Using Game Theory To Signal Value In College Football Recruiting
https://medium.com/research-at-marquette/the-economic-case-for-playing-hard-to-get-8ba706ddbf19 Every year across the country, thousands of high school football players eagerly await a phone call from a college football coach. For many players, just the thought of a single offer is a far off dream. But with signing day looming, those lucky enough to have multiple offers are looking to maximize their value […]
October 2018 Tech Rout
https://www.ft.com/content/af34550e-cd01-11e8-b276-b9069bde0956 Throughout the month of October, tech stocks dropped rapidly, exhibiting a rout. Tech had originally led the S&P 500 to record highs, with a lot of optimism in financial markets especially centered around high-growth tech stocks, from the FAANG core group (Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Netflix, Google) to smaller companies. The sell-off in October has […]
Spread of Bubonic Plague limited by short distance connections
https://medium.com/the-physics-arxiv-blog/black-death-predated-small-world-effect-say-network-theorists-86143217ce77 This article describes the remarkably slow rate at which the Bubonic Plague spread throughout Europe. The article then tries to explain this phenomenon by saying that people at the time must not have had connections to people far away from them geographically at this point in time. This is in contrast to the […]
Airport Disease Spreading and Hand-Hygiene
https://www.internationalairportreview.com/article/76873/hand-hygiene-tackle-disease/ The transmission of bacteria can be extremely quick in dense populated areas where air ventilation and proper hygiene are not strictly enforced. When a new disease is spreading, places like airports play a major role in disease transmission due to the large spread of the crowd’s origins. Additionally, airports and aircrafts have many highly […]
The Spread of Fake News
http://ide.mit.edu/sites/default/files/publications/2017%20IDE%20Research%20Brief%20False%20News.pdf One of the repeated phrases during Trump’s presidency was of “fake news,” and how media deliberately spread false information around. He criticized everything and everyone, from Fox News and CNN, to Megyn Kelly and Anderson Cooper. Such widespread criticism from the President sparked a furious debate over whether or not the media that we […]
Are Influencers Overrated?
https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/insights/are-influencers-overrated How does information spread? How can we encourage that spread? To many, the answer is a simple and intuitive one: Find the people who sit at the center of the social network and “seed” them with the information. From there, the idea will be carried by word-of-mouth. Unfortunately, finding the influencers in a network […]
The Bayesian Brain
Link: https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/cross-check/are-brains-bayesian/ This article focuses on a specific area of cognitive science: the study of the Bayes theorem and its applicability to understanding how and why human cognition works. Essentially, the argument goes that the mind assigns probabilities to hypotheses, and these hypotheses are updated as changes are observed by the brain throughout everyday life. Controversy […]
Viral Memes
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/why-people-click/201304/what-makes-videos-go-viral There are many posts on the internet, but only some become viral. This article talks about what it takes for a video or meme to go viral on the internet. The authors found that memes are more likely to be viral if they make the user have a strong emotional response. For example, […]
The Redesign of the Matching Market for American Physicians
https://web.stanford.edu/~alroth/papers/rothperansonaer.PDF Roth and Peranson discuss how our current “clearinghouse” algorithm used to match physician residents and resident programs is insufficient in being able to accurately match the potentials of residents to programs in a way that is beneficial for the residents as a first priority. The National Resident Matching Program has indeed been shown to […]
How Ideas Spread through Academia
The university that an idea comes from highly influences how that idea diffuses through the academic world. To show this, researchers set up a network based on a dataset of over 5,000 faculties’ hiring histories. The connections represent a passing down of ideas from the university that a Ph.D. student is from to the university […]
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