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%T Int. Symp. Principles and Practice of Declarative Programming
%K PPDP,        PPDP23,2023, PPDP22,2022, PPDP21,2021, PPDP22,2020, PPDP21,2019,
   PPDP20,2018, PPDP19,2017, PPDP18,2016, PPDP17,2015, PPDP16,2014, PPDP15,2013,
   CFP,conf,FP,LP,sigplan, zz0522, zz0523, zz0524
%X [22-23 Oct 2023] Lisbon, deadline 15 May 2023
   [20-22 Sept 2022] Georgia, deadline 15 May 2022
   [2021 Sep 6-8], Tallinn & online, deadline 8/5/2021
   ...

%A S. Reed
%A et al
%T A generalist agent (Gato)
%M MAY
%D 2022
%K TR, AI, c2022, c202x, c20xx, zz0522, DeepMind, GATO, general
%X "... building a single generalist agent beyond the realm of text outputs. The
   agent, which we refer to as Gato, works as a multi-modal, multi-task,
   multi-embodiment generalist policy. The same n/wk with the same weights can
   play Atari, caption images, chat, stack blocks with a real robot arm & much
   more, deciding based on its context whether to output text, joint torques,
   button presses, or other tokens. ... we describe the model & the data, &
   document the current capabilities of Gato."
   -- 2205.06175@[arXiv]['22].

%A R. T. O'Donnell
%A K. B. Korb
%A L. Allison
%T Causal KL: Evaluating causal discovery
%I Faculty of Info. Tech., Monash University, Clayton, Australia 3800
%R 2007/207
%P 26
%M FEB
%D 2007
%O arXiv, Nov., 2021, 2111.06029@[arXiv][2021]
%K TR 207, TR207, c2007, c200x, c20xx, zz0522, LAllison, rodo, KBKorb, AI, II,
   causal model, stats, intervention, interventions, Bayesian network, networks,
   BN, models, cause, Causal Kullback Leibler distance, KL, CKL, C-KL,
   Bnet, Bnets
%X "The two most commonly used criteria for assessing causal model discovery
   with artificial data are edit-distance & Kullback-Leibler divergence,
   measured from the true model to the learned model. Both of these metrics
   maximally reward the true model. However, we argue that they are both
   insufficiently discriminating in judging the relative merits of false models.
   Edit distance, for example, fails to distinguish between strong & weak
   probabilistic dependencies. KL divergence, on the other hand, rewards
   equally all statistically equivalent models, regardless of their different
   causal claims. We propose an augmented KL divergence, which we call Causal
   KL (CKL), which takes into account causal relationships which distinguish
   between observationally equivalent models. Results are presented for three
   variants of CKL, showing that Causal KL works well in practice."
   -- cached@[c'teseer]['21],
      [pdf]['07],
      [abs]['07],
      [arXiv]['21].
   Also see [MML].

%A S. Horvath
%A et al
%T Reversing age: Dual species measurement of epigenetic age with a single clock
%J bioRxiv
%M MAY
%D 2020
%K TR, c2020, c202x, c20xx, zz0522, MolBio, age, reverse, aging, ageing,
   lifespan, rejuvenation, senescence, young, blood plasma, epigenetic
%X "Young blood plasma is known to confer beneficial effects on various organs
   in mice. However, it was not known whether young plasma rejuvenates cells &
   tissues at the epigenetic level; whether it alters the epigenetic clock,
   which is a highly-accurate molecular biomarker of aging. ... we developed &
   validated six different epigenetic clocks for rat tissues ... We employed
   these six clocks to investigate the rejuvenation effects of a plasma fraction
   treatment in different rat tissues. The treatment more than halved the
   epigenetic ages of blood, heart, & liver tissue. A less pronounced, but stat.
   sig., rejuvenation effect could be observed in the hypothalamus. ... was
   accompanied by progressive improvement in the fn of these organs ... Cellular
   senescence, which is not assoc. with epigenetic aging, was also considerably
   reduced in vital organs. ... demonstrates that a plasma-derived treatment
   markedly reverses aging according to epigenetic clocks & benchmark biomarkers
   of aging."
   -- [doi:10.1101/2020.05.07.082917]['22],
    & [bioRxiv][5/'20].
   (?'After Many a Summer' (1939), Aldous Huxley?)

