• Archive for May, 2011

    The best (of the best)^4

    May 5, 2011 • Article

    The Navy SEAL team that executed Operation Neptune’s Spear, the assault in Abbottabad last week in which Osama bin Laden was killed, has been referred to by the media as the “best of the best.” Let’s get a sense of how good they actually are.

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    Osama bin Laden and Bayesian Search

    May 3, 2011 • Article

    A technique from operations research called Bayesian search was famously applied to finding vessels lost at sea by John Craven, the US Navy’s Chief Scientist for Special Projects. Given that the recent targeted killing of Osama bin Laden was the work of Navy Seals, it’s possible that directed belief networks were at some point used in [...]

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