Dominant Strategies in Egyptian Ratscrew
Egyptian Ratscrew (ERS) is a card game where you are rewarded mainly for your speed and reflexes, rather than your potential knowledge of other cards in play or in players’ hands. The deck is split among the players equally, and the goal of the game is to end up with the entire deck in your […]
The Impact of Knowledge Graphs on Search Engines.
Source: https://hitchhikers.yext.com/tracks/knowledge-graph/?_ga=2.151513841.918256792.1663606966-971625226.1663209472 The first source above is a learning platform provided by the company Yext. Yext is a tech company that utilizes this knowledge graph and develops complementary products that other companies use to improve their content-driven experience. I used this source to learn about the features and application of knowledge graphs. Image Source: https://ahrefs.com/blog/google-knowledge-graph/ […]
How is digital advertising space priced?
For a long time, I had been wondering many things about the way advertising works on the internet: Who decides which ads are placed on the internet and on different platforms? Who decides the order in which ads are positioned? How much do advertisers pay the publisher? How does the relationship between the positioning of […]
Network Theory in Biology
https://www.nature.com/articles/nrg1272 In class, we’ve talked about network theory in social, economic, and physical contexts, but as a student majoring in biochemistry, I wanted to look into how network theory has impacted how we study biochemistry and biology. The link above is to a paper that shows how our understanding of the cell’s evolution and organization […]
Can Game Theory Exonerate Steroid Users?
New York Yankees fans have been on watch all year as slugger Aaron Judge has smashed his way closer and closer to the franchise record for home runs in a season (61 by Roger Maris). Many fans view this to be the real home run record and would like to expunge the likes of Barry […]
Understanding the Game Theory Behind Ethereum
Ethereum, a cryptocurrency, uses game theory to back up their blockchain and create security for users. The article gives a brief overview of what game theory is and how it works. It also briefly gives an example of the prisoner’s dilemma, a similar example to the ones in class. They discuss what cryptocurrency is and […]
The Centrists’ Prisoner’s Dilemma
In the article Political tribalism and the prisoner’s dilemma, author Richard J. Shinder discusses the idea of a prisoner’s dilemma that exists for centrist voters. A centrist voter is a voter whose political views lie somewhere in the middle of the two party system, the article is strictly concerned with the centrist voter who does […]
Networks in the Body
Source: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnagi.2020.00136/full https://blog.amnacademy.com/2017/06/19/your-guide-to-the-bodys-communication-networks/ As weird as it may be to think about, networks aren’t just in the world around us, they are within us as well. It’s a lot easier to wrap one’s head around viewing the internet as a network, the markets as a network, or even social media as a network. However, we […]
Jordan’s Last Dance Jersey
Being a basketball fan, the NBA and the level of competition that takes place in the sport is near to my heart. However, it doesn’t take a basketball expert to know that a big part of the popularity of basketball can be attributed to one man: Michael Jordan. Jordan grew up in North Carolina and […]
Learning to Infer Causal Graphs from Time-Series Data
A recent paper by Löwe et al describes a novel method that constructs causal graphs from time-series data, which infers causal relationships from observational data. Causal relationships are an important way of studying phenomena, because it gives us information on how to intervene in the world to achieve better outcomes. A researcher studying a simple […]
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