Cutting a cake
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Divide_and_choose Once upon a time, I was nine years-old and there was a dessert laid before my eyes for me and my father to split. My father took this opportunity to describe to me the fairest way to split a piece of food. Have one person split the dessert and have the other choose which […]
Captain America: Civil War and Unbalanced Networks
http://www.slashfilm.com/captain-america-civil-war-review/ Above is a review of the film Captain America: Civil War, the most recent offering from Marvel Studio’s Cinematic Universe. It follows the clash that occurs between superheroes Iron Man (Robert Downy Jr.) and Captain America (Chris Evans) as they try to decide whether or not they should be regulated by the United Nations so that […]
Negative Workplace Relationships in Healthcare Companies
https://www.td.org/Publications/Blogs/Healthcare-Blog/2016/06/Healthcare-Companies-Can-Combat-a-Negative-Workplace Studies show high levels of unhappiness and physical stress among workers in the healthcare industry. As a result, there has been a growing need for managers and executives to lower employee turnover and foster a healthier work environment with increased staff morale. In his blog post, ‘Healthcare Companies Can Combat a Negative Workplace,’ Paul […]
Apple, Google, and the Race for Smartphone Market Share
Within a few years of the release of the iPhone, smartphone market share was unquestionably dominated by the mobile operating systems developed by two companies: Apple and Google. Together, iOS and Android accounted for approximately 96% of all smartphones shipped in 2014. Smartphones running the Windows Phone operating system developed by Microsoft accounted for just […]
Game Theory in Pokemon
http://bulbanews.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Crunching_the_numbers:_Game_theory First, I’d like to qualify my choice of article. I don’t believe that this particular article holds any ground against any formal game theory paper, but I think it does offer a fantastic introduction to several topics we discussed in class. The author, Danielle Detering, first introduces payoff matrices through the prisoner’s dilemma problem with […]
Anonymous Social Media
http://money.cnn.com/2016/07/21/technology/candid-anonymous-social-network/index.html Many startups in the past have tried to create anonymous social media apps to no avail. When given the freedom to say whatever comes to mind with no repercussions, people tend to be rude and abusive to one another. But on the other hand, there is a certain level of censorship when people have to use their […]
Game Theory in Oligopolies and Collusion
http://www.slideshare.net/tutor2u/oligopoly-collusion-and-game-theory This article provides an interesting insight on how firms might behave given the opportunity to collude and form oligopolies by using game theory. In the prisoner’s dilemma, the dominant strategy of the prisoner is to confess, and both prisoners confessing is a Nash equilibrium. However, this is not the best outcome for both parties. […]
Understanding YouTube’s Multi-Channel Networks
YouTube is an online video streaming website where users can create their own profile (channel) and share their created videos with anyone on the internet. The website is incredibly popular, boasting over a billion users with millions of hours of multimedia content watched each day.[1] With such high traffic, YouTube has had great success with […]
“People You May Know” May Know Too Much
Facebook utilizes many different methods to connect users to potential “friends” on the website, most of which aren’t particularly surprising to its users. The number of mutual friends is an obvious method to find suggested friends, in addition to the high school or college attended and other groups people can share. Facebook can also use […]
Networks and North Korea
http://www.cnn.com/2016/09/05/asia/north-korea-ballistic-missiles/index.html Networks is apparent all over the news, all over the internet. It’s most obvious application is social networks, since that is such a large part of our lives today. Another one that may not be so obvious is the network between countries. This article discusses the missiles that North Korea has fired. In terms […]
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