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Friday, 9 January 2009
I have basically no knowledge of Game Theory except a rudimentary intro to the Nash Equilibrium last semester so am after something that starts easily but touches on some of the funkyarse math i'm scared of.
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Mozart
said @ 2:52am GMT on 9th Jan
Just write about watching a few theories of Survivor and call it your dissertation. |
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klingon_fodder
said @ 2:58am GMT on 9th Jan
the universe is a game -- you can't win, you can't break even, you can't quit -- keep that in mind without commiting suicide, and you'll do just fine |
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one_inch
said @ 3:01am GMT on 9th Jan
just fine despite the fact that i'm not winning or breaking even? |
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k0k0peli
said @ 12:29pm GMT on 9th Jan
I guess that only leaves you with suicide. Ta ta. |
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Amul Muzz
said @ 6:16am GMT on 9th Jan
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Context
said @ 3:02am GMT on 9th Jan
If you're looking for books, or articles, on game theory, I'd suggest starting with wikipedia. Not what the users submitted, of course, but take a look at the sources they cite from. It might be a good start, right? |
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one_inch
said @ 3:08am GMT on 9th Jan
I did try to read the wiki entry last year when introduced to the subject but got lost halfway down the page. I didn't have the presence of mind to look at the references, but will now. |
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f00m@nB@r
said @ 3:06am GMT on 9th Jan
[Score:3 WTF]
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sensibleb
said @ 3:40am GMT on 9th Jan
[Score:1 Funny]
Ain't nuthin' like a good fuckwall, I always says. |
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willrogers
said @ 8:18am GMT on 9th Jan
You know someone has tried to fuck that wall. |
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meritosthene
said @ 6:08am GMT on 9th Jan
wtb |
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foobar
said @ 11:20am GMT on 9th Jan
Why are there three of each? Why do none of them have labia majora? |
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f00m@nB@r
said @ 4:26pm GMT on 9th Jan
the internals are different. |
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CthulhuDances
said @ 10:14pm GMT on 9th Jan
Where we're going, we don't need labia majora. |
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Nihil
said @ 3:52pm GMT on 9th Jan
It makes pretty easy to sort pornstars in terms of career length. |
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Barnabas_Truman
said @ 2:45am GMT on 10th Jan
If your professional name includes your current age, your career probably won't last very long. |
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clumsy_juggler
said @ 3:15am GMT on 9th Jan
Not exactly game theory but "Struck by Lightning, the Curious World of Probabilities" by Jeffrey S. Rosenthal might have some info you can use. Either way it is an interesting read. There is a chapter on Poker, Bridge and Casino odds etc. |
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nbob
said @ 3:15am GMT on 9th Jan
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Whenever your lecturer starts an example by saying "let's play a game," they're dirty dirty liars who don't want to sound like they're *completely* out of touch with society and reality and other economists... having said that, http://web.mit.edu/rgibbons/www/Gibbons_An Introduction to Applicable Game Theory.pdf looks like a half decent and free article to get the juices flowing. clicky! |
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one_inch
said @ 3:27am GMT on 9th Jan
Thanks, printed. I'll have a read this weekend. speaking of flowing juices... Clicky |
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j5
said @ 5:09am GMT on 9th Jan
how do they all time that so well? or do you think they're just peeing and making noise. |
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meritosthene
said @ 6:12am GMT on 9th Jan
sounds like my master econ class theory of public choice http://www.amazon.com/Public-Choice-III-Dennis-Mueller/dp/0521894751/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1231484799&sr=1-1 |
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f00m@nB@r
said @ 3:19am GMT on 9th Jan
[Score:3 Informative]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mainstream_films_with_unsimulated_sex |
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Cash
said @ 5:36am GMT on 9th Jan
[Score:2 Underrated]
"Erotic Nights of the Living Dead" I think their definition of "mainstream" differs a bit from mine. |
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mwoody
said @ 5:51am GMT on 9th Jan
+1 for something I never even thought to search for, though I must confess some disappointment at never having seen any of the films on the list. I was hoping for a "oooh holy crap that was REAL!?" moment. |
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lilmookieesquire
said @ 11:15am GMT on 9th Jan
[Score:1 Insightful]
In the Realm of the Senses (Japanese title: Ai no corrida) and The Lover with Jane Marsh http://www.imdb.com/media/rm2333842176/nm0001506 are nice |
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f00m@nB@r
said @ 4:25pm GMT on 9th Jan
except for the surprise ending in In the Realm of the Senses. |
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DarkShadowRavenDragonGrrl69
said @ 12:02pm GMT on 9th Jan
Something's telling me "A Real Young Girl" probably isn't something you should have in your collection when the police comes knocking on your door. |
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mwoody
said @ 3:12pm GMT on 9th Jan
[Score:1 Insightful]
But if I let her out, she might not come back. |
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anger_die
