Segregated Social Networks
The article “Self-Segregation: Why It’s so Hard for Whites to Understand Ferguson” uses the concept of social networks to analyze the response to the shooting of unarmed, black teenager Michael Brown by a white police officer in Ferguson, Missouri that occurred in August. The riots that occurred in Ferguson, a mostly black population, following the […]
Networks Within Icelandic Sagas
Research suggests that real social networks have properties and patterns that are different from fictional ones. For instance, unlike real social networks, fictional networks (relationships between characters in fictional stories) often have larger giant components, are not as vast, and removal of random nodes causes the network to become disconnected (3). With the rise of […]
Game Theory and Marriage
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/06/13/marriage-and-the-art-of-game-theory.html There is an online article called “marriage and the art of game theory”, which I found to be very interesting and closely related to what we learned in game theory. Marriage is very similar to game theory in many ways. They both requires two people playing the game, and each of them trying to […]
Networks in Hacking
A few days ago, I received an email from my high school math teacher titled “Please refer to the document”. It included a link to a Google doc file, which required my gmail username and password because it was a “private” document, allowing only users with permission to view the document. But once I signed […]
Crime Linked to Ease of Opportunity
After having my car broken into and a few personal affects stolen over the weekend, I wondered: What makes a thief? Delving into online research, I learned that it wasn’t really personal upbringing, lack of morals, or where a person grew up that determined if a person participated in the world of crime. According to […]
City Planet
This blog post will address the following article from Deloitte University Press: http://dupress.com/articles/bus-trends-2014-city-planet/. This article discusses the massive trend of urbanization around the world, but particularly in India and China. People in rural and suburban areas are flocking to cities at an all time high. With the large influx of people to these cities, […]
Incorporating Bargaining into Games
Back in 2009, Digital Tonto published a very informative article covering many interesting factors to Game Theory that have not yet been discussed in lecture. The article can be found here: http://www.digitaltonto.com/2009/game-theory-guide-to-negotiations/ The most prominent factor that completely twists our (as a class) current understanding of Game Theory is bargaining. That is, developing a means of offering […]
Cold War Game Theory and the Government Shutdown
The Cold War was a classic example of the Prisoner’s Dilemma where the United States and the USSR were both under pressure to launch their nuclear arsenals while not knowing what the other side was planning. While the optimum solution would be for both sides to dismantle their warheads, the risk that one side would […]
Networks in development economics
Innovations in agriculture production like compositing (using crop residue from previous harvests for compost) and pit planting (planting seeds shallowly to allow for greater exposure to moisture) can have massive consequences for developing countries. For Malawi, where the overwhelming majority of farmers (97 percent) grow maize, and where over 60 percent of all calorie consumption […]
The Existing Network
Spending a summer in New York City, you begin to understand everything you once assumed was chaotically random nothing. Unwritten rules and unspoken knowledge pave the streets, making it excessively difficult to adjust to, but magnificently easy when adjusted. The reasons may be patently valid, but also frequently arcane. You could drive yourself insane trying […]
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