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The Decline of the UK Armed Forces

The Decline of the UK Armed Forces

While there has been a lot of chatter about the quantity of warfighting materiel of the UK, one aspect is more troubling. After all, one can produce more tanks, planes, and ships within a five year span but training and maintaining personnel to man those will take much longer.Here's the latest count of regular personnel within the Armed Forces.The Army has s...

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The Best Way to Elect, Part 2 of 2

The Best Way to Elect, Part 2 of 2

In Part 1, we built three ranked choice voting systems from scratch, broke two of them, and landed on Instant-Runoff Voting — a method with no double-counting, no silent vote loss, and a winner who holds a genuine majority. But IRV is not the only serious method in the field, and "it works better than the two things we invented" is not the same as "it is cor...

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The Best Way to Elect, Part 1 of 2

The Best Way to Elect, Part 1 of 2

Three Ways to Count a Ranked BallotA simulation study comparing three ranked choice voting systems using a mayoral election in the fictional Town of Westbrook — 10,000 voters, 6 candidates, same ballots, three different outcomes.---The QuestionRanked choice voting is not a single system. It is a family of systems distinguished by one deceptively simple quest...

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The Nefarious Reason Cars Do Not Have Buttons Anymore

The Nefarious Reason Cars Do Not Have Buttons Anymore

It's hard not to be impressed by modern car dashboards. Automakers have largely replaced analog gauges with vibrant color displays that show far more than just speed, RPM, fuel level, and temperature.From there, the humble radio evolved into full-blown infotainment systems — capable of playing music, streaming video, and even running games. Keeping pace with...

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Stock-Bitcoin Correlation Analysis: Clustering S&P 500 Equities

Stock-Bitcoin Correlation Analysis: Clustering S&P 500 Equities

Stock-Bitcoin Correlation Analysis: Clustering S&P 500 Equities Executive Summary We analyzed 503 S&P 500 stocks to identify clusters based on their correlation to Bitcoin price movements. Using K-means clustering on daily return correlations, we identified four distinct clusters of stocks with varying levels of exposure to Bitcoin price dynamics. Methodolog...

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Why Nobody Should Freak Out Over AI

Why Nobody Should Freak Out Over AI

A lot of things have been said about the the book If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies: Why Superhuman AI Would Kill Us All by Eliezer Yudkowsky and Nate Soares. Many are saying that it is the most consequential book that security and defense consultants should all read. With AI tools and software, rapidly advancing, it seems so. What these folks tend to forge...

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