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David Mermin's "Quantum Computer Science"

mermin.lassp.cornell.edu/qcomp/CS483....

and his teaching approach

arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph...

P481-P681-CS483

mermin.lassp.cornell.edu

November 25, 2025 at 8:33 PM

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Tsipras, another classic

November 25, 2025 at 8:15 PM

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🌘

November 25, 2025 at 4:36 PM

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As the former Greek PM has published a book and some (though fortunately not many) seem to still admire him and think he could have been re-elected had he used the liquidity support from the ESM (which they call pillow) to buy votes please find below his government's request for stability support...

November 25, 2025 at 3:06 PM

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Shubhendu Trivedi

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Led me to a very informative wikipedia entry en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opaque_...

November 25, 2025 at 8:20 AM

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Well 😐

November 25, 2025 at 11:07 AM

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Fréchet-Shohat CLT from cumulants

djalil.chafai.net/blog/2025/11...

Back to basics : Fréchet-Shohat CLT from cumulants - Libres pensées d'un mathématicien ordinaire

This post is about the self-normalized Central Limit Theorem (CLT) involving cumulants, discovered in the 1930s by Fréchet…

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November 24, 2025 at 10:59 PM

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Can't make this sh&t up

November 24, 2025 at 5:41 PM

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Theodore Alysandratos

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Two papers published at ~the same time and I think should be read together:

Diversifying Society’s Leaders? The Determinants and Causal Effects of Admission to Highly Selective Private Colleges academic.oup.com/qje/advance-...

Identity Politics www.econometricsociety.org/publications...

Abstract
We use anonymized admissions data from several colleges linked to income tax records and SAT and ACT test scores to study the determinants and causal effects of attending Ivy-Plus colleges (Ivy League, Stanford, MIT, Duke, and Chicago). Children from families in the top 1% are more than twice as likely to attend an Ivy-Plus college as those from middle-class families with comparable SAT/ACT scores. Two-thirds of this gap is due to higher admissions rates for students with comparable test scores from high-income families; the remaining third is due to differences in rates of application and matriculation. In contrast, children from high-income families have no admissions advantage at flagship public colleges. The high-income admissions advantage at Ivy-Plus colleges is driven by three factors: (1) preferences for children of alumni, (2) weight placed on non-academic credentials, and (3) athletic recruitment. Using a new research design that isolates idiosyncratic variation in admissions decisions for waitlisted applicants, we show that attending an Ivy-Plus college instead of the average flagship public college increases students- chances of reaching the top 1% of the earnings distribution by 50%, nearly doubles their chances of attending an elite graduate school, and almost triples their chances of working at a prestigious firm. The three factors that give children from high-income families an admissions advantage are uncorrelated or negatively correlated with post-college outcomes, whereas academic credentials such as SAT/ACT scores are highly predictive of post-college success.

Presidential Address: Identity Politics

We offer a theory of changing dimensions of political polarization based on endogenous social identity. We formalize voter identity as in Bonomi, Gennaioli, and Tabellini (2021), but add parties that compete on policy and spread stereotypes to persuade voters. Parties are historically connected to different social groups, whose members are more receptive to the party messages. An endogenous switch from class to cultural identity accounts for three major changes: (i) growing cultural conflict between voters and parties; (ii) dampening of redistributive conflict, despite rising inequality; (iii) a realignment of lower class voters from the left to the right. The incentive of parties to spread stereotypes is a key driver of identity‐based polarization. Using survey data and congressional speeches, we show that—consistent with our model—there is evidence of (i) and (ii) in the voting realignment induced by the “China Shock” (Autor, Dorn, Hanson, and Majlesi (2020)).

November 24, 2025 at 11:38 AM

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The mental gymnastics some people are doing to not accept any evidence works against them is sometimes terrifying.

November 24, 2025 at 10:31 AM

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Hell is orher people

(Something I do agree with Sartre)

November 23, 2025 at 9:09 PM

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To my understanding the public health care system in Greece is quickly converging to a US type care where many do cease having access and private insurance companies will grab a big part of the healthcare money.

November 21, 2025 at 9:27 PM

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(Frequentist) Confidence intervals are RANDOM VARIABLES conditioned on the assumption that THE MODEL USED is TRUE

January 8, 2025 at 2:13 PM

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Haven't seen worse arguments in a "statistics" books written by non-statisticians (but yea, I haven't seen many of those either) 😐

bsky.app/profile/elis...

Elisabeth Bik - Perpetrator 5, a fraudulent microbiologist @elisabethbik.bsky.social · 8d

Next: Geoff Cumming @thenewstats.bsky.social with 'Statistical significance and p values: The researcher’s heroin'
* p values are highly unrealiable - don't trust them, don't use them!
www.thenewstatistics.com
tiny.cc/osfsigroulette
#IRICSydney

Speaker at the pedestal wearing a t-short with the link to TheNewStatistics website.

November 19, 2025 at 9:49 AM

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The common denominator for both a choosing a good friend as well as a choosing an author is trust, but surely not a complete overlap on the qualities someone is looking for on both.

November 18, 2025 at 6:45 PM

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One of the worst Italian things I've seen. (had to double check it is real)

bsky.app/profile/rmce...

November 18, 2025 at 5:51 PM

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Not just a language issue though

academic.oup.com/jrssig/artic...

When words collide: Are statistics and data science two professions separated by a common language?

Abstract. There is a vocabulary divide in statistics and data science whereby the same fundamental methods are often described with different terminology.

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November 17, 2025 at 4:44 PM

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Post office, Psarades - 2019

November 16, 2025 at 12:45 PM

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Possibly controversial opinion: Shame can be beneficial even if not linked to someone's' individual actions.
The feeling of shame for antisocial behaviours observed more often on someone's community could contribute to a better calibrated behaviour.

November 15, 2025 at 2:49 PM

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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

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Bonfire

November 8, 2025 at 9:24 PM

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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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November 8, 2025 at 4:27 PM

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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?

November 7, 2025 at 4:18 PM