Multidimensional Network
With the plethora of social medias booming in the past decade, it’s difficult to keep track of all that’s going on within our friend groups. But Owlcast Creative, a small startup in Malvern Australia has been trying to bridge the gap between them all with a concise singular app to view all that people post. […]
Yanis Varoufakis’ Game Theory
The highlight of international news for Summer 2015 appears to be the tragic story of Greece’s collapsing economy. While the country finally appears to have sealed a deal with Europe for now, there is no concrete way to predict what the decisions of the summer hold for Greece or the Eurozone in the future. Moreover, the […]
The Game Theory of buying wards in Dota 2
http://dota2withdeemi.blogspot.com/2015/06/the-supports-dilemma-discussion.html In this blog post, the blogger attempts to apply Game Theory to a particular decision making process at the start of most high level DotA 2 (Defense of the Ancients 2) games, which is whether or not to buy sentry wards to de-ward the enemy team’s observer wards. In a more simple […]
Game Theory
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2006/05/29/game-theory-2 What’s so cool about game theory is how it affects literally everything a person does. Every decision that a person makes can be determined using game theory. Decisions can be simplified and analyzed so that you know whether or not they were actually the proper decision to make. What is so cool is […]
The Education Network That Will Change the World
Imagine combining education, philanthropy and social change. This concept seems revolutionary in itself, but when the principle of networks is applied to this triple threat, entirely new possibilities become available. A new online education nonprofit, Philanthropy University, aims to do just that. Established with help from University of California, Berkeley’s Haas School of Business, Philanthropy […]
Twitter Bot Nests
At this point, it is fairly common knowledge that a significant potion of Twitter ‘users’ are in fact, bots, or scripts that people have written to generate Twitter accounts. However, what many people do not realize is that there is an ongoing battle between Twitter’s spam detection and the ever convoluted methods that these bots […]
Israel and Saudi Arabia: Togetherish at Last?
http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2015/06/israeli-saudi-relations/395015/ “Opposition to U.S. negotiations on Iran’s nuclear program is helping unite two long-antagonistic American allies.” Graph theory applies itself very well to international relations (IR). In IR, the countries are considered the nodes, and their relationships (entirely intangible, but still very much important) are the edges. Although the strength of […]
Using Networks to Solve the Problems of Modern Physics
One of the most difficult problems that physicists face occurs in the differences when analyzing the physics of the very small, and very large entities in the universe. On one hand, the physics of the very small is explained through quantum mechanics, defining the small particles of the universe through constants, combined with theories of […]
Tracking the Flu Through Twitter
Johns Hopkins researchers go local with their Twitter flu tracking efforts Researchers at Johns Hopkins University have begun using Twitter data to track the spread of the flu virus in both national and local settings. They’ve determined that Twitter can be an incredibly useful analytical tool in gauging the spread of the flu and predicting […]
America’s Need For A Better Infrastructure Network
Transportation infrastructure. Probably one of the most lackluster topics there is to discuss, however, it is extremely important. In the status quo, the United States’ transportation infrastructure system is quickly crumbling. In fact, according to the Federal Highway Administration’s Bridge Inventory, 24.3 % of all bridges in the United States are either structurally deficient or […]
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