Game Theory and Ukraine War with China’s Global Relationship
Source: https://www.wsj.com/articles/chinas-xi-jinping-and-russias-vladimir-putin-to-showcase-growing-ties-11663243097 At the beginning of 2022, Russia invaded Ukraine, while China is long considered the strongest partner with Russia for regional conflicts. At the start of the war, the two leaders of China and Russia declared that the Relationship between the two countries had “no limits.” Simultaneously, Russia benefited from trading more oil with China […]
Using Game Theory to Analyze Doctors’ Decision on Antibiotics
Link: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-021-21088-5 There are many occasions in medicine where a doctor must make life or death decisions for their patients. For example, the doctor must decide whether to give a patient a particular test, or what a patient’s symptoms mean, or if the patient should receive a particular medicine. There are often significant ramifications for […]
Structural Balance in New Girl: The Case for Random Roommates
First airing in 2011, Fox’s New Girl took the nation by storm, introducing four loveable characters –– Nick Miller, Winston Bishop, Schmidt, and Jessica Day –– to an initial audience of 10.8 million people who would soon become part of a growing and loyal fanbase. Today, the show is still gaining in popularity; it has […]
Free Jazz Improvisation and Game Theory
Could game theory help us produce music in an improvisational setting? How about helping us think about free improvisational music? Iannis Xenakis proposes a game that falls more into the former category: Duel is a piece for two orchestras with 2 conductors where each conductor has a set of musical strategies. There is a […]
The Prisoner’s Dilemma and the COVID-19 Pandemic
This article takes a really interesting approach to analyzing the decisions of our society throughout the pandemic. Using a utilitarian scope, it examines how our behaviors are modeled by the prisoner’s dilemma game. While everyone should be trying to do the best they can to produce the greatest good for the majority of people, people […]
Structural Balance in Love Triangles
A Love Triangle, also known as an Eternal Triangle, describes a type of romantic relationship that commonly involves three people. Basically, two people compete for the affection of the third person. This scenario is frequently introduced in media and entertainment products. For example, fans of Twilight certainly remember the Love Triangle that involves the three […]
Unstable Networks in the Newly Formed Digital Advertising Triopoly
Apple’s App Tracking Transparency embedded in its recent IOS update, has shifted the dynamic in the advertising industry in favor of Apple as Apple users now have their default third party tracking consent set to “opt out” instead of “opt in”. With this, only Apple is privy their users’ data while Facebook and Google lose […]
Game Theory in Sports:
As an athlete, I have always wondered how game theory can be used to explain athletes’ match strategies. I always wanted to plot the outcomes of two-player games on a pay-off matrix, and try and find a Nash Equilibrium. In this post, I will analyze badminton games through the application of academic authors’ Kovash & […]
TikTok vs. BeReal: Contrasts in the Context of Graph Theory
Social media is an integral part of the society we live in. Competition between various social media platforms continues to intensify as TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, and more recently BeReal, rise to popularity with innovative ways of creating content and sharing media. A recent article by TechCrunch titled “Facebook is losing its grip as a ‘Top […]
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