Foot Traffic During the Age of COVID
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2590198220300968 This research paper provides a mathematical analysis of foot traffic in an academic building in the time of COVID-19. Three assumptions are made: the risk of infection is correlated to exposure rate and time, exposure rate goes down as distance increases, and small exposure to a large group is seen as the same as […]
Using Game Theory to Battle Wild Fires
Wildfires have become all too common in the United States. Being from California myself, I have witnesses wildfires become an anual concern as they consistently cause enormous damage to my neighboring communities. This year, California has witnessed especially devastating wildfires. This season alone, almost 4 million acres have been burnt in the state, 96,000 residents […]
LinkedIn Limits Spread of QAnon Misinformation
https://www.wsj.com/articles/qanon-lands-on-linkedin-prompting-networking-site-to-limit-spread-11601643600?mod=tech_lead_pos2 This news article talked about LinkedIn’s most recent action in limiting the spread of QAnon group misinformation on its professional network. QAnon supporters promote far-right conspiracy theory, and LinkedIn has been hunting down there misinformative posts at their infancy and removing accounts that were posting them due to a violation of LinkedIn’s professional policy. […]
The Global Music Network: Is BTS the Bridge?
Korean pop boy band BTS is known as the K-pop artist to transcend language barriers and become an international sensation overseas. In a March 2020 article by the Wall Street Journal, “Seven Reasons Why South Korea’s BTS Is an American Phenomenon,” the author of the article dubs BTS as an American “success story,” being the […]
Polygons, Segregation, and Nash Equilibrium
While researching ideas for my blog post I came across a website Parable of the Polygon created by Vi Hart and Nicky Case. This website creates an interactable model demonstrating the Thomas Schelling 1971 paper Dynamic Models of Segregation. Schelling’s segregation model essentially states that in a larger system –or game –of housing/neighborly relationships small […]
The Game Theory behind Asking your Crush Out
source: https://sudolife.org/2007/06/07/asking-her-out-a-game-theory-analysis/ As a middle schooler I always feared asking my crush out on a date. Maybe it was the fear of getting rejected or the humiliation from my friends and peers that came with rejection. However, I always wondered if it was anything more than that and if asking your crush out was truly […]
Canadian Snowbirds: Who’s Playing What Game?
An article published by CBC News on September 30th, Why some snowbirds are still heading south this winter despite COVID-19 and a closed land border, starts by centering on the decision by one Canadian snowbird to go on her annual trip to Florida this winter. For context, a different CBC News article states that approximately 350,000 […]
Hate Networks on Social Media Platforms
After I graduated from high school, I tried briefly to remain up to date on the various goings-on in the lives of the people I had spent so much time with during my formative years. Facebook was quite popular as a means of publishing details about one’s life and communicating with other people in my […]
Mike Postle Cheating Scandal
Article for reference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eg34YTF-meA No limit-texas-holdem poker is a game that utilizes various game theory optimal strategies and mixed strategies in addition to reads. It is a game consisting of recognizing patterns, understanding probability, developing your own mixed strategies in response to other players, and of course, game theory optimal strategy. Every player that is […]
Nash Equilibrium and Business Competitions
Have you ever wonder why business competitors are often located close to each other? Such as McDonald’s and Burger King, Starbucks and CTB, or CFCU and Tomkins Trust. Wouldn’t it be intuitive to avoid competitors so you can attract all customers close to you? In this video, Jac de Haan introduces two ice-cream vendor on […]
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