Overview of 2024

Happy New Year! It is time for our yearly reflection. Unexpectedly, we just had another good year on Physics of Risk. At least content-wise. We have published 36 posts (+3 in comparison to the previous year). Half of the posts, 18 in total, were supplemented by interactive materials. Overall trend remains more-or-less stable as can be seen from the plot below.

Fig. 1:The number of posts written in English and still available on this iteration of Physics of Risk (as of the end of 2024). The wide bars represent total number of posts for each year since 2010, while the narrower bars represent a number of posts containing an interactive app.

Exploring random telegraph noise has led us to explore some related topics in statistics. Namely, we have shown that power-law distributions can be manufactured by using mixtures of other distributions. Reviewer comments on our recent paper [1] have prompted a quick look at the core concept in statistical physics - Fermi-Dirac statistics.

Summer vacation has served as a reset. I have restarted with a rant about the state of open science, and general tutorial videos, but quickly switch to a few unrelated topics in statistics and opinion dynamics. Finally, we have started talking about Colonel Blotto game, which we will continue this year. I would also like to write a post or two about another recent paper by me and coauthors from Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics [2]. And then... we will see what comes!

References

• A. Kononovicius, B. Kaulakys. 1/f noise in semiconductors arising from the heterogeneous detrapping process of individual charge carriers. Journal of Statistical Mechanics 2024: 113201 (2024). doi: 10.1088/1742-5468/ad890b. arXiv:2306.07009 [math.PR].
• A. Kononovicius, R. Astrauskas, M. Radavičius, F. Ivanauskas. Delayed interactions in the noisy voter model through the periodic polling mechanism. Physica A 652: 130062 (2024). doi: 10.1016/j.physa.2024.130062. arXiv:2403.10277 [physics.soc-ph].