Kostas Pelechrinis

Next, on top of nominating Trump for the Peace Nobel prize, they will ask the Nobel Committee for Physiology or Medicine to strip Kariko and Weissman of their Nobel Prize for the mRNA ... www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medic...

The Hawk at #NBAJam (or ABA Jam?) style

Most Computer Science Papers Stay in the Lab. A Few Build the Future. Each year, researchers publish thousands of Computer Science papers. Most are read by a handful of other researchers. Some get cited. But…

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"For the first time in history, the rate of change of the acceleration of BTC volatility has flattened. VERY smart people say this is the 4th derivative. A tremendous slowdown in the instability of instability. Markets have total confidence in Trump. Make blockchain great again."

The pixelized picture was created on Excel with VBA for those wondering (yes I know many were … not lol)

My artistic (lol) juices were flowing today so I redid my site after I don’t even know how many years. Get ready for an Atari arcade experience (sound on and best viewed on a desktop/laptop for now)

www.pitt.edu/~kpele

a man with a beard wearing a beanie and a hoodie is standing in front of a steelers logo . ALT: a man with a beard wearing a beanie and a hoodie is standing in front of a steelers logo .

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I had to...#ChatGPT cooked AGAIN

For those keeping score at home, since 1980 we have seen a consecutive 5-day window drop in Dow Jones with a probability of 1.7%. Also 12% of those instances happened under Trump. The market is not the economy of course by itself, but since we have heard the "all time high" argument a lot...

that the benefits from the research funded might be more localized. Research $s have among the highest RoI among federal spending. If other states start doing this, there will be “innovation divide” between blue and red states [2/2]

An interesting dynamic here. This move aligns at face value with the move towards the “federalism” that Trump has been touting. States taking responsibilities for a number of things. However, the admin will now not have control of what this research is about for example. Another thing is [1/2]

One of those days that I want to “quit” on everything but nothing that a Greek freddo cappuccino - and a good book - cannot fix

Everything is fine. It just seems that we should not use any of the data from this admin. Flashback and PTSD from Greece in the late 90s cooking the books to get into the Euro zone.

investment anywhere between 20-30% of the pledged amount.

Similarly the admin’s media machine touts that “Trump again was right” about tariffs. Meanwhile the majority of them are coming up lol It will be a “fun” August and beyond…

It is amazing to me that both trade deal with Japan and EU have not be scrutinized more. The administration touts the investments both are bringing to the US as part of the deals BUT these are *pledges* and they also can overlap with previous commitments. If I had to guess I’d put the actual

This upcoming semester I am teaching for first time a course on Applied Bayesian Analysis that I developed for the Master's in Data Science at Pitt. Bayesianism is something that I think we all should subscribe too! Here is a hype video (😂)

Variance is also higher; small sample size (181 4-point shots only) and the data were collected from bits and pieces from articles (so quality might be a bit Q) but it'll be interesting to see how teams adjust in following seasons or if other pro leagues introduce the line [2/2]

I looked for some data on the 4-point line at PBA that was tried out last season. Using bootstrap here are the expected points per 100 shots for each type. You get on average almost +1 point per 100 shots from the 4-point line but this is not statistically significant [1/2]

#ChatGPT cooked with this one

Amy Sherald Cancels Her Smithsonian Show, Citing Censorship

The "free speech" party is pushing (directly and indirectly) for censorship. I could pretend to be shocked but of course I am not

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The most mind boggling thing ab our timeline is that I truly believe that we're living in 2 (or 3) parallel worlds. Two big groups of ppl believe completely different things about the same event, topic etc. And most probably are also wrong (hence, the 3rd - true - "world")...

Oh it is very doable. Attach a smart contract on each digital piece of data and every time this "data point" is being used for training, testing or evaluating you get paid a pre-determined amount (even on a token, since this admin is so into this)

If you want to start with your own bsky bot here is the code: github.com/kpelechrinis...

WNBA Advanced Box - ESPN Analytics Models and data visualization from ESPN Analytics. NBA & NFL Draft, schedule analysis, receiver scores and more.

After Paige Bueckers had another good game yesterday, she now has four games where she added at least +7 net points to her team's scoring margin. That's as many as Caitlin Clark had through her whole rookie year.

It wasn't her best offensively, but good both ends.

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Since it is hard to keep track of all the lies by the administration, I created a bot to deliver to you a randomly selected #TrumpLie periodically (sourced by @politifact.bsky.social). Give it a follow and spread the lies so we can stop repeating them. @trumpfactbot.bsky.social

Using the Martin–Quinn scores I looked at the expected number of "moderate" judges per term over the decades. The 2020s so far has the lowest number of expected neutral judges. The division has reached unprecedented levels.

Code+data: github.com/kpelechrinis...

More retro Greek basketball. 1995-96 season. Marcus Liberty and Anthony Pelle for #AEKBC against Dominique Wilkins and Stojan Vrankovic (among others) for #Panathinaikos

Nostalgia Saturday: one of the best ever - and underrated - Greek shooters, Nikos Chatzis, at his favorite play; floppy. Catch n shoot, attack close outs, reject and cut to the basket when defense tries to top lock.

According to the data, escape rates have steadily declined from ~12 per 1000 inmates in early 80s to 1 per 2000 inmates in 2001. More recent numbers from 2021 put the rate at 1 per 2500 inmates. All this is a theater...

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