In bureaucracies and in computer software there’s often debate about what format to use for dates. The essential issue is that in the U.S, we use MM-DD-YY, and in Europe they use DD-MM-YY, and this is a confusing mess. The answer is incredibly simple and beyond all dispute: YYYY-MM-DD With…

The location of the 2013 Miss Universe — Crocus City Hall in Moscow — was announced in June of 2013 at the Miss USA pageant by Donald Trump, alongside the Agalarovs who were in town that weekend (the meeting has attracted some attention now). Some tellings of this process make…

With 2018 midterm elections coming up, and the investigation into Donald Trump heating up, we’re all wondering what’s in store for us in the coming months and years. According to Michael McFaul, former Ambassador to Russia and professor of political science at Stanford, personalities matter. Apparently it’s a point of…

Earlier this week, the Senate Judiciary Committee released over 2000 pages of interview transcripts and related documents. …

In Novermber of 2013, the Miss Universe contest, a project partially owned by Donald Trump, was held in Moscow. The timeline of his visit has been the subject of some confusion, with varying stories coming out about when exactly he arrived in left. …

(and a possible link to the “pee tape”) — While investigating the tweets surrounding an event involving Donald Trump, I discovered nine accounts which are apparently all centrally managed for some similar purpose. These accounts all responded contemporaneously to tweets surrounding a single event. …

Let’s suppose, hypothetically, that I was in charge of computer security for a large company with 50 independently run divisions. And let’s suppose, hypothetically, that I discovered evidence that 39 of these divisions had experienced break-in attempts at a critical time in our operations. …

This article is intended as an expansion of an article from the Southern Poverty Law Center: The Internet Research Agency: behind the shadowy network that meddled in the 2016 Elections. Theirs is a good article on how some of the propaganda pieces of this story connect with Russian and U.S…

There is a famous mathematical paradox called the St. Petersburg Paradox. It involves the playing of a game where you flip coins. In the version of the game I’ll use below, the first time you get heads, the pot starts at two dollars, and every head you flip after that…