/09/08/49ers-colton-mckivitz-extension/

Background stability and annual modulation test using PICOLON ultra-pure NaI(Tl) detector
K. Kotera (The PICOLON Collaboration), D. Chernyak (The PICOLON Collaboration), H. Ejiri (The PICOLON Collaboration), . K. Fushimi (The PICOLON Collaboration), K. Hata (The PICOLON Collaboration), R. Hazama (The PICOLON Collaboration), T. Iida (The PICOLON Collaboration), H. Ikeda (The PICOLON Collaboration), K. Imagawa (The PICOLON Collaboration), K. Inoue (The PICOLON Collaboration), H. Ito (The…

Background stability and annual modulation test using PICOLON ultra-pure NaI(Tl) detector
The dark matter observation claimed by the DAMA/LIBRA experiment has been a long-standing puzzle within the particle physics community. NaI(Tl) crystals with radiopurity comparable to DAMA/LIBRA's are essential for adequate verification. Existing experiments using NaI(Tl) target have been hampered by the high radioactivity concentration of NaI(Tl) crystals. PICOLON experiment conducts an independent search for Weakly Interacting Massive Particles using highest purity NaI(Tl) crystals. In 2020, …

🌠 Ryugu asteroid research reveals mineral history predating any on Earth
#astronomy

Ryugu asteroid research reveals mineral history predating any on Earth
In 2020, the Hayabusa2 uncrewed spacecraft successfully returned small fragments from the near-Earth asteroid Ryugu, providing the first pristine samples from a carbonaceous asteroid. Grains from those samples were studied at the National Synchrotron Light Source II (NSLS-II), revealing new details into the asteroid's composition and origin. This insight could ultimately help answer big questions about how water and organic matter came to exist on early Earth, forming the building blocks of lif…

She Pushed to Overturn Trump’s Loss in the 2020 Election. Now She’ll Help Oversee U.S. Election Security. — ProPublica
https://www.propublica.org/article/heather-honey-dhs-election-security

Changes in varieties of capitalism within the OECD between 2010 and 2020
Zoltan Bartha
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.19416 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.19416

Changes in varieties of capitalism within the OECD between 2010 and 2020
This study aims to reveal different varieties of capitalism and to uncover new patterns of development that emerged between 2010 and 2020. A hybrid model is applied that quantifies three pillars of development (Future - F, Outside - O, Inside - I) using supply-side and demand-side indicators that measure norms, institutions, and policies. Investigating 34 OECD members, this study describes five varieties of capitalism: traditional, dualistic, government-led, open market-based, and human capital…

Jährlicher Zubau und Rückbau der #Windenergieleistung in #Deutschland. Stand: 06.09.2025.
Summen der Inbetriebnahmen und Stilllegungen pro Jahr.
Der Datenbestand enthält ggf. unplausible Datensätze.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff: 14 Tipps zum

Oh boy, we have Ig Noble Prize 2025!
#igNobel #funny

Past Ig Winners
Ig® Nobel Prize Winners For achievements that first make people LAUGH then make them THINK Winners by year: 2025 : 2024 : 2023 : 2022 : 2021 2020 : 2019 : 2018 : 2017 : 2016 2015 : 2014 : 2013 : 20…

I'm a little shocked that I still have access to my university's MATLAB license

Optimal 4-Approximation for the Correlated Pandora's Problem
Nikhil Bansal, Zhiyi Huang, Zixuan Zhu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.17029 https://arxiv.org/…

Optimal 4-Approximation for the Correlated Pandora's Problem
The Correlated Pandora's Problem posed by Chawla et al. (2020) generalizes the classical Pandora's Problem by allowing the numbers inside the Pandora's boxes to be correlated. It also generalizes the Min Sum Set Cover problem, and is related to the Uniform Decision Tree problem. This paper gives an optimal 4-approximation for the Correlated Pandora's Problem, matching the lower bound of 4 from Min Sum Set Cover.

For those who forgot or never knew,
Mickey Flacks was among Santa Barbara’s most dogged advocates for affordable housing, among other struggles for social justice, environmental sanity, and other progressive causes.
The Independent launched the Mickey Flacks Journalism Fund back in 2020 to honor her memory and keep Mickey’s work alive.
The $100,000 we’ve raised since have empowered numerous editorial projects, and the Mickey Flacks Fellowship marks the epitome of those ef…

Why Donate to the Mickey Flacks Journalism Fund?
Support reporters like Christina McDermott, who’s starting her second year of the Mickey Flacks Fellowship.

