Overcoming Globally Inoptimal Strategies through Repeated Games of Trust
https://ncase.me/trust/ This is an interactive article written by computer scientist Nicki Case. Despite its game-like appearance (pun intended) the article touches on some very advanced topics in game theory. Case begins by introducing a coin game very much in the spirit of Prisoner’s Dilemma. There are 2 players. Each player has the option to put […]
How social media is influencing politics
The following two sources are relevant both individually, and together. The first article is actually a gallery of rendered graphs representing content divides in social media, including some that illustrate differences in political interest on Twitter. These images are not so different from some of the examples we saw in the intro lecture at the […]
Co-authorship within several fields
http://www.pnas.org/content/pnas/101/suppl_1/5200.full.pdf Summary: Co-authorship networks are one of the standard examples of a real world network. The vertices of the graph are the authors themselves and edges connect two who have co-authored a paper together. As with any network dataset some natural questions arise such as how connected is the network? How does this compare across […]
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