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Falso allarme! Come i pipistrelli si riconoscono e smascherano le truffe

di Laura Scillitani Pubblicato il 26/03/2025 Aiutereste qualcuno che chiede soccorso se fosse evidente che non è in pericolo? Probabilmente no, e a quanto pare anche i pipistrelli si comportano allo stesso modo. Un nuovo studi... Continue reading

The Probability Density Function: A Known Unknown

Perhaps the most important thing to get right from the start, in most statistical problems, is to understand what is the probability distribution function (PDF) of your data. If you know it exactly -something that is theoretically possible but only rar... Continue reading

Summer Lectures In AI

Winter is not over yet, but I am already busy fixing the details of some conferences, schools, and lectures I will give around Europe this summer. Here I wish to summarize them, in the hope of arising the interest of some of you in the relevant events ... Continue reading

Unsupervised Tracking

Pattern recognition is an altisonant name to a rather common, if complex, activity we perform countless times in our daily lives. Our brain is capable of interpreting successions of sounds, written symbols, or images almost infallibly - so much so that... Continue reading

Hey AI, Design A Calorimeter For Me

As artificial intelligence tools continue to evolve and improve their performance on more and more general tasks, scientists struggle to make the best use of them. The problem is not incompetence - in fact, at least in my field of study (high-ener... Continue reading

The Multi-Muon Analysis – A Recollection

As part of the celebrations for 20 years of blogging, I am re-posting articles that in some way were notable for the history of the blog. This time I want to (re)-submit to you four pieces I wrote to explain the unexplainable: the very complicated anal... Continue reading

Holiday Chess Riddle

During Christmas holidays I tend to indulge in online chess playing a bit too much, wasting several hours a day that could be used to get back on track with the gazillion research projects I am currently trying to keep pushing. But at times it gives me... Continue reading

Why Measure The Top Quark Production Cross Section?

As part of my self-celebrations for XX years of blogging activities, I am reposting here (very) old articles I wrote over the years on topics ranging from Physics to Chess to anything in between. The post I am recycling today is one that describes for ... Continue reading