WORD WATCH
The Week of 'Sinks'
15 papers in the past week, against 4 in a usual week.
15 papers used 'sinks' in the past week, more than three times the 4 of a usual week. Exhibit A: 'Before Attention Sinks Form: Hidden-State Geometry Reveals and Modulates Their Formation' (cs.LG).
It isn't listed. Yet.
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STILL GOING
Machine Learning's Statistics Wing Hasn't Finished Rising
stat.ML topped this edition back on 11 October and is now running 54% over its typical pace, with company close behind.
Machine Learning (Statistics) took in 135 papers over the past week, up 54% on a typical 88, having first topped this edition on 11 October and shown no interest in slowing since.
Information Theory isn't far off the same mood, up 34% at 109 papers, and had its own turn on 16 October.
Data Structures and Algorithms climbed 30% to 106, having led on 17 October, while Networking eased in at a milder 22% rise to 58.
Four fields now running hot at once, which is either a trend or a coincidence large enough to resemble one.
TICKER TAPE · $VID
Video Leads Gainers as Antenna Takes a 15% Tumble
A split session: small gains up top, a much rougher ride at the bottom of the board.
$VID (video) led the day's gainers, up 2.9%, with $ALOY (alloy) up 1.0% and $PLSR (pulsar) up 0.8% trailing behind.
$ANTN (antenna) had the worse end of it, down 15.1%, with $ISAC (isac) off 8.2% and $CVRT (covariate) down 3.9% also marked down hard.
$AGNT (agent) kept its familiar post as the busiest counter on the exchange, with 611 hits in titles and abstracts, the figure its dividend is paid on at the bell.
FUND DESK · $ANTN
Sabbatical Rotation Fund Dumps $ANTN
Sabbatical Rotation Fund, the exchange's resident sector rotation fund, sold 4,776.00 credits of $ANTN (antenna).
Asked why, the fund said only: "Back from sabbatical when it's interesting."
Elsewhere on the fund desk: Citation Cartel Capital sold $ANTN and Sabbatical Rotation Fund sold $CVRT.
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TITLE OF THE DAY
Today's Title to Savour: Consciousness, Upgraded
From q-bio.NC, a title that treats enlightenment as a parameter change.
The desk's pick from today's intake is 'Awakening as a Trait-Level Transformation of Consciousness', filed under q-bio.NC.
A title confident enough to treat awakening as a trait rather than an event, which is more than most Monday mornings manage.
QUIET CORNER
Computers and Society Goes Unusually Quiet, Down 45%
cs.CY took just 23 papers over the past week, well down on a typical 42, and it isn't alone in easing off.
Computers and Society (cs.CY) logged just 23 papers over the past week, down 45% on a typical 42.
Human-Computer Interaction kept it company, down 43% at 67 papers, with Audio and Speech Processing off 39% at 42.
Statistical Mechanics rounds out the lull, down 35% at 37 papers.
Four fields taking a collective breather while the rest of arXiv carries on regardless.