Modeling Income Trajectories: An Empirical Bayes Approach to Panel Data

Table of Links Abstract and 1. Introduction The Compound Decision Paradigm Parametric Priors Nonparametric Prior Estimation Empirical Bayes Methods for Discrete Data Empirical Bayes Methods for Panel Data Conclusion Appendix A. Tweedie’s Formula Appendix B. Predictive Distribution Comparison References 6. Empirical Bayes Methods for Panel Data Longitudinal data poses many new challenges and opportunities for … Read more

California Man Sentenced in $36.9M Crypto Scam Tied to Infamous Huione Group

A California man was sentenced to 51 months in prison for his role in laundering $36.9 million from a crypto investment scam that was carried out in Cambodian scam centers, according to a press release published by the Justice Department. The Justice Department’s acting assistant attorney general Matthew G. Galeotti said the defendant was involved … Read more

Apple iPhone 17 launch event: how to watch

It’s that time of year again: Apple is getting ready to reveal all of the changes coming to its latest generation of iPhones. This year’s “awe dropping” event is expected to include spec bumps across the iPhone 17 lineup, in addition to an ultra-thin iPhone 17 Air. Rumors suggest that we may even get a … Read more

CoinDesk 20 Performance Update: NEAR Protocol Rises 6.7%, Leading Index Higher

CoinDesk Indices presents its daily market update, highlighting the performance of leaders and laggards in the CoinDesk 20 Index. The CoinDesk 20 is currently trading at 4148.79, up 1.1% (+45.25) since 4 p.m. ET on Monday. Nineteen of 20 assets are trading higher. Leaders: NEAR (+6.7%) and HBAR (+3.1%). Laggards: BCH (-0.3%) and POL (+0.3%). … Read more

Ether Treasury Company SharpLink Gaming Buys Back $15M in ‘Undervalued’ Shares

SharpLink Gaming (SBET), a Nasdaq-listed ether (ETH) treasury firm helmed by Ethereum co-founder Joe Lubin, said on Tuesday it has bough back $15 million worth of shares, noting the stock’s market cap is below the company’s $3.6 billion in ETH holdings. The Minneapolis-based firm repurchased about 939,000 shares at an average price of $15.98 as … Read more

Ethereum, Solana Wallets Targeted in Massive ‘npm’ Attack But Just 5 Cents Taken

A phishing email on Monday took down one of Node.js’s most prolific developers by pushing malicious code into packages downloaded billions of times a week, in what researchers call the largest software supply-chain attack in recent times. While the scope of the attack is massive, Security Alliance said in a Tuesday report that the attacker … Read more

How Simplified Models Can Still Lead to Smarter Solutions

Table of Links I. Introduction II. Spim Performance, Advantages and Generality III. Inherently Low Rank Problems A. Properties of Low Rank Graphs B. Weakly NP-Complete Problems and Hardware Precision Limitation C. Limitation of Low Rank Matrix Mapping IV. Low Rank Approximation A. Decomposition of Target Coupling Matrix B. How Fields Influence Ran C. Low Rank … Read more

Beyond Gaussian Mixtures: Applying Empirical Bayes to Discrete Data Problems

Table of Links Abstract and 1. Introduction The Compound Decision Paradigm Parametric Priors Nonparametric Prior Estimation Empirical Bayes Methods for Discrete Data Empirical Bayes Methods for Panel Data Conclusion Appendix A. Tweedie’s Formula Appendix B. Predictive Distribution Comparison References 5. Empirical Bayes Methods for Discrete Data The range of empirical Bayes methods extends far beyond … Read more

Canon is bringing back a point-and-shoot from 2016 with fewer features and a higher price (it’s viral)

Don’t call it a comeback. Canon seems to be riding the TikTok digicam resurgence and is rereleasing a mid-2010s point-and-shoot — the PowerShot Elph 360 HS A. It’s mostly the same camera as the original Elph 360 HS, first launched in the very different world of 2016 and recently anointed the darling pocket camera of … Read more