Tartans carry the weight of tradition. They are imagined as ancient patterns, clan-bound, Highland-tested, and restricted to those who can trace their ancestry back to some moor or glen. The...
The United States Postal Service is one of the most quietly extraordinary systems in modern life. It is not magical or divine. It works because hundreds of thousands of...
Exploratory data analysis often faces challenges due to outliers and skewed distributions, which can distort underlying patterns. Many conventional statistical methods depend on means, making them highly sensitive to extreme...
Among the half-remembered titles of the medieval world, few are more peculiar than the vidame. A word no longer in currency, even among most students of nobility, the vidame occupied...
Recently, I encountered a comment that was just dead wrong:
If 100% of people got a vaccine, people would still get whatever they were vaccinated for. If they were...
Statistical methods have continually evolved, often in response to new challenges and advancements in computational power. However, not all valuable techniques remain in the spotlight. Some, despite their potential, fade...
Imagine you are ranking a set of teams, chess players, or even flavors of ice cream. You do not have an objective rating scale–only a series of head-to-head matchups. If...
Studying heraldry is both an intellectual and practical pursuit, requiring a strong grasp of history, art, and precise language. Over the past months, I have worked through the Heraldry Course...
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