said @ 3:39am GMT on 9th Jan
Awesome. I never even thought rule 34 would ever apply to Spy vs Spy, Walmart, Mnt Dew, and sandwiches. While my faint, flickering hope for humanity was immediately snuffed out upon clicking that link, my faith in the internet has been renewed. Also, not safe for Australians. |
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f00m@nB@r
said @ 3:40am GMT on 9th Jan
[Score:1 Funny]
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googirl0007
said @ 3:24pm GMT on 9th Jan
what the FUCK was that?! |
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Baxter_UK
said @ 5:56pm GMT on 9th Jan
Yes, what the fuck was that? For once I'm inclined to agree with the sentiment of some of the YT comments: "Your mom should have swallowed you shitbags." |
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willrogers
said @ 3:43am GMT on 9th Jan
[Score:1 Interesting]
After you start the class, can you ask all of the other students how many of them are taking the game theory course because they saw "The Dark Knight" and report back to us with the results? |
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one_inch
said @ 8:12am GMT on 9th Jan
just for you :) |
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EPT
said @ 8:20pm GMT on 9th Jan
The robbers don’t like that the Joker gets an equal share for doing unequal work. Their complaint raises the issue of fair division, which is central to game theory. Here's an example of my problem with game theory listed below. It's Why would the bank robbers have a problem with the guy who brought them all together and getting stuff underway getting a cut of the action? It seems that humans are reduced to a stylised stimulus/response for game theory. |
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Nihil
said @ 3:54pm GMT on 9th Jan
Am I the only one who, during the "two ships" scene, though "Damn, if I were the Joker, I'd totally wire each ship's detonator to their own explosive while telling them the opposite! That would be fucking hilarious!". |
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Chop-Logik
said @ 7:53pm GMT on 9th Jan
Yes. The only one. |
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swiggy
said @ 3:46am GMT on 9th Jan
[Score:5 Funny]
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relm
said @ 12:41pm GMT on 10th Jan
Now my question is: How do I link to this? |
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DarkShadowRavenDragonGrrl69
said @ 3:52am GMT on 9th Jan
That picture just destroyed me.  |
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Chop-Logik
said @ 4:03am GMT on 9th Jan
[Score:1 Underrated]
This was distressingly easy to masturbate to. |
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EPT
said @ 1:23am GMT on 10th Jan
This reminded me to check out what Zero Punctuation is up to. |
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fuckb4ll
said @ 5:24am GMT on 9th Jan
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donnie
said @ 11:25am GMT on 9th Jan
w....tf |
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Dalej
said @ 5:50am GMT on 9th Jan
Finnally, some fucking hardcore porn in here. |
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solitude
said @ 6:04am GMT on 9th Jan
[Score:1 Informative]
Mind your decisions is an economy related blog with a weekly Game Theory post. Some contain a lot of interesting information, and there are a couple of good book-references on there. It's really quite light stuff, with enough links to the heavy stuff to keep you interested. Also some books (some of which are suggested on that blog) that may be of use are: A Beautiful Math Game Theory at Work Thinking Strategically The first obviously being John Nash's work, but I can't quite remember the authors of the other two I'm afraid. Maybe I'll look it up when I get back home tonight. |
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Barnabas_Truman
said @ 6:04am GMT on 9th Jan
Have you tried Hoyle's Book of Game Theory? |
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taiga
said @ 6:11am GMT on 9th Jan
http://www.amazon.com/dp/0393924998 is what my class on Game Theory used as a textbook. It's pretty good and starts with the basics. It does assume a healthy command of math, though. |
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EPT
said @ 6:52am GMT on 9th Jan
The bit that's always annoyed me about game theory is that whenever I see people crapping on about it, they always leave out inconvenient bits about how the real world works in order to make their theory follow their logic more easily. It seems more like an academic parlour game than a useful discipline. |
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ComposerNate
said @ 6:55am GMT on 9th Jan
[Score:5 Funny]
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Snowlock
said @ 9:35am GMT on 9th Jan
There is an excellent basic description of game theory in Neil Stephenson's The Cryptinomicon. I took a course and that damn banking hypothetical showed up again and again talking about endgame moves in business. |
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Baxter_UK
said @ 11:20am GMT on 9th Jan
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As a philosopher, I would recommend David Lewis' work on convention: Convention. In terms of evolutionary biology and game theory: Evolution and the Theory of Games -- John Maynard Smith. A couple of textbooks that I've seen in the library: Games and Information -- Eric Rasmusen An Introduction to Game Theory -- Martin J. Osbourne A shorter one: A Primer on Game Theory -- Robert Gibbons. If you're familiar with the Oxford Short Introductions series, which can sometimes be quite good, don't be tempted to read Ken Binmore's volume on 'Game Theory'. He is a very good game theorist, and mathematician, but the pace of this book was all wrong. Seemingly crucial (but subtle) points were omitted, meaning the latter half of the text became increasingly hard to decipher. It is not, in fact, a good introduction. However, Binmore has written other works on game theory and you should surely take a look at some of them: Natural Justice is a game theoretic basis for morality. His two texts on game theory that I gather are aimed at undergraduates: Fun and Games Playing for Real. ... off the top of my head I can't think of any more. Hope that helped. |
