The Ethics of the College Admission Matching Market
Source: https://www.forbes.com/sites/brennanbarnard/2019/09/05/the-department-of-justice-aims-to-unravel-the-college-admission-market/#180b1e2b40e5 While the college admission process is an obvious example of a matching market, it is much more complex than initially meets the eye. When assessing valuations, students need to take a wide range of things into account. Cost of attendance, campus culture, strength of a specific program and proximity to home are […]
Understanding the Prisoner’s Dilemma in GE Whistleblower Case
https://seekingalpha.com/article/4287957-general-electric-prisoners-dilemma GE is a large-cap company with a market cap of nearly $70 Billion and a solid financial structure. The market estimates the company to continue steady, if not accelerated, growth throughout the course of 2019. As a prominent staple within the homes of millions of Americans, it’s quite unreasonable how undervalued the current price […]
Social Media and Feedback Loops
In the age of growing technology and wide spread social media use, the distribution of information has become increasingly easy and unregulated. Through social media feedback loops, news, fake or real, are easily spread around and once they start to spread, they continue to do so. Click-bait titles and sensational titles encourage social media users […]
General Electric: Go Long or Wait?
Source: https://seekingalpha.com/article/4287957-general-electric-prisoners-dilemma General Electric has been predicted to have extraordinary year in terms of market revenue growth. The article debates to purchase stock from General Electric. Under normal circumstances, it would have been a good idea to invest in the company, given the astonishingly undervalued price of investment. However, recently, financial fraud investigator and […]
Nash Equilibrium Shows How Millennials are affected by Burnout Culture
https://medium.com/s/buy-yourself/were-optimizing-ourselves-to-death-d41a3e7cc25a This article discusses how Millennials are burnt out due to their wish to be at optimal working efficiency, and how their never-ending quest to excel in their work will lead to future inefficiencies. The author takes a modern day, working class spin on Nash equilibrium, referencing the famous Prisoner’s Dilemma to explain his argument. […]
Securing the Best Deal on Property
In class, we spoke about game theory applications in auctions. I came across a website that taught real estate investors and people looking for homes how to get good deals on property using game theory concepts. This post on the website tells the audience to bid slightly over what they value in order to “win” […]
Men and Women need different kinds of networks to succeed
https://hbr.org/2019/02/research-men-and-women-need-different-kinds-of-networks-to-succeed In this day and age, it is widely known that building a strong network is paramount to success, particularly in the business world. In recruiting, it is often said that it’s not about what you know, but instead who you know. The connections you have to people in your field and the ways […]
Why Traveling Underground May Cause Traffic Problems
At the end of 2018, The Boring Company unveiled the first section of an underground tunnel network for cars to alleviate traffic in Los Angeles. This is just a small step towards the company’s ultimate goal of creating a vast network of underground tunnels that limits time spent on above-ground streets. Founder Elon Musk believes […]
Testing the Strength of Weak Ties on Twitter and in Politics
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/10/18/17989856/twitter-polarization-echo-chambers-social-media Political polarization is nothing new – yet why does America seem more sharply divided than ever before? According to many social scientists, modern communications are key to understanding the promulgation of ideas which ultimately increase societal divisions. Twitter is specifically a terrific platform to study how media affects polarization, given its recent importance in […]
“996 ICU” is unfortunately the dominant strategy in market.
https://996.icu/#/en_US https://github.com/996icu/996.ICU/blob/master/README.md To put it simple, 996.icu was some sort of “movement” that started by Chinese developers from probably the world’s least political website: Github (the largest git/code hosting website). The Github project (link above) aims to fight against the Tech giants in China who implicitly requires all developers to work from 9 am to […]
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