%A Y. Oba
%A et al
%T Identifying the wide diversity of extraterrestrial purine and pyrimidine
   nucleobases in carbonaceous meteorites
%J Nat. Commun.
%V 13
%N #2008
%M APR
%D 2022
%K MolBio, jrnl, c2022, c202x, c20xx, zz0522, extraterrestrial, meteorite,
   DNA, ACGT, RNA, ACGTU
%X "... report the detection of nucleobases in three carbonaceous meteorites
    ... In addition to previously detected purine nucleobases in meteorites such
    as guanine and adenine, we identify various pyrimidine nucleobases such as
    cytosine, uracil, and thymine ..."
   -- [doi:10.1038/s41467-022-29612-x]['22].
   (Also see [ABC]['27/4/2022].)

%A G. Vogel
%T New versions of Omicron are masters of immune evasion
%J Science
%V ?
%M MAY
%D 2022
%K news, views, c2022, c202x, c20xx, zz0522, virus, SARS-CoV-2, covid 19,
   covid19, omicron, BA1, BA2, BA.2, BA.2.12.1, BA3, BA4, BA5, variant, variants
%X "... Epidemiologists & virologists [in S.Africa] are watching closely as
   cases there rise sharply again, just 5 months after the Omicron variant
   caused a dramatic surge. This time, the drivers are two new subvariants of
   Omicron named BA.4 and BA.5 ..."
   -- [doi:10.1126/science.adc9473]['22].
   [Also search for: covid variant].

%A J. Huang
%A et al
%T Evidence for reduced BRCA2 functional activity in Homo sapiens after
   divergence from the chimpanzee-human last common ancestor
%J Cell Reports
%V 39
%N 5
%M MAY
%D 2022
%K jrnl, MolBio, c2022, c202x, c20xx, zz0522, BRCA, BRCA2, DSS1, Homo sapiens,
   primate, evolution, fertility, cancer, DNA repair
%X "We performed a comparative analysis of human & 12 non-human primates to
   identify seq. variations in known cancer genes. We identified 395
   human-specific fixed non-silent substitutions that emerged during evolution
   of human. Using bioinformatics analyses for functional consequences, we
   identified a # of substitutions that are predicted to alter protein function;
   one of these mutations is located at the most evolutionarily conserved domain
   of human BRCA2."
   -- [doi:10.1016/j.celrep.2022.110771]['22].

%A M. Yafia
%A et al
%T Microfluidic chain reaction of structurally programmed capillary flow events
%J Nature
%V 605
%P 464-469
%M MAY
%D 2022
%K MolBio, jrnl, c2022, c202x, c20xx, zz0522, lab on a chip, microfluidic,
   capillary flow
%X "... we introduce the microfluidic chain reaction (MCR) as the conditional,
   structurally programmed propagation of capillary flow events. Monolithic
   chips integrating a MCR are 3-dimensionally printed, & powered by the free
   energy of a paper pump, autonomously execute liquid handling algs.
   step-by-step. With MCR, we automated (1) the sequential release of 300
   aliquots across chained, interconnected chips, (2) a protocol for severe
   acute respiratory syndrome-coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) antibodies detection in
   saliva & (3) a thrombin generation assay ... MCRs are untethered from &
   unencumbered by peripherals, encode programs structurally in situ & can form
   a frugal, versatile, bona fide lab-on-a-chip with wide-ranging applications
   in liquid handling and point-of-care diagnostics."
   -- [doi:10.1038/s41586-022-04683-4]['22].

%A M. Hanus
%T From Logic to Functional Logic Programs
%J arXiv
%M MAY
%D 2022
%K TR, FP, LP, c2022, c202x, c20xx, zz0522, program
%X "LP is a flexible programming paradigm due to the use of predicates without
   a fixed data flow. To extend logic languages with the compact not'n of FP,
   there are various proposals to map evaluable fns into predicates in order to
   stay in the LP framework. Since amalgamated F+L languages offer flexible as
   well as efficient evaluation strategies, we propose an opposite approach ...
   By mapping logic programs into functional logic programs with a trans'n
   based on inferring functional dependencies, we develop a fully automatic
   transformation which keeps the flexibility of LP but can improve computations
   by reducing infinite search spaces to finite ones."
   -- 2205.06841@[arXiv]['22].

