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On the “doctor-patient relationship” split and a prisoner’s dilemma

A recent article in the Washington Post on the “doctor-patient relationship”, and Stanford University researchers have discovered a split in dichotomy of access and demands in the current healthcare system. Even with more expansion in coverage due to the Affordable Care Act, there is a distinct problem between practitioners and patients in priorities. Stanford researcher, […]

A Visual History of Human Knowledge

Link to TED Talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQZKs75RMqM In the link above, Manual Lima, a leading pioneer in design and visualization and author of Visual Complexity: Mapping Patterns of Information, gives a talk on the evolution of how humans visualize information, and how the degree of complexity of interconnection in different areas of our lives has evolved over time.  […]

The Republican Presidential Primaries and Game Theory

The race for a presidential nomination can be viewed as a game, where candidates are players who must choose the strategy that will have the highest payoff for their campaign and ultimately help them win the nomination. As the second Republican presidential primary debate nears, many people are discussing the strategies they think each candidate […]

Game Theory and Chain Restaurants

I have always wondered why competing businesses tend to locate themselves so close to each other, sometimes even right next to each other. Take, for instance, McDonald’s and Burger King. Wouldn’t that take away customers from each other? Wouldn’t it be better if they were spread apart so that more customers have access to their restaurants? […]

Auction Psychology

This article talks about how bidders, as emotional human beings, behave differently from what the normal auction theory predicts. Theoretically, as we have learned in class, for both first price auction and second price auction, the dominant strategy will always be bidding for the vale that the bidder thinks the object is worth. In real […]

Networks in Government Spying

We live in an age where many of us are concerned about the government spying on the world’s communications. Though many choose to ignore or do not believe that government agencies like the NSA record their calls, messages, emails, etc., the disconcerting truth is that these agencies can and do collect this information from us. […]

Why NHL Coaches Should Pull Their Goalies Much Sooner – Game Theory

This discussion is based upon an article that discussed the benefits of “pulling the goalie” in order to get an extra skater out on the ice. At any point in the hockey game, a coach may take his goalie off the ice to put another skate on the ice. This obviously has the penalty of […]

Networks in Betrayal at House on the Hill

Betrayal at House on the Hill is a 3-6 player board game that lends itself very well to network analysis. The full rules of the game can be found here, but it is not particularly complicated: all players are in a house, the rooms of which need to be individually explored and revealed. At a certain poitrant […]

Game Theory and NFL Expansion

The NFL is one of the largest businesses in the United States.  Every Sunday from September until February is dominated by NFL games.  Due to its immense popularity, many cities want their own NFL team.  Teams have found success in cities as rural as Green Bay, Wisconsin and as urban as New York City.  Despite […]

Performance enhancing drugs in the Electronic Sports League: A prisoner’s dilemma

Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/24/technology/drug-testing-is-coming-to-e-gaming.html Although e-sports (competitive video game playing) is something with which I was previously unfamiliar, it is a rapidly growing past-time and industry.  According to Newzoo, a games research firm, there are more than 113 millions worldwide e-sports fans, generating more than $250 million in annual revenue.  The payoffs for being a competitive e-sports athlete […]

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