Because there are so many lunar eclipses that aren't full moons...
(think about it) https://infosec.exchange/@atax1a/115164183095682187

"I wouldn't have done this three months ago, four months ago, I certainly wouldn't have done it a year ago."
He didn't do it from 2017 to 2020, either -- and who was 'in charge' then?

Tractability Frontiers of the Shapley Value for Aggregate Conjunctive Queries
Christoph Standke, Benny Kimelfeld
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.13565 https://a…

Tractability Frontiers of the Shapley Value for Aggregate Conjunctive Queries
In recent years, the Shapley value has emerged as a general game-theoretic measure for assessing the contribution of a tuple to the result of a database query. We study the complexity of calculating the Shapley value of a tuple for an aggregate conjunctive query, which applies an aggregation function to the result of a conjunctive query (CQ) based on a value function that assigns a number to each query answer. Prior work by Livshits, Bertossi, Kimelfeld, and Sebag (2020) established that this t…

On Rota--Baxter operators on finite simple groups of Lie type
Alexey Galt, Vsevolod Gubarev
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.04961 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.049…

On Rota--Baxter operators on finite simple groups of Lie type
Rota--Baxter operators on groups were introduced by L. Guo, H. Lang, Yu. Sheng in 2020. In 2023, V. Bardakov and the second author showed that all Rota--Baxter operators on simple sporadic groups are splitting, i.\,e. they correspond to exact factorizations of groups. In 2024, the authors of the current paper described all non-splitting Rota--Baxter operators on alternating groups. Now we describe Rota--Baxter operators on finite simple exceptional groups of Lie type and projective special li…

Global Drought Escalation Since 2014: Multivariate Insights for Ecosystem Resilience and Water Security
Qianqian Han, Yijian Zeng, Bob Su
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.20195 https:…

Global Drought Escalation Since 2014: Multivariate Insights for Ecosystem Resilience and Water Security
How is climate change altering the global patterns, frequency, and intensity of drought? To investigate this, we analyzed global drought events from 2000-2020 using a composite of hydrological indices (Σ(ET-P), SSMI, and GRACE-DSI). Our results reveal that near-normal to severe droughts became increasingly widespread after 2014. Unexpectedly, extreme, 100-year return period droughts occurred not only in semi-arid zones but also in high latitude and typically wet regions. The frequency of these…

nCTEQ global analysis of nuclear PDFs
M. Klasen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.05880 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.05880…

nCTEQ global analysis of nuclear PDFs
We review the series of specific nCTEQ analyses of nuclear parton distribution functions (PDFs) published since 2020 and present preliminary results of a new global analysis. Building on a modern proton baseline without nuclear data and extending the kinematic range, it combines and updates the previous separate analyses that focused on Jefferson Lab neutral-current deep-inelastic scattering (DIS), neutrino DIS and dimuon production, and the currently available CERN LHC data, in particular on W…

In 2020, Twitter had become utterly intolerable because of the Woke Left. Now it is utterly intolerable because of the Woke Right. It's a ruin.

A Caveat on Metrizing Convergence in Distribution on Hilbert Spaces
Federico Bassetti, Solesne Bourguin, Simon Campese, Giovanni Peccati
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.13427 https:/…

A Caveat on Metrizing Convergence in Distribution on Hilbert Spaces
We consider Sobolev-type distances on probability measures over separable Hilbert spaces involving the Schatten-$p$ norms, which include as special cases a distance first introduced by Bourguin and Campese (2020) when $p=2$, and a distance introduced by Giné and Leon (1980) when $p=\infty$. Our analysis shows that, unless $p=\infty$, these distances fail to metrize convergence in distribution in infinite dimensions. This clarifies several inconsistencies and misconceptions in the recent litera…

Unintended Consequences of Early Driving Access: Evidence from Graduated Driver Licensing Policies and Adolescent Health Outcomes
Sharareh Massahi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.23578

