College Admissions and Game Theory
Source Dizikes, Peter. “Game Theory, in the Real World.” MIT News, 1 May 2012, http://news.mit.edu/2012/profile-pathak-0501. I learned game theory for the first time in my AP Economics class during my senior year of high school. Even though I was captivated by the strategy and critical thinking involved in the process, I realize now that […]
Why The Sky Is Blue And Sunsets Are Red
https://image.gsfc.nasa.gov/poetry/ask/a11354.html http://spiff.rit.edu/classes/phys440/lectures/optd/optd.html https://www.skyandtelescope.com/astronomy-resources/transparency-and-atmospheric-extinction/ From the sun’s core and up, spans 696,000 km of primarily electron-stripped hydrogen molecules. Photon, neutrally-charged particles of light are able to pass through such particles, being absorbed and spit back out again and again and again. From the physics-based mathematical explanation in the first url, a photon will wait about […]
The Nash Equilibrium Applied to the San Francisco Giants
This article connects the Nash Equilibrium to the MLB trade deadline for this past year. Written by an SF Giants blog owned by ESPN, the author argues that the Giants should not lower their expectations due to other teams not meeting their asking price for certain players. The Giants obviously want to improve their team […]
Network Theory and LAN parties
Genvid and NTT Docomo demo 5G LAN party at Tokyo Game Show I want to use this news article as an excuse to think about what the network of a LAN party would look like. Lan parties, for all those who are unaware, are parties where people play games in the same room. All the […]
LinkedIn and Graph Theory
Graph Theory on LinkedIn? In this article, we examine the relationship between the popular networking site ‘LinkedIn’ and graph theory, including strong and weak ties. The article describes how the site is basically set up as a graph, with connections labeled as ‘1st’ being strong ties, and connections labeled as ‘2nd’ as weak ties. It was […]
Six Degrees of Separation Theory
Resource: https://www.hackerearth.com/blog/developers/theory-six-degrees-of-separation/ The article above extensively discusses the six degrees of separation theory which states that all people on this earth is connected to each other by six of fewer people. The article talks about one of the many small world experiments that determine the average path length for social networks of people in […]
Network Theory and the 2008 Financial Crisis
http://siteresources.worldbank.org/EXTPREMNET/Resources/489960-1338997241035/Growth_Commission_Working_Paper_67_Financial_Crisis_Global_Governance_Network_Analysis.pdf This paper discusses the idea that the 2008 Financial Crisis, as well as all economic markets in general can be modeled and understood using network theory. Banks and clearinghouses act as hubs for consumers and financial transactions, and each is motivated to expand their own connections. This lead to a network in which […]
Graph Theory: A More Intuitive Way To Structure Databases
https://www.zdnet.com/article/in-love-with-the-graph-neo4j-spreads-the-obsession-of-a-new-database-one-app-at-a-time/ A databasing language called “SQL” is one of the earliest data storage interfaces that currently exists, and it’s based on the “table” topology for storing data. According to this article, however, there’s a better way. The company Neo4j is using graph theory to design databasing software that fits into a more natural structure for […]
Climate Change: Prisoner’s Dilemma or Stag Hunt?
I read an article from The Atlantic discussing the climate change issue in the context of game theory. https://www.theatlantic.com/notes/2016/04/climate-change-game-theory-models/479340/ This Article details different payoff matrixes in terms of countries and/or states cooperating on climate change and poses the questions of how we should view these different Matrixes in terms of game theory concepts. The Article […]
Escaping the prisoner’s dilemma
Generally, when the prisoner’s dilemma is taught, it analyzes what actions are taken given the choices, so it doesn’t analyze actions that were not explicitly given. For example, the standard choices for a prisoner is to confess, or not confess. The prisoners aren’t given the choice to escape, but that doesn’t mean escaping is not […]
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