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Veraltete Disketten: Das New-Jersey-State-Gefängnis arbeitet noch mit ihnen
In Deutschland sind Disketten schon lange abgeschrieben. Für Gefängnisinsassen in New Jersey sind sie noch gang und gäbe.

Fast Estimation of Wasserstein Distances via Regression on Sliced Wasserstein Distances
Khai Nguyen, Hai Nguyen, Nhat Ho
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.20508 https://

Fast Estimation of Wasserstein Distances via Regression on Sliced Wasserstein Distances
We address the problem of efficiently computing Wasserstein distances for multiple pairs of distributions drawn from a meta-distribution. To this end, we propose a fast estimation method based on regressing Wasserstein distance on sliced Wasserstein (SW) distances. Specifically, we leverage both standard SW distances, which provide lower bounds, and lifted SW distances, which provide upper bounds, as predictors of the true Wasserstein distance. To ensure parsimony, we introduce two linear model…

Distance-informed Neural Processes
Aishwarya Venkataramanan, Joachim Denzler
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.18903 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.18903

Distance-informed Neural Processes
We propose the Distance-informed Neural Process (DNP), a novel variant of Neural Processes that improves uncertainty estimation by combining global and distance-aware local latent structures. Standard Neural Processes (NPs) often rely on a global latent variable and struggle with uncertainty calibration and capturing local data dependencies. DNP addresses these limitations by introducing a global latent variable to model task-level variations and a local latent variable to capture input similar…

NFL eyes Asia as next destination as it bolsters ties with Dublin https://www.foxsports.com/articles/nfl/nfl-eyes-asia-as-next-destination-as-it-bolsters-ties-with-dublin

Tip of the Red Giant Branch Distances to NGC 1316, NGC 1380, NGC 1404, & NGC 4457: A Pilot Study of a Parallel Distance Ladder Using Type Ia Supernovae in Early-Type Host Galaxies
Max J. B. Newman, Conor Larison, Saurabh W. Jha, Kristen B. W. McQuinn, Evan D. Skillman, Andrew E. Dolphin, Mi Dai, D. Andrew Howell, Curtis McCully, K. Azalee Bostroem, Daichi Hiramatsu, Craig Pellegrino, Estefania Padilla Gonzalez

Tip of the Red Giant Branch Distances to NGC 1316, NGC 1380, NGC 1404, & NGC 4457: A Pilot Study of a Parallel Distance Ladder Using Type Ia Supernovae in Early-Type Host Galaxies
Though type-Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) are found in all types of galaxies, recent local Hubble constant measurements have disfavored using SNe Ia in early-type or quiescent galaxies, aiming instead for better consistency with SNe Ia in star-forming, late-type host galaxies calibrated by Cepheid distances. Here we investigate the feasibility of a parallel distance ladder using SNe Ia exclusively in quiescent, massive ($\log M_*/M_{\odot} \geq 10$) host galaxies, calibrated by tip of the red giant br…

foldoc: FOLDOC entries (2002)
A network of hyperlinks among entries in the Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (FOLDOC, www.foldoc.org), an online dictionary of acronyms and technical terms for computers. An edge points from i to j if the term j is referred to in the entry for term i. Edge weight denotes number of uses of the same term.
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Recognizing Distance-Count Matrices is Difficult
Paolo Boldi, Flavio Furia, Chiara Prezioso, Ian Stewart
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.18857 https://arxiv.org…

Recognizing Distance-Count Matrices is Difficult
Axiomatization of centrality measures often involves proving that something cannot hold by providing a counterexample (i.e., a graph for which that specific centrality index fails to have a given property). In the context of geometric centralities, building such counterexamples requires constructing a graph with specific distance counts between nodes, as expressed by its distance-count matrix. We prove that deciding whether a matrix is the distance-count matrix of a graph is strongly NP-complet…

On decoding extended Han-Zhang codes
Yang Li, Zhenliang Lu, San Ling, Shixin Zhu, Kwok Yan Lam
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.18845 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.…

On decoding extended Han-Zhang codes
Extended Han-Zhang codes are a class of linear codes where each code is either a non-generalized Reed-Solomon (non-GRS) maximum distance separable (MDS) code or a near MDS (NMDS) code. They have important applications in communication, cryptography, and storage systems. While many algebraic properties and explicit constructions of extended Han-Zhang codes have been well studied in the literature, their decoding has been unexplored. In this paper, we focus on their decoding problems in terms of …

Raiders report: Tyree Wilson focused on destination, not starting point https://www.reviewjournal.com/sports/raiders/raiders-report-tyree-wilson-focused-on-destination-not-starting-point-3403924/

NFL eyes Asia as next destination and Goodell says 'no doubt' on Dublin return https://www.foxsports.com/articles/nfl/nfl-eyes-asia-as-next-destination-and-goodell-says-no-doubt-on-dublin-return