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Imprecisely illogical
Greeks stuff those with feta or rice and herbs :)
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American Statistical Association History of Statistics
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In April 1912, as a third-year undergraduate student at Cambridge, RA Fisher publishes his first mathematical paper ‘On an Absolute Criterion for Fitting Frequency Curves’. This is the earliest iteration of what he would later call the method of maximum likelihood.
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London
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Whoever had a Velamos, it is time for a colonoscopy 🙃
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Sieve of Eratosthenes
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Cosma Shalizi
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Notebook: Sufficient Statistics
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Sufficient Statistics
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Just found out the head of the cluster (Predictive Intelligence Cluster - Συνεργατικός Σχηματισμός Προβλεπτικής Νοημοσύνης ) on which an Israeli spying software was participating, is also leading the Institute for Greek-Israeli Cooperation
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Greece: Culture vs virus | The Jerusalem Post
I was certain that the Greek eco-centered tradition will effectively guide the public through the looming adversities to care for themselves and for each other.
https://www.jpost.com/opinion/greece-culture-vs-virus-637958
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Happy Greek orthodox Easter 🐇
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Kevin Collins
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An mRNA treatment for PANCREATIC CANCER was in trials, among many other uses. Choosing to end this research is choosing to sentence millions to an early, painful death
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American Statistical Association History of Statistics
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#OTD
1810 Pierre-Simon de Laplace (1749-1827) reads his paper on the Central Limit Theorem to the Académie de Sciences It took him about 40 yrs to develop & a theorem was not explicitly stated: he devised it as a tool ....1/3🧵
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A link to the paper
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Great day for a run
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LOLGreece
11 days ago
I wonder if the American and British left will one day look at Varoufakis' writing in some detail and realise what they did lionising this snake just so they could feel hip
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Has anyone from all those who were supporting his coalition government in Greece got any lessons?
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Hyperboloid pasta
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Artemis II
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Attila Bátorfy
14 days ago
Ohh, no! :(
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In the era of AI information extraction/assistance you will need to be more specialized, not less.
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Aquinas and model theory
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Not always real
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Sam Power
17 days ago
Finally cleaned up an old note on Speculative { Sampling / Decoding } from the perspective of Markov Chain simulation, now uploaded at
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“The study suggests that mathematical cognition developed well before writing, embedded in craft traditions such as pottery painting and seal engraving. It shows that complex abstract thinking was already present in Neolithic communities”
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8,000-year-old pottery suggests math predates writing
We generally associate the origins of mathematical thinking with the emergence of writing, about five to six thousand years ago. However, a new study challenges this assumption looking at floral desig...
https://refractor.io/history/earliest-evidence-math-numbers-ancient-art/
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The ultimate mug for frequentists 😂
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Golden ratio
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Some fav songs from the late 90s in gifs 🙂
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Rofl
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F. Javier Rubio
20 days ago
March 2026 ISBA Bulletin, featuring a little contribution by Mark Steel and me on the 80th anniversary of the Jeffreys' prior.
isba-bulletin.github.io/ISBABulletin/
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British Journal for the Philosophy of Science
21 days ago
You can listen to BJPS Short Reads being read by the author. Find them on our shiny new YouTube channel or subscribe wherever you normally get your podcasts
youtu.be/VTE87PDMNuc?...
#philsky
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Death in Mind | BJPS Short Reads
What does the opossum’s playing dead tell us about animal minds? By Susana Monsó and Laura DanónRead the essay here: https://www.thebsps.org/short-reads/mons...
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Best song from Madonna (and probably the only one I like) Back in 1998 I though she was old (was just 40!) 😬
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Madonna - Frozen (Official Video) [HD]
YouTube video by Madonna
https://youtu.be/XS088Opj9o0
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" Sanov's large deviations principle ...can be seen as a sort of dual of the Cramér theorem ... it constitutes nowadays one of the important basic elements of modern Large Deviations Theory, developed notably by S. R. Srinivasa Varadhan "
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Ivan Nikolaevich Sanov (1919 - 1968) - Libres pensées d'un mathématicien ordinaire
Probability. One of my favorite theorems in probability theory is the following refined law of large numbers known as the Sanov large deviations principle : if we consider the empirical measure $L_n=L...
https://djalil.chafai.net/blog/2025/03/07/ivan-nikolaevich-sanov/
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Yes, weight and volume
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Galis vs USSR 1987 eurobasket finals
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100-year-old Greek grandma from Ikaria shares her secret to a long life: "I never learned measure theory"
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Anna Nagurney
27 days ago
Congrats to the 2026 Turing Award winners:
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/18/t...
"The two met in 1979 while swimming in the Atlantic just off the north shore of Puerto Rico. They were taking a break while attending an academic conference in San Juan."
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Turing Award Goes to Inventors of Quantum Cryptography
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/18/technology/turing-award-winners-quantum-cryptography.html
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Tulips
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Birkhoff's birthday. Well known for the ergodic theorem, didn't remember the allegations of antisemitism
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George Birkhoff - Biography
George Birkhoff was an American mathematician who was educated at Chicago and Harvard. He became a Professor at Harvard. His most important work was the Ergodic Theorem he discovered in 1931.
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Birkhoff/
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Good discussion on AI in maths research
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Can AI do research math?
YouTube video by Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing
https://youtu.be/G0DqKlAcNxM
28 days ago
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Another indication that the eccentric former Greek minister may have been a hired foreign asset. 🤑
www.turkiyetoday.com/region/greec...
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Iran hangs 3 people, including teen wrestler, in first executions over January protests
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Iran hangs 3 people, including teen wrestler, in first executions over January protests
Two sources confirmed to CBS News that Saleh Mohammadi, a young member of Iran's national wrestling team, was among the three men executed in Iran.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/iran-execution-teen-wrestler-january-protests/
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The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters has awarded the 2026 Abel Prize to Gerd Faltings, director emeritus at the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in Bonn and professor emeritus at the University of Bonn >
www.mpg.de/26279645/ger...
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Gerd Faltings to receive the 2026 Abel Prize
Gerd Faltings, Director Emeritus at the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics, has become the first German to receive the Abel Prize, having previously been awarded the Fields Medal.
https://www.mpg.de/26279645/gerd-faltings-2026-abel-prize
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Devastated widow, auntie and the undertaker
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'We’ve known for some time that chromosomal instability makes cancer more aggressive, but what we’ve discovered is that it also fuels inflammation in oesophageal cancer in a way that actually helps the tumour,'
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New research reveals why some oesophageal cancers are so hard to
Research published in Science Advances has uncovered new insights into why the most aggressive oesophageal cancers are so difficult to treat and how the body’s own defence systems are helping them to
https://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2026-03-13-new-research-reveals-why-some-oesophageal-cancers-are-so-hard-treat
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Sam Power
about 1 month ago
In somebody else's words:
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The Temptation of Saint Anthony, Salvador Dali
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Stirling's formula, an asymptotic precursor to Γ
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Simone Conradi
about 1 month ago
A fair coin "knows" π. Stop flipping when heads first outnumber tails. The expected fraction of heads is π/4. Average many trials → estimate π. Result by J. Propp, animated for
#PiDay
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People can't appreciate fully anything they got charitably.
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HP's logo is a rotated f'(x)dx 🙃
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Well, e.g. due to being also factorials
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