Game Theory and the Health Care Debate
With the health care debate raging in the House and Senate, some Swampland blog posters at Time.com have linked these tough decisions to the classic game theory problem called the Prisoner’s Dilemma. It’s an interesting read about how complex problems can be boiled to a mathematical understanding…
You can read the thread at the Time.com website here, here and here…
The Math of the Oscar Voting
I ran across these blog posts about how the Motion Picture Academy did their voting for the Oscars, and I thought they were interesting enough to forward along. (By the way, thanks to Nikki Love for bringing these to my attention…)
Unlike most American elections we’re used to, the Oscars used an “instant runoff” procedure to get to the winners this [...]
6 Days Until Pi Day!
Let the geekiness ensue! March 14 is known in technogeek circles as Pi Day. And yes (I know what you’re thinking – where can I learn MORE about Pi Day?!), there is a whole website dedicated to Pi Day – from piday.org:
Pi, Greek letter (), is the symbol for the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter. Pi [...]




