Today’s talk’s topic is an idea so important in game theory, and with so many applications in different fields including computer science, that it earned its discoverer, together with Reinhard Selten and John Harsanyi, the 1994 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences.
To introduce this idea, together with other basic game-theoretic notions, we resort to some examples. Here goes the first one: Continue reading
At the end of March I gave a talk about how to obtain a wide range of Bernoulli distributions with as few parameters as possible. This originates from the needs of simulations of complex systems with cellular automata machine. The solution I described comes from Mark Smith’s doctoral thesis, performed under the supervision of Tommaso Toffoli.
I wrote a post on this on my blog on cellular automata.
Link: http://anotherblogonca.wordpress.com/2014/05/15/random-settings-in-cellular-automata-machines/
Theory Lunch 