Do Groups Really Make Individuals Smarter?
https://hbr.org/2014/12/making-dumb-groups-smarter This analytical article dissects how groups make decisions and consequently how groups can often make bad decisions. “Two heads are better than one” is a common phrase that indicates that groups often make better decisions than individuals do. However, this article argues that, oftentimes, groups can make big mistakes. One of them in […]
Google is RIGGED! – PageRank
The president of the United States is known for going after what he calls the “Fake News Media”, which supposedly includes Google’s PageRank algorithm. Is the president right that the Google searches are biased? Absolutely. And that is the point of PageRank. We discussed in lecture that the task search engines like Google are trying […]
Old Town Road: Fame and Social Diffusion
Unless you have been living under a rock for the past year, you would have heard about the viral song ‘Old Town Road’ which is undoubtedly one of the biggest songs of the decade. The artist, Lil Nas X, was relatively unknown beforehand. So how did he get the song to become so huge being […]