Options Corner: UnitedHealth's Rocky Start To The New Year Offers A Contrarian Proposition

While UnitedHealth has struggled following a mixed earnings report, the smart money is relatively calm about the downside ...
TechCrunch

China’s Moonshot releases a new open source model Kimi K2.5 and a coding agent

China’s Moonshot AI, which is backed by the likes of Alibaba and HongShan (formerly Sequoia China), today released a new open source model, Kimi K2.5, which understands text, image, and video. The ...
Phys.org

Rural coworking spaces thrive on community ties and mixed funding models

Coworking spaces have emerged as an alternative to traditional workplaces. Driven by the COVID-19 pandemic and the rise of remote working, these spaces are becoming increasingly common in cities, as ...
IEEE

Individual Differences in Subjective Image Quality Assessment: A Bayesian Mixed-Effects Modeling Approach

Abstract: Traditional approaches to subjective image quality assessment often rely on Mean Opinion Scores (MOS), which overlook individual differences among observers. This study addresses this ...
Scientific Research Publishing

Van-der-Merwe, A.J. and Botha, T.J. (1993) Bayesian Estimation in Mixed Linear Models Using the Gibbs Sampler. South African Statistics Journal, 27, 149-180.

ABSTRACT: This study examined the relationship between the Monetary Policy Rate (MPR) and inflation across five continents from 2014 to 2023 using both Frequentist and Bayesian Linear Mixed Models ...
VentureBeat

OpenAI reboots ChatGPT experience with GPT-5.1 after mixed reviews of GPT-5

ChatGPT is about to become faster and more conversational as OpenAI upgrades its flagship model GPT-5 to GPT-5.1. OpenAI announced two updates to the GPT-5 series: GPT-5.1 Instant and GPT-5.1 Thinking ...
ahajournals.org

Rare Variants in HTRA1, SGTB, and RBM12 Confer Risk of Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular Disease Independent of Traditional Cardiovascular Risk Factors

Atherosclerosis is a pathophysiological process common to a range of cardiovascular diseases. We reasoned that considering clinical presentations of atherosclerosis across the coronary, peripheral, ...
National Catholic Reporter

Sisters turning 25 acres in Kenya into a model for mixed farming

Shalom Farm sits on 25 acres of land in Kitale, Kenya, boasting a wide range of crops including bananas, sweet potatoes, spinach, collard greens, traditional vegetables, maize and beans, which are ...
Scientific Research Publishing

Gelman, A., Goodrich, B., Gabry, J. and Vehtari, A. (2019) R-Squared for Bayesian Regression Models. The American Statistician, 73, 307-309.

ABSTRACT: This research evaluates the effect of monetary policy rate and exchange rate on inflation across continents using both Frequentist and Bayesian Generalized Additive Mixed Models (GAMMs).
GitHub

Analyzing reaction norm evolution across seven species of Anolis lizards

Code for analyzing reaction norm evolution in a community of invasive Anolis lizards in Miami, FL, USA. Citation: Muell MR, Hall JM, Smith KV, Oaks JR, Wolak ME, and DA Warner. In press. Comparison of ...
Frontiers

Application of a joint multivariate probit model for mixed outcomes of CD4 cell count and tuberculosis using a Bayesian latent variable approach in KwaZulu-Natal

HIV and tuberculosis (TB) remain closely linked public health threats in sub-Saharan Africa, with South Africa bearing the highest burden of both diseases. In KwaZulu-Natal, where HIV prevalence peaks ...