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9 hours ago by Aaron

I'm heading off to California for the week where I will present my paper with Moshe Babaioff and Liad Blumrosen, "Auctions with Online Supply", at the ad-auctions workshop that preceeds EC. If you are going to be around, you should come to my talk! But this is a post on something fun that I was thin ...

Adventures in Computation - aaronsadventures.blogspot.com · 5 references

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1 day ago by elitewarrior

Prisoner’s dilemma is problem in a game theory. It was framed at RAND by Merill Flood and Melvin Dresher in 1950. Albert Tucker formalized the problem by adding the prisoner statements and giving name ‘Prisoner’s Dilemma’. It touches various fields of science : evolution, game theory, cooperation, a ...

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1 day ago by T.B.H. Ames

As I noted in a previous entry, there’s very little even in academic philosophy of sport that defines exactly what the term “sport” means. Perhaps it’s because it’s such a basic question that begs many different arguments and opinions, or maybe it’s just because the definition is some sort of “given ...

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1 day ago by kris_schnee

(I'll avoid politics in this one!) I wanted to talk a bit about the mini-game called the " Prisoner's Dilemma". It's part of game theory, the intersection of math, ethics, psychology and game design. A recent comment here mentioned that the PD shows cooperation to be a good thing, with deviations fr ...

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2 days ago by pioneermindset

THE POWER + IMPACT OF CHOICE STYLES Building effective teams demands total clarity on how potential candidates make choices. Powerful teams align the different decision making styles. Failure to understand this can weaken the venture´s foundation and slow down growth. The three main styles are: gene ...

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2 days ago by ressourcesespo

Source : NEP (New Economics Papers) | RePEc Perfect correlated equilibria in stopping games Date: 2009-06-10 By: Heller, Yuval URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:pra:mprapa:15646&r=gth We prove that every undiscounted multi-player stopping game in discrete time admits an approximate correlated equili ...

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2 days ago by Michael

The only winning move is not to play.

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3 days ago by sankalpshere

With tragic death of Michael Jackson, fans who bought tickets to his upcoming concerts are facing a dilemma. Whether to ask for refund or to keep the ticket as a valuable souvenir. This is an intersting problem. If too many people ask for refund, the ticket would actually become rare, incereasing it ...

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3 days ago by Economic Logician

Doping appears to be pervasive in sports. If one wants to fight it, it opens the question about what the optimal strategy is, where the strategy space is comprised of the test frequency and the penalty. It is quite obvious that test should not be predictable.Dmitry Ryvkin approaches this question us ...

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4 days ago by Will Wilson

I'm not actually all that bothered by the current NFL overtime structure. The numbers bear out that the team that wins the coin toss is more likely to win the game, but that is what you'd expect, after all, and the advantage isn't all that staggering. I'm okay with the status quo. That said, I like ...

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