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Violence and Deceit in Squid Game: How Emotions Can Throw Off Predictions Made with Game Theory

Last year, a Korean drama called Squid Game came out and quickly gained immense popularity. It features 456 characters who are so down-on-their-luck that they would rather participate in a contest consisting of deadly versions of several children’s games on the off-chance of getting rich than continue to live in poverty. Of course, game theory […]

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(Post-lockdown) Party Interactions and Graph Theory

It’s always quite a pleasant surprise whenever some random situation ends up tying back into graph theory. One particular scenario I recently read about is a group of 7 friends deciding to have a party due to COVID-19 restrictions being somewhat lifted. They get the idea to see if each one of them can shake […]