Unintended Consequences of Early Driving Access: Evidence from Graduated Driver Licensing Policies and Adolescent Health Outcomes
Graduated driver licensing systems effectively reduce adolescent traffic fatalities but create unintended health consequences. Using state-level variation in licensing policies from 1999-2020 and difference-in-differences analysis, we provide the first causal evidence that early driving access generates significant health risks for female adolescents aged 15-19. States allowing learner's permits before age 16 experienced sharp increases in drug-related mortality (+1.331 per 100,000, p<0.001) an…

All Models Are Wrong, But Can They Be Useful? Lessons from COVID-19 Agent-Based Models: A Systematic Review
Emma Von Hoene, Sara Von Hoene, Szandra Peter, Ethan Hopson, Emily Csizmadia, Faith Fenyk, Kai Barner, Timothy Leslie, Hamdi Kavak, Andreas Zufle, Amira Roess, Taylor Anderson
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.13346

All Models Are Wrong, But Can They Be Useful? Lessons from COVID-19 Agent-Based Models: A Systematic Review
The COVID-19 pandemic prompted a surge in computational models to simulate disease dynamics and guide interventions. Agent-based models (ABMs) are well-suited to capture population and environmental heterogeneity, but their rapid deployment raised questions about utility for health policy. We systematically reviewed 536 COVID-19 ABM studies published from January 2020 to December 2023, retrieved from Web of Science, PubMed, and Wiley on January 30, 2024. Studies were included if they used ABMs …

The impact of Alfvenic shear flow on magnetic reconnection and turbulence
Tamar Ervin, Alfred Mallet, Stefan Eriksson, Marc Swisdak, James Juno, Orlando M. Romeo, Tai Phan, Trevor A. Bowen, Roberto Livi, Phyllis L. Whittlesey, Davin E. Larson, Stuart D. Bake
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.12608

The impact of Alfvenic shear flow on magnetic reconnection and turbulence
Magnetic reconnection is a fundamental and omnipresent energy conversion process in plasma physics. Novel observations of fields and particles from Parker Solar Probe (PSP) have shown the absence of reconnection in a large number of current sheets in the near-Sun solar wind. Using near-Sun observations from PSP Encounters 4 to 11 (Jan 2020 to March 2022), we investigate whether reconnection onset might be suppressed by velocity shear. We compare estimates of the tearing mode growth rate in the …

faculty_hiring_us: Faculty hiring networks in the US (2022)
Networks of faculty hiring for all PhD-granting US universities over the decade 2011–2020. Each node is a PhD-granting institution, and a directed edge (i,j) indicates that a person received their PhD from node i and was tenure-track faculty at node j during time of collection (2011-2020). This dataset is divided into separate networks for all 107 fields, as well as aggregate networks for 8 domains, and an overall network for …

Jährlicher Zubau und Rückbau von #Balkonsolarleistung in Deutschland mit Stand vom 05.09.2025.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage ersetzt.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff: Förderantrag

Analyzing the Performance of a 2.72kWp Rooftop Grid tied Photovoltaic System in Tarlac City, Philippines
Aldrin Joar Rodrigo Taduran, Leo P. Piao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.03487

Analyzing the Performance of a 2.72kWp Rooftop Grid tied Photovoltaic System in Tarlac City, Philippines
Residential and industrial areas are using rooftop grid-tied Photovoltaic (PV) systems, which are becoming increasingly popular. This is because solar energy reduces electrical consumption and provides free energy, while also lowering carbon emissions to create a more sustainable environment. This paper aims to analyze the 2.72kW p rooftop grid-tied PV system performance between 2020 and 2023 in Tarlac City, Philippines. The PV generated yearly is measured by Array Yield (YA), Reference Yield (…

I saw an article about how good the food options are that are associated with churches. So I went to a Vietnamese place called O BACH across the road from Bunnings in Tuggeranong and had a pretty nice banh mi. Nice crispy bun!
Apologies, I neglected to photograph my food before it disappeared into my cake hole.
#food #canberra

2020 dwf felt very clever importing a Hong Kong model S20 so he could get the Snapdragon variant instead of the Exynos. Little did he realize 2025 dwf would be trying to install aftermarket firmware and that not being able to read Chinese characters might pose a _slight_ issue

From High-Entropy Ceramics (HECs) to Compositionally Complex Ceramics (CCCs) and Beyond
Jian Luo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.05629 https://arxiv.org/pdf/251…

