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The Handbook for Military and Defense Operations Research has been published
I am very happy to announce that the Handbook for Military and Defense Operations Research, coedited with Natalie Scala, has been published by CRC Press. The electronic copy is available now and the print copy will be on Amazon on March 2! It was a lot of fun to work
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Shotgun Pi
Monte Carlo is a beautiful process that can be used to address many, many problems. One of my favorites is that it can be used to estimate the value of . First of all, we know that is the ratio between the radius of a circle, squared, and its area.
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Charter Review Commission Public Hearing
The Howard County Charter Review Commission has spent about a year now reviewing the County Charter. We’ve held a number of public hearings. And we are currently drafting a set of preliminary recommendations. The report is not ready yet, and will probably be available before the end of February. On
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Matrices in the Machine
No matter what we consider the internal representation, the data will be stored linearly in memory. If we are using a programming language like C, we would use something like this to define a two-dimensional array for a 2×2 matrix: Now, there’s a lot of different ways to represent this,
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Elizabeth Warren for President
Moments ago, I received an email from the Elizabeth Warren campaign: We are thrilled to inform you that your name was submitted to the Maryland Democratic Party on our approved list of candidates. I am pleased to announce that I am on the ballot in April as a representative to
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Zeroes Are Hard to Find
When we are looking at two-dimensional optimization algorithms, there are a variety of options. The first is the bisection method. I like the bisection method, because it makes a delightful use of the intermediate value theorem. We can use the fact that continuous functions take on all of the values
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Blockchain Compliance With Federal Cryptographic Information-Processing Standards
Over the last few years, I’ve spent a bit of time working on blockchain and blockchain-related issues at JHU/APL. Last year, at the request of DHS, Maria Vachino and I looked at how blockchain would work in government programs given the NIST Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS). Our results were
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