http://www.mixx.com Mixx of items from the Game Theory collection en-us <img src="http://images.mixx.com/photo_thumbnails/ef6ce74e512552390b2aad2a85e28c7639b442fc_128.jpg", alt = ""/><br/>photo of BlackBerry Bold Smartphone Sat May 17 21:02:33 UTC 2008 http://www.mixx.com/photos/301988/blackberry_bold_smartphone thingy_301988 anuj.usc http://nachofoto.com/photo-of-BlackBerry-Bold-Smar-459d98f0d5e7 <img src="http://www.mixx.com/images/icons/default_video.128x96.jpg", alt = ""/><br/>Beautiful Water Drops!! Tue May 06 23:56:00 UTC 2008 http://www.mixx.com/videos/267098/fabulous_water_drops_photography thingy_267098 anuj.usc http://cool-slideshows.blogspot.com/2008/03/fabulous-water-drops-photography.html In game theory, the Nash equilibrium (named after John Forbes Nash, who proposed it) is a solution concept of a game involving two or more players, in which no player has anything to gain by changing only his or her own strategy unilaterally. If each play Fri Feb 15 13:59:47 UTC 2008 http://www.mixx.com/stories/104539/game_theory_the_nash_equilibrium_wikipedia thingy_104539 sarazen http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nash_equilibrium Co-operation or betrayal? It's not as clear-cut as you think - SIXTY years ago, at the dawn of the Cold War, scientists, engineers and mathematicians at the now infamous Rand Corporation started to cook up game theories to predict human behaviour. A mathe Mon Feb 11 03:25:03 UTC 2008 http://www.mixx.com/stories/97979/co_operation_or_betrayal_it_s_not_as_clear_cut_as_you_think thingy_97979 sarazen http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/politics/Cooperation-or-betrayal-It39s-not.3746882.jp TED Talks What if human consciousness isn't the end-all and be-all of Darwinism? What if we are all just pawns in corn's clever strategy game, the ultimate prize of which is world domination? Author Michael Pollan asks us to see things from a plant's-eye Thu Feb 07 19:01:49 UTC 2008 http://www.mixx.com/stories/94019/ted_are_we_the_pawns_of_the_corn_plant thingy_94019 sarazen http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/214?corn <img src="http://www.mixx.com/images/icons/default_video.128x96.jpg", alt = ""/><br/>TED Talks In a world of too many options and too little time, our obvious choice is to ignore the ordinary stuff. Marketing guru Seth Godin spells out why, when it comes getting our attention, bad or bizarre ideas are more successful than boring ones. And Sun Feb 03 11:42:09 UTC 2008 http://www.mixx.com/videos/87817/ted_seth_godin_ideas_that_spread_win thingy_87817 sarazen http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/28 Much like the drivers in this experiment, the down vote option provides the power to spoil the success of others. Tue Jan 29 14:05:48 UTC 2008 http://www.mixx.com/stories/80963/cooperation_is_hard_how_the_down_vote_option_can_hurt thingy_80963 sarazen http://www.spring.org.uk/2007/10/how-to-avoid-bad-bargain-dont-threaten.php What economists call game theory psychologists call the theory of social situations, which is an accurate description of what game theory is about. Although game theory is relevant to parlor games such as poker or bridge, most research in game theory focu Mon Jan 28 19:15:33 UTC 2008 http://www.mixx.com/stories/80017/what_is_game_theory thingy_80017 sarazen http://www.dklevine.com/general/whatis.htm Above all, the idea that we are mainly driven by rational choice, whether we are aware of it or not, is an alluring one. Harford makes clear he is not talking about the rational economic man of the textbooks, the cold calculating machine driven only by fi Sun Jan 27 14:46:28 UTC 2008 http://www.mixx.com/stories/78534/criminals_rats_and_teens_all_surprisingly_rational_times_online thingy_78534 sarazen http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/books/article3255936.ece