Monthly Archives: August, 2010
Let commuters be commuters
A curious incident happened recently in New York city: when the city stopped running its bus routes X25, X29, X90, and QM22 a private company took its place. Transport Azumah started running private charter buses on these exact routes. The result was that the customers were happy, the city didn’t have to run buses along [...]
Game Theory in Videos
Youtube User JimBobJenkins has some excellent primers on Game Theory available on his Youtube Channel, which include matrices and game trees and address familiar concepts such as The Prisoner’s Dilemma, the Ultimatum Game and Forward Induction. Videos can be found here. Of course, if you want to then see some other Game Theory videos from [...]
Laissez Faire in Languages?
A recent article in the Economist highlights an interesting topic. Is it better to protect one’s language, as France and Germany are doing, or to have more of a laissez-faire attitude, as is done with English? English is more widespread than the other two languages, but that does not necessarily mean causation. After all, it [...]
