Rare species can be mapped more accurately with new statistical approach

Information on Earth's biodiversity is increasingly collected using DNA-, image- and audio-based sampling. At the same time, ...
UN Women

Facts and figures: Women, peace, and security

Explainer: How to talk to kids about gender equality and stereotypes Explainer: How to talk to kids about gender equality and stereotypes Press release: USD 420 billion annual shortfall blocking ...
IEEE

Small-Sample Event Identification Based on Adaptive Second-Order MDF and Triplet CNNs Using Distribution-Level Synchronized Measurements

Abstract: Distribution-level synchronized measurements serve as a valuable resource for event-type identification. The precision in identifying events offers crucial information for fault analysis, ...
IEEE

SMOTE-MRS: A Novel SMOTE-Multiresolution Sampling Technique for Imbalanced Distribution to Improve Prediction of Anemia

Abstract: Anemia is a widespread worldwide health problem that has a substantial effect on groups who are particularly susceptible. The objective of this work is to improve the diagnosis of anemia by ...
CoinTelegraph

Bitcoin traders tipping Q4 price top do 'not understand statistics’ — Analyst

Traders who predict Bitcoin will reach its cycle-high price by the end of this year may be misunderstanding the principles of statistics, a Bitcoin analyst says. It comes as several analysts have been ...
Phys.org

Deep learning method enables efficient Boltzmann distribution sampling across a continuous temperature range

A research team has developed a novel direct sampling method based on deep generative models. Their method enables efficient sampling of the Boltzmann distribution across a continuous temperature ...
Washington Examiner

Don’t put your faith in macroeconomic statistics

How did Nigeria’s economy grow 30%? It did on paper, and to government agencies, that’s what counts. Nigeria recently revised its method for calculating GDP, which revealed a presumably uncaptured 30% ...
GitHub

A modular RL library to fine-tune language models to human preferences

Lexical Metrics (eg: ROUGE, BLEU, SacreBLEU, METEOR) Semantic Metrics (eg: BERTSCORE, BLEURT) Task specific metrics (eg: PARENT, CIDER, SPICE) Scores from pre-trained classifiers (eg: Sentiment scores ...
CoinDesk

U.S. Government Starts Pushing Economic Data Onto Blockchains as 'Proof of Concept'

The U.S. government has begun using blockchains to disseminate key economic data, starting with the U.S. Department of Commerce's release of gross-domestic product (GDP) numbers on Thursday, which was ...