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At 56 With $940,000 Saved and a Stable Federal Job, the Math Tilts Toward Working Six More Years Than Most Calculators Suggest

A 56-year-old GS-13 federal employee covered by FERS, with 28 years of service and $940,000 in the Thrift Savings Plan, can ...
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A 71-Year-Old Retired Federal Employee With $890,000 in a TSP Discovers His Pension Quietly Disqualified Him for the IRMAA Hold-Harmless Rule

A retired GS-13 with a solid FERS pension, a well-funded Thrift Savings Plan, and steady Social Security income would seem financially insulated from unpleasant Medicare surprises. Yet many federal ...

Teaching AI to design optical surfaces using real-world imperfections

Designing surfaces that precisely control how light behaves at the nanoscale is tricky. Optical Fourier surfaces, which are ...
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Problematic smartphone use linked to poorer grades, alcohol misuse, more sexual partners

A survey of more than 3,400 university students in the US has found that one in five respondents reported problematic smartphone use. Female students were more likely be affected and problematic ...
IEEE

Multiparty Multiobjective Optimization for Dynamic Multimodal Optimization Problems

Abstract: The challenge of dynamic multimodal optimization problems (DMMOPs) lies in tracking multiple global or locally acceptable optimal solutions in environments that change over time. Typically, ...
IEEE

Dynamic System Modeling Using a Multisource Transfer Learning-Based Modular Neural Network for Industrial Application

Abstract: Establishing an accurate model of dynamic systems poses a challenge for complex industrial processes. Due to the ability to handle complex tasks, modular neural networks (MNN) have been ...