Bayesian Reasoning Dismisses Existence of Alien Life
The question of whether there is extraterrestrial life out in the 100s of billions of galaxies is a question that has been discussed for centuries. With the discovery of water on life, many are convinced that further exploration will reveal primitive life forms in the ice on the poles. Interestingly life on a planet so […]
Google Pixel Adoption Rate at Nearly 300% Growth
In the article Google Pixel Adoption Rate at Nearly 300% Growth, author Jesse Bouman discusses why mobile marketers should pay attention to Google Pixel’s seemingly high adoption rate. The Google Pixel was released in October as the first phone by Google after weeks of viral marketing and campaigning. Claiming to have the highest rated smartphone camera, long lasting […]
Walgreens hits Theranos with breach-of-contract lawsuit
https://www.ft.com/content/8a1f9aa8-7a1b-3db9-88bf-f394302088cf Theranos is a blood-testing startup that was founded by Elizabeth Holmes in 2003. It marketed itself as a revolutionary blood-testing company that had technology that would make all the diagnosis processes cheaper, more convenient and more efficient. They developed a state-of-the-art device that acts as a portable laboratory. The issue was that […]
Twitter and the Election
With all the buzz about the 2016 presidential election, there is no doubt there are going to be other posts around it too. The NY Times article “For Election Day Influence, Twitter Ruled Social Media” by Mike Isaac and Sydney ember speaks about Twitter and its influence on the way people voted on election day. […]
The Information Cascade That Killed George Washington
For thousands of years, bloodletting was considered a valid form a medical treatment, and was prescribed for any number of illnesses, from fevers and headaches to pneumonia and epilepsy. Despite what must have been a complete lack of reliable evidence for the efficacy of this procedure, physicians throughout the world continued to use bloodletting regularly […]
Advertising Cascades
http://cs.iit.edu/~culotta/pubs/culotta03maximizing.pdf In this study, Aron Culotta of the University of Massachusetts attempts to answer how cascades can be maximized. This follows from the idea that given many innovations in the world, very few will spread overseas while most will be forgotten. He explains that the dynamics of a network itself must influence this spread, and […]
Information Cascades and the Arab Spring
https://www.economist.com/blogs/democracyinamerica/2011/10/mass-movements As this article from the Economist describes, information cascades play an important role in many world events. Especially with how interconnected the world is today through technology, information cascades in a localized area can spread like wildfire to other areas of the world. The article presents one example of information cascades in stock markets […]
The secret to Sriracha’s* hotness
*When we speak of Sriracha, at least in the United States, we often mean to attribute the name to Huy Fong Food’s variety of Sriracha, and in this blog when I speak of Sriracha , I too will speak of this variety. The growth of Sriracha’s popularity, an Asian hot sauce, in the United States was […]
A Tipping Point for Cannabis?
America has had its sights set on the presidential election for the last few months and almost every other social issue has been ignored due to the prominence and extreme tension of this election. One of the main issues in contention, which was partially overshadowed, made its way onto the ballot in some states: marijuana […]
No Man’s Sky Failure
http://www.inquisitr.com/3651091/no-mans-sky-mistake-strange-tweet-from-hello-games-ends-company-silence-but-spurs-bizarre-exchange-between-media-and-sean-murray/ “No Man’s Sky”, this brand new revolutionary had been under development for months and fueled itself with hype to become one of the most desired games. Thousands preordered a game without ever have played a single hour of it, it was already a success without a single line of code. The original idea and […]
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