The Role of Game Theory in Understanding the Spread of Cancer Cells
Source: https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsif.2022.0346 Essentially, game theory is the study of how and why decisions are made, often influenced by predictions of an opponent’s future actions. Game theory affords strategic-decision making in a myriad of settings, including predicting potential outcomes in politics, business models, and even cancer biology. Helena Coggan and Karen M. Page’s paper discusses the […]
Impact of Virtual Networks on Real-life Networks
https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/social-media-destroying-human-communication-by-daron-acemoglu-2022-09 In the article “The End of Real Social Networks”, Daron Acemoglu discusses how social media has impacted our online and real-world networks and how it easily allows the spread of falsehoods and extremist ideas. Acemoglu introduces the idea of echo chambers on social media platforms like Facebook. These echo chambers and limit our online […]
Climate Change in the context of Game Theory
One of the biggest present-day threats to human livelihood is climate change and the rise of average global temperatures. The consequences of CO2 emissions as a driver for climate change have become readily apparent in modern times with multiple historic fires across individual equatorial regions of the world, and historic flooding in South and East […]
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