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Predicting Peace
Summary
The blog post discusses the author's struggle with predicting peace in war situations, focusing on predicting cease-fires in Ukraine and Sudan for a competition. The author applies Laplace’s rule of succession to estimate probabilities based solely on the duration of conflict, questioning the validity of this approach given potential heavy-tailed distributions of war durations.
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