PinnedThreshold Strategy in Approval and Range VotingHow to turn polling insight into an optimal ballot — and why anything else is wasted.May 20A response icon1May 20A response icon1
PinnedPlaying With a GameIn a recent comment (that I sadly cannot find any longer) in https://www.reddit.com/r/math/, someone mentioned the following game. There…Sep 23, 2024Sep 23, 2024
When is a call stack not a call stack?Tom Ellis, who I have the privilege of working with at Groq, has an excellent article up about using HasCallStack in embedded DSLs. You…Dec 10, 2024Dec 10, 2024
Collatz and Base 2 / Base 3 DualityIt might be obvious from my last two articles that I’ve been thinking about the Collatz conjecture a bit. Here, I can tie some of these…Jul 28, 2024A response icon2Jul 28, 2024A response icon2
The Collatz Step and 2-adic IntegersThis is a follow-up to my previous post on Collatz in base 2 and 3. I got a response from a reader, Olaf K., who pointed out that the…Jul 16, 2024Jul 16, 2024
Collatz Computations in Base 2 and 3Every so often, the Collatz conjecture comes up in discussion forums I read, and I start to think about it again. I did for a bit this past…Jul 9, 2024A response icon1Jul 9, 2024A response icon1
The Semigroup of Exponentially Weighted Moving AveragesThis is just a quick note about some more interesting algebraic structure, and how that structure can help with generalizing an idea. None…Jun 30, 2024Jun 30, 2024
Election Monoids And “Equal” VotesI care a lot about the best ways to run elections. I also care about mathematics, and algebra in particular. What happens when you mix the…Jun 19, 2024A response icon4Jun 19, 2024A response icon4
Approval and Score Voting are Intrinsically TacticalMy previous post was a large-scale comparison of approaches to voting based on modeling voters and simulating elections. I ran into a…Jul 11, 2023A response icon8Jul 11, 2023A response icon8
Simulating Elections with Spatial Voter ModelsDemocracy: a concept almost universally revered, underpinned by the foundational act of voting. However, interpreting voting results to…Jul 9, 2023A response icon14Jul 9, 2023A response icon14
