Positive and Negative Network Effects in Crypto
Cryptocurrencies are systems of fungible tokens that exist on a blockchain. They use bulletproof encryption algorithms, and the nature of blockchains makes them impossible to forge or replicate. Each transaction is logged in a public ledger, making each user’s balance public, and making the entire system verifiable by a host of third parties. No one […]
The Green Eyed Logic Puzzle
Common knowledge has always been an intuition that people rarely delve deeper into. It is almost a mutual consensus that nobody talks about; an assumption that some knowledge should be understood by everyone. This is formed by the telling of information to everyone in this group at some time when they were growing up, cultivated […]
Limits of the Spotify Recommendation Algorithm
https://news.yahoo.com/algorithms-were-supposed-future-finding-130100502.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAN4nRL-EccBmBW2PXuUqxgt-m6anlSD7uM7FhFupKQHhQbAs1pOlyA_NdLBN0W8sC_lPW1HqOs0MOeII8liLgHwd6Mge9K8L9L34HxWDhizc248q4C-IKYk5kl5qI0zWurSsgdXcEIa9qousBur44m53pGsL-M_jmiQJuKNiKTwI In the Insider article, writer Drew Austin discusses the ways in which recommendation algorithms for streaming platforms, particularly Spotify, have failed to reach perfection despite high expectations a decade ago. In essence, these algorithms attempt to understand users’ preferences by analyzing their streaming history and recommending content of a similar nature (similar genre, artist, […]
COVID-19’s Effect on Moviegoing
Since the pandemic started over a year and a half ago, movie theaters have continuously suffered due to the risk of indoor public activities. The moviegoing frequencies of millennials, which were the group that went to the cinema most often pre-COVID-19, have decreased significantly with the percentage that goes monthly dipping to 17% from 27%. […]
Network Effects in Kitchen Nightmares
Kitchen Nightmares is an American TV show where chef Gordan Ramsey spends a week at failing restaurants and attempts to save the business. Kitchen Nightmares, which ran from 2007-2014 and spanned 7 seasons, featured a plethora of restaurants that were plagued with similar issues: the use of frozen or expired food, (un)sanitary conditions, and an […]
Why Progress on Climate Change is So Slow
Climate change is a serious problem in the world today. Unlike other problems, it’s cumulative, and the longer it persists, the more difficult it is to solve. Despite many of the organizations taking action to fight against it and governments establishing possible plans, the problems continue to pile up. Why is the fight against climate […]
Adopting the AZERTY layout for French
Source: https://spectrum.ieee.org/merveilleux-new-algorithmpowered-azerty-keyboard-standard-makes-it-easier-to-type-in-french The QWERTY keyboard is the most well-known and widely used format of keyboard layout not only in English, but other languages with similar alphabet systems such as German and Spanish. While being the most used keyboard layout, there have been several doubts as to whether the QWERTY keyboard was the most efficient one […]
Understanding the Network Effect on Pixel Phones
The Google Pixel hasn’t had the smoothest sales over the course of years. Despite the successes that were seen in the Pixel and the Pixel 2, in 2019, it was revealed that the newly launched Pixel 3/3XL at that time could no longer keep up with its predecessors, with sales considerably lower than the sales […]
Rich-get-richer effect explains the relationship between extrovert and facebook usage
source: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/232549193_The_Relationship_Between_Unwillingness-to-Communicate_and_Students’_Facebook_Use DOI:10.1027/1864-1105.20.2.67 This paper titled “The Relationship Between Unwillingness-to-Communicate and Students’ Facebook Use” by Pavica Sheldon examines the relationship between students’ willingness to communicate and their social media usage. They examined relationships between different interpersonal communications and the different motives of Facebook usage. Particularly, they investigated the behavioral and attitudinal results of Facebook usage, […]
A Dynamic Version of the Hawk-Dove Game in Nature
https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/BF02071588.pdf We discussed in class how the hawk-dove game consists of two players which can either play a cooperative (dove) strategy or aggressive (hawk) strategy – if both play dove, they each get a small payoff; if one plays dove and one plays hawk, the aggressive player gets a payoff much greater than the cooperative […]
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