Bayes Rule used to find lost Malaysian Plane
Malaysian Airline Flight 370 (not to be confused with Malaysia airlines flight 17, which was lost this summer) disappeared March 8th 2014 flying from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing. 239 people were aboard when it lost contact about an hour into the flight. The last known location of the flight is an area over the Gulf […]
Coffee and Market Clearing
http://online.wsj.com/articles/coffee-prices-soar-at-online-auctions-1414428118 One of the most valued commodities amongst college students is coffee. According to a Wall Street Journal Article on the prices of coffee, the value of coffee is slowly rising, and so it its cost. The article talks about how the most consumption of coffee lies in Asian countries. The company will generally […]
Information Obligation
It is common to hear that every American has the the moral obligation to vote. Our country has a rich history of fighting to preserve the freedom of choice. In today’s elections, all registered voters were given the freedom of choice. For some of them, it may have been wiser to not choose at all. […]
Facebook’s Social Experiment–How Social Networks Have Influenced Voting
In Micah Sifry’s article, “Facebook Wants You to Vote on Tuesday. Here’s How It Messed With Your Feed in 2012,” he addresses an experiment that Facebook ran to see how the social networking site influences people to vote. Facebook calls this tool the “voter megaphone”, in which a “high-profile button” that reads “I’m a Voter” […]
Evil prevails when good people remain silent – Courageous Crowd Divergence the Remedy?
It has often been said that all it takes for evil to prevail is the silence of good men/women. I think this statement carries a great deal of truth. The link below this post leads to a site that discusses the extreme bullying of Jonathan Martin (a professional football player) and how it ultimately led […]
Movie Critics Vs. The Audience
With the rise of the media in the 21st century, the influence of the media has become a force to be reckoned with. In this interview we have Matt Atchity, the editor in chief of Rotten Tomatoes, talking about Twitter’s influence on the audience’s opinions of movies. Rotten Tomatoes used to be one of the […]
Columbus and the creation of cannibals: information cascades gone wrong
Coincidentally enough, while we were learning about information cascades in class, I was also reading up on them in my first-year writing seminar. As part of our Robinson Crusoe unit, my professor assigned an article discussing the origins of cannibalism. The word ‘cannibals’ was never intended to mean ‘flesh-eating humans.’ In fact, it was originally […]
Twitter and Strong Triadic Closure
http://research.microsoft.com/pubs/133158/GolderYardiSocComp.pdf In the above article, the researchers conducted an experiment where the testers were asked to rate their interest in forming to ties to other Twitter users, independently of existing connections between said users. Instead of using a conventional network where two-way edges exist between users, the article covered directed triadic closure; a network where only one-way […]
I Support Climate Change
Well, not necessarily climate change, but do I support nature change? Yes. When the conditions of part of a network change, this often affects many, if not all, other parts of the network. When one considers the known Earth, it can be modeled as nodes and structures all existing within one interwoven network Certain parts […]
Ebola Testing and Bayes’ Theorem
One of the biggest stories in the news today is the Ebola outbreak. While the media may have sensationalized the story, it does not diminish the fact that Ebola has spread and Ebola is a tangible threat rather than an imagined one. One of the big concerns of Ebola is early and accurate detection of […]
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