Don’t let your friends get eaten by sharks! (Reciprocal Altruism and Game Theory)
Sticklebacks: http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v325/n6103/pdf/325433a0.pdf Tit-for-Tat: http://www.forbes.com/sites/rogerkay/2011/12/19/generous-tit-for-tat-a-winning-strategy/#8586d2166695 In the 1960’s, a high school student named Richard Axelrod, who was doing research at Northwestern University, created a program to run many rounds of the Prisoner’s Dilemma. After collecting strategies developed by professors, he pit them against each other to determine which was the most consistent winner. As it turned out, […]
Game Theory, Poker, and AI
This article opens with a discussion of the term game theory optimal, or GTO. Specifically, it discusses the term in the context of poker, where following a GTO strategy essentially means taking into account your opponent’s style of play when developing your own. The goal of such a strategy is to make your own exploitation […]
Network Theory in Tiki-Taka
Reference: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2012-07-03/spains-soccer-team-a-champion-for-the-facebook-age Many soccer aficionados have fallen in love with the Spain’s National Soccer for its unusual tactic called “tiki-taka.” Tiki-taka, a tactic primarily focused on maintaining high ball possessions based on rapid and accurate passes, has found out to have a noticeable connection to the network theory. Popular sports like baseball, basketball, and football […]
Positive Ties with the US cause Negative Ties with Russia for the UK
http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/uk-russia-ties-depend-special-relationship-us-says-vladimir-putin-1579330# Vladimir Putin openly stated to Bloomberg “that relations between the two countries ‘haven’t been the best lately.’” This developed into a more thorough explanation on Thursday when Putin said that Russia’s distaste for the UK was due to the UK’s relationship with the US. But what is interesting is that Putin stated, “if the […]
Motivation to Distinguish Connections on LinkedIn
Alexandra Samuels, author of Work Smarter with Social Media, suggests that the more people users connect with on on LinkedIn, the less valuable the network connections become. Over the course of the platform’s history, LinkedIn slowly transitioned users to value the quantity rather than the quality of their connections. Connection requests evolved from residing in […]
Wikiverse: A Galactic Visualization of Everyone’s Favorite Online Encyclopedia.
The name Wikipedia has practically become ubiquitous. People all over the world and of all ages and professions use Wikipedia for a variety of reasons. Some use Wikipedia simply because they’re curious about a certain topic while others use Wikipedia to aid them in their research. The sheer amount of information contained within Wikipedia is […]
Usage of Neural Networks in Processors
Samsung recently released some information about its Galaxy S7 phone’s processor. It uses a Neural Network in order to vastly improve the accuracy and rate of branch prediction. Branch prediction is a method of increasing processor speed and power efficiency. Essentially, when running a program, the processor preloads the next few commands so that it […]
Game Theory of Voting for a Third Party Candidate
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2016/7/25/1552491/-Is-voting-third-party-throwing-your-vote-away-Spoiler-yes-and-here-s-why This election cycle with both major party candidates getting record high unfavorability ratings many pundits are predicting a higher than average number of votes for third party candidates. This has renewed the debate over the merit of voting for a third party candidate. Some would argue that voting for a third party forces the […]
Game Theory and Marriage
Game theory applies to almost all daily decisions, from a professional soccer player debating which side to shoot the ball to on a penalty kick to a high school student wondering whether it would be quicker for him to wait another minute for the bus or to just walk to school. These decisions are all […]
Integrating Marketing and Social Media Strategy
https://hbr.org/2016/07/fix-your-social-media-strategy-by-taking-it-back-to-basics As social media becomes more and more dominant throughout the world, businesses are increasing their spending on social media marketing to quickly expose their products to bigger audience. The author of the linked article points out the marketers’ flaw of searching for the new “one-size-fits-all social media strategy” and offers a better approach of […]
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