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Braess’s Paradox in Basketball

https://gravityandlevity.wordpress.com/2009/11/30/an-example-of-braesss-paradox-in-basketball/ Braess’s Paradox states that adding a road can slow down traffic. In basketball, there’s an analogous theory called Ewing Theory, which suggests that teams can play better when they don’t have their star player. Both Braess’s Paradox and Ewing Theory show that making the best choice at each step is not necessarily the same […]

Network of satellites around the Earth

Elon Musk plans to make SpaceX the number one internet provider in the world, and in the orbit surrounding the world. According to CNN.com, by the end of 2020 SpaceX wants to deliver high speed internet connection to the whole southern United States. By 2021, they plan on expanding it to U.S. territories like the […]

Game Theory and Soccer Formations

Soccer formations   My post is derived from those which similarly analyze penalty taking in soccer (and the class lecture). I wanted to explore how this may used in other aspects of soccer. Above I have linked a file containing two matrices. In figure 1, I have given different outcomes to the use of certain […]

Donald Trump x Game Theory

For the past few years, President Donald Trump’s political decisions have been puzzling — it seems that the only visible pattern in his policies is in being as unpredictable as possible, although the question is whether he does so intentionally or not. Does this arise out of a brilliant grasp on game theory, or just […]

Game Theory, Artificial Intelligence, and Elephants

A recent study has found that between 2007 and 2014, poachers have killed nearly a third of the African elephant population. As obscene as this figure may be, not all hope is lost; researchers are optimistic that artificial intelligence can be a critical force of change in counteracting this trend. More specifically, researchers intend on […]

Game theory shows why disease stigmatization may not make sense in modern society

Article referenced | https://medicalxpress.com/news/2019-06-game-theory-disease-stigmatization-modern.html    Game theory shows why disease stigmatization may not make sense in modern society Pennsylvania State University   In lecture, we have spent a lot of time discussing how to use Game Theory in order to model how participants in a scenario with varying pay-offs maximize their best response. We have […]

The Snipers and Nibblers in Auction Theory

     Recently in class we briefly touched upon the subject of Auction Theory. We went through some of the types of auctions and their corresponding best strategies. One of these auctions is a second-price auction where the highest bidder wins the item and pays the second highest bid for it. A classic example of […]

Social Networks for Machine Learning?

Artificial neural networks have become a staple in machine learning in the past few years, and there have been continual advances in their architectures and designs that have led to breakthroughs in their performance. However, nearly all of these improvements or designs have been based off of neuron structures in the brain (hence the name […]

A Critical Design Fault in Connected Transportation

https://www.truckinginfo.com/340566/a-critical-design-fault-in-connected-transportation?@{webtrack}@ Lockwood writes in his article, A Critical Design Fault in Connected Transportation, that there is a strong potential for hacking in the interconnected technological system of cars today. More and more cars, trucks, buses, and other automotive types are being connected by the internet on the same network. We are all aware of the […]

Networks Analytics on HR Data

https://www.analyticsinhr.com/blog/network-analytics-hr-data-practical-perspective-3-case-studies/   As an ILR student with a career trajectory in Human Resource Management, my initial impression of CS 2850 was that it was strikingly different from anything I’ve ever studied or experienced. While I have enjoyed learning about network analysis and its far-ranging applicability throughout the semester, I’d initially dismissed its potential to intersect […]

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