How the House Slumped to Historic Lows of Productivity in 2025

Despite holding a governing trifecta, Republicans labored to steer the tightly divided House, with fewer votes and fewer ...
Psychology Today

What Explains Why Homicide Levels Are Historically Low?

Violence is threshold-dependent, not inevitable: when culture reduces symbolic rewards and offers nonviolent paths to dignity ...

The "Contrast Makeup Theory" Brings Color Analysis to Your Glam Routine

There's a lot of gray area when it comes to how you're "supposed" to do your makeup. Sure, there's plenty of lore around face ...
IEEE

High-Precision and Large-Scale Phase-Based Laser Ranging With High Receiving Sensitivity via Multi-Tone Modulation and Frequency-Shift-Based Coherent Low-Frequency Detection

Abstract: The phase-based laser ranging (PBLR) technology can achieve high-precision distance measurement. Nevertheless, it is challenging to realize real-time and high-sensitivity measurement with a ...
GitHub

A lightweight library to algorithmically convert numerical tone notation (e.g., hao3) to standard Pinyin diacritical marks (e.g., hǎo).

There is one key difference between v1 and v2: v2 does not support the format pinyin-number-r (e.g., hua1r) for erhua pronunciation. Instead, it supports the format pinyin-r-number, such as huar1.
IEEE

FreqSense: Universal and Low-Latency Adversarial Example Detection for Speaker Recognition with Interpretability in Frequency Domain

Abstract: Speaker recognition (SR) systems are particularly vulnerable to adversarial example (AE) attacks. To mitigate these attacks, AE detection systems are typically integrated into SR systems. To ...
KFGO

Yen wallows near record low to euro as BOJ keeps cautious tone after rate hike

TOKYO, Dec 22 (Reuters) – The yen languished near a record low to the euro on Monday, after Bank of Japan Governor Kazuo Ueda stuck to his usual cautious rhetoric following an interest rate hike on ...