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...
The OODA Loop—Observe, Orient, Decide, Act—is a decision-making framework originally developed by U.S. Air Force Colonel John Boyd for military strategy. Boyd, a fighter pilot and strategist, introduced the...
Let us set the scene: you are running an experiment, testing different approaches to a problem. Maybe you are optimizing fraud detection algorithms, fine-tuning ad targeting strategies, or running an...
The Maryland Defense Force (MDDF) has long been a quiet but critical part of Maryland’s military heritage. As a state defense force, it supports the Maryland National Guard and...
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