The Impact of Social Media on Voting
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/09/11/heres-how-social-media-could-threaten-democracy-even-without-help-russians/?noredirect=on This article discusses how social networks influence decision-making. It discussed a study of online games where groups of 24 players were split into two teams of 12. After talking to only 5 other players, each player had to vote on which team would win. If a team got 60% of the votes, it won, […]
The Prisoner’s Dilemma in the Cuban Missile Crisis
https://europe.unc.edu/iron-curtain/power-and-politics-the-prisoners-dilemma/ This article titled, Power and Politics– The Prisoner’s Dilemma, from the Center for European Studies details a brief history of negotiations between the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War Cuban Missile Crisis. It discusses, the U.S’ discovery that the Soviet Union, who had allied with Cuba, was building a nuclear […]
How Political Brinkmanship Could Be Ruinous To The Economy, Stock Market, and Jobs
https://www.forbes.com/sites/jackkelly/2019/09/13/why-political-brinkmanship-from-both-parties-could-be-ruinous-to-the-economy-stock-market-and-your-job/#299a38ba78a4 The Forbes article on the 2020 elections discusses how there is a dangerous game being played between two major political parties. These games have the potential to push both parties onto a reckless path of decision-making as the election gets closer. The first scenario discussed is that the stock market crashes on its own […]
Finding Social Circles in Ego Networks via Machine Learning
https://papers.nips.cc/paper/4532-learning-to-discover-social-circles-in-ego-networks.pdf The article, “Learning to Discover Social Circles in Ego Networks” explores methods to use machine learning to group social circles together in one’s ego network. As discussed in class, an ego network is the network focused on one individual and all his/her friends, and the relationships between those friends. The algorithm that was used […]
Strong Ties and Spotify’s Recommendation Algorithms
https://medium.com/s/story/spotifys-discover-weekly-how-machine-learning-finds-your-new-music-19a41ab76efe This article by Medium covers three different processes that have built up Spotify’s song recommendation algorithms. These three processes laid out in the article are Collaborative Filtering, Natural Language Processing, and Raw Audio Models. Collaborative filtering essentially involves comparing users’ song preferences by building matrices where each row is a user and each column […]
Weak Ties Matter
https://techcrunch.com/2016/04/26/weak-ties-matter/ This article talks about the importance of weak ties when looking for a job. A strong tie connotes a deep link that one has with another person. One forms strong ties with people they know well, like a family member, friend, or colleague. A weak tie is one that describes acquaintances, people you […]
Relationships and Facebook Mutual Friends
Will the Relationship Last? Facebook Study Says to Look at Mutual Friends for Clues This article discusses a study conducted by Facebook and Cornell regarding the likelihood of lasting relationships based on the number of mutual friends each pair shared on Facebook. The results showed that the more mutual friends two individuals in a relationship […]
The Role of Game Theory in Cancer Treatment?
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamaoncology/article-abstract/2696342 The article, titled “Optimizing Cancer Treatment Using Game Theory,” constructs a unique bond between a physician’s therapy and cancer cells’ biological resistance strategies. It assigns physicians’ approach to systematic cancer treatment as “player 1” and the cancer’s invariable evolution of resistance as “player 2.” Some interesting factors that play a significant role in this […]
“Impact of Invasive Japanese Barberry Cascades Through Local Food Webs”
Impact of Invasive Japanese Barberry Cascades Through Local Food Webs This article by Ed Ricciuti highlights the invasion of the Japanese Barberry in the Eastern and Midwestern United States and its impact on the food web of the local wildlife. Since the intrusion of this plant which covers forests, spiders and ants have been […]
Social Networks in Education
http://csic.georgetown.edu/magazine/social-media-reshaping-todays-education-system/ When university professors think about social media, they might criticize how immersed students are in their phones instead of paying attention in class or paying attention to each other. However, it is just as important to focus on the positive impact social networks have on educational systems. For example, students don’ just use […]
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