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Imprecisely illogical
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.
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(Frequentist) Confidence intervals are RANDOM VARIABLES conditioned on the assumption that THE MODEL USED is TRUE
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Haven't seen worse arguments in a "statistics" books written by non-statisticians (but yea, I haven't seen many of those either) 😐
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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.
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One of the worst Italian things I've seen. (had to double check it is real)
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Not just a language issue though
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When words collide: Are statistics and data science two professions separated by a common language?
Abstract. There is a vocabulary divide in statistics and data science whereby the same fundamental methods are often described with different terminology.
https://academic.oup.com/jrssig/article/22/6-7/48/8275169?login=false
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Post office, Psarades - 2019
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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.
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As I get older I tend to believe more and more that best predictor of future wealth/social status is family's wealth / connections.
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Bonfire
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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)
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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?
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“Quantum theory does not need complex numbers”
arxiv.org/abs/2504.02808
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Physicists Take the Imaginary Numbers Out of Quantum Mechanics | Quanta Magazine
Quantum mechanics has at last been formulated exclusively with real numbers, bringing a mathematical puzzle at the heart of the theory into a new era of inquiry.
https://www.quantamagazine.org/physicists-take-the-imaginary-numbers-out-of-quantum-mechanics-20251107/
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Thank God I don't live in the rainy parts
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Will be grilling burgers tonight 😁
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American Statistical Association History of Statistics
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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
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" ” 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 "
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Get the G out of AGI: Making Room for Environmental Intelligence
https://hdsr.mitpress.mit.edu/pub/b1ysps0g/release/1
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Röyksopp - Adversity & Hope
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Röyksopp - Adversity & Hope (Original Soundtrack from Facing War by Röyksopp) | Official Visualiser
YouTube video by Röyksopp
https://youtu.be/CNRDMdfCMmI
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-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"
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Random or not?
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Masked activists threaten Israeli professor during lecture at London university
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Masked activists threaten Israeli professor during lecture at London university - Committee For Academic Freedom
Masked activists allegedly threatened to behead an Israeli-born professor during a lecture at City St George’s, in the most serious escalation of an ongoing student-led campaign to have him dismissed ...
https://afcomm.org.uk/2025/10/23/israeli-professor-threatened-city-st-georges-campus-protest/
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"...the models not only reflect gender biases, but also amplify them. The direction and strength of the distortion depends on the language in question."
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Strength of gender biases in AI images varies across languages
Text-to-image generators reproduce stereotypes and reinforce them. The direction and strength of the distortion depends heavily on the language in question.
https://www.tum.de/en/news-and-events/all-news/press-releases/details/strength-of-gender-biases-in-ai-images-varies-across-languages
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If you thought rings 💍 is something only jewellers do, think twice 🙃
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"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."
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"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"
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How to Win Elections in a Dynamically Evolving Electorate | SIAM
Researchers can use mathematical modeling to measure changing public opinions during an election, which reveals unexpected phenomena.
https://www.siam.org/publications/siam-news/articles/how-to-win-elections-in-a-dynamically-evolving-electorate/
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Go back κυρία Merkel
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Model Autophagy Disorder
arxiv.org/pdf/2307.01850
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Model Autophagy Disorder – UCLA Livescu Initiative on Neuro, Narrrative, and AI
https://livescu.ucla.edu/model-autophagy-disorder/
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Decided to go Hellenic 🙃
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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?)
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Women don’t like the vehicle
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".. 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."
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Convex functions as ReLU mixtures - Libres pensées d'un mathématicien ordinaire
From a functional point of view, convexity is a variational way to go beyond linearity, via the envelope property. This elementary post is devoted to another representation of convex functions, as a s...
https://djalil.chafai.net/blog/2025/07/07/convex-functions-as-relu-mixtures/
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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?
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Meanwhile in the free parts of Palestine... 🤨
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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
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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"
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Röyksopp - 'Some Resolve' (Official Visualiser)
YouTube video by Röyksopp
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Affected ( 4/5 G too)
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Vodafone down: Thousands of UK customers report broadband issues
Vodafone claims to have more than 18 million customers in the UK, including nearly 700,000 home broadband customers.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5yldldx659o
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Hasn't been hired for his expertise in AI technologies, has he?
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Rishi Sunak hired by Microsoft and Anthropic as paid adviser
The former prime minister has been told not to lobby the UK government by the appointments watchdog.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/clyqe22pz81o
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When everything is seen as solely a chance to make money, bullshit will be the main commodity being offered.
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Someone can have meaningful discussions with a honest biased person but can't have with any one who lacks good intentions.
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Back in the past some of the nastiest people were the ones who made their cross ostantentiously in church.
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University of Cambridge
about 2 months ago
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
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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.
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Professor Sir John Gurdon FRS (1933-2025) | Magdalene College
Magdalene College is deeply saddened to announce the death of Professor Sir John Gurdon FRS, who served as Master of the College from 1995 to 2002.
https://www.magd.cam.ac.uk/news/professor-sir-john-gurdon-frs-1933-2025
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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."
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Nobel Prize in Physics 2025
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 electri...
https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/2025/summary/
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Nature
about 2 months ago
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.
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Was that edible or will be dying? 🪦
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Otto English
about 2 months ago
Tommy Robinson invited to Israel by Amichai Chikli the Minister of Diaspora Affairs.
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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 🫥
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