Teslas and Tie Strengths
https://www.forbes.com/sites/carlieporterfield/2020/09/29/youtuber-david-dobrik-gives-away-teslas-to-followers-to-encourage-voter-registration/#3fe1151d4041 Imagine you just woke up and saw the following news flash on your phone: “YouTuber giving away free cars.” You would probably think it’s a scam of some kind and dismiss the news. Now, imagine if that YouTuber is David Dobrik, and those free cars? Imagine those free cars are Teslas. Well, stop imagining […]
Wide Highways and Nash Equilibrium
Wider freeways don’t reduce congestion This article from City Observatory, an urban planning-focused think tank, focuses on the implications of expanding already wide highways. Specifically, it focuses on the city of Portland’s Rose Quarter Freeway Widening Program. This $500 million program is aimed at decreasing congestion and traffic jams on Portland’s highways by constructing new […]
The importance of a bipartite relationship between students and on-campus housing at Cornell University
It would be optimal if Cornell University’s student population could fill a bipartite graph when considering students and on-campus housing arrangements. However, there is currently only enough housing available to guarantee living arrangements for freshmen on campus. As a result, transfers, sophomores, juniors, and seniors are typically left finding housing through Ithaca landlords, many of […]
Auction Draft Strategy in Fantasy Football
Never ask a guy about his fantasy football team because you will have started a conversation that you’ll never be able to end. Around this time every year, fantasy football owners start hunkering down for a seventeen week bloodbath on the virtual gridiron. You may be wondering how fantasy football relates to networks and the […]
Game Theory and Climate Change
Did you know that humanity wields as much power as the asteroid that hit Earth circa 65 million years ago and wiped out all dinosaurs? The power that humanity holds is extremely harmful and dangerous to all other life forms, the atmosphere, and essentially Earth as a whole. Due to an increase in population and, […]
Why is Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez so Popular?
https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/24/politics/aoc-ted-yoho-cspan/index.html A junior congresswoman from New York City, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez rose to fame incredibly fast. Just a few years prior, she was tending bar until she was inspired to run for Congress. After a beating ten term incumbent Democrat in the primary, Ocasio-Cortez’s claimed victory in the 2018 general election as well, and she took […]
The Implications of Network Effects Within Business Strategy
Several years ago, a fierce competition between Chinese ride sharing apps arose. This fight included high profile ride sharing platforms, as well as some newer ones. Ultimately, a crowd favorite and seasoned company, Didi, failed in the face of newer, smarter and more innovative competitors. Why did this occur? And more specifically, how? How is […]
The Cheater’s Dilemma
To cheat or not to cheat. Students at universities across the nation are faced with the decision of whether or not to uphold academic integrity. During in-person exams, personal morals—along with the repercussions of getting caught—are typically strong enough to deter the vast majority of students from cheating. Furthermore, in an in-person test environment, students […]
Game Theory in the Evolutionary Biology of brood parasites vs hosts
Links: https://doi.org/10.1093/beheco/arr084 Game Theory is not only relevant to human psychology and strategy analysis. It is found throughout nature and the biosphere. Rethinking visual supernormal stimuli in cuckoos: visual modeling of host and parasite signals (shortened as rethinking visual stimuli) is a research paper that examines the effect of visual supernormal stimuli on the feeding […]
Choosing a COVID-19 surveillance testing site: Game theory
http://nautil.us/blog/let-game-theory-tell-you-when-its-time-to-go-shopping Part of our new normal since returning back to Cornell’s campus during the COVID-19 pandemic involves getting 2 weekly surveillance tests, which are offered at several locations around campus. Despite the fact that there are multiple locations, it seems to be the case that some testing sites are much more popular than others and […]
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