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one_inch
said @ 11:33am GMT on 9th Jan
That's awesome, thanks. And thanks to all for their input, i have some ... exciting reading ahead of me :) And is it just me or is the bit in the first video where the amputee inserts the stump of her leg into her partner quite disturbing? And should I stop starting sentences with a conjunction? |
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donnie
said @ 11:55am GMT on 9th Jan
But I've already done it. |
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follywaggle
said @ 2:17pm GMT on 9th Jan
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anger_die
said @ 5:54pm GMT on 9th Jan
Shit. For a second there, I thought you were showing another rule 34. Thank god this child-hood memory remains intact. |
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robotroadkill
said @ 9:45pm GMT on 9th Jan
Challenge accepted... |
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robotroadkill
said @ 9:46pm GMT on 9th Jan
First video: 2:22 WTF? |
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horseinsheep
said @ 9:47pm GMT on 9th Jan
A Course in Game Theory, by Martin J Osborne and Ariel Rubinstein. It starts with the basics (briefly) and extends to purely mathematical formations, and it's a fairly small book - not a lot of fluff. If you skip the math (and note, each chapter starts with sane explanation, and then goes to math & algorithmic analysis) you could get through it in a weekend with a passing familiarity. How bad is it that everyone on the Internet just gobbles up all the bandwidth they can whenever they want? i.e. how much better could it be if there was some sort of bandwidth god, providing optimal routing at all times? |
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zeroraveson
said @ 10:04pm GMT on 9th Jan
Dixits and Skeath's Games of Strategy (http://www.amazon.com/Games-Strategy-Avinash-K-Dixit/dp/0393974219) was the book I used in my undergrad Game Theory course. There is a new edition out, so you could probably find a copy of this older edition cheaply on ebay. The same author wrote a pop-Game Theory textbook which I've seen in Borders/Barnes and Noble: http://www.amazon.com/Art-Strategy-Theorists-Success-Business/dp/0393062430/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1231541807&sr=1-1 |
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stormshine
said @ 10:08pm GMT on 9th Jan
I have been on the email list for this blog for awhile. Great articles that I can only half understand sometimes. http://mindyourdecisions.com/blog/ |
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swiggy
said @ 12:07am GMT on 10th Jan
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swiggy
said @ 12:07am GMT on 10th Jan
whoops, wrong post. |
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Dalillama
said @ 12:35am GMT on 10th Jan
I recommend "The Evolution of Cooperation" by Robert Axelrod. It's mostly an extended meditation on the prisoner's Dilemma. |
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gunthar
said @ 2:00am GMT on 10th Jan
game theory was the only interesting part of intermediate microeconomics part b. that is all i gotstasay |
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robotroadkill
said @ 2:12am GMT on 10th Jan
I laughed at all the other Rule 34's, so when Calvin and Hobbes showed up, I guess I just had to accept it. |
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happiest_sadist
said @ 5:49am GMT on 10th Jan
Old, but IMO still worth a read: Theory of Games and Economic Behavior by John Von Neumann and Oskar Morganstern. It's difficult but worthwhile reading. |
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Janus
said @ 2:36pm GMT on 11th Jan
Might suggest Straffin's Game Theory and Strategy, as this was the text we used in my undergraduate class. Forget what level/audience this book was aimed towards, although I seem to recall it was basically well-written. I will say, though, it was a math class, not a straight econ/pol class. Best suggestion might be to see what textbook will be used for the course in advance and read ahead. |
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one_inch
said @ 6:11am GMT on 10th Jul
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So, despite the fact no one will ever read this again, I just wanted to say thanks to all for the tips, i got 96% in my class so it worked out well. (I think he might have marked a bit easily though considering its a masters level course, but works for me!) I found this book quite helpful early on (until i had to return it to the library) http://www.amazon.com/Strategy-Mathematical-Association-America-Textbooks/dp/0883856379 (Thanks Janus) I also watched some lectures on academic earth http://www.academicearth.org/courses/game-theory (Thanks Baxter_UK) I read a few of the blogs and articles mentioned and i paid attention in class. Don't smoke crack kids. Oh SE, how i love thou. |
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Naruki
said @ 9:24am GMT on 10th Jul
I'm sure some people will see it. Congrats! |
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one_inch
said @ 12:17am GMT on 11th Jul
Thanks :) |
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Barnabas_Truman
said @ 1:14am GMT on 11th Jul
There are those of us who never get around to deleting anything from their watchlists. |
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EPT
said @ 5:11am GMT on 11th Jul
Some of us also sort by most recent comment. |
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As such i turn to the fountain of knowledge that is the glorious SE (sucking up enough am I?) in the hopes someone can point me in the direct of a couple of good text books to get me ahead of the game before class starts in March.