Strong Ties v.s. Weak Ties in Job Searching
Source : A team of MIT, Harvard and Stanford scientist | EurekAlert! In class we learned about the different strengths of strong and weak ties. Strong ties among people allow people to have greater trust than weak ties. Weak ties among people increase access to information since weak ties connects people from different clusters of […]
Does game theory actually work in cybersecurity?
Traditional game theory uses rational choice theory to determine the most beneficial choice for all players in a game. Traditional game theory would expect rational players to maximize their rewards or payoffs. Using this theory, we can relate the game theory to cybersecurity. Let’s say there are two players, a defender and an attacker, with […]
The Rise of Influencer Collab Houses through Internal Networks
With the rise in the influence of Gen Z, fame is now seemingly more accessible to those hoping to pursue online content creation. From frequent video virality on TikTok to high influencer prevalence on Instagram, social media has become the breeding ground for younger generations to experience fame on the Internet. Out of this fast-paced, […]
A Causal Test of the Strength of Weak Ties
Source: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abl4476 In the research article, the authors explored the “People you May Know” option on LinkedIn to determine if weak ties created this way provide ample job opportunities. With LinkedIn being a professional network for accessible relationships between people and employers, LinkedIn has become a main source for job hunting via one’s connections. These […]
Game-Theoretic Approach to Fair Allocation of Vaccines
In the paper “A game theoretic approach identifies conditions that foster vaccine-rich to vaccine-poor country donation of surplus vaccines” published by Commun Med (Lond), the authors propose a vaccine donation game to combat the issue of unequal allocation of vaccines. Given certain conditions, this model builds upon the coordination efforts that can be made by […]
How does a studio assemble a multi-functional team that maximizes a film’s box office potential?
To a film’s success, it is crucial to identify and build a team of high potential cast and crew members. Thus, when a producer is gathering a development team, they must understand the methods in which different team members contribute to the film’s box office. In the paper, “The Role of Network Embeddedness in Film […]
Social Relevance in Strong and Weak Ties
The Science Daily article, “What makes us share posts on social media?”, describes a University of Pennsylvania study that examined the motivation behind sharing social media posts. Researchers, Danielle Cosme and Emily Falk, discovered people pay more attention to information they perceive is relevant to themselves. When sharing information, human stimulate the brain’s reward center and […]
Network Effects in Scaling Startups
https://a16z.com/book/the-cold-start-problem/ While conducting research on the major players in the venture capital space for the Cornell Blockchain Club l stumbled upon a real world instance of the power of networks. Andrew Chen’s “The Cold Start Problem” explains the power of networks in reinforcing the growth of expanding businesses and, as the title suggests, the hardship […]
A new perspective on principal component analysis: PCA as a Nash equilibrium
Principal component analysis (PCA) is a method used in machine-learning contexts to find a set of vectors (principal components) that explain a significant portion of the variance in a dataset. A common problem that many data scientists face with datasets is that the number of features tends to be very large, and it is hard […]
How Netflix Uses Matching To Pick The Best Thumbnail For You
If you log into a friend’s Netflix account, you will notice that the thumbnails for the movies and tv shows listed on their account differ from yours. Netflix does this intentionally and it’s in an effort to retain its customers’ attention and interest. Netflix estimates that they only have up to 90 seconds to grab […]
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