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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(happened in a lecture theatre in Patras, Greece in 2011)
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November 8, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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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(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?
What is a good estimate of the defect rate?
November 7, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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?
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...
arxiv.org/abs/2504.02808
www.quantamagazine.org/physicists-t...
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.
www.quantamagazine.org
November 7, 2025 at 4:16 PM
“Quantum theory does not need complex numbers”
arxiv.org/abs/2504.02808
www.quantamagazine.org/physicists-t...
arxiv.org/abs/2504.02808
www.quantamagazine.org/physicists-t...
A little bit of #ggplot2 and #rayshader for the "dimensions" prompt on day 6 of the #30DayMapChallenge! 🌧️
#RStats #DataViz
#RStats #DataViz
November 7, 2025 at 12:34 AM
November 5, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Reposted by λ³🎲
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
November 5, 2025 at 10:33 AM
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...
hdsr.mitpress.mit.edu/pub/b1ysps0g...
Get the G out of AGI: Making Room for Environmental Intelligence
hdsr.mitpress.mit.edu
November 3, 2025 at 1:09 PM
" ” 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...
hdsr.mitpress.mit.edu/pub/b1ysps0g...
-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"
- 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"
November 2, 2025 at 2:28 PM
-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"
- 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"
Masked activists threaten Israeli professor during lecture at London university
afcomm.org.uk/2025/10/23/i...
afcomm.org.uk/2025/10/23/i...
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 ...
afcomm.org.uk
October 23, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Masked activists threaten Israeli professor during lecture at London university
afcomm.org.uk/2025/10/23/i...
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-...
www.tum.de/en/news-and-...
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.
www.tum.de
October 23, 2025 at 2:25 PM
"...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-...
www.tum.de/en/news-and-...
If you thought rings 💍 is something only jewellers do, think twice 🙃
October 23, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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...
cep.lse.ac.uk/_new/publica...
October 23, 2025 at 2:03 PM
"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...
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...
www.siam.org/publications...
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.
www.siam.org
October 23, 2025 at 1:48 PM
"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...
www.siam.org/publications...
What if we did a single run and declared victory
October 23, 2025 at 10:08 AM
Model Autophagy Disorder – UCLA Livescu Initiative on Neuro, Narrrative, and AI
livescu.ucla.edu
October 21, 2025 at 10:13 AM
October 21, 2025 at 9:49 AM
Decided to go Hellenic 🙃
October 18, 2025 at 9:19 PM
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?)
output of :
gst-inspect-1.0 nvcodec
(is this the cause?)
October 18, 2025 at 12:28 PM
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?)
output of :
gst-inspect-1.0 nvcodec
(is this the cause?)
October 17, 2025 at 7:17 AM
".. 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...
djalil.chafai.net/blog/2025/07...
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...
djalil.chafai.net
October 16, 2025 at 2:42 PM
".. 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...
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?
Is it how the democrats see they could dethrone the orange elderly kid?
October 16, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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?
Is it how the democrats see they could dethrone the orange elderly kid?