To my understanding the public health care system in Greece is quickly converging to a US type care where many do cease having access and private insurance companies will grab a big part of the healthcare money.

(Frequentist) Confidence intervals are RANDOM VARIABLES conditioned on the assumption that THE MODEL USED is TRUE

Haven't seen worse arguments in a "statistics" books written by non-statisticians (but yea, I haven't seen many of those either) 😐 bsky.app/profile/elis...

The common denominator for both a choosing a good friend as well as a choosing an author is trust, but surely not a complete overlap on the qualities someone is looking for on both.

One of the worst Italian things I've seen. (had to double check it is real) bsky.app/profile/rmce...

Not just a language issue though academic.oup.com/jrssig/artic...

Post office, Psarades - 2019

Possibly controversial opinion: Shame can be beneficial even if not linked to someone's' individual actions. The feeling of shame for antisocial behaviours observed more often on someone's community could contribute to a better calibrated behaviour.

As I get older I tend to believe more and more that best predictor of future wealth/social status is family's wealth / connections.

Bonfire

When I heard about Watson's death I couldn't help it but think about the insane person who was going to attack him with an anarchist flag (happened in a lecture theatre in Patras, Greece in 2011) bsky.app/profile/ncco...

Say we bought 80,000 boxes that contain 25 products each. We found out that in 8 of the boxes there are at least 50% or more defective products. Assume defects equiprobable for each product. What is a good estimate of the defect rate?

“Quantum theory does not need complex numbers” arxiv.org/abs/2504.02808 www.quantamagazine.org/physicists-t...

Thank God I don't live in the rainy parts bsky.app/profile/nren...

Will be grilling burgers tonight 😁 bsky.app/profile/oxfo...

Hirotugu Akaike b #OTD 1927 (d 4 Aug 2009) ASA Fellow 1981, RSS Fellow. His information criterion AIC was first presented in English in 1971. The 1974 publication is one of the top-cited statistics articles of all time, but AIC is now so commonly used it isn’t cited anymore

" ” the very notion of ‘general intelligence,’ and by extension AGI, is scientifically unsound, in a manner directly comparable to previously outmoded ideas like phlogiston and the aether " hdsr.mitpress.mit.edu/pub/b1ysps0g...

Röyksopp - Adversity & Hope youtu.be/CNRDMdfCMmI

-You often DON'T need to know the exact Data Generating Process. - The problem of induction DOESN'T imply you can't reasonably infer outside the data range. -Natural laws don't exist nor they are a necessary conditions for prediction/extrapolation -Theorems might be more informative that any "laws"

Random or not?

Masked activists threaten Israeli professor during lecture at London university afcomm.org.uk/2025/10/23/i...

"...the models not only reflect gender biases, but also amplify them. The direction and strength of the distortion depends on the language in question." www.tum.de/en/news-and-...

If you thought rings 💍 is something only jewellers do, think twice 🙃

"The emphasis that economists ... was that workers choose a particular job because it pays well. But in fact, people won't necessarily go for the job with the best pay. They might choose a job with lower pay if it were better for their wellbeing." cep.lse.ac.uk/_new/publica...

"if voting is not mandatory, then candidates might benefit from taking an extreme position under certain conditions. The underlying mechanism of this conclusion is a saddle-node bifurcation" www.siam.org/publications...

🎯 bsky.app/profile/euge...

Go back κυρία Merkel

Model Autophagy Disorder arxiv.org/pdf/2307.01850 livescu.ucla.edu/model-autoph...

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Decided to go Hellenic 🙃

If someone knows how to make an Nvidia card decode hvec (8 and 10 bit) on ubuntu, please do let me know output of : gst-inspect-1.0 nvcodec (is this the cause?)

Women don’t like the vehicle bsky.app/profile/alan...

".. another representation of convex functions, as a superposition of elementary convex nonlinearities. This representation is related to the positivity of the second derivative in a weak sense." djalil.chafai.net/blog/2025/07...

Why it should be so difficult to say the terrorists of Hamas should disarm? Is it how the democrats see they could dethrone the orange elderly kid?

Meanwhile in the free parts of Palestine... 🤨

At some point in the past I got interested in economics and read theory from academic textbooks. The two authors of the book just got awarded the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel for their work in economic growth

Why cooking vegetables became appreciated by Turkish Ottomans? Answer seems to be the Christian Orthodox Fasting Source: Paulina B. Lewicka , "Food and Foodways of Medieval Cairenes"

🙏 youtu.be/nmVxqhw456A

Affected ( 4/5 G too) www.bbc.com/news/article...

Hasn't been hired for his expertise in AI technologies, has he? www.bbc.com/news/article...

When everything is seen as solely a chance to make money, bullshit will be the main commodity being offered. bsky.app/profile/rbly...

Someone can have meaningful discussions with a honest biased person but can't have with any one who lacks good intentions.

Back in the past some of the nastiest people were the ones who made their cross ostantentiously in church.

It is with great sadness that the University shares the news of the death of Professor Sir John Gurdon, founder of the @gurdoninstitute.bsky.social Read our tribute to the visionary Nobel Laureate and watch an interview from 2012, just after he won: https://bit.ly/4mM8o3r

2012 Nobel laureate John Gurdon has died. His work was central to both the development of animal cloning and the possibility of reprogramming cells to a different state. A giant of cell and developmental biology. www.magd.cam.ac.uk/news/profess...

The Nobel Prize in Physics 2025 was awarded to John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret and John M. Martinis "for the discovery of macroscopic quantum mechanical tunnelling and energy quantisation in an electric circuit." www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physi...

BREAKING: The Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret, and John M. Martinis "for the discovery of macroscopic quantum mechanical tunnelling and energy quantisation in an electric circuit" Stay tuned for more.

Was that edible or will be dying? 🪦

Tommy Robinson invited to Israel by Amichai Chikli the Minister of Diaspora Affairs.

Bsky allows people who have blocked you (and you have too) to add you to some nasty lists. Tell me this does not encourage toxic behaviour 🫥