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Nov 09 2024FINANCE

Crypto Investing: How to Build a Better Portfolio

Cryptocurrencies, often seen as a means of exchange, don't really fit the bill. Instead, they're more like crypto assets, known for their wild price swings. If you're an investor looking to smooth out the bumps in your crypto asset portfolio, you can do so by creating an optimal mix using standard t

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Nov 08 2024HEALTH

The Rise of Superbugs in South Africa: Why New Antibiotics Matter

Have you ever thought about how scary it would be if the medicines we use to fight infections stopped working? Well, that's happening right now in South Africa! Certain germs, especially the tough ones called Gram-negative bacteria, are getting smarter and harder to kill. This isn’t just a problem i

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Nov 08 2024CRIME

Suspected Date Rape Drugs at Columbia Bar: What You Need to Know

In Columbia, South Carolina, the Richland County Sheriff’s Department has been looking into three cases of women being drugged at TLC Sports Bar over the past two months. The first incident happened on September 13, with the latest one reported on November 1. Sheriff Leon Lott has pointed out that t

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Nov 08 2024CRYPTO

Picking the Best Crypto: A Unique Model

Imagine you're an investor in the wild world of crypto assets. These digital currencies come in all shapes and sizes, but they're mainly defined by two big things: how secure their technology is, and how stable their governance is. Now, picture this: you're using a recommendation app to help you dec

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Nov 08 2024HEALTH

How Lyme Disease Spreads: A Look at Global Numbers

Scientists developed two models to figure out how many people get Lyme disease, also known as Lyme borreliosis (LB), each year. One model looked at blood samples from humans to find out how many people have been infected with the bacteria that causes Lyme disease. This model accounted for mistakes i

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Nov 08 2024SCIENCE

Random Walks: A Different Perspective

Imagine a walker exploring a network of paths, each path with its own set of random rules. This is a random walk in a random environment, or RWRE, and when these rules are based on something called the Dirichlet environment, something really interesting happens. Normally, RWREs are all about the ra

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Nov 08 2024FINANCE

Exploring Pathwise Finance: A Unique Method Without Probabilities

Are you tired of the usual way of looking at continuous-time finance? It's time to think outside the box with a new approach called causal functional calculus. Unlike traditional methods, this one doesn't rely on probabilities or integration theories. Instead, it focuses on a concept called self-fin

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Nov 07 2024HEALTH

Healthcare Funding Trends in EU: A Quantitative Journey

Healthcare plays a huge role in Europe's economy. To understand and guess future funding, researchers use mathematical models. Three big ways to look at healthcare funding are: government spending on health as a chunk of GDP, as a slice of all government spending, and how much each person gets. This

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Nov 07 2024SCIENCE

The Matter-Antimatter Puzzle: A Tale of CP Violation

Have you ever pondered why the universe is filled with matter instead of antimatter? The answer might be hiding in the intriguing world of particle physics, specifically in a phenomenon called CP violation. CP violation is a fascinating concept that describes the slight differences in behavior betwe

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Nov 07 2024TECHNOLOGY

Unlocking Time Series: How LLMs Can Adapt

Have you ever considered using Large Language Models (LLMs) for time series (TS) tasks? Instead of training new models from scratch, you can fine-tune existing LLMs to handle TS data. This approach is known as TS-for-LLM. The challenge with TS data is its complexity and scarcity. To tackle this, a

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