The Impact of a National Cryptocurrency on China’s Network Structure
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/18/technology/china-cryptocurrency-facebook-libra.html In June, Facebook announced a cryptocurrency plan named Libra. With Libra, money would become digitized and forever change the financial system. This cryptocurrency would also greatly impact the structure of networks across the world. Facebook’s plan, inspired China to develop their own cryptocurrency plan. China’s e-currency plan would allow Chinese authorities to document […]
Spread of Fake News on Social Media
https://science.sciencemag.org/content/359/6380/1146 The article above details a study conducted by Vosoughi et al. on the differential spread of true and false news stories on Twitter. By examining 126,000 stories retweeted by 3 million people, the study contains interesting findings on the differing network dynamics of truths and falsehoods. Given how fake news has impacted various aspects […]
What do they really know
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/04/30/opinion/privacy-targeted-advertising.html?searchResultPosition=1 This article discussed the targeted advertisements made available to modern industries, and the information made privy to the industries. By tracking our movements online, from the websites we visit to the purchases we make, different companies like retailers and credit card companies collect data on us, and sell them to larger data companies, creating […]
How To Keep Up With Google’s Search
Source: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/small-business/article-small-businesses-grapple-with-the-decline-of-googles-organic-search/ It’s interesting. You might think that as Google becomes more popular, a new website might get more traffic. After all, if more people are using Google to search for things day in and day out, why wouldn’t more searches be funneled through a certain website? Well, one reason might be saturation. As Google’s […]
Bargaining and Power in Sports Contracts
This past winter, some of the largest sports contracts in history were signed by MLB players. One of the most exciting stories coming out of the baseball off-season was the signing of Bryce Harper to the Philadelphia Phillies with a $330 million dollar contract. This deal was announced relatively late in the off-season, which was […]
Employing Game Theory to Improve Antimicrobial Resistance Research Studies
Source: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-future-brain/201910/using-ai-genes-and-game-theory-antimicrobial-resistance In a recent study conducted by researchers at Washington State University, a novel machine learning tool was created using game theory to address the growing public health threat of antimicrobial resistance. As antimicrobial resistance continues to rise in prevalence with over ten million deaths predicted per year globally due to it by the […]
The optimizing future of market network
https://www.nfx.com/post/10-years-about-market-networks As said in the passage, the author believes that in the past ten years, social network brings huge benefits to public’s life, and in the next ten years. market network will play import roles in people’s life. It is quite common to talk about social network such as Facebook. but what exactly is a […]
Bayes Rule and Speech Recognition
Bayes Rule and Speech Recognition https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/5ba5/7ff3c3e6e319586b86a990b6e082f4ecf972.pdf In this paper, Wantanabe dives into the application of Bayesian theories to speech recognition – in particular, the Bayesian Information Criterion and the Variational Baysian Estimation and Clustering for Speech Recognition. Using the Bayesian approach allows researchers to increase the ability for generalization in speech classification. The procedure is […]
Hotel Market Matching, Disruption, and Bifurcation with Airbnb
Much theoretical research on market matching has been, done, but has remained purely theoretical and not empirically validated. However the recent rise of the so-called ‘sharing economy’ has given market researchers ample opportunity to study the effects of more dynamic pricing models on the economy overall. Uber and Lyft’s impact have been extensively studied, in, […]
How pay per click advertising damage information integrity
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/20/us/elections/trump-campaign-ads-democrats.html The article talks about how the Trump campaign is aggressively using targeted advertising to spread their message at a greater rate than the opposing Democrats. This oversaturation of targeted ads relates heavily to our discussion of advertisement auctions. The article states that Trump is abusing the auctioning algorithm that Facebook uses by creating targeted […]
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