Implications of Condorcet’s jury theorem — There once lived a man named Marie Jean Antoine Nicolas de Caritat, Marquis of Condorcet (1743–1794). A mathematician and philosopher, his work was mainly focused on advancing social progress towards a more egalitarian society. For instance, he strongly advocated for gender equality as early as in 1787, when he wrote: …

“Oh that place. It’s so crowded nobody goes there anymore.” — Yogi Berra — “Oh that place. It’s so crowded nobody goes there anymore.” — Yogi Berra The El Farol Bar Problem, sometimes known as the “Santa Fe Bar problem” (SFBP) is a constrained resource allocation problem for non-cooperating agents defined by economist William…

An Illustrate Five-Step Guide — Earlier this week Reuters broke the news that the U.S. House of Representatives Judiciary Committee has called on Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos to testify on “Allegations that the online retailer uses data from its own third-party sellers to create competing products” The allegations are, and have been for some time…

Are there infinitely many primes p such that p + 2 is prime? — The twin prime conjecture states that: There are infinitely many twin primes A twin prime is a prime that differs from another prime by two. A set of two primes that differ by two are called a twin prime pair. The first twin prime pairs are: (3,5), (5,7), (11,13), (17,19)…

As of the writing of this article, 6,820 have died of corona infections in Italy alone. That number rose by 743 yesterday, and is expected… — As of the writing of this article, 6,820 have died of corona infections in Italy alone. That number rose by 743 yesterday, and is expected to continue to rise as the Italian health care system struggles to keep up with new critical patients among its close to 70,000 confirmed cases…

A Shannon cipher, named after mathematician Claude Shannon (1916–2001) is a simplified cipher mechanism for encrypting a message using a … — A Shannon cipher, invented by its namesake Claude Shannon (1916–2001) is a simplified cipher mechanism for encrypting a message using a shared secret key. A cipher is generally defined simply as an algorithm for performing encryption or decryption, i.e. …