Why 140 characters on Twitter can’t start a revolution
Article: http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2010/10/04/small-change-malcolm-gladwell The term “Twitter Revolution” seems to have been the buzzword to describe revolutions that are catalyzed by Twitter and its easy, widespread communication function. In fact, other social media sites like Facebook are also effective in achieving this kind of extensive communication across populations. Communication to a wide audience is key when planning a […]
V2V Network
In 2014, 32,675 people died due to car accidents in the United State, which means 89 people died each day on the road. Ninety percent of those car accidents are due to human reckless driving habits, such as driving over the speed limit, driving under the influence of alcohol, running the red light, and multitasking […]
Applying the Prisoner’s Dilemma to Quantify Community
While looking for statistics on suspect confessionals during arrests (in an attempt to discern a typical response to the prisoner’s dilemma), I came across this article by Max Nisen, which examines the outcomes of an experiment conducted by two researchers from the University of Hamburg. The experiment applies the prisoner’s dilemma to actual prisoners (and is […]
Reexamining the Strength of Weak Ties: Facebook and the Job Market
Research Article Referenced: http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/686225 In this research paper, the authors reexamined the “strength of weak ties” theory, a term coined by the researcher Mark Granovetter. In Granovetter’s experiment, he found that when job seekers used their personal networks to find employment, they were more likely to cite their acquaintances as the source of the information […]
Homophily: The Reason for our Big Brains
https://www.fastcoexist.com/3063191/did-humans-big-brains-evolve-to-make-us-better-at-sizing-each-other-up The reason that we humans have been able to climb to the top of the food chain and conquer this planet is because of our large and complex brains. The reason as to why we evolved to have such superior intelligence has been pondered by the scientific community for hundreds of years. Now, scientists […]
The Social Network of Trees
When thinking of networks, some of the networks that come to mind deal with people. These networks develop either through social networking, political networking, or business related networking. But, networks can develop through means other than those generated by human actions. Nature itself can be thought of as having it’s own network system. Through Suzanne […]
Deal with Kids with Game Theory
A theory once used to study military tactics during the Cold War, the Game Theory has since then developed into a useful method of studying not only economic and political behaviours, but also social behaviours. Its application in various areas of our lives, including understanding and manipulating behaviours, especially those of children’s, is discussed in the […]
The Existence of Game Theory in a Bacterial Colony
http://www.messagetoeagle.com/bacteriamathematicians.php While microbes and bacteria may not be as intelligent as the humans in the prisoner’s dilemma game theory presented in class, they possess the capability of integrating mathematical reasoning and game theory to determine the best course of action for survival. After studying the soil bacterium Bacillus subtilis in various stressful environments, Jose Onuchic […]
The Child’s Dilemma
The Child’s Dilemma From: http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/game-theory-for-parents1/ This article from Scientific American touches on Game Theory as it applies to parenting, whereby “using classic strategies from game theory, kids can learn to establish fair agreements on their own, without any intervention from a parent or other authority figure”. It is every parent’s dream is to have children […]
Game Theory and Baseball, Introduction to Pitch Selection
Baseball is a game dictated by strategy. This was true in the baseball’s founding stages through the time of baseball greats such as Ty Cobb and Babe Ruth all the way until today. With the growing popularity of unique statistics such as the sabermetrics being used in baseball today the development and practice of the […]
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