You are the company you keep.
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0306460309003256 In class, the ideas of connectivity and structural balance have been applied to virtually everything – from models of collaboration between researchers to even the intimate relationships of high school students during an eighteen month time frame. However, even after being exposed to such a large spread of “real life” examples, the manner in […]
Game Theory in Poker
Poker, as a game involved with odds and betting can be analyzed using game theory in order to partially optimize the players’ outcomes. As poker is a zero-sum game, the overall outcome (when adding the wins and losses of all players) is zero. Also, poker has a high variation of possible outcomes, as well as […]
Game Theory and Online Privacy
http://thenextweb.com/insider/2011/09/13/do-we-really-care-about-our-online-privacy/ This article examines how people share large amounts of information online seemingly without regard to the privacy they are giving up. The author asserts, “you would think that people would be concerned about ensuring that information doesn’t fall into the wrong hands, or that it can’t be used or exploited for advertising purpose. The […]
The ever-expanding Facebook about to make its way into the music services industry
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/19/business/media/facebook-is-expected-to-unveil-media-sharing-service.html?_r=1&ref=technology Facebook is about to make yet another merger, this time with a group of small radio music services. Two cloud-based digital music services, Spotify and Rhapsody, stream millions of songs are lacking of a large clientele of paying users. They figured that merging with a national networking billion dollar company in Facebook would give […]
“It’s the Connections in our Lives that Matter the Most”: Networks and the 9/11 Memorial
“It’s the connections in our lives that matter the most,” said Joe Daniels, the president of the new 9/11 memorial, unveiled a few days ago after the tenth anniversary of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. The arrangement of the 2,983 victims’ names on 72 bronze panels does not follow the conventions of memorials, […]
Three-Player Prisoner’s Dilemma
Consider a game of Prisoner’s Dilemma. Only instead of two criminals, the FBI must interrogate three criminals. What would the payoff matrix look like for this game? What would be the rules? What would be the Dominate Strategy for each player? Suppose the payoff matrix for a three-player game of Prisoner’s Dilemma is 3-D, then […]
Using Mobile Social Health Applications Fosters Better Health Decisions
http://www.journalofdst.org/March2011/PDF/VOL-5-2-SYM18-GAY.pdf This journal article helps explain a mobile-phone-based approach to making healthier decisions. The application, named Aurora, essentially allows users to post a picture, write a comment, and select an emotion icon for their current mood. The instructions for users in the study were broad and essentially allowed them to take pictures of anything they […]
PageRank: The Graph Theory-based Backbone of Google
http://ilpubs.stanford.edu:8090/361/1/1998-8.pdf In 1998, 2 Stanford computer science candidates forever changed the World Wide Web as we know it. They created one of the greatest universal website used daily. Currently, this site is the most visited site. And no, it is not Facebook. Want a hint? Theses 2 Stanford students were nicknamed as… the “Google boys”. […]
Practical Game Theory
Source: http://www.economist.com/node/21527025 The link above leads to an impressive article focused mostly on Game Theory found in the Economist. The article introduces game theory as a powerful branch of mathematics capable of producing amazingly accurate predictions of human action on everything from choosing where to live to political changes on an international scale. While a […]
Murder by Structure
Source: http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/departments/society-human-development-and-health/files/a.p.art.2009.pdf The above link goes to a paper titled, “Murder by Structure: Dominance Relations and the Social Structure of Gang Homicide.” I apologize for the length of the article, but definitely try and read the abstract, intro and scan through the article for the accompanying diagrams of the network structure that results from gang […]
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