Censorship or Controlling the Narrative?
Over the duration of this class we have talked a great deal about social media networks and how they utilize networks of individuals to improve their platform. On September 17th Retuers released an article titled “Facebook targets harmful real networks, using playbooks against fakes’ ‘. Through Facebook has seen great success through the use of […]
Golden Balls Prisoner’s Dilemma
(236) golden balls. the weirdest split or steal ever! – YouTube In this British game show two contestants are sat down face to face with two golden balls in front of them. There is a pool of money and the contestants have two choice. They can either play the split or steal ball. If one […]
Networks & Sudoku
As I’ve been learning the concepts covered in Networks, I’ve been noticing a significant amount in common with the strategies used in sudoku, making me realize that the game of sudoku is largely just a game of networks. Specifically, matching markets relate closely to the behavior of how sudoku is played. Each tile has a […]
Game Theory in the Life Insurance Underwriting Process
The decision making process of whether to accept or reject life insurance proposals utilizes the concept of game theory we learned in class. Suppose player 1, P1, is the insurer, and player 2, P2, is a set of all the policy-holders. We can get a 2*2 payoff matrix of the insurer as illustrated below. […]
The Sorority Match-Making Approach
At Cornell, homecoming weekend is a big opportunity for organizations to introduce themselves in a public, social setting to underclassmen whether it is active members being representatives or even alumni. Looking through the crowd, seeing interactions amongst students made me wonder if there was a way to model the connectedness of students and Greek life […]
Auction Theory In Vaccinations
Article link: https://www.lindau-nobel.org/blog-how-auction-theory-could-help-distribute-vaccines-equitably-across-the-world This past week we started talking about auctions and in looking for an article on modern day auctions I came across this idea of auction theory and covid vaccinations. In the article, Tibi Puiu talks about how auction theory can be used to estimate inventory and distribute limited resources. This would be […]
Game Theory in The Dark Knight
When people think about The Dark Knight, two things come to mind: The Joker and Batman. The Joker, who is the antagonist of the film, terrorizes Gotham city. On the other hand, Batman represents hope for Gotham. Fighting evil never seems challenging for Batman, but he struggles to take down the Joker for almost all of the […]
Covid-19 Vaccination Payoff is a Prisoner’s Dilemma
Article: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/20/health/virus-vaccine-game-theory.html Two researchers, Madhur Anand and Chris Bauch decided to model vaccine rollout using game theory to see in which way releasing vaccines could minimize the spread of Covid-19. By modeling the spread of Covid-19 through game theory, the researchers remarked how this was essentially a more complex version of “Prisoner’s Dilemma,” the first […]
Modeling the Wi-Fi Network in the Statler Auditorium
Three times a week, over six-hundred Cornell students pile into the Statler auditorium and get ready to play a game of their own; getting a good wi-fi connection. For the sake of simplification, we can boil down a player’s role in the Statler Auditorium Wi-Fi network into two nodes: the device and the modem for […]
real estate and game theory
Source: https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/BF00177946.pdf https://www.quora.com/What-can-game-theory-teach-us-about-real-estate-negotiation Over this past week we have discussed so much in class about Nash Equilibrium in Game Theory. Since I will soon transfer to the Hotel School and plan to concentrate on Real Estate, I did a little bit of research to expand my knowledge on the game theoretic approach to bidding prices […]
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