LONELY HEARTS
Frictionless Term, Good Prospects, Seeks Ticker for Long-Term Listing
Inviscid turned up in 18 papers this week against a typical 7, and still nobody has given it a symbol.
WORD, unlisted, flowing freely through fluid dynamics, seeks ticker for meaningful relationship. Interests: shock formation, vorticity depletion, spaces named after Yudovich.
Appeared in 18 papers this week, well past a typical 7, a change of 167%. Recent outings include 'The Inviscid Limit of Viscous Burgers through Shock Formation and Development' and 'Optimal Linear Inviscid Damping and Vorticity Depletion for Non-monotonic shear flows'.
No friction, no viscosity, no drag whatsoever holding this word back. GSOH not required, just a bit of board space.
Box number withheld; enquiries to the exchange, which currently has nothing to list it under.
STILL CLIMBING
Statistics Wing of Machine Learning Hasn't Finished Rising
The field that led this page on 11 October is now 72% above its typical pace, and others are catching the draught.
Machine Learning (Statistics) took in 137 papers this week, up 72% on its typical 80, the field having led this page on 11 October and apparently seen no reason to stop since.
It is not alone. Geometric Topology ran 34% above its typical pace at 52 papers, Data Structures and Algorithms climbed 32% to 100, and Statistics Theory rose 23% to 54.
Whatever started this looks less like a spike now and more like the new normal, at least until somebody notices and writes a paper about it.
MARKETS · $LDAR
$LDAR Leads the Board as $LIQD Slips
A quiet day of small moves, with the usual word still dominating the dividend table.
$LDAR (lidar) led the gainers, up 1.1%, with $FOUR (fourier) up 0.9% and $SNOV (supernova) up 0.7% close behind.
On the other side, $LIQD (liquid) eased 0.8%, $LATT (lattice) dropped 0.7%, and $FLAR (flare) slipped 0.6%. Nobody on the desk pretends lasers and liquids have anything against each other.
Underneath it all, $AGNT (agent) kept its usual post as the busiest counter on the exchange, with 469 hits across titles and abstracts on the latest settled day.
FUND DESK · $TOKN
Impact Factor Partners Buys Token and Memory in the Same Breath
The blue-chip fund doubled up on big nouns while the Early Career Fund went looking for something younger.
Impact Factor Partners bought 1,681.83 credits of $TOKN, then followed with 1,655.78 credits of $MEM, the fund's two largest moves of the day.
"Is it in the top ten? Then we own it," the fund said, apparently satisfied that both tokens and memory qualify.
Early Career Fund, meanwhile, bought 1,515.15 credits of $VISN. "Promising. Could you be younger?" the fund asked, before deciding vision would do just fine.
PROPERTY
For Let: Spacious Plot in Computers and Society, No Queue at Reception
cs.CY took just 25 papers this week against a typical 44, down 43%, with several similarly roomy fields nearby.
A generously proportioned corner of Computers and Society (cs.CY), now accepting a mere 25 papers this week against a typical 44, down 43%. Submit without jostling; the waiting room is empty.
Nearby, comparable bargains: Statistical Mechanics, down 29% at 41 papers; Quantum Physics, down 26% at 356; and Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, down 23% at 40.
Each comes with ample referee attention and a printer nobody is fighting over.
Viewings by appointment; interest, so far, has been notably restrained.
WORD WATCH
'Flavour' Turns Up All Over the Particle Beat
18 papers used the word this week, against a typical 8, up 125%.
'Flavour' appeared in 18 papers this week, well past its typical 8, a change of 125%.
The particle physicists are keeping it busy: 'Lepton Flavour Universality in Semileptonic $\bar B_{(s)} \to D_{(s)}^{(\ast)}$ Transitions' and 'Measurements of lepton-flavour universality in semileptonic $B$ decays at Belle and Belle II' both made the week's intake.
It stretches further still, into 'Dark Matter Stability from residual flavour symmetries', proving the word has more range than its usual diet of quarks.
No ticker trades on it. The spelling alone may be putting off American buyers.
From the arXiv papers settled on Monday 12 October. Every figure is taken from the counts.