The Build Journal
Four Papers
Each paper is written in plain language for a general reader, with full references, and built to be explored: the claims come with figures you can operate, simulations you can run and, for the election paper, a live public ledger you can vote on.
Data for Sale
How your digital life fuels an unseen empire.How personal data is collected, auctioned and sold, who buys it, what it costs the people it describes, and how the trade could be fixed. Sixteen figures you can operate, from a 110-millisecond ad auction to a broker pipeline.
Read the paper No. 2 · June 2025 · abhnv.in/p2 Elections, cryptography and public trustThe Glass Ballot Box
Verifiable voting without giving up the secret ballot.How an election can prove it counted correctly without revealing a vote: receipts that cannot be sold, risk-limiting audits, where blockchain helps and where it does not. Includes a live public ledger and a working prototype.
Read the paper No. 3 · August 2025 · abhnv.in/p3 Decision science, a comparative studyRisk, Uncertainty and Decision-Making
How risk is defined, measured, felt and managed across frameworks.Why no single definition of risk works everywhere: probability, expected utility, Bayesian reasoning, psychology and institutions compared on the same questions, with all 41 equations explained and simulations you can run.
Read the paper No. 4 · October 2025 · abhnv.in/p4 AI, synthetic media and human judgmentThe Outsourced Reality
What happens when machines both make the evidence and interpret it.How synthetic media and AI assistants together change what counts as evidence and who does the judging: the liar's dividend, automation bias, provenance and watermarking, and the design of systems that keep people thinking.
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