Theodore Alysandratos

I forgot the link to the Stata documentation of sortmethod www.stata.com/manuals/pset...

It seems the default for most cases² in R is stable, hence reproducible, even if it sacrifices some speed.

cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/...

²Certainly most economists don't work with data>=2^31

I'm not a software developer or frequent Stata user. Maybe there's "no case where you would want to perform a sort that does not produce a unique ordering".

However, I was trying to port a stata package to R and its developer uses sort without an explicit tie-breaker.

That's how I found that out.

As a PSA but also because I'm mildly annoyed:

Stata touts its reproducibility credentials¹, yet if you sort with ties the orderings may differ each time you run the code or between editions (MP/SE).

¹Others have raised concerns wrt that, too: ejdataeditor.github.io/posts/202405...

Δεδομένου ότι η ενημέρωση πολλών συνόλων σταμάτησε το 19, υποψιάζομαι ότι δεν ξεχάστηκαν απλά. Λίγο που δεν υπήρχε πια τρόικα να πιέζει, λίγο που οι θέσεις υπευθύνων για αυτά είναι βυσματικές κι έγιναν μεταθέσεις, δε θέλει πολύ.

Η ελστατ δημοσιεύει ανά γεωγραφική περιοχή δεδομένα. www.statistics.gr/documents/20... αν τα έχει και στο σάιτ ή πρέπει να τα βρει κανείς στα πδφ, δεν ξέρω.

data.gov.gr/datasets/mcp... ανά αστυνομική Διεύθυνση, αλλά μόνο για το 14-19 😡(υπάρχουν προ του 14 στο σάιτ της ΕΛΑΣ, δεν θυμάμαι τώρα σε ποια ανάλυση).

Χμ, κάτι είχε η ΕΛΑΣ στο παλιό data gov gr. Αν βρω χρόνο, θα ρίξω μια ματιά.

Γι'αυτό νομίζω ότι χρειάζεται πειθώ κι εξήγηση της απόφασης εδώ ώστε να υπάρξει buy in.

Αν δεν κόψετε το χαρτζιλίκι της μικρής, είστε στα ίδια ίσως και χειρότερα.
Αν της κόψετε το χαρτζιλίκι, ανοίγετε άλλο can of worms αν δεν οφείλεται απλά στο ότι δε θέλει/βαριέται.

Ίσως καλύτερα να εξηγήσετε την reasonable accommodations πολιτική του σπιτιού;

Ανθρώπινο δικαίωμα δεν είναι, αλλά πλέον όπως είναι η γκάμα των εταιρειών, αν θες παιδικό κάθισμα & αποθηκευτικό χώρο & είσαι >1.80, το SUV μπαίνει σοβαρά στη συζήτηση.

Φυσικά θέμα κινήτρων είναι η γκάμα και υποδομής τα ηλεκτρικά που'ναι πολύ άνετα εσωτερικά.

In war, geography matters as much as technology. Iran commands the entire northern shore of the Gulf, looming large over energy fields on its southern shore and all that passes through its waters. Its Houthi allies are perched at the entrance to the Red Sea and along the passage to the Suez Canal; Iran is thus perfectly positioned to squeeze the global economy from both sides of the Arabian Peninsula. Those in command of Iran today are veterans of asymmetric wars in Iraq and Syria. They are now applying the same strategy to fighting the US on the battlefield of the global economy. Drones, short-range missiles and mines setting tankers and ports on fire can have the same effect IEDs had in Iraq, only with greater impact - disrupting global supply chains and sending oil prices higher.

Iran could sustain its counteroffensive more easily and for far longer. Furthermore, a ceasefire alone will not lift the shadow of risk that Iran has imposed over the Gulf, which is now experiencing its nightmare scenario. That is why Iranian leaders are saying they will not accept a ceasefire until Washington fully grasps the global economic cost of waging this war. Businesses, investors and tourists may not return to the Gulf states if they assume that war could resume again. Unless the US is prepared to invade Iran to remove the Islamic republic's leaders and then stay there to ensure stability and security, confidence in the Gulf will only return if the US and Iran arrive at a durable ceasefire. The pressure is building on Washington to seek one. It is not just Gulf states that want an end to the fighting, but also countries across Asia, Africa and even Europe, all of which fear serious economic crises unless the fighting stops soon.

Cheerful stuff in the FT. Trump has started something that he cannot control. This is arguably far more significant for the world economy than the oil crises of the 1970s.

Βάρος, μήκος, πλάτος. Ας τα βάλουνε όλα σε κατηγορίες ή ας βγάλουνε ένα συνεχές μέτρο. Δεν είναι μόνο το βάρος. Επίσης το ύψος έχει σημασία για την οδηγική ασφάλεια. Μερικά είναι τόσο ψηλά που δε βλέπεις μικρό παιδί μπροστά σου.

