Correlated Equilibrium
I googled John Nash after the last lecture on equilibria and found out he lived very close to where I grew up, which piqued my interest. So then I googled some more and found this article, which I found fascinating. https://www.quantamagazine.org/in-game-theory-no-clear-path-to-equilibrium-20170718/ First, the article lays out the main problem with the practical application of game […]
The Pandemic Is a Prisoner’s Dilemma Game
Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/20/health/virus-vaccine-game-theory.html COVID-19 proved difficult for many reasons. Besides the obvious annoyances of quarantining, social distancing, masks, and zoom meetings for everything, there was also the dilemma of choice that plagued the masses during this pandemic. For many countries, especially the United States, social distancing and mask-wearing were not very heavily emphasized or mandated. In […]
Dominant Strategy in Olympic Artistic Gymnastics Scores
This past summer, many people tuned in to watch the Tokyo Olympic games. One of the most popular sports people tune into is Women’s Artistic Gymnastics. In the sport of gymnastics, gymnasts compose routines that maximize both their difficulty and execution scores in hopes to score higher than their competitors. Difficulty scores have no cap […]
The pandemic has weakened strong ties in the workplace.
In the New York Times article, “If You Never Met Your Co-Workers in Person, Did You Even Work There?”, authors Kellen Browning and Erin Griffith interview and report how the ongoing 17-month long pandemic has had an effect on the workplace and employee’s social life. Many employees who have started working remotely at their companies […]
Facebook & Triadic Closure After Purchasing Instagram & WhatsApp
https://interactivecares-courses.com/facebook-success-pschyology-triadic/ It is well known that Facebook has benefited from the concept of triadic closure over the years. Triadic closure basically states that when a given person has ties to two other people, it is likely that those two people will end up connecting as well. Facebook has used their knowledge of this concept to […]
Graphs in Engineering Curriculum
Engineering curriculum can be very confusing, and advising offices often work to make the requirements easier for students to understand. One method that is employed here at Cornell Engineering is a major flowchart. A major flowchart is a perfect example of a graph in a real world situation, that works to make the user’s life […]
Using algorithms to stop spam on Facebook
Condliffe, Jamie. “Stopping Fake Accounts Is a Cat-and-Mouse Game. Can Facebook Win with AI?” Protocol, 4 Mar. 2020, www.protocol.com/facebook-machine-learning-fake-accounts. Facebook devised a new machine learning system called Deep Entity Classification to detect fake accounts on their platform. One of the ways it determines whether or not an account is genuine includes studying over 20,000 features […]