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Barring divine intervention or the West Coast falling into the sea, President Biden will handily win California in the November election.But should he — or presumptive GOP nominee Donald Trump — secure a second term in the fall, the future of either’s policy agenda rests heavily on which party controls Congress, where Republicans currently hold a wafer-thin majority in the U.S. House of Representatives.With the Golden State home to some of the most hotly contested swing districts in the country, the House’s fate will…

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain A new study examines the circumstances behind who is found at fault when cars hit pedestrians in an urban area. Results showed that the environment where the crash took place—especially the types of roads and the amount of access to marked crosswalks—played a key role in whether the pedestrian or the driver was…

Update procedure for temporal stacking of optical images. For SAR images the procedure is identical, except there is no need to consider a cloud mask. This procedure ensures that the network always has access to the latest valid information for each location. Credit: ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (2023). DOI: 10.1016/j.isprsjprs.2023.01.017 How much snow is there up in the mountains, and where exactly is…

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Political parties regularly claim to have their finger on the pulse and be able to read the public mood. Yet a new study challenges the idea that being political makes you good at understanding others: it shows gender, not politics, is a far more important factor in determining people's social skills. …

Tropical cyclones Olaf (top) and Nancy (bottom) on February 16, 2005, over the South Pacific. Credit: MODIS Rapid Response Team, NASA-GSFC Tropical cyclones (TCs) are responsible for significant damage to property and human life. The size and intensity of these storms are critical factors in determining the level of destruction they can cause. However, the relationship between a TC's size and intensity during its development…

C--> A TI calculations at P = 323 GPa. (a–c) show the averaged energy differences between ab initio system A and classical system C in TI-MD simulations for liquid, bcc, and hcp, respectively. The solid lines are the polynomial interpolations. Credit: Geophysical Research Letters (2023). DOI: 10.1029/2022GL102447 Earth's inner core is dominated by iron, which can exist as a solid material in more than one crystallographic…

Given a graph containing n edges. The task is to find the topology formed by the given set of edges in that graph.Examples:Input: edges = Output: “linear”Explanation: This test case contains three edges that are connected end-to-end, forming a linear topology.Input: edges = Output: “star”Explanation: This test case contains four edges that are all connected to a central node (1), forming a star topology.Input: edges = Output: “ring”Explanation: This test case contains five edges that are connected in a circular fashion,…

Photo by Igor Shabalin, with permissionHow to extract information about the context of a sentence with BERT model outputsTalking about contextual embeddings in BERT, we mean the hidden states of a pre-trained model. To start with, however, BERT uses non- contextual, pre-trained (static) embeddings being taken from the look-up table. It happens in the Embedding layer that comes before the Encoder layers, which, then, generate the hidden states for the sequence being processed.In a nutshell, contextual embedding comes from…

How, where and why is Spitsbergen greening up? An ETH and WSL research team wants to find answers to this question. Credit: ETH Zurich A research team from ETH Zurich and WSL traveled to Spitsbergen this summer to take a closer look at the phenomenon of Arctic greening. Project manager Sebastian Dötterl discusses research in the face of polar bears, strikes and war.…

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Technology has brought the cinema to our homes. Huge screens, powerful sound systems, projectors, streaming services, and even active seating and other novelties, have all conspired to keep many cinemagoers away from the traditional venues for watching movies. This coupled with the COVID-19 pandemic that had many of us confined to our homes for the sake of personal and public health also…