@ftp_alun@infosec.exchange @ColinTheMathmo@mathstodon.xyz ah, that makes sense too. I stuffed a lot of different concepts into that article, and forgot that was in there 😅​ That reminds me of this interview of Moon Duchin by Steven Strogatz for Quanta magazine: "Moon Duchin on Fair Voting and Random Walks". They discuss her work on comparing possible district electoral district boundaries and providing a quantitative measure of whether a given set of partitions should be considered as an attempt at gerrymandering. Maybe some of her conceptual tooling could be applicable if person-hour allocations were mapped to voting districts, and electoral results to budget overruns?