Information Cascades in Among Us
https://www.investopedia.com/articles/investing/052715/guide-understanding-information-cascades.asp https://www.theguardian.com/games/2020/sep/29/among-us-the-ultimate-party-game-of-the-covid-era Among Us, a virtual PC and mobile game, has had exponential growth in their number of players since the start of the pandemic. It has become profoundly successful with over 85 million players in just the last couple of months. An Among Us game is set up with ten players, nine of […]
Sponsored Search Results Domination in Google Search and Ad Auction
https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/353000+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us We increasingly find ourselves in some Google search results when the first few results are all advertisements or even the entire first page is consisted of ads. Google, for its self-interested and almost unchecked market power, started to put more ads into the search results to maximize its revenue. While Google may need extra […]
Game Theory of Partying in a Pandemic
https://nypost.com/2020/10/31/brooklyn-halloween-party-with-nearly-400-people-busted-cops/ Halloween 2020. On a Saturday night, with daylight savings the next day, and a full moon to add to the spookiness, the stage was seemingly set for an unforgettable night, However, like most things that happened in 2020, it didn’t pan out as people expected. With the advent of the global coronavirus pandemic, everyone […]
Pagerank vs FIFA rankings
We have learned that Pagerank is a tool used by websites to rank their importance, which is dependent upon the links it has from other important sites. These links, or endorsements, are from hubs to authorities, with hub scores determining the quality of links as a list, and authority scores conveying the level of endorsement […]