%T The Subversion of Australian Universities
%E J. Biggs
%A R. E. Davies
%K book, 2002, c200x, c20xx, zz0522, Australia, University, academia, quality,
   academic research, management, KPI, KPIs, politics, Dawkins
%X "The theme of this book is that Australian universities have become subverted
   and that this is a catastrophe for society. The traditional university is the
   only institution in society that is dedicated, through research and teaching,
   to the creation, maintenance, and propagation of knowledge in the basic
   disciplines. ..."
   -- at [UoW]['22].

%A C. S. O. Siew
%A T. Engelthaler
%A T. T. Hills
%T Nymph piss and gravy orgies: Local and global contrast effects in
   relational humor
%J J. of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition
%D 2022
%K jrnl, psychology, humour, c2022, c202x, c20xx, zz0522, funny, ha ha, haha,
   words, phrases, natural language, joke, jokes
%X "How does the relation between two words create humor? In this article, we
   investigated the effect of global & local contrast on the humor of word
   pairs. ... find evidence of both global & local contrast on compound-word
   humor. Specifically, we find that humor arises when there is a violation of
   expectations at the local level, between the individual words that make up
   the word pair, even after accounting for violations at the global level
   relative to the entire language. ... also find that semantic dissimilarity
   increases humor ..."
   -- [doi:10.1037/xlm0001120]['22],
      3r7fw@[psyarxiv]['22].
   (auth1@[xyz]['22].)

%A S. D'Alonzo
%A M. Tegmark
%T Machine-learning media bias
%J arXiv
%M AUG
%D 2021
%K TR, c2021, c202x, c20xx, zz0522, natural language, phrases, media, press,
   news, newspapers, bias, biases, left right, establishment, politics
%X "... an automated method for measuring media bias. Inferring which newspaper
   published a given article, based only on the freqs. with which it uses
   different phrases, leads to a conditional probability distn whose analysis
   lets us automatically map newspapers & phrases into a bias space. By
   analyzing ~ a million articles from roughly a hundred newspapers for bias in
   dozens of news topics, our method maps newspapers into a 2D bias landscape
   that agrees well with prev. bias class'ns based on human judgement. One
   dimension can be interpreted as traditional left-right bias, the other as
   establishment bias. This means that although news bias is inherently
   political, its measurement need not be."
   -- 2109.00024@[arXiv]['22].

%A A. Seth
%T Being You: A New Science of Consciousness
%I PenguinRandomHouse
%P 352
%M OCT
%D 2021
%K book, c2021, c202x, c20xx, zz0522, brain, consciousness, mind
%X 1st ed 2021; hb us$28; uk us isbn:0571337708; uk us isbn13:978-1524742874.
   "...  puts forward an exhilarating new theory about how we experience the
   world that should encourage us to view ourselves as less apart from & more
   a part of the rest of nature. ..."

%A Ziming Liu
%A M. Tegmark
%T Machine learning hidden symmetries
%J Phys. Rev. Lett.
%V 128
%N 18
%M MAY
%D 2022
%K jrnl, c2022, c202x, c20xx, zz0522, symmetry, transformation,
   dimension reduction, asymmetry, PDE
%X "We present an automated method for finding hidden symmetries, defined as
   symmetries that become manifest only in a new coord. sys. that must be
   discovered. Its core idea is to quantify asymmetry as violation of certain
   partial differential eqns, & to numerically minimize such violation over the
   space of all invertible transformations, parametrized as invertible neural
   networks. For example, our method rediscovers the famous Gullstrand-Painleve
   metric that manifests hidden translational symmetry in the Schwarzschild
   metric of nonrotating black holes, as well as Hamiltonicity, modularity, &
   other simplifying traits not traditionally viewed as symmetries."
    -- [doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.128.180201]['22].
   (auth2 [www].)

