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A deep dive into Apple's failed EV project: management's indecision, various prototypes, partnership talks with Mercedes-Benz, Tesla, McLaren, and others, more (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/20

Apple Car’s Crash: Design Details, Tim Cook’s Indecision, Failed Tesla Deal
Tim Cook shut down plans to acquire Tesla before cycling through a junkyard’s worth of self-driving designs over the past decade. The inside story is a case study in indecision.

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The Decisive Power of Indecision: Low-Variance Risk-Limiting Audits and Election Contestation via Marginal Mark Recording
Risk-limiting audits (RLAs) are techniques for verifying the outcomes of large elections. While they provide rigorous guarantees of correctness, widespread adoption has been impeded by both efficiency concerns and the fact they offer statistical, rather than absolute, conclusions. We attend to both of these difficulties, defining new families of audits that improve efficiency and offer qualitative advances in statistical power. Our new audits are enabled by revisiting the standard notion of a…

A look at the design options Apple considered for its car, including one by Jony Ive that resembled a modern reincarnation of the 1950s Volkswagen microbus (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newslette…

What Did the Apple Car Look Like? Inside Apple’s Planned Self-Driving Vehicle
The Apple car was a case study in what happens when corporate indecision, technological challenges and market realities combine: a wasted opportunity that sets back the company’s future. Also: New MacBook Air models debut with M3 chips; the Vision Pro works out some kinks; and Apple (briefly) risks getting itself fined again in the EU.

If you despise HWSNBN and MAGA as I do, then I wouldn’t be so quick to celebrate Nikki Haley’s poor performance in Nevada.
I don’t want Nikki Haley in the Whitehouse, but her continued candidacy may help create more chaos, indecision, and infighting within the G O P.

The Decisive Power of Indecision: Low-Variance Risk-Limiting Audits and Election Contestation via Marginal Mark Recording
Benjamin Fuller, Rashmi Pai, Alexander Russell
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.06515

The Decisive Power of Indecision: Low-Variance Risk-Limiting Audits and Election Contestation via Marginal Mark Recording
Risk-limiting audits (RLAs) are the established techniques for verifying large elections. While they provide rigorous guarantees of correctness, widespread adoption has been impeded by both efficiency concerns and the fact they offer statistical, rather than absolute, conclusions. We define new families of audits that help to address these issues. Our new audits are enabled by revisiting the standard notion of a cast-vote record so that it can declare multiple possible mark interpretations rath…