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Going through our daily lives, we often find that we've fallen into routine and are essentially living life on "auto-pilot".
"It is one of the happy incidents of the federal system that a single courageous state may, if its citizens choose, serve as a laboratory; and try novel social and economic experiments without risk to the rest of the country."
Game Theory, Prisoner's Dilemma, Nash Equilibrium, Stag Hunts, and Sherlock Holmes…and Counter-Terrorism? 2/2So, you've read my previous post about Game Theory, and you want to know more. No problem, there is plenty more to cover. Application to Counter-Terrorism Policy
Game Theory, Prisoner's Dilemma, Nash Equilibrium, Stag Hunts, and Sherlock Holmes…and Counter-Terrorism? 1/2In my previous post, I talked about Game Theory and my views on how it could be applied to eBay auctions. In this post, I plan to broaden my explanation of the idea and relate it, along with 'brother theories' to Counter-Terrorism policies.
Todd Sandler on Game Theory, Terrorists, and International Relations 1/2While searching around the internet today, I came across a very interesting paper written in 2005 by Todd Sandler called Collective versus unilateral responses to terrorism.
Game Theory and eBayGame Theory can be applied to eBay auctions? I know it might seem strange, but hear me out. I have been buying and selling on eBay since 2003 and something has always bugged me.
Game Theory and The Dark KnightIn the final battle the Joker has rigged two ferries carrying people out of Manhattan to explode. One ferry carries mostly civilians with a substantial National Guard presence. The other ferry contains large numbers of prison inmates and some guards.
When R.E.M. stopped by The Colbert Report a few weeks ago, the host admonished the band for being a little too political in the past. He went on to say, "People want to hear songs about girls!" To which Michael Stipe deadpanned, "I'm not big with the girl songs."
The Doping Dilemma: Game theory helps to explain the pervasive abuse of drugs in cycling, baseball and other sportsFor a competitive cyclist, there is nothing more physically crushing and psychologically demoralizing than getting dropped by your competitors on a climb. With searing lungs and burning legs, your body hunches over the handlebars as you struggle to stay with the leader.
Right & wrong as explored by cognitive psychology, evolutionary biology and game theoryCognitive psychology, evolutionary biology and game theory are offering fresh insights into one of the most perplexing of human capacities: morality.
Crazy Little Thing Called RiskA naïve approach to risk might have been appropriate in an era when economic activity was almost totally agricultural. For most of human history, in fact, the main source of economic risk was the weather. But nobody can do anything about the weather.
Bots May Soon Threaten To Shut Down Online PokerPeople have expressed worry that computerized competition and game-theoretic solutions could psychologically depress player enthusiasm.
Cracking Go: The Coming of The Next Virtual ChampionMany people argued that we had tailored our methods to solve just this one, narrowly defined problem, and that it could never handle the manifold tasks that serve as better touchstones for human intelligence.
Stag Hunting: The obscure game-theory problem that explains why rich countries are richGame theory is the study (by economists, mathematicians, biologists, and others) of situations in which what you do may affect what I choose to do, and what I do may affect what you choose to do.
So You Think You Can Be President?: A Game Show Approach to Fixing American PoliticsOur system for choosing presidents doesn't work very well. Voters are woefully uninformed on the most basic of issues and many end up voting on whim. I don't think restricting the franchise is a good solution, however.
Divorce Software Designed to Handle NegotiationsDivorce is never pleasant, but new software is aimed at making the process a little less harrowing.
In Games, an Insight Into the Rules of EvolutionWhen Martin Nowak was in high school, his parents thought he would be a nice boy and become a doctor. But when he left for the University of Vienna, he abandoned medicine for something called biochemistry.
Almost since the first web-page was displayed upon the first browser over the tiny and fragile networks that would eventually become the Internet, technophiles have been trying to figure out what the World Wide Web really is. In the early 1990s we thought it was a library.
Game Theory: The Traveler's Dilemma Lucy and Pete, returning from a remote Pacific island, find that the airline has damaged the identical antiques that each had purchased. An airline manager says that he is happy to compensate them but is handicapped by being clueless about the value of these strange objects.
Since the Iranian nuclear standoff began in earnest, the diplomatic and media exchanges between the United States and the Islamic Republic have been tinged with the unsettling suspicion that war is all but inevitable.
Study: Abandoning net neutrality discourages improvements in serviceGAINESVILLE, Fla.
There is a certain experience a particular sub-genre of video games alone among all forms of electronic and non-electronic entertainment can supply.
A game theoretic approach to the toilet seat problemHappy New Year, Newsvine. Here is my contribution to world peace and human understanding. I hope it helps.The toilet seat problem has been the subject of much controversey. In this paper we consider a simplified model of the toilet seat problem.
Solved: the perfect way to cut a cake"The problem of fair division is one of the oldest existing problems.
In the 1983 cult classic movie Wargames, an experimental artificial intelligence named Joshua is given total control of the United States' nuclear arsenal.
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