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Analyzing COVID-19 as a Contagion Network to Explain Linear growth

Introduction Over the past couple of years, COVID-19 has rampaged its way through the world. In this blog post I wish to analyze COVID-19 as a contagion network, and use that to explain why its growth was linear in 2020. Motivation We discussed epidemics and contagion networks in class on week 11, and COVID-19 has […]

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Game Theory and Overwatch

Introduction Game theory is a relatively new branch of mathematics that deals with strategic competitive situations where results are based on both the main participants and the other participants (competitors) actions. It’s application to multiplayer decision based games, like Overwatch, has been very interesting to many, including me. Multiple overwatch statisticians have taken to the […]