%A Jason E. Goldstick
%A et al
%T Current causes of death in children and adolescents in the United States
%J NEJM
%V ?
%M APR
%D 2022
%K corr, NEJM, c2022, c202x, c20xx, zz0522, USA, gun, guns, deaths, children,
   risks, firearms
%X "... recently released updated official mortality data that showed 45,222
   firearm-related deaths in the United States in 2020 - a new peak. ... in
   2020, firearm-related injuries became the leading cause of death in that
   [1-19y] age group ..."
   -- [doi:10.1056/NEJMc2201761]['22].
   [Also search for: gun deaths].

%A D. A. Redelmeier
%A S. M. Singh
%T Long-term mortality of academy award winning actors and actresses
%J PLoS One
%V 17
%N 4
%P e0266563
%M APR
%D 2022
%K jrnl, eJrnl, c2022, c202x, c20xx, zz0522, movies, films, entertainer, actor,
   actress, Oscar, Oscars, winning, winners, lifespan, death, stats
%X "... Overall, 2,111 individuals were analyzed with 1,122 total deaths
   occurring during a median follow-up of 68.8 years. Comparisons of winners to
   controls yielded a 4.8% relative difference avg. life-span (95% ci: 1.6 to
   7.9, p = 0.004), a 5.1 year absolute increase in life expectancy (95% ci:
   3.0 to 7.2, p < 0.001), & a 41% improvement in mortality hazard (95% ci: 19
   to 68, p < 0.001). The increased survival tended to be greater in recent
   years, for individuals winning at a younger age, & among those with multiple
   wins. The increased survival replicated in secondary analyses comparing
   winners to nominees & was not observed in analyses comparing nominees to
   controls. ..."
   -- [doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0266563]['22].
   [Also search for: entertainer lifespan].

%A R. Giancarlo
%A G. Manzini
%A A. Restivo
%A G. Rosone
%A M. Sciortino
%T A new class of string transformations for compressed text indexing
%J arXiv
%M APR
%D 2022
%K TR, c2022, c202x, c20xx, zz0522, BWT, ABWT, string transformation, strings,
   invertible, index
%X "... Among the known BWT variants, the only one that has been recently shown
   to be a valid alternative to BWT is the Alternating BWT (ABWT), another
   invertible string transformation ... Lyndon words. ... we introduce a whole
   class of new string transformations, called local orderings-based trans.,
   which have all the myriad virtues of BWT. We show that this new family is a
   special case of a much larger class of trans., based on context adaptive
   alphabet orderings, that includes BWT & ABWT. Although all trans. support
   pattern search, we show that, in the general case, the trans. within our
   larger class may take quadratic time for inversion & pattern search. As a
   further result, we show that the local orderings-based trans. can be used for
   the construction of the recently introduced r-index, which makes them
   suitable also for highly repetitive collections. In this context, we consider
   the problem of finding, for a given string, the BWT variant that minimizes
   the # of runs in the transformed string, & we provide an alg. solving this
   problem in linear time."
   -- 2205.05643@[arXiv]['22].
   [Also search for: BWT string].

%T The biggest data breach. ICCL report on scale of Real-Time Bidding data
   broadcasts in the U.S. and Europe
%I Irish Council for Civil Liberties (ICCL)
%M MAY
%D 2022
%K TR, c2022, c202x, c20xx, zz0522, web, www, website, app, internet, privacy,
   data protection, tracking, RTB, real time bidding, USA, Europe
%X "Real-Time Bidding (RTB) operates behind the scenes on websites & apps. It
   tracks what you are looking at, no matter how private or sensitive, & it
   records where you go. Every day it broadcasts this data about you to a host
   of companies continuously, enabling them to profile you. This report presents
   the scale of this data breach for the first time. RTB is the biggest data
   breach ever recorded. It tracks & shares what people view online & their
   real-world location 294 billion times in the U.S. & 197 billion times in
   Europe every day ..."
   -- [iccl.ie][16/5/2022].
   (Also see the [bbc]['16/5/2022].)
   [Also search for: internet privacy].