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Lawrence Person
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Lawrence Person's personal blog at battleswarmblog.com covers hardware, politics and writing. Since 2020, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-11-02, and you can follow it by feed.
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Why HN links it
Lawrence Person's blog. HN readers link a post explaining Benford's law as a way to detect data manipulation, such as in election results, alongside source charts.
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What Hacker News says?
Benford's law relates to a method for finding manipulation of data, such as election results. More on that here: https://www.battleswarmblog.com/?p=46343 See GitHub for sources and charts. https://github.com/cjph8914/2020_benfords
Comment linking /?p=46343
on “Ongoing edit war over the Wikipedia article for Benford's Law”Submitted Narco Tanks of Mexico as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Bosch’s New Fab and the State of European Semiconductors as a story · 1 points
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