Why Employees Should Build Weak Ties At Work
Most people believe that developing strong relationships in the work place will increase their ability to get things done more efficiently. However, this is not the most beneficial way to go about making connections in the workplace. It is in fact the weak ties that will be of the most value to someone at work. […]
Rhine API Graphs Semantic Distance Between Content
The Rhine API, developed by Speare and first revealed at Cornell University’s BigRed//Hacks hackathon, has taken content analysis and comparison to a new level. When developing applications, there are a limited number of tools to compare data and determine their relevancy. Arrays of characters convey no meaning to the words which they represent, and so do […]
Payoffs of two-point conversions in football
National Football League (NFL) fans may have noticed a rule change during preseason games last month. In an effort to make the game more interesting, the NFL lengthened point after touchdown (PAT) kicks from 20 yards to 33 yards. To give some background, points can be scored in the following ways: touchdown (6), field goal […]
Structural Balance Differences in Hyrax Social Networks
Article: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/04/130422122959.htm This article follows the study of social network stability in a group of rock hyraxes (A small african mammal). The study shows that, like in human populations, hyrax social networks often follow the theory of structural balance. This theory states that in any network, certain relationships between a group of nodes are balanced […]
The Chinese chat app stealing Weibo’s thunder
The topics is about one of the most famous app-WeChat right now, and how it affect people’s life. Here is the link: http://edition.cnn.com/2014/02/27/business/tencent-wechat-unseats-sina-weibo/ WeChat follows the admission of creating a new way for people to connect. For example, WeChat provides text messaging, hold-to-talk voice messaging, broadcast messaging, sharing of photographs and videos, and location sharing. […]
Price War – An Application of Game Theory
It is common for competitive big companies to raise price wars against each other, which means those companies manage to capture more market share by repeatedly cutting prices of a kind of product that they are all selling. Since the prices always go down, a company would gain a negative profit if its price is […]
So we know exactly how much to bid, but do we know when to bid?
Li Du and Qiying Hu analyze eBay bidding patterns in their paper, “Analysis of Bidding Behavior on eBay Auctions”. They examine the optimal bidding strategy (how much to bid) as well as the optimal bidding time (bid near the beginning or end of an auction?). Traditionally, there have been two types of bidders: AV bidders […]
Traffic relief through high-speed rail.
Undergoing travel in necessary, and, for many trips, the massive amount of time it takes is not. Along with taxes and change, the need for shorter travel times will exist forever. Lately, efforts have been made in America to replicate Europe and Asia’s solution to this: high speed, bullet, and maglev trains. One of these […]
Ello vs. Facebook
Not long ago, a team of 7 programmers and designers created Ello. Advocates maintain that the new social-networking sensation Ello -currently in its beta version – is the successor to Facebook, currently the world’s premier social networking service. Co-founder Paul Budnitz recently stated that the site is accepting 45,000 sign-up requests every hour; compare this […]
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