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Nash Equilibria in Videogames

Two player videogames sometimes contain great examples of Nash Equilibria— the game under consideration today is a mobile platform fighter called “Injustice: Gods Among Us,” which allows the player to engage in superhero battles against a computer controlled player (the link at the bottom of this post links to a page in the game’s wiki […]

Google search algorithm updates

Source article: https://searchengineland.com/8-major-google-algorithm-updates-explained-282627 In class we learned about the PageRank algorithm used by Google search, which operates on the reasoning that trustworthy pages are usually linked by other trustworthy pages. The algorithm traverses through a directed graph whose nodes are pages and edges are links from one page to another, updating the ranks of the pages. […]

Directed Graph: Russia Internet Interference Lead to Pokemon Go

http://money.cnn.com/2017/10/12/media/dont-shoot-us-russia-pokemon-go/index.html “Don’t Shoot Us” is one of the 470 accounts taken down due to Russian interference meant to politically divide American Citizens prior to the US presidential elections. “Don’t Shoot Us” is a multi-platform campaign that was present on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter. The campaign used several links on their websites, forming a Directed Graph, to […]

Auction Houses Find New Ways to Survive – Evolving Landscape

The auction house model industry is an old one, stemming as far back as the 18th century, when power-houses such as Sotheby’s and Christie’s were founded. There have been many structural changes within the business that have caused these traditional auction houses to evolve in order to survive in the current market landscape. Auctions have […]

Philosophers

https://kumu.io/GOliveira/philosophers-web#philosophers?focus=%23alfred-north-whitehead%20out%201,%20%23william-james https://oliveiradata.com/2017/01/09/social-network-visualization-a-history-of-philosophy/ “There is no such thing as a new idea. It is impossible. We simply take a lot of old ideas and put them into a sort of mental kaleidoscope. We give them a turn and they make new and curious combinations. We keep on turning and making new combinations indefinitely; but they are […]

#MeToo

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/la-et-entertainment-news-updates-metoo-campaign-me-too-alyssa-milano-1508173882-htmlstory.html On October 15th Alyssa Milano tweeted a message encouraging women who have been sexually harassed or assaulted to come out with the hashtag “#MeToo.”  Her goal was to show the magnitude of people affected by this and that it is a very real problem. This resulted in an immense amount of other celebrities and […]

The Rise and Fall of Link Spam

I’ve always wondered why I saw so many spam links emails and in the comments of blog posts. Even on my own low-traffic niche blog, I would get a few comments per month with links. As it turns out, PageRank, or one of the ways Google ranked websites on their search engine. The more links […]

Exchange Theory in Trump’s dealings with Puerto Rico

Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/12/us/politics/trump-warns-puerto-rico-weeks-after-storms-federal-help-cannot-stay-forever.html Three weeks after Puerto Rico was hit by a devastating hurricane, President Trump sent out a mass of tweets, warning Puerto Rico that the federal government would not stay there forever.  The residents of the island territory experienced yet another day without power, water, and other basic services when they saw Trump’s threatening messages. […]

How Google Filters Low Quality Results

https://www.searchenginejournal.com/google-low-quality-webpages/215835 PageRank is one of the main algorithms used by Google to rank webpages in the results of a user’s search. One of the ways in which PageRank can be implemented is by simply assigning each page a value based on the number and rank of the pages that link to it. However, for the […]

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