The Diffusion of Canada Goose Parkas in the US
It’s that season again. It’s the cold winter season, the snow season, and also the “Canada Goose” season. During this time in the past few years, I remember I could see a person wearing a Canada Goose parka every 10 steps or so in Collegetown or on the street of SoHo in NYC. So how […]
How Kindle dominated the E-Book Industry
The Kindle took the electric book market by storm when it was introduced in 2007. It was a project kept heavily under wraps by Amazon while it was being developed for fear that Apple or Google was on its way to producing a competitor. It was the first accessible device of its kind. It revolutionized […]
COVID-19: Can we get to the finish line?
Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you know that we are in the midst of a global pandemic. COVID-19 has found its way to every country and has affected millions of people worldwide. This mass spread of the virus can be attributed to a number of factors, but let’s focus on the R0 of […]
August Dvorak: What could have been…
This article from BBC News explores the origin of the QWERTY keyboard and why it became the standard keyboard layout in America. The QWERTY keyboard layout was conceived in the United States after the Civil War with the rise of typewriters. Initially, typewriters were produced by a variety of manufacturers, each using a different keyboard […]
The Integrity of Herd Immunity in the COVID Era
Sources: https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/11/more-people-are-getting-covid-19-twice-suggesting-immunity-wanes-quickly-some https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-02948-4 https://intermountainhealthcare.org/blogs/topics/covid-19/2020/11/debunking-the-myth-of-non-vaccine-herd-immunity-in-covid-19/ Recently, we learned about two models for epidemics: the branching model and the SIR model. The branching model is an extremely simple representation, in which every node meets k other people and passes on the disease with p probability. The SIR model is a more nuanced for two reasons: one, it takes into account the […]
The Return of Film Photography
Along with the advancement in technology, the photography industry has moved into digital with many developments of faster focusing, best 4K video, and bigger sensors. As a result, the film industry was diminished that its production stopped in 2011. However, the popularity of film photography has suddenly risen in the past few years that it […]
Game Theory in Voting
Ever since I was young, I was told that voting is every persons right and that nothing can take it away. That it is something that can’t be taken away and to use your vote the best way that you feel it needs to be used. I was also told that a viable vote is […]
COVID-19 Vaccines and Diffusion
https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasroulet/2020/12/09/how-to-convince-people-to-take-the-covid-vaccine-a-lesson-in-leadership-communication/?sh=1d1fdcca7a93 In the article titled “How To Convince People To Take The Covid Vaccine? A Lesson In Leadership Communication,” Thomas Roulet conveys the challenge that lies ahead of marketing the Covid’19 vaccine. Roulet opens the article by mentioning countries like the “UK have already started the Covid vaccination campaign” and that “others, such as […]
Asymmetric Information Equilibrium In Options Markets
Options are financial derivatives based on the value of an underlying asset. A call option gives the holder the right, but not obligation, to buy a particular quantity of the asset at a particular price (known as the ‘strike price’) on or before the expiration date. A put option gives the holder the right, but […]
Examining the Diffusion of Different Malware Types
While the internet has grown tremendously in both its scope and capability throughout the past few decades, a harmful and threatening aspect of this innovation has also grown alongside it: malware. Malware is the catch-all term that encompasses a wide variety of different exploitation methods which are often used to disrupt, steal, or profit from […]
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