Real-life Applications of Stable Matching, maybe in FWS (First-Year Writing Seminar) enrollment
In our class discussion on matching markets, we explored the example of matching students and rooms as well as the stable marriage problem which is an example of matchings with preferences. To further my understanding on stable matching and the polynomial-time algorithm given by David Gale and Lloyd Shapley, I found [this website made for […]
Netflix “Squid Game” and Game Theory
Spoiler alert! Don’t read if you want to watch the show. The article also contains spoilers in the last section “The Experience”, so I did not read it as well. The new Korean show “Squid Game” on Netflix is a game where a mysterious host invites people from all over South Korea who are desperate […]
NFT – What is the value?
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/30/business/world-wide-web-nft.html?searchResultPosition=5 In June, an NFT sold for its highest price yet at 5.4 million dollars. A NFT is a non-fungible token, which are unique blockchains used to store video, audio, etc. The NFT sold is a picture of early code, which has been in the public domain prior to the auction; however, this particular NFT […]
Maximizing Your Match Potential on Tinder
Tinder’s Attempt at Perfect Matching Original Article: https://www.swipehelper.com/2021/07/17/tinder-algorithm/ Why does my friend on Tinder see different people on the app, despite being the same age, live in the same area, and have similar settings? At first glance, one may assume that although discrepancies in the number of matches can exist, the friend and I would […]
Google AdSense and First-Price Auction
Google’s success in becoming a dominating force in search engines is also fuelled by a fortune made from advertisement networks and partnerships, known as Google AdSense. The program allows advertisers to bid for specific keywords on the basis of cost-per-click (CPC). Essentially, the advertiser bids for specific keywords, and the auction winner’s pay is equivalent […]
The Strategy of Chess
Chess is a game of sequence. There is a finite number of moves you can make initially, there are responses to those moves from your opponent, and there are responses to those moves and so on. This applies to game theory because for every move there is a best response to your opponent’s. Chess is […]
The Pandemic Waiting Game
“Honestly, I’m going to wait and see how the whole vaccine thing plays out. I’m not really at risk for COVID – I’d rather wait a year before I get jabbed.” When I worked as a teacher’s assistant for elementary school remote learning, I’d often have conversations with my older coworkers, debating whether the vaccine […]
How Animosity Drives International Relations
(https://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/27/opinion/27iht-eddobbins.4735925.html) What do Napoleon, Hitler, and Saddam Hussein have in common? Simple, they were all brought down by a coalition of nations built with the single purpose of defeating a common enemy. Throughout human history, the greatest military conflicts were decided by alliances built on mutual animosity. Famously, Julius employed the strategy of using historic […]
The Game Theory of Survivor
A glance into the show which captured the hearts and minds of couch-ridden Americans in the year 2000 reveals more than meets the eye. To an audience member ignorant of game theory, the show Survivor is merely “unkempt, stink-ladened heroes run[ning] roughshod through the bush with an egg on a spoon for two decades,” as […]
Braess’s Paradox in Soccer
In class, we learned how Braess’s Paradox applies to networks, such as how adding a link between two nodes within a network of traffic, for instance, could counterintuitively increase the expected time traveled for each traveler. This could be attributed to greedy travelers that all go for the best route if there were fewer people, […]
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