From High-Entropy Ceramics (HECs) to Compositionally Complex Ceramics (CCCs) and Beyond
Over the past decade, the field of high-entropy ceramics (HECs) has rapidly expanded to encompass a wide range of oxides, borides, silicides, and other ceramic solid solutions. In 2020, we proposed extending the concept of HECs to compositionally complex ceramics (CCCs), in which non-equimolar compositions and the presence of long- or short-range order reduce entropy while offering new opportunities to tailor and enhance properties, often beyond those of higher-entropy counterparts. Here, funda…

The Influence of Magnetic Complexity of Active Regions on Solar Wind Properties During Solar Cycles 23 and 24
Xinzheng Shi, Hui Fu, Zhenghua Huang, Limei Yan, Qi Liu, Lidong Xia
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08975

The Influence of Magnetic Complexity of Active Regions on Solar Wind Properties During Solar Cycles 23 and 24
Linking solar wind properties to the activities and characteristics of its source regions can enhance our understanding of its origin and generation mechanisms. Using the Mount Wilson magnetic classification (MWMC), we categorize all active regions (ARs) between 1999 and 2020 into three groups: alpha, beta, and complex ARs. Subsequently, we classify the near-Earth AR solar wind into the corresponding three types based on the magnetic type of ARs. Our results show that alpha, beta, and complex A…

sp_baboons: Baboons' interactions (2020)
Network of interactions between a group of 20 Guinea baboons living in an enclosure of a Primate Center in France, between June 13th 2019 and July 10th 2019. The data set contains observational and wearable sensors data.
This network has 23 nodes and 3197 edges.
Tags: Social, Animal, Offline, Unweighted, Weighted, Temporal, Metadata

[Thread] Filings in the Fox News/Smartmatic case show internal criticism from Fox employees about coverage, including their condemnation of opinion hosts (Jeremy Barr/@jeremymbarr)
https://x.com/jeremymbarr/status/1975673724885213391

Jeremy Barr (@jeremymbarr) on X
Some filings made public yesterday in the Fox News/Smartmatic case include some internal criticisms from Fox employees about coverage (I BELIEVE from an internal 2020 company survey) One said: "The content we produce has made the world, and especially our country, a worse

Soeben druckfrisch angekommen! Endlich konnte ich zwei neue Editionen für meine seit 2020 laufenden Kartenaktion auflegen.☺(mehr zu dieser auf #fediArt #mastoArt #creativeToots #artShop

Didn't realize this at the time but some time in 2020 my radio show surpassed the length of time it took for the confederacy to be established and die, now it's been more than double the amount lol

Synergy, not size: How collaboration architecture shapes scientific disruption
Bili Zheng, Jianhua Hou
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.06212 https://arxiv.org/p…

Synergy, not size: How collaboration architecture shapes scientific disruption
The mechanisms driving different types of scientific innovation through collaboration remain poorly understood. Here we develop a comprehensive framework analyzing over 14 million papers across 19 disciplines from 1960 to 2020 to unpack how collaborative synergy shapes research disruption. We introduce the synergy factor to quantify collaboration cost-benefit dynamics, revealing discipline-specific architectures where Physics peaks at medium team sizes while humanities achieve maximal synergy t…

Feebly Interacting Particles: FIPs at LHCb
J. Alimena, J. Boyd, G. Cacciapaglia, A. Casais Vidal, X. Cid Vidal, S. Collaviti, A. De Oyanguren Campos, G. Dalla Valle Garcia, G. Elor, G. Ferretti, D. Gorbunov, E. Goudzovski, J. Hajer, J. Jerhot, B. Kishor Jashal, V. Kholoimov, J. Klaric, F. Kling, E. Kriukova, Y. Kyselov, G. Lanfranchi, C. Langenbruch, A. Merli, M. Ovchinnykov, J. Pfaller, G. Perez, P. Reimitz, I. Sanderswood, L. Shchutska, E. Torro Pastor, Y. Tsai, A. Usachov, L. Vale S…

Feebly Interacting Particles: FIPs at LHCb
With the establishment and maturation of the experimental programs searching for new physics with sizeable couplings at the LHC, there is an increasing interest in the broader particle and astrophysics community for exploring the physics of light and feebly-interacting particles as a paradigm complementary to a New Physics sector at the TeV scale and beyond. FIPs@LHCb continues the successful series of the FIPs workshops, FIPs 2020 and FIPs 2022. The main focus of the workshop was to explore th…

mist: MIST protein interaction database (2020)
The Molecular Interaction Search Tool (MIST) is a comprehensive resource of molecular interactions, assembled from severla primary sources. MIST currently supports several species, including:.
This network has 27105 nodes and 334495 edges.
Tags: Biological, Protein interactions, Unweighted

