Applying the Social Network
The network that I will discuss in this inaugural blog post is the one that is most interesting to all of us, the social network. I say “social network”, everyone thinks “Facebook.” But as we all learned in our first few weeks on campus, or maybe earlier depending on where you are from, Venmo presents […]
Global shipping container systems
Over the past few decades container shipping has completely transformed the industry from a romanticized image of a mariner circumnavigating the world to an efficiency driven network with almost unimaginable layers of complexity. The crews themselves have gotten smaller; only 20 men are required to operate the world’s largest container ship, the Triple-E. Despite this, […]
Friendly Competition in the Economy
Businesses, firms, companies, corporations, institutions. These are all entities that participate in the economy and strive for outstanding profits, efficiency, and organization. Yet, there are always many other motives, such as wealth, recognition, and power. With such high stakes and a growing number of people operating within the business world, it is not surprising to […]
#Kanye2020
With the 2016 presidential election coming up in a mere 14 months, many notable people have made their announcements for running for the coveted status of President of the United States. What will be more interesting, however, will be the potential candidates for the 2020 presidential election. One that sticks out to me the most […]
Wiki orphans, directed graphs, and the clique
When a new editor creates an article on Wikipedia or other sites based on the MediaWiki model, they often find that their article is soon labeled as an “orphan” by the friendly neighborhood administrator or anyone watching the new article IRC feed. In much of these cases, the new article often fails the Wiki’s notability […]
Google creates an opportunity to fight against Apple
http://www.bbc.com/news/business-34216475 Technology has developed rapidly since the Industrial Revolution, and it has changed our lives in many different ways. The way we see, the way we eat, the way we learn, and the ways we do many other things. Among the many fascinating and useful technology development, Apple has launched Apple Pay which is a […]
The Odd Case of the Traveler’s Dilemma
In general, we have found game theory to be quite good at predicting the behavior of the participants in games. That said, even this theory has limits in the form of strange games where our predictions break down. A prime example of this is the Traveler’s Dilemma. Here’s how the dilemma works. There is a […]
Problems with Applications of Basic Game Theory
Game theory is studied to try to accurately predict the actions of players (specifically two players in the games we have been studying) given a game model, but often game theory runs into problems in real-world applications. John Nash contributed the famous “Nash Equilibrium” to game theory to explain which choices players will make and […]
Cooperation in Nature
When introducing game theory in lecture, we talked about the Prisoners’ Dilemma Game. In addition to the story where the police are trying to get two criminals to rat each other out, there are many other applications of the Prisoners’ Dilemma Game. One example is in nature: individual organisms have a choice whether to cooperate […]
Google’s Artificial Neural Networks and Weighted Graphs
http://www.popsci.com/these-are-what-google-artificial-intelligences-dreams-look https://datajobs.com/data-science-repo/Neural-Net-[Carlos-Gershenson].pdf In steps towards achieving artificial intelligence, Google has created a huge network of artificial neurons. These are computational models resembling neurons in the brain in which an input signal is received, and if the signal is strong enough, then an output is emitted. Google then attempts to teach this network about the world. […]
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