WolfDoc

I apologise if this is too basic for the group, but I'm recovering from COVID and my brain is like mush when it comes to combinatorics these days.

Say you have a group of N individuals divided into two groups of unequal size, N1 and N2. Then you take a sample of size S with replacement with equal odds for all individuals in both groups. How many unique individuals in group N1 can I expect to get as a function of these parameters?

Appreciate the help if anyone have the time

Everyone knows the story of the Scottish coalition liberating East Sahara in 1997. Or think they do.

Those alive at the time usually remember the feverish days when the fate of the world as we know it hung in the balance, how entire neighborhoods flocked to the nearest Telegraph office to watch every time a carrier pigeon brought a fresh newsreel, not even waiting for the milkman to bring them to their own TV set.

They remember the battle of Brexit lagoon, where the Danish Foreign Legion etched their names in history, and the banners of the North Florida Auxiliary Panzer brigade (NOFAP) flying from their turrets as they crossed the Sahel.

But few were told the true story of the secret

So, the post by u/BikerJedi about the status of Reddit in general reminded me of this. Though technically it didn't happen in service, it is topical enough that I throw myself at the mercy of the mods.

If you don't die in service, sooner or later you have to face civilian life.

Now, I managed to carve myself out a little nook in the grey zone between the worlds where I can visit both. But it takes some time to get there, and some people have a rougher turn trying out their civvies than others. Such was the case of my best buddy-in-arms. Let's call him 2Lt Crazy Max.

A couple of years after the warring parties in the Former Yugoslavia decided to end the war, or at least take a tempor

Would China consider supplying arms and ammunition to Russia for use in Ukraine by way of North Korea, essentially using North Korea as a cover for their support, or would that not make sense for them to do so?

Are there research papers or books to recommend that have looked at economic, ecologicla or sociological trends that tend to come before inter or intra -state violent conflicts? Including small-scale "intre-tribal" wars/ raids through history?

I am familiar with works of Peter Turchin but have not published anything in that direction myself (except being part of two vaguely related research papers on the topic (1) and (2) ), and would like to find out where the field stands. Or if it even is a