end-to-end encryption is great and all but be wary. It is not immune to traffic analysis. The ideal for encryption is to look random and that should go for circles of people as well. The Allies used the technique of false radio messages as well in WW2. Read up on Operational Research (As the British boffins called it)
#Encryption #OperationalResearch #OperationsResearch #AntiFa
This is the second part of my review of The stress of battle: quantifying human performance in combat by David Rowland, which is an essential piece of Operational Research on WW2 and Cold War combat operations. For this part I thought that I would focus on the lessons on urban battles. Rowland and his team used historical analysis on lots of WW2 urban battles and then compared this to a series of field trials using laser attachments to small arms and tank main armaments in the late 1970s and early 1980s. The approach was to find battles where single variables could be controlled, and then use them to work out what the effect of that variable was on outcomes. Here’s an interesting table on how attacker casualties vary by odds and the density of defending machine guns. Interestingly, in successful assaults the […]
Brains and Bullets: How Psychology Wins Wars by Leo Murray My rating: 5 of 5 stars This is an excellent and very readable book which tries to put some hard numbers on a variety of psychological tactics that can be used to persuade your own troops to fight and the enemy to give up. This is an excellent work on what happens in combat and why. It is very readable, structured into bite sized chunks on the key phenomena and then some joining up when it has all been explained. Each chapter opens with an account from a real soldier who experienced that psychological effect in combat. This is then analysed and explained, pulling in other examples as required to show that it isn’t an isolated incident but a general effect. Those examples range from the Napoleonic Wars right up […]
I see #mastodon as the future and operationally it's hoped the service gets popular. Mastodon is a construct of multiple components each requiring consideration for high demand. Luckily someone else has already thought of this
Good read here:
Okay, I've made the move over and so I should probably post something on here!
So here's my intro...
Hi all, I'm an #NHS manager (#Operationalresearch / data analyst by background), managing the Thames Valley & Wessex Adult Critical Care Network.
I'm also the co-chair of the UK Adult Critical Care Networks Managers Group.
Interested in Quality Improvement (#QCommunity member), data and of course all things #CriticalCare!
#Introduction. Hi, I'm a #mathematician working in #TransportModelling. I try to understand how people travel. Built an #OpenCanoe & will talk about it any opportunity.
#TransportPlanning #ZeroCarbon #OperationalResearch #FiftySomething
Love #ScienceFiction #SciFi #DoctorWho #Blakes7 #BritBox
#GraphicNovels #Comics #2000AD #Sandman
#Brexit is awful but let's not be tribal about it.
Will vote #TaxMeMore, I can take it others can't. #Privileged
#InformedDebate welcome.
Hello World! 👋
It's been three weeks since I joined mastodon, and I realised I never quite got around to writing one of those #Introduction posts, so here goes...
I have a background in #Statistics and #OperationalResearch, and I work as a data scientist where I build #Shiny apps, teach #Programming, and contribute to #DataScience projects. I post things related to #RStats 
, #DataViz and #GenerativeArt! 🎨 There will also be occasional posts about #Running and #Art related things 🏃♀️
@lupyuen Interesting!
Of course, I know it as one of the methods we use in Operational Research to simulate a system.
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