Games Theory for Queues
According to this article, waiting in one long single file line is a very inefficient way to wait in line. According to two Danish researchers, it is actually a lot more efficient to serve those who entered the line more recently first. This may seem counterintuitive but by taking into consideration the costs and benefits […]
Growing Closer On Facebook
In reference to this paper by Burke, et al. Although it is indeed very possible that Burke and Kraut make a valid point, I personally do not believe that interaction through Facebook is the cause of these stronger relationships. Burke and Kraut claim that the strength of a tie between two people on Facebook increases as they have more […]
Optimizing Pitch Repertoire Using Game Theory
In baseball, the battle between the pitcher and the hitter is always exciting to watch. The pitcher understands the hitter’s strengths and weaknesses, and the hitter knows the pitcher as well. Baseball is a game that is evolving rapidly due to the advancement of analytics and sabermetric tools, and in this article, a statistician uses […]
A Novel Approach to Analyzing NBA Player Positions
Fans of the National Basketball Association (NBA) are well aware that there are 5 player positions in basketball: point guard, shooting guard, small forward, power forward, and center. These are the traditional positions, but in the modern NBA, the lines between positions have become less clear-cut. Thus, this has led to studies to redefine basketball […]
Co-working Spaces Create Strong Ties With Members to Facilitate Triadic Closure
The network within the startup community is continually growing, whether its by the creation of new nodes (new startups) or the creation of new edges between these nodes. As we have learned in class, Strong Triadic closure plays a big part in making sure that these nodes make new connections with each other. In Philadelphia […]
Jewish Geography
As a freshman coming to Cornell, there are thousands of new faces. When meeting all of these new people, the conversations generally follow the same pattern of questions – what’s your name, what’s your major, and where are you from? Because this is Cornell, more times than not, the answer to that last question will […]
Politics on the Internet – CloudFlare, governments and users
Original Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10192273 Relevant Article: http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/anonymous-opisis-cloudflare-refuses-block-service-pro-isis-websites-1495758 Related Discussions: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9893989, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9742331 CloudFlare is a content delivery service that provides performance, security and analytics to websites – a middle-man between users and a service. One side effect of this model is that services are essentially hidden behind CloudFlare. For the most part, this is not a big […]
Triadic Closure in Hyenas
Human interactions on social media has been studied in depth for the past decade. Researchers have coined the term “triadic closure” to describe the relationship between two acquaintances; if an individual has strong ties to two others, it is likely that the two have weak, if not strong, tie with one another. This property is extremely […]
Functional Programming Slips into Facebook
In the article, a software engineer from Facebook reveals that Facebook’s newest anti-spam filter was coded in Haskell. Haskell, cited as the 23rd most popular coding language in the article, is what many consider to be a pure functional programming language. Functional programming is often ignored by software developers for being too complex to code […]
Social Network Looking to Invoke Political Change
Sean Parker has been working on an app that he is hoping will help influence and even prompt public policy. The basic idea behind the app is that each user is presented with a social or political issue such as “Should marijuana be legalized?” and is prompted to either press agree or disagree. The user […]
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