PDE-Based Bayesian Hierarchical Modeling for Event Spread, with Application to COVID-19 Infection
Mengqi Cen, Xuejing Meng, X. Joan Hu, Juxin Liu, Jianhong Wu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.13174

PDE-Based Bayesian Hierarchical Modeling for Event Spread, with Application to COVID-19 Infection
We extended the Wikle's Bayesian hierarchical model based on a diffusion-reaction equation [Wikle, 2003] to investigate the COVID-19 spatio-temporal spread events across the USA from Mar 2020 to Feb 2022. Our model incorporated an advection term to account for the intra-state spread trend. We applied a Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) method to obtain samples from the posterior distribution of the parameters. We implemented the approach via the collection of the COVID-19 infections across the st…

#MelonHusk told #shareholders there would be 1 million #TSLA #Robotaxis on the road by 2020. Yet currently, 5 years after that prediction, we&…

Deep Learning Reconstruction of Tropical Cyclogenesis in the Western North Pacific from Climate Reanalysis Dataset
Duc-Trong Le, Tran-Binh Dang, Anh-Duc Hoang Gia, Duc-Hai Nguyen, Minh-Hoa Tien, Xuan-Truong Ngo, Quang-Trung Luu, Quang-Lap Luu, Tai-Hung Nguyen, Thanh T. N. Nguyen, Chanh Kieu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06118

Deep Learning Reconstruction of Tropical Cyclogenesis in the Western North Pacific from Climate Reanalysis Dataset
This study presents a deep learning (DL) architecture based on residual convolutional neural networks (ResNet) to reconstruct the climatology of tropical cyclogenesis (TCG) in the Western North Pacific (WNP) basin from climate reanalysis datasets. Using different TCG data labeling strategies and data enrichment windows for the NASA Modern-Era Retrospective analysis for Research and Applications Version 2 (MERRA2) dataset during the 1980-2020 period, we demonstrate that ResNet can reasonably rep…

Automated Discovery of Test Oracles for Database Management Systems Using LLMs
Qiuyang Mang, Runyuan He, Suyang Zhong, Xiaoxuan Liu, Huanchen Zhang, Alvin Cheung
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06663

Automated Discovery of Test Oracles for Database Management Systems Using LLMs
Since 2020, automated testing for Database Management Systems (DBMSs) has flourished, uncovering hundreds of bugs in widely-used systems. A cornerstone of these techniques is test oracle, which typically implements a mechanism to generate equivalent query pairs, thereby identifying bugs by checking the consistency between their results. However, while applying these oracles can be automated, their design remains a fundamentally manual endeavor. This paper explores the use of large language mode…

A MATLAB toolbox for Computation of Speech Transmission Index (STI)
Pavel Rajmic, Ji\v{r}\'i Schimmel, \v{S}imon Cieslar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.03825 https://

A MATLAB toolbox for Computation of Speech Transmission Index (STI)
The speech transmission index (STI) is a popular simple metric for the prediction of speech intelligibility when speech is passed through a transmission channel. Computation of STI from acoustic measurements is described in the IEC 60268-16:2020 standard. Though, reliable implementations of STI are not publicly accessible and are frequently limited to the use with a proprietary measurement hardware. We present a Matlab STI implementation of both the direct and indirect approaches according to t…

Atmospheric rivers and winter sea ice drive recent reversal in Antarctic ice mass loss
Marlen Kolbe, Jose Abraham Torres Alavez, Ruth Mottram, Marwan Katurji, Richard Bintanja, Eveline C. van der Linden
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.03590

Atmospheric rivers and winter sea ice drive recent reversal in Antarctic ice mass loss
Since about 2000, the total mass of the Antarctic Ice Sheet (AIS) has declined at a near-linear rate, increasing global sea levels. Since 2016, however, satellite gravimetry data reveal a slowdown in net AIS mass loss and a net mass gain since 2020, despite increases in dynamically-driven ice loss by discharge from outlet glaciers. Here we use a suite of reanalyses and regional climate models to show that this reversal is caused by increased precipitation and positive surface mass balance anoma…