Urban Planning: Shall we go back to simpler times?
Source of discussion: Want less traffic? Build fewer roads! By Josefina Alvarez Our cities are constantly growing denser and larger. With this perpetual motion, they are inevitably growing more complex. As a result, Urban Planning is an industry that is getting exceedingly important. One integral part of urban planning is transportation planning. Urban planners work […]
The Beauty of Nash Equilibrium
John Nash, an American mathematician, was responsible for coining the famous ‘Nash Equilibrium’ that we’ve used at least once in our life. Yes, if you have played a game or been in a situation with more than one outcome, the theorem could have possibly be applied. For a situation that involved two or more players, Nash developed […]
Game Theory Explaining Donald Trump’s strategies
The given article covers Trump’s utilization of ignorance and ambiguity to pull out his opponents into the metaphorical battlefield where Trump thinks he can win. The strategy is dangerous but seemingly has worked thus far. The article covers three primary points of his strategy: unpredictability, rationally irrational, and extreme views causing others to respond in […]
Why Men should Always Swipe Right: The Game Theory of Tinder
https://www.buzzfeed.com/s4a04b9190/yes-men-always-swipe-right-the-game-theory-of-ti-rv5q This Buzzfeed article discusses how game theory can be applied to using the dating app Tinder. For those who are not familiar, there are essentially two moves a “player” using the app has. You can swipe right to “like” another player or left to “pass.” If they’ve also “liked” you, a match is created […]
How Strong and Weak ties help you find a job
In this research article by Facebook illustrates how strong and weak ties play role in finding a job, and discusses which tie is more effective than the other in certain purposes. It is given fact that networking is very very important in finding a job. But we want to know about who is more helpful: […]
Game Theory and epidemics
Predicting how people behave during epidemics is crucial for disease control and containment. In order to effectively do this, sometimes the relevant authorities do not reveal all of the information to the public. The article linked shows how we can use game theory to predict people’s behavior in an epidemic. As the article notes, people’s […]
Refurbishing Metros, Nash Equilibrium, and Braess’ Paradox
Two of the east coasts’ largest metropolises will soon be needing a few network scientists. New York City and Washington D.C. are both entering into major periods of traffic disruption and rerouting as they push to modernize their metro systems. The work has planners in both cities trying to find out the best way to […]
Bullying in Social Networks
Many of the examples of social networks contain neutral or positive relationships. For example, ties representing a co-authorship of two scientists is a fairly neutral relationship, while ties representing facebook friendships are positive. It seems as though not as much attention is given to negative relationships. Some examples that we might be interested in include […]
To seed or not to seed? The torrenter’s dilemma
Many of us are familiar with “torrenting.” Torrenting in our everyday usage means to download a file (movie, music, games…) from online by using a torrenting application such as utorrent. In a wider sense, torrents can be categorized as “ad hoc networks.” Ad hoc (meaning “for this” in latin) networks are different from the networking […]
MIT’s Media Lab – Changing Places project
MIT’s Changing Places project, part of the Media Lab, ventures to find new strategies for city planners to afford the quickest and most efficient ways of moving people and objects through an urban environment. Changing Places obtains large amounts of data from sources such as censuses to identify walkways and roads which are more crowded […]
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