As I get older I tend to believe more and more that best predictor of future wealth/social status is family's wealth / connections.
November 11, 2025 at 4:42 PM
As I get older I tend to believe more and more that best predictor of future wealth/social status is family's wealth / connections.
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...
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)
bsky.app/profile/ncco...
(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...