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Are you as connected as Kevin Bacon and does it matter?

Have you ever played the game Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon? If not, let me explain. The point of the game is to link any two actors through movies that they have appeared in, using at least one movie that Kevin Bacon starred in. The basis of this game is the theory studied by Stanley […]

Exploring Deep Web with New Search Engine

There is a layer of internet that is called the “Deep Web”, its name after the inaccessibility of the common user to the sites at immediate demand. Some parts of this web require a software to access, containing illegal activities such as illicit pornography, illegal gambling, arms trafficking, and drug selling/buying. To counter “Deep Web” […]

The Trans-Pacific Partnership’s Role in International Trade and Bargaining Power

Sources: http://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/editorials/outside-the-club/ http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/07/world/asia/trans-pacific-partnership-china-australia.html?_r=0     The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) will drastically alter international trade forever. This pact, signed by 12 countries (orange on the diagram below)—United States, Australia, Brunei Darussalam, Canada, Chile, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore, and Vietnam—allows for more accessible and cheaper trade routes, while also establishing new standards for labor […]

Mesh Networking

Links: http://www.bizjournals.com/newyork/news/2015/10/07/should-isp-giants-be-worried-about-mesh-network.html http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/login.jsp?tp=&arnumber=1498536&url=http%3A%2F%2Fieeexplore.ieee.org%2Fxpls%2Fabs_all.jsp%3Farnumber%3D1498536 Loss of internet connection or Wifi has become a major source of angst amongst the tech-savvy people of today. Most causes of ISP connectivity failures result from a single point where the network malfunctioned. So if a major node in the communication network stops operating properly, the entire network could be affected and […]

Leap Transit

Leap Transit’s recent attempt to spread as a luxury bus company failed. The start-up aimed to make transportation nicer by making buses that had interiors with leather seats and snacks. Leap aimed these buses at techies to commute around San Francisco. However, the company filed for bankruptcy in July, which led to auctioning off their […]

The Navy’s Unidirectional Network Graph

During the  October 7th lecture, discussion of the web, as a graph, was opened. The course covered the ideas of links as they make all the nodes of the web graph interconnected. However, an important aspect of this notion is that links are one directional. In contrast to the edges that connect friends, which are […]

Sales in Retail

The concept of market-clearing prices, defined as “the price of a good or service at which quantity supplied is equal to quantity demanded” can be seen in retail all around us. The pattern is especially clear when it comes to retail advertising via newsletters. Examining the case in clothing retail in particular, the following can […]

Children Understand Game Theory

In reference to this article. The article outlines a research paper published this year that concluded that children understand game theory relatively well, despite obviously not having learned about the concept formally. This discovery demonstrates how intuitive game theory properties are. Indeed, the Nash equilibrium and dominant strategy ideas sprout from a base instinct of […]

Genome Assembly

Modern techniques for sequencing genomes produce billions of overlapping short reads that must be assembled into a contiguous reference sequence by software. A Nature Biotechnology primer describes a popular algorithm known as De Bruijn Graph Assembly, which reduces genome assembly to the problem of finding an Eulerian path in a directed graph (which Hierholzer’s algorithm can solve in linear […]

Facebook and Google’s Effects on Political Opinions

How Facebook and Google’s Algorithms Are Affecting Our Political Viewpoints Recent studies have shown that the algorithms used by Facebook and Google to display relevant content to users can skew users’ political opinions. The Facebook News Feed uses a complicated algorithm to decide what posts a user may want to see. This algorithm examines many […]

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