Kostas Pelechrinis
@kpelechrinis
Information science professor at Pitt | 🏀 analytics at Mavs | Author of Mathletics
Meanwhile the true rate is about 0.03%. This is a 566x delusion that can clearly affect views....Youth and kids sports exist for kids to have fun, play with their friends, socialize and exercise. Very few kids survive true competition. [5/5]
Argentina is known for its approachable yet age-worthy wines. Clos de Rosario Vintage 1987 is their best 🐐 🍷 Enjoy a glass with all publicly available #Messi goals (thanks to StatsBomb) You can also interact with the visualization here: sites.pitt.edu/kpele/messi_...
All (the ones publicly available from Statsbomb) of #Messi 's career goals in an interactive viz. If you have all the goals, you can upload a json file with the data (format described and file is not stored anywhere on the server) and see the new viz. sites.pitt.edu/~kpele/messi...
ok everyone is talking about Messi, but after the 2018 world cup I was invited and gave 3 seminars on sports and football analytics in Argentina. Since then they have won everything and playing again at the final (which I hope they win also). Coincidence? Well, yes 😂 But had the 6-7 meme well ahead😅
It seems that my suggestion for solving the STEM pipeline issue might have to be the standard for ALL students if this trend keeps up. Education is in a really sad state... medium.com/@kpelechrini...
Galis set some unbreakable records during that (& following) runs. The only way to *try* stopping Galis was “box and 1” BUT the box was for Galis and the 1 for his teammates. This is how great he was. On ball, off ball, transition you name it he did it. He is *basketball* for us Greeks (& Europeans)
Got to love seeing Mike Brown on the biggest stage explicitly acknowledging the role of luck! #NBA #NBAFinals
Two textbook ways to punish defenses showing 2 on ballscreens by #AEKBC First out of short roll punishing weak side help with baseline cuts. If they take away the short roll with a tag, “relay” pass and a baseline cut will also do the job
AI isn't really substituting learning but it can absolutely facilitate it in many aspects. One of them is virtual TAs. I built a RAG-based TA for my #MachineLearning course that answers questions based on lecture material infosci2595-ml-assistant.streamlit.app [1/2]
The so-called, 4-in-1-out offense. Two players cutting at the same spot multiple times 😭
and first highlight dunk. Sound on! Same AI model (MusicGen). Someone more artistic would be able to create much better audio
how much space 10 players occupied (fractal dimensionality -> harmonic complexity), how fast they covered it (coverage rate -> tempo), how explosive the movement was (peak burst speed -> attack). ROTY announced tomorrow. Here are Flagg's first career dunk
ok Charlotte! Brandon Miller with the Spanoulis action to the T
What a dagger. Unconcsious and #AEKBC back at the BCL final 4 for the fourth time!
Big game James! He took over in the 4th! What a comeback win! #AEKBC
Rumor has it that Sam Darnold was indeed seeing ghosts, ghost defenders, and he studied this paper to figure it out and win the #SuperBowl
It is coming like a clock work ! But now more people know about it so the spikes are lower #MarchMadness #TruTv #FirstFour
Forget Erdos. Claude Smith will soon overtake him as the most prolific scientific collaborator of all times. Everyone will have a Claudius number of 0!(=1) #Academia #AI #ClaudeCode
A nicely done feature from Lingfei Wu and Bogdan Vasilescu on AI and how it shapes the productivity and labor www.science.org/eprint/YY6SP...
Defend your freshly shoveled spot from aggressive drivers! Pick a chair defense wisely bc you have limited inventory. Folding chair > lux car, but watch out for beaters not caring ab ANYTHING. How long can you hold your spot? Play now & share your results: sites.pitt.edu/~kpele/chair...
Is this good? Full study: www.kielinstitut.de/fileadmin/Da... Of course this is a short-term study -- so it remains to be seen if for example this leads to more reshoring (which I highly doubt as well)
Polls have been used to manipulate public opinions etc. for decades. The following excerpt is from a paper from 1984 (from all years) "The Impact of Polls on Public Opinion". The "evolution" of this are prediction markets. Wtf is this from polymarket? This is what happens when [1/3]
I am not a NY's resolution guy but if you are, my suggestion would be for your resolution to be **to delay your real resolution** January is the worst possible month to launch a fragile habit: motivation is inflated & expectations are maximal #NewYear2026 [1/3]
We put this screen at the City County Building 4-5 years ago as part of the Pitt Smart Living project. Glad to see it still running! It’s a bummer that the project was during COVID and didn’t allow us to do some cool stuff with #PublicTransport
In the second the get into Peja action for another good look (but miss) from 3 for Dunning Jr #H2P
