Why not leave it to the experts?

Why Customers Leave or Decide Not to Leave – 40

To leave or not to leave.

Lies, damned lies and Brexit statistics. It's not been a good month for anyone espousing evidence-based policy and politics after the chair of the Commons health committee switched from Leave to Remain, citing misuse of data by the Leave campaign.

Why not use it all?

One of the prominent features of the recent Annual Meeting of the Society of Toxicology (SOT) in New Orleans, Louisiana, was the debate on a hypothetical motion to have the results of mechanistic toxicity studies supersede ambiguous epidemiological data in chemical risk assessments for humans. The audience was polled prior to the debate, but the results have little to say about the merits of th...

Don't leave it to chance.

Secret Agents Leave Big Footprints: How to Plant a Cryptographic Trapdoor, and Why You Might Not Get Away with It

This paper investigates whether optimisation techniques can be used to evolve artifacts of cryptographic significance which are apparently secure, but which have hidden properties that may facilitate cryptanalysis. We show how this might be done and how such sneaky use of optimisation may be detected.