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The Bayesian Hitman
Albion Miesel, a Stanford statistics grad, takes a teaching job to save his flailing career but struggles to adapt to the obscurity of a small rural Kentucky college. His life takes a dramatic turn when he’s invited to join the Arc, a secretive group of elite researchers pushing the boundaries of science. The group offers him a chance to apply his brain and a mysterious wealth of funding to some of the world’s toughest questions.
Captivated by the Arc’s cutting-edge projects and the enigmatic Dresden, a French anthropologist, Albion finds himself programming a quantum supercomputer to anticipate cyberattacks from a Russian hacker network. The Arc’s supercomputer can break any form of digital encryption, which makes it of great interest to rogue governments that want to sow chaos. If Albion can crack the mathematical challenge, he might at last join the pantheon of the great geniuses of science—yet immortality is worth little to the already dead.
About the Author
Robert Kubinec is a political scientist at the University of South Carolina. He previously held academic positions at New York University Abu Dhabi, Princeton University, and the University of Virginia. He is the author of the book Making Democracy Safe for Business (Cambridge University Press), in addition to essays with the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, the Washington Post, the Brookings Institution, and Comment Magazine.
Captivated by the Arc’s cutting-edge projects and the enigmatic Dresden, a French anthropologist, Albion finds himself programming a quantum supercomputer to anticipate cyberattacks from a Russian hacker network. The Arc’s supercomputer can break any form of digital encryption, which makes it of great interest to rogue governments that want to sow chaos. If Albion can crack the mathematical challenge, he might at last join the pantheon of the great geniuses of science—yet immortality is worth little to the already dead.
About the Author
Robert Kubinec is a political scientist at the University of South Carolina. He previously held academic positions at New York University Abu Dhabi, Princeton University, and the University of Virginia. He is the author of the book Making Democracy Safe for Business (Cambridge University Press), in addition to essays with the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, the Washington Post, the Brookings Institution, and Comment Magazine.
204 pages, Kindle Edition
Published September 1, 2024
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