Air pollution kills

Confirming 1+1=2

Reflections

"Scientists are (at best) true experts. The discipline needed for true expertise tends to militate against being a good advisor. However, the public wants to meet good advisors, rather than true experts. Public trust in science is, I suggest, doomed to disappointment." www.lse.ac.uk/philosophy/e...

Καλό καλοκαίρι

I updated Ubuntu and now my local drives mount to /run/media/ instead of /media. Any clue of why that happens?

One of the nastiest police attitudes I have seen (yes, this is in the US)

The Turkish authoritarian leader prays in the iconic church of the Christian orthodoxy he transformed to a mosque, to celebrate the conquest of Constantinople by the Ottomans

Gianis' mate bsky.app/profile/diet...

Giogros Katrougalos seems to have received 100k to praise China docs.un.org/en/A/HRC/61/...

Hey fellow EU immigrants. According *to Labour* MPs we pose a risk to the safety of British streets 🤢🤡 bsky.app/profile/dawn...

Naive estimates of numbers of past amateur historians (mostly travellers) do more harm than good as often people (including modern historians) fail avoid taking them at face value.

Sad news guys. Time for an upgrade

Haven't looked at the details of this study but there are red flags indeed www.medpagetoday.com/neurology/al...

#OTD 1728 Gabriel Cramer first uses the term ‘expectation’ ["l'espérance mathématique"] in its modern mathematical sense. Later Laplace runs with it in his ‘Théorie Analytique des Probabilités’. In 1838 'expectation’ first appears in English in Augustus de Morgan's ‘Essay on Probabilities’

Donald Trump and sons granted ‘forever’ immunity from existing tax audits Justice department deal comes day after government set up $1.8bn fund to pay president’s allies hit by alleged ‘lawfare’ www.ft.com/content/5733...

No matter what you think about the flotillas, this is not a response of normal state x.com/itamarbengvi...

"One-third of the food we eat relies on bee-pollinated crops. But in Europe, at least 23% of bee species are in decline. “What happens to pollinators could have huge knock-on effects for humanity" www.cam.ac.uk/stories/what...

Architecture by unrolling / analogy

The Greek bailout of Aegean airlines does worth investigation too as it is obviously problematic bsky.app/profile/poli...

So true. bsky.app/profile/pwgt...

Aad van der Vaart on his empirical frequentism for Bayesianism nejsds.nestat.org/journal/NEJS...

Big in 🇯🇵 youtu.be/sjGl-pq4RxQ

Clear and straight 👏 www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/202...

Erdogan, just like Putin and other authoritarian leaders, has his own aspirations but @bloomberg.com language is equivalent to suggesting Ukraine or Greenland are contested territories. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Reflected

🎉Happy International Women in Mathematics Day! Today, we are celebrating the brilliant women whose ideas, discoveries, and research continue to shape the world of mathematics. From foundational theories to breakthroughs in cryptography, data science, topology, and beyond, their impact is everywhere.

Antisthenis is especially relevant nowadays @thalysandratos.bsky.social @sotigeo.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/aeaj...

Why the Soviets doctored this iconic photo youtu.be/4HchGsN7eM4

One of the most British Saturday night photos

Many Greeks do remember Matina as she has published many articles about Greece bsky.app/profile/mich...

Not only does telling a chatbot ‘do not hallucinate’ misunderstand how LLMs works, the idea that they are capable of following instructions is an illusion. At best, this just adds text to the context that may cause them to go down one path rather than another. But they don’t literally obey commands.

Despite being imperfect, I like a lot the artistic look of out of focus areas using some old lenses (here an eastern German 50mm f/1.8 Zeiss). Unfortunately quite difficult to use those on Nikon DSLRs (used a Canon for this one) and do not want to buy mirrorless for the time being 🔋

"don’t use C++ to interface with R. If you need to implement some computation in native code, use C (or perhaps Fortran), not C++, or completely avoid interacting with the R runtime" blog.r-project.org/2019/03/28/u...

S at 50 blog.r-project.org/2026/05/05/s...

It has been an inspiring spring in Oxford with the full flush of blossom now preparing to give way to the intense green of summer. But who cares about that when you can watch Robin Wilson on the Basel problem and the Riemann hypothesis? Watch: youtu.be/uqp7QmnlgPY

#OTD 1834 the first officers and Council of the newly created Statistical Society of London (now Royal Statistical Society) were elected. The Society was founded by Adolph Quetelet, Charles Babbage, Thomas Malthus & Richard Jones. There were 411 members in the first year

Can proudly claim I have read 0 Dawkins books

It’s gonna May

Yes we do (Not good if you want to stay slim though - but no such issues for the owner of this backpack)

ΕU is usually the scapegoat for the underdeveloped areas which subsequently, as they are the most underdeveloped, get more EU funding. bsky.app/profile/jepp...

AI in general are conjecture generation technologies, can be trusted only if their output can be verified. And verifying multiple and complex claims is a very challenging task.

Greece is probably the only country where a response to an attack by a (89 years old!) gunman is a civil service workers strike. 🤦

A strong reason I see for someone to keep having an x account (or open a new one) is to not miss what people do post there. It is too revealing, I don't think you should skip this opportunity *I temporally closed mine, never post anything and the sole reason for reopening it is just this.

Many people were living a nightmare while the communist regime and its foreign satellites were claiming all this was a western propaganda. bsky.app/profile/bens...

This weekend (with many thanks to @cubiclogic.bsky.social for the idea & the recipe) I did courgette flowers the Greek way, stuffed with herby rice - amazingly yummy

Those people while at school 👇 bsky.app/profile/atru...

Can someone please explain me how can a journalist ( Katia Antoniadi ) of the Greek state TV be allowed to travel to Iran as a (obviously) guest of the regime (see her face on an Iran state-controlled media page) just to serve their propaganda? www.instagram.com/iranpress_eng

"Both the Commons and Lords have settled on a final draft of the "landmark" legislation that aims to stop anyone born after 1 January 2009 from taking up smoking by making it illegal for shops to sell them tobacco, to create a smoke-free generation." www.bbc.com/news/article...

Lessons relevant to countries like Greece where early release has become way too common HT @criminologist.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/ox.a...