The Game of Ride Sharing
Source: https://gizmodo.com/i-tried-uber-s-new-pool-express-service-and-honestly-j-1823190462 I’m a cheap college student who is constantly on the go. When time is of the essence, I take an Uber or Lyft to my next step. I was ecstatic when the two apps launched their Pool/Pool Express and Line options, allowing me to be matched with other riders heading the same direction […]
Traffic Networks and the Game Navigation apps play
Navigation apps have been popularized due to the widespread of smartphones and the increasing accessibility or need for driving. Waze, a navigation app purchased by Google in 2013, creates a social network of ‘Wazers’ to help provide real-time information and data to other users about traffic. Wazers can report road incidents and conditions, such as […]
Overcoming the Prisoner’s Dilemma to Reach Peace in Afghanistan
The ongoing war in Afghanistan has been a long drag on the United States in many respects. It has cost trillions of dollars, brought pain to thousands, and ultimately has failed, as of now, to reach a lasting peace. The failure to successfully negotiate peace terms, between the many parties involved, boils down to a […]
Voting Systems
Many countries employ many different voting systems to elect candidates in an attempt to make elections fairer and to not bias the vote in any particular direction. Not all voting systems are equal, and perhaps an easy example of a flaw in a voting system would be the phrase: “Don’t vote for them, there’s no […]
Additional Complexities of Using the Hawk-Dove Game to explain Biodiversity
https://phys.org/news/2018-08-tackling-great-paradox-biodiversity-game.html https://phys.org/news/2016-08-unbalance-nutrients-threatens-biodiversity.html#nRlv https://arxiv.org/pdf/1711.00755.pdf In the article “Tackling the Great Paradox of Biodiversity with Game Theory,” scientists suggested that a possible model for explaining the biodiversity of an environment, despite the limited number of resources, would be a well known Hawk-Dove game in which two animals can either choose the strategy of the hawk or the […]
Braess’ paradox in electrical power grids
This article applies the principle of Braess’ Paradox, originally likened to automobile traffic, to electrical output in power grids. Braess’ Paradox is an effect that shows that adding connecting edges can hinder a network’s efficiency. This phenomenon is not readily apparent, in that human intuition tends to indicate that adding a wider range of pathways […]
Using Game Theory In Real Life Decisions
https://www.businessinsider.com/how-to-use-game-theory-to-your-benefit-2012-4 This article is impactful in helping to understand game theory because it brings game theory down to every day life. It is easy to overlook the actual impacts that using game theory can have on us when we think of examples like the prisoner’s dilemma. The way that game theory can be used to […]
Fantasy Football Game Theory
Article Link: https://www.fantasylabs.com/articles/using-game-theory-in-daily-fantasy-tournaments/ As the NFL season has started it has got me thinking about how game theory takes effect in the decisions people make when constructing their daily fantasy lineups. Often times in the past my goal has always been to maximize my total points for the week in any daily competitions, so […]
Adderall and the Prisoner’s Dilemma
https://spec.hamilton.edu/the-rampant-abuse-of-adderall-on-college-campuses-across-the-country-d735b83ecf34 In this op-ed piece, “The rampant abuse of Adderall on college campuses across the country” featured in the Hamilton Spectator, undergraduate student Allie Duggan provides statistics and also personal ideas about the phenomenon of study-drug use on college campuses throughout the US. When we think about the effects of performance enhancing drugs such as […]
What game theory tells us about nuclear war with North Korea
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2017/08/16/what-game-theory-tells-us-about-nuclear-war-with-north-korea/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.336f5373d38c Due to the lack of data collected on the likelihood of a nuclear strike occurring, it is very difficult to reason about nuclear conflicts and how to stop them. Interestingly enough, however, despite there being very few cases of nuclear weapon use in history, the possibility of nuclear war can be modeled using […]
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