Prisoner’s dilemma in reopening states during the pandemic
https://www.stanforddaily.com/2020/06/21/a-covid-19-prisoners-dilemma/ The current pandemic has caused all of us to make unexpected decisions and drastically change our lifestyles. This article discusses some of the decisions that have been made and how they can be modeled as the prisoner’s dilemma. Some states have imposed laws closing down businesses and ordering residents to stay at home. […]
How many friends can we really have?
https://www.newyorker.com/science/maria-konnikova/social-media-affect-math-dunbar-number-friendships The Limits of Friendship by Maria Konnikova Robin Dunbar, an anthropologist and psychologist and the University of Oxford, came up with a series of numbers that the average person could have in her social group. The number of casual friends, for example, is 150. The number of close friends is 50. What’s more interesting is […]
Social network-based distancing strategies to flatten the COVID-19 curve in a post-lockdown world
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-020-0898-6 Our class has a clear focus in networks, crowds, and markets. It’s crosslisted in the departments of information science, sociology, and economies. There’s a multi-disciplinary application to the many problems and concepts that we go over. The very first concept that we went over was graphs. In my opinion, it’s one of the […]
Game Theory in Hurricane Support
This semester, I am studying from home in Gulf Coast Florida. About 2 weeks ago, we were hit by Hurricane Sally. The entire week before and after Sally directly passed our area, heavy rain and wind pounded our window day and night. The night the hurricane actually hit, our phones vibrated multiple times throughout the […]