Stefano

Stefano

@stippe87.bsky.social

Former theoretical physicist, now data scientist. Bayesian, PyMC addicted. Science outreach enthusiast and dataviz lover. Skeptik Mostly in Turin (IT) https://thestippe.github.io/statistics

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The more I read "Factfulness" by Hans Rosling, the more I realize that part of modern society's issues would be solved by teaching that book at school. #statsky

According to Zelensky, Trump is helping Putin in killing Ukrainian people by not sharing intelligence information because he wants to lower the oil price to win the elections... If this is true, it is a good reason to avoid relying on US help when we discuss EU defence.

The more I use AI tools to develop non-trivial data science tools, the more I convince myself that AI is great in pretending it does what you ask for

Can anyone give me a definition of "hybrid" war? I honestly don't see how can the Russian attacks to Germany be defined as hybrid...At most they can be defined as national terrorism.

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LinkedIn statistics post: <Some absolute nonsense> - most stats profs don't even teach this! Comment #1: you're a moron. Of course no one teaches this rubbish! Comment 2#: wow! I always wondered about this!

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@mjskay.com starting the StanCon 2026 talks with "Systematic uncertainty visualization design (and its foundation in probabilistic models)" All talks are recorded and will be made available after the conference

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I work in #datavis, best known for uncertainty vis: see my work on election forecast vis (forecasts.cs.northwestern.edu), this talk (youtu.be/E1kSnWvqCw0), or my lab (mucollective.northwestern.edu) I like writing #rstats 📦s: ggdist (mjskay.github.io/ggdist), tidybayes, ggblend, posterior::rvar...

With the influx of dataviz people, let's do some re-intros. 📊 — What's your claim to fame? ✨ — How might we know you already? What have you done that we might have seen or read before? What would help us remember how we came across you? Don't be shy: it's helping us reconnect and remember you 💡

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Io penso Che questa mia generazione è preparata A un mondo nuovo e a una speranza appena nata Ad un futuro che ha già in mano A una rivolta senza armi Perché noi tutti ormai sappiamo Che se Dio muore è per tre giorni e poi risorge Ciao Maestro

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Now that the rich and powerful people are calling for open-weights models, it's time to pressure them to be legitimately brave and back open-corpus models.

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jensen one of us, let's bring him over on bsky xcancel.com/i/status/208...

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Salvini chiede che sia legittimo sparare a chi deruba una gioielleria, eppure non credo voglia che sia considerato legittimo sparare chi deruba gli italiani di 49 milioni. Qualcuno mi spiega la differenza?

Trovo davvero irritante che il ministro degli esteri trovi il tempo per indignarsi con il Nicaragua per l'omicidio di Aldo Moro ma, da quando è in carica, non ha proferito parola sull'ostruzionismo delle autorità egiziane esercitato a favore dei colpevoli dell'omicidio di Giulio Regeni.

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Amnesty International described it as an “ineffective quick fix” that it saw as “out of step” with the realities of a digital generation. 1/2

Bullshit of a day from the self-promotion social (obviously linkedin): a real time temperature map of an entire EU capital accurate at the meter level. If you claim you made something like this, either you are a liar or an ignorant about physics. #GISchat #remote-sensing

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Apprendo che Giovanni Malagò è stato eletto presidente della FIGC con il “betting” come punto qualificante del programma. In pratica torneremo ai mondiali cancellando le norme per combattere la #ludopatia?

La polemica di PiùLibriPiùLiberi non la capisco: richiedere ai partner di aderire a un codice etico è una pratica assodata (anzi in certi casi è legalmente consigliato), come mai tutto questo casino se a farlo è un festival letterario? Cos'ha di diverso da qualunque altra attività?

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I learned so much in this conversation with @naomioreskes.bsky.social for the Apocalyptic Optimist Pod about climate disinformation, how to understand the current attacks on science, & what comes next. We all must embrace our anger as a motivator for resistance and action! @piqueaction.bsky.social

Pique Action@piqueaction.bsky.social

Climate anxiety and despair freeze us—but appropriate anger makes us move. @fisherdanar.bsky.social and @naomioreskes.bsky.social discuss how it's time to stop looking for comfort, embrace the indignation, and channel that energy into real action. Go watch the full episode! 💥