The perpetrator "in 2016…[he] said he was thinking about carrying out an attack…made contact with members of ISIS…tried to buy an AR-15 assault rifle[…failed because…]he lacked the proper paperwork…returned the next day and bought a different assault rifle."

Wtf? news.sky.com/story/deadly...

Τέλη κυκλοφορίας ↑. Θες να πιάνεις 2.5 θέσεις πάρκινγκ και να επιβαρύνει το οδόστρωμα σαν μικρό φορτηγό; Πλήρωνε. Το λέω έχοντας (hand-me-down) SUV στο νοικοκυριό.

Η Πτολεμαϊδα είναι για 28 years later.

Βρήκα το ποστ τους στο φβ. Είχα ήδη αλλάξει τη φωτογραφία σε αυγό. Οπότε μόνο ονοματεπώνυμο και handle (που οδηγεί σε φωτογραφία, σιβι, κλπ).

Όταν σε μπλοκάρουν και βάλουν σκρηνσοτ με το ονοματεπώνυμο και τη φωτογραφία σου στο γκρουπ τους στο φβ καθυβρίζοντας σε για να σε βρίσει κι η αγέλη τους, μπορεί να το δεις αρνητικά.

Officials conducting the investigation have examined whether any artificial intelligence models, data crunching programs or other technical intelligence gathering means were to blame for the mistaken targeting of the school, according to U.S. officials. While Claude, the large language model created by Anthropic, does not directly create targets, it works with the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency’s Maven Smart System and other software to identify points of interest for military intelligence officers. But officials said the error was unlikely to have been the result of new technology. Instead, they said, it likely reflected a common — but sometimes devastating — human error in wartime. The top line finding of the internal military investigation mirrors a growing body of public evidence that clearly suggests U.S. responsibility. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/11/us/politics/iran-school-missile-strike.html

Not Claude's fault, it turns out. Old-fashioned human error. But given the scaling back of the office instituted to prevent such errors, it points to a systemic fault.

Pentagon probe points to U.S. missile hitting Iranian school A military assessment suggests a U.S. Tomahawk cruise missile was responsible for at least 165 deaths at an Iranian girls' school, according to a U.S. official who was not authorized to speak publicly...

"Congress created a special Pentagon office to prevent the accidental targeting of civilians but it was dramatically scaled back by Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth soon after he took office last year." www.npr.org/2026/03/11/n...

US responsible for deadly missile strike on Iran school, preliminary inquiry says Strike that killed at least 175 people, most of them children, reportedly the result of a targeting mistake by US military planners

"the inquiry – which has yet to be completed – has found that officers at US Central Command created the target coordinates for the strike using obsolete data provided by the Defense Intelligence Agency"

U.S. at Fault in Strike on School in Iran, Preliminary Inquiry Says

"U.S. at Fault in Strike on School in Iran, Preliminary Inquiry Says

Outdated targeting data may have resulted in a mistaken missile strike, according to the ongoing military investigation, which undercuts President Trump’s assertion that Iran could be to blame."

"undercuts" 🙄

Ε, αν μοιάζει με πάπια, περπατάει σαν πάπια και κρώζει σαν πάπια, μάλλον δεν είναι κότα.

Sorry, κανένας χυλός και κανένα γιαούρτι στην περίπτωση μου. Φανατικοί, κουκουλοφόροι υβριστές, δυσανεκτικοί στο διάλογο, υποδαυλίζουν τον όχλο που τους βαράει παλαμάκια.

Εμένα με είχαν βάλει και στο γκρουπ τους στο φβ και μ'έβριζαν αυτοί κι οι ακόλουθοι τους. Δε βαριέσαι. Δημοσιογραφία της κουκούλας.

Sure, why not build a relationship with the man responsible for this?
bsky.app/profile/wart...

Αχ ο κύριος Πούτιν, την υπογραφή του τιμάει και γενοκτονεί Ουκρανούς. Το μνημόνιο της Βουδαπέστης δεν το'χε υπογράψει ο ίδιος, δεν μετράει.

They have access to what goes to their servers. That may not be the whole dataset, but snippets of it (e.g. top 10 lines to understand structure). Some orgs have no data retention agreements. I don't know if they're GDPR/UKDS compliant. For now, I'd err on the side of caution.

Introducing AutoDiscovery: Automated scientific discovery, now in AstaLabs | Ai2 AutoDiscovery explores data autonomously, generating its own hypotheses to surface surprising findings that researchers might never have thought to look for.

I suspect the same, but I'd like to see the results of this trial allenai.org/blog/autodis...

On Sunday, one of Germany’s largest states went to the polls in a closely contested election. What can we learn from the results & how do they relate to looming deindustrialization in one of Germany’s industrial heartlands? A thread with some decriptive patterns from data on 1,101 municipalities. 🧵