Structurally Balanced Networks and the Possible Behavioral Predictions Able to Be Made
Blog 1: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S000334721300153X?casa_token=rBX_faVeH9cAAAAA:I_YTnNCa2W1Cg7JFcUJM2IlgWL-WEZ1YzZh5sE6-Fh_d5o7LTO_UptoeH5Vab8KNT5EBGsN9dtc As I am currently enrolled in the interspecies communication course at Cornell, the concept of relationships and developing a balanced structured community has risen in numerous accounts, pertaining to non-human primates and mammals including wild chimpanzees, their sister species, the bonobos, along with the rock hyrax (Procavia capensis). Although it is commonly […]
Understanding Traffic: The Paradoxical Relationship Between More Roads and an Already Congested System
Imagine any major city in the United States; What comes to mind first? Traffic? A gridlock of cars? What do other countries do better to avoid this problem? And how does this relate to networks? In many American cities, cars are the main method of travel–and they’re not going anywhere. To try and make traffic […]
Passing Networks in Soccer
https://theathletic.com/3346644/2022/06/07/premier-league-pass-networks/ The Athletic released an article outlining the passing network of each premier league team last season. The Premier League is England’s top soccer league and one of the most popular around the world. The Athletic compiled every team’s passing statistics and created an average pass network across all games in the team’s most common […]
Strong Ties vs Weak Ties
Reference: https://phys.org/news/2022-09-ideas-strangers-people.html The article applies the differences between our relationship to the strong and weak ties in the creative process. It points out that in the idea generation phase, which is the beginning of a creative process, weak ties tend to be more useful. The disadvantage of strong ties at this stage is that […]
Strong and Weak Ties Within Information Sharing of COVID-19
COVID-19 has impacted the world over the last few years. Its reach and influence can be seen in many aspects of society: economic, cultural, infrastructural, and social. Regarding the social aspect, it is expected that different social groups, distinguished between weak or strong bonds (ties) should share information differently, adapting to the closeness to the […]
Equilibria for Generative Adversarial Networks
http://proceedings.mlr.press/v119/farnia20a/farnia20a.pdf Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) are a common approach to AI image generation. A GAN consists of two neural network models (large functions whose behavior is determined by optimizable parameters) trained by playing a minimax (zero-sum) game. One of these models is the generator, which transforms random noise into an image according to its parameters. […]
Structural Balance Theory in the Context of Animal Behavior (Marmots)
Structural balance theory is especially useful in predicting changes and analyzing patterns in individual human relationships within a broader social network. It plays on the human tendency to gravitate towards balanced relationships, where people who are friends tend to have mutual enemies or mutual friends. However, two enemies are less likely to share a mutual […]
Game Theory in Job Interviews and Recency Bias
Preparing for a job interview is a daunting process. Between the preparation you need to do for the hiring manager’s potential questions, getting your resume and other documents together, and managing the stress of it all, adding another factor to this process may seem like yet another source of pressure. However, if given the option […]
Using DAGs to Understand Relational Data in MLB Salary Decision Making
https://math.montana.edu/grad_students/writing-projects/2012/12thornton.pdf In his paper, Causal Inference and Major League Baseball, Jamie Thornton explained how directional acyclic graphs, DAGs, can be used to model the relationships between different variables related to major league baseball team’s player salary decisions and revenue. While players are focused on playing well, teams are businesses that must be profitable to survive. […]
How do you value a building with a Banksy on it? With auctions!
When Tarina Tarantino and Alfonso Campos were forced to sell their office building in downtown Los Angeles, they were faced with a problem not many people face: How do you value a building with an infamous artwork painted on its side? The artwork in question being the Girl on a Swing, made by the artist […]
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