Greeks stuff those with feta or rice and herbs :) bsky.app/profile/vand...

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.

London

Whoever had a Velamos, it is time for a colonoscopy 🙃

Sieve of Eratosthenes en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sieve_o...

Notebook: Sufficient Statistics bactra.org/notebooks/su...

Tree

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 www.tovima.gr/2018/09/11/s... www.jpost.com/opinion/gree...

Happy Greek orthodox Easter 🐇

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

#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🧵

A link to the paper www.econ.uiuc.edu/~econ508/Pap... bsky.app/profile/hos-...

Great day for a run

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

Has anyone from all those who were supporting his coalition government in Greece got any lessons? bsky.app/profile/cubi...

Hyperboloid pasta

Artemis II www.nasa.gov/gallery/jour...

Ohh, no! :( www.dignitymemorial.com/obituaries/c...

In the era of AI information extraction/assistance you will need to be more specialized, not less.

Aquinas and model theory www.cambridge.org/core/books/m...

Not always real

Finally cleaned up an old note on Speculative { Sampling / Decoding } from the perspective of Markov Chain simulation, now uploaded at github.com/sampower88/P... (alongside various other public notes).

“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” refractor.io/history/earl...

The ultimate mug for frequentists 😂 smbc-store.myshopify.com/products/goo...

Golden ratio

Some fav songs from the late 90s in gifs 🙂

Rofl www.google.co.uk/books/editio...

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/ @isba-bayesian.bsky.social

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 #philsci

Best song from Madonna (and probably the only one I like) Back in 1998 I though she was old (was just 40!) 😬 youtu.be/XS088Opj9o0

" 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 " djalil.chafai.net/blog/2025/03...

Yes, weight and volume bsky.app/profile/amer...

Galis vs USSR 1987 eurobasket finals

100-year-old Greek grandma from Ikaria shares her secret to a long life: "I never learned measure theory"

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."

Tulips

Birkhoff's birthday. Well known for the ergodic theorem, didn't remember the allegations of antisemitism mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/...

Good discussion on AI in maths research youtu.be/G0DqKlAcNxM

Another indication that the eccentric former Greek minister may have been a hired foreign asset. 🤑 www.turkiyetoday.com/region/greec...

Iran hangs 3 people, including teen wrestler, in first executions over January protests www.cbsnews.com/news/iran-ex...

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...

Devastated widow, auntie and the undertaker

'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,' www.ox.ac.uk/news/2026-03...

In somebody else's words:

The Temptation of Saint Anthony, Salvador Dali

Stirling's formula, an asymptotic precursor to Γ bsky.app/profile/cubi...

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. Made with #Python #NumPy #Matplotlib and @marimo.io #Mathematics #MathArt #CreativeCoding

People can't appreciate fully anything they got charitably.

HP's logo is a rotated f'(x)dx 🙃

Well, e.g. due to being also factorials bsky.app/profile/econ...