Game Theory and Networks in Relation to India-Bangladesh Water Dispute
For several years, there has been a conflict between Bangladesh and India on rights over the 54 rivers shared between the two nations. These rivers are a significant but limited resource to both countries for agriculture, fishery, and navigation. Particularly, in Bangladesh, these rivers prevent saltwater intrusion. There has been ongoing discussion and political debate […]
Prisoner’s Dilemma in the NFL
The final week of the NFL’s 17 game long season could arguably be the most hectic time of the year as different circumstances and outcomes of games could greatly affect the postseason picture. On week 17 of the 2021-2022 NFL season, the Indianapolis Colts and the Jacksonville Jaguars were set to play each other on […]
Structural Imbalance in the Mahabarata
The Mahabarata is an ancient Indian epic poem that discusses the Kurukshetra war, a massive and bloody conflict between the Pandavas and Kauravas over the throne of Hastinapura. The Pandavas were a group of 5 brothers with superhuman capabilities, and the Kauravas are a group of 100 brothers who are framed as the antagonists in […]
Negotiating with Street Vendors: An Anecdotal Case Study
This past summer, I went to Guadalajara, Mexico to visit my family. Apart from staying at my grandmother’s house and playing with my young cousins, one of my favorite things to do in Guadalajara is visit the “Mercado de Abastos” or the “Market of Supplies”, the big street market in the city. A major part […]
Gale-Shapley algorithm
https://www.nature.com/articles/nature.2012.11607 I’ve chosen article at Nature about Gale-Shapley algorithm which is used for designing markets for money free transactions. In the core one person is asked to choose most appealing money-free transaction, and if they’re rejected their next best choice, repeating iterations of this process until everyone finds accepted transaction. One example that article provides […]
Game Theory Application to Nine Men’s Morris
In 2012, a study was done by Martin Boyd and Christopher Hirunthanakorn on the game of Nine Men’s Morris – a board game played between two players – in order to find an optimal strategy that could ideally guarantee a win or a draw. The Nine Men’s Morris game involves a board with twenty-four spaces […]
Game Theory in Animal Behavior
The interaction between animals and between species has recently been shown to be highly complex. Animals assess the behavior of those around them before deciding their own plan of action. This is demonstrated by male stickleback fish during mating season, where their underbellies turn bright red to attract females. These males attack anything red that […]
Understanding the Nuclear Arms Race — and Nuclear Nonuse — for the Past 77 Years
In the scope of international relations, the nuclear bomb has remained the most powerful weapon to ever exist in human history—yet it has only ever been used twice, during the 1945 bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Since then, world powers have only continued to manufacture nuclear weapons, with nine countries possessing roughly 12,700 warheads as […]
Priority Gas Auctions on Ethereum and Flashbots
One of the most interesting implementations of auctions in the real world is within the Ethereum blockchain. Mind that these observations hold only to the proof of work implementation, and the proof of stake implementation offers a slight change in mechanics which I have yet to familiarize myself with. Very similarly to the reading given […]
Your Choices Decide Your Fate – Fire Emblem and Structural Balance
Fire Emblem is a fantasy tactical role-playing game series published by Nintendo. Many of its characters (and I mean many) are featured in the well-known game Super Smash Bros Ultimate. One of these characters is Corrin, the protagonist from the game Fire Emblem Fates for the Nintendo 3DS. In the universe of Fates, there are two […]
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