Today's NYT Connections Hints (and Answer) for Thursday, December 18, 2025

If you’re looking for the Connections answer for Thursday, December 18, 2025, read on—I’ll share some clues, tips, and ...

QE Is Back: Which Assets Are Set to Benefit the Most From the Liquidity Boost?

QE is back! On December 10th, the Federal Reserve announced its plan to purchase $40 billion in Treasury securities each ...
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Combining Social Relations and Interaction Data in Recommender System With Graph Convolution Collaborative Filtering

Abstract: A recommender system is an important subject in the field of data mining, where the item rating information from users is exploited and processed to make suitable recommendations with all ...
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On Weighted Graph Sparsification by Linear Sketching

Abstract: A seminal work of [Ahn-Guha-McGregor, PODS’12] showed that one can compute a cut sparsifier of an unweighted undirected graph by taking a near-linear number of linear measurements on the ...