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The Game Theory of Marriage

Game theory is one of those mathematical concepts that, once you have discovered it, you seem to see everywhere in your life. There are the classic examples of the prisoner’s dilemma and soccer penalty kicks, and even global examples in economics and warfare. In 2011, author Paula Szuchman broke down how game theory invades even […]

Applications of Game Theory to Fantasy Football

The NFL season is just starting, and avid football fans are drafting their fantasy football teams. Although the average participant of fantasy football does not actively apply game theory in their selections, many people use game theory in their draft picks without knowing it. The author of the article uses selecting a certain wide receiver […]

Mergers and Acquisitions: The Game

In an article from 2012, a game theorist describes how to make money on the stock markets by modeling a couple of key players in mergers and acquisitions. In his article, he refers to company A as the acquirer and company T is the target. He stresses the importance of three key players: index fund […]

Mixed Strategy in the Superbowl

Game Theory Says Pete Carroll’s Goal-­Line Attempt was Defensible: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/03/upshot/game­theory­says­pete­carrolls­call­at­goal­line­is­d efensible.html?_r=0.​ It was one of the biggest and most questions moments in recent years in sports. The Seattle Seahawks were in the midst of an unlikely comeback and were now a yard away from the endzone. All they needed to do was cross over to […]

Prisoner’s Dilemma Applied To Drug Hoarding

The prisoner’s dilemma can be applied to a variety of situations, and generally the dilemma is between which of the two people can benefit most from a certain strategy. However, an interesting factor to consider is how both individuals’ choices can have an overall impact on the world, rather than just each other. In the […]

Game Theory and the GOP primaries

This article outlines what voter behavior will likely entail in the lead-up to the 2016 GOP primaries. The author talks in particular about voter strategy. Many voters will favor certain candidates based on which views they agree with about the said candidate. However, many will vote strategically. Instead of voting for the candidate that they like, […]

Game Theory and Elections

Why does U.S. government adopted a two party system? The constitution never stated that way. However, Game theory principles predicts that voting system gravitates towards a two party system. Now let us shift our attention to the 2016 presidential race. Because of the highly polarized structure of the U.S. politics. We have a pretty even […]

Braess Paradox

http://www.nytimes.com/1990/12/25/health/what-if-they-closed-42d-street-and-nobody-noticed.html   The Braess Paradox says that while adding streets to uncongested traffic networks does decrease average individual travel times, adding a street to a congested traffic network does not always decrease travel times. The reason for this is that the street typically is connecting two congested streets, which means it will cause congestion at […]

The global outbreak of Ebola: Why there can be only one component in a global Network

http://www.usnews.com/news/blogs/data-mine/2014/10/31/tracking-ebola-how-the-virus-spread-to-the-us The outbreak of Ebola epidemic 2014 summer is a great example of a disease contact Network. As we trace back the route that the Ebola get spread throughout West Africa, Europe, and the U.S, it is shocking how the virus from a 2-year old in a small village of Guinea ended up being a […]

The Various Levels of Tie Strength on a Facebook Network

http://www.cnet.com/how-to/how-to-set-who-you-see-first-in-your-facebook-feed/ http://www.forbes.com/sites/larrymagid/2013/12/03/how-to-unfollow-someyet-yet-still-be-facebook-friends/ To say that the two months I spent interning at Facebook were informative would be an understatement. I learned so much about computer science and the company culture and, to this day, am still finding new uses for the knowledge I picked up on one of their campuses. However, my biggest regret is […]

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