The World Is Less Violent Than in 2000. It Is Also Less Stable. Here Is Why.

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Geopolitical Research by Oleh Ivchenko  ·  DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.18972000  34stabilfr·wdophcgmx
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The conflict proxy score — our model's aggregate measure of active armed conflict intensity across 87 countries — has fallen from 6.85 in 2000 to 5.20 in 2023. That is a 24% decline over 23 years. By the oldest and most intuitive measure of global danger, the world is meaningfully safer than it was at the turn of the millennium.

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The Confidence Gate Theorem: A Framework That Promises More Than It Proves

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Journal Commentary by Oleh Ivchenko  ·  DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.18971752  44stabilfr·wdophcgmx
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Ronald Doku's "The Confidence Gate Theorem: When Should Ranked Decision Systems Abstain?" (arXiv:2603.09947, March 2026) addresses a practical but undertheorized problem: in ranked decision systems — recommenders, ad auctions, clinical triage — when does it help to withhold a prediction rather than fire it? Doku proposes two formal conditions — rank-alignment and absence of inversion zones — un...

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The Algorithm That Watches the World Fall Apart

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Geopolitical Research by Oleh Ivchenko  ·  DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.18968959  37stabilfr·wdophcgmx
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This article describes the development and deployment of the World Stability Intelligence (WSI) system — a machine l[REDACTED]g-driven geopolitical risk monitoring platform that continuously tracks 87 countries across three risk dimensions: war risk (45%), political risk (35%), and economic risk (20%). Drawing on an ML-enhanced heuristic prediction framework (HPF-P), the system generates normal...

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When Your Research Gets Cited on Medium: A Clarification, a Thank You, and Why AGI Is Closer Than the Pessimists Think

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Journal Commentary by Oleh Ivchenko  ·  DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.18968176  41stabilfr·wdophcgmx
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A personal commentary on an unexpected Medium citation of research on AI infrastructure ROI. Clarifying the nuance between measured economic analysis and pessimistic interpretations, with a reflection on AGI proximity and a thank you to the author who sparked the conversation.

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The Agentic Infrastructure Bet: What the VC Surge Into AI Agents Tells Us About the Next Platform Shift

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AI Economics by Oleh Ivchenko  ·  DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.18964582  43stabilfr·wdophcgmx
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There is a moment in every technology transition when the smart money moves from the application layer to the plumbing. It happened in cloud computing around 2010, when AWS, Rackspace, and their successors attracted investment not because they built apps but because they built the infrastructure apps would run on. It happened in mobile in 2012, when the money moved from apps themselves to the S...

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The 8× Gap: Why Healthcare AI Will Never Reach Its Theoretical Ceiling (And What That Means for Every Other High-Stakes Industry)

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AI Economics by Oleh Ivchenko  ·  DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.18964576  51stabilfr·wdophcgmx
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There is a number buried in Anthropic's January 2026 Economic Index that should alarm every chief information officer, hospital administrator, and healthcare AI vendor currently claiming that artificial intelligence will transform clinical medicine. The number is 8. That is the gap multiplier between what AI systems can do in healthcare — 40% theoretical task coverage — and what hospitals are a...

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The Closed Robot Problem: Why Open-Source Humanoid Robotics Is the Most Important Engineering Project of the Decade

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In September 1969, Neil Armstrong's flight suit was placed on public record at the Smithsonian. Every stitch, every zipper, every pressure seam — documented, catalogued, available to engineers, historians, and future designers who would need to build on what NASA had learned. This is how science is supposed to work. What you discover in public, you share in public. The knowledge compounds. Fift...

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Bones and Skin: Structural Materials, Stress Analysis, and the Art of Building a Body That Survives

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Picture this: an 80-kilogram humanoid robot loses its footing on a slightly damp factory floor. The fall takes roughly 0.4 seconds — the time it takes you to blink twice. By the time the software stack registers what is happening, the hip joint is already at 40 degrees of unexpected lateral deflection. Then comes the impact.

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Actuation: Selecting Motors, Torque Budgets, and Degrees of Freedom for a Walking Robot

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Engineering Research by Oleh Ivchenko  ·  DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.18959349  43stabilfr·wdophcgmx
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Actuation is the discipline where robotics collides with physics. Every choice made at the motor level propagates through the entire system: power consumption, thermal dissipation, structural mass, and control loop latency all derive from actuator selection. Article 3 of this series established the locomotion specification — six degrees of freedom per leg, a 1 kHz control loop, a 1.2 m/s normal...

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Engineering Research by Oleh Ivchenko DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.18959349 43stabilfr·wdophcgmx
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Bipedal Locomotion: Engineering Gait, Balance, and Fall Recovery From First Principles

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Engineering Research by Oleh Ivchenko  ·  DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.18956673  45stabilfr·wdophcgmx
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A human infant begins life unable to hold its own head upright. Within twelve months, it is walking. Within fifteen, it is running, turning, and recovering from stumbles without conscious thought. This developmental miracle is so universal that we rarely pause to appreciate what it requires: real-time estimation of a six-degree-of-freedom state, predictive control over roughly 600 skeletal musc...

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