Move over pythons: This invasive scary invader may be worse for Florida

Crayfish and amphibians are vanishing as a stealth invader spreads statewide, raising alarms about cascading losses across ...

5 snakes with such beautiful eyes, you'll forget how dangerous they are

Beyond their scales and fangs, some snakes possess surprisingly beautiful eyes. Species like the green tree python, eyelash ...

Look up before you walk: 5 snakes that spend most of their lives in trees

Contrary to common assumptions, many snakes thrive in trees, not just on the ground. This article highlights five arboreal ...
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

What’s pushing these snakes toward extinction? UGA study points to causes.

A recent study has found a dangerous combination of fungus, parasites and other pathogens is posing a threat to the snake population in the Southeast.

Python egg hunt: Florida elimination program adds new reward category

The South Florida Water Management District is now rewarding hunters for removing python eggs and active nests from the ...

Florida vultures caught eating invasive python eggs in rare first

Native scavengers may be exploiting Burmese python nests to their benefit but it's unclear how often it is happening.
IEEE

Adapted One-versus-All Decision Trees for Data Stream Classification

Abstract: One versus all (OVA) decision trees learn k individual binary classifiers, each one to distinguish the instances of a single class from the instances of all other classes. Thus OVA is ...
IEEE

Tree quantization for large-scale similarity search and classification

Abstract: We propose a new vector encoding scheme (tree quantization) that obtains lossy compact codes for high-dimensional vectors via tree-based dynamic programming. Similarly to several previous ...