Game theory

Competitive regret

In decision theory, competitive regret is the relative regret compared to an oracle with limited or unlimited power in the process of distribution estimation. (Wikipedia).

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How To Argue With Your Partner

It isn’t realistic to aim never to argue with our partners; far better to learn how to argue fruitfully and well. This has a lot to do with allowing ourselves to be vulnerable. If you like our films, take a look at our shop (we ship worldwide): https://goo.gl/w23EEm Join our mailing list:

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The Uses of Envy

We’re used to thinking of envy in very negative terms. But it’s an emotion we should learn to accept and – in a calculated way – learn from. If you like our films take a look at our shop (we ship worldwide): http://www.theschooloflife.com/shop/all/ Brought to you by http://www.theschoolof

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How To Be Selfish

We are used to thinking very badly of selfishness. But knowing how – at points – to put ourselves first can be the precondition for our later generosity and true helpfulness to others. Being selfish has a role to play in later selflessness. If you like our films, take a look at our shop (

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Why We May Be Angry Rather Than Sad

Behind many of our moods of depression lies something surprising: anger. Anger that hasn’t had the chance to know and express itself frequently curdles into depression – something we should bear in mind when trying to dig ourselves out of our saddest states of mind. If you like our films,

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Losers and Tragic Heroes

Our societies are really good at rewarding success; but much less skilled at dealing with failure. Is there an alternative to being dismissed as a 'loser'? Please subscribe here: http://tinyurl.com/o28mut7 If you like our films take a look at our shop (we ship worldwide): http://www.thesch

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The Explainer: Finding Your Company's Core Competencies

What does your company do better than anyone else? In the short run, a company’s competitiveness derives from the price/performance attributes of current products. But in the long run, competitiveness derives from an ability to build, at lower cost and more speedily than competitors, the

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Resolving Workplace Conflict

In this video, you’ll learn strategies for resolving conflict at work. Visit https://edu.gcfglobal.org/en/jobsuccess/resolving-workplace-conflict/1/ for our text-based lesson. We hope you enjoy!

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Why we should show our hurt rather than argue

Our tendencies, when we’ve been slighted by our partner, is to wound them back immediately. We would have far calmer relationships and kinder ones too, if we could just reveal our hurt – rather than inflict it back. If you like our films, take a look at our shop (we ship worldwide): https:

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OSCON 2013: Paul Fenwick, "Fear, Uncertainty, and Dopamine"

http://www.oscon.com A discussion of community building from a psychological perspective. How to recruit people into your project, external and internal motivations, what people regret, self-fulfilling prophecies, confirmation bias, and more. http://www.oscon.com/oscon2013/public/schedule

From playlist Open Source Convention (OSCON) 2013

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Algorithmic Game Theory: Two Vignettes

(March 11, 2009) Tim Roughgarden talks about algorithmic game theory and illustrates two of the main themes in the field via specific examples: performance guarantees for systems with autonomous users, illustrated by selfish routing in communication networks; and algorithmic mechanism desi

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"Revenue Management & Dynamic Pricing" - Session III - Prof. René Caldentey

This course introduces both the theory and the practice of revenue management and pricing. Fundamentally, revenue management is an applied discipline; its value derives from the business results it achieves. At the same time, it has strong elements of an applied science and the technical e

From playlist Thematic Program on Stochastic Modeling: A Focus on Pricing & Revenue Management​

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Optimization-Friendly Generic Mechanisms Without Money - Mark Braverman

Computer Science/Discrete Mathematics Seminar I Topic: Optimization-Friendly Generic Mechanisms Without Money Speaker: Mark Braverman Affiliation: Princeton University Date: December 12, 2022  Our goal is to develop a generic framework for converting modern gradient-descent based optimiz

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"Data-Driven Optimization in Pricing and Revenue Management" by Arnoud den Boer - Lecture 3

In this course we will study data-driven decision problems: optimization problems for which the relation between decision and outcome is unknown upfront, and thus has to be learned on-the-fly from accumulating data. This type of problems has an intrinsic tension between statistical goals a

From playlist Thematic Program on Stochastic Modeling: A Focus on Pricing & Revenue Management​

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Set Chasing, with an application to online shortest path - Sébastien Bubeck

Computer Science/Discrete Mathematics Seminar I Topic: Set Chasing, with an application to online shortest path Speaker: Sébastien Bubeck Affiliation: Microsoft Research Lab - Redmond Date: April 18, 2022 Since the late 19th century, mathematicians have realized the importance and genera

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Self Compassion

It’s all too easy to be extremely tough on ourselves; we need – at points – to get better at self-compassion. Here is an exercise in how to lessen the voices of self-flagellation. If you like our films, take a look at our shop (we ship worldwide): https://goo.gl/dJJMFS FURTHER READING

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Forged in Fire: TOP 14 CATASTROPHIC WEAPON FAILURES | History

Watch all new episodes of Forged in Fire returning soon, and stay up to date on all of your favorite History Channel shows at https://history.com/schedule. Watch blades break, bend and shatter in this mega-compilation of the biggest forging fails ever featured on Forged in Fire. #ForgedIn

From playlist Forged in Fire: Official Series Playlist | History

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How to Be More Confident : Easy Steps Anyone Can Do

https://memorycourse.brainathlete.com/memorytips Link above has my free memory gift as well as information on joining the Black Belt Memory course. Instagram: Get my free memory tips here https://memorycourse.brainathlete.com/memorytips How do you have more confidence? First of all, it i

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Gilles Stoltz: Robust sequential learning with applications to the forecasting [...]

Abstract: Sometimes, you feel you're spoilt for choice: there are so many good predictors that you could use! Why select and focus on just one? I will review the framework of robust online aggregation (also known as prediction of individual sequences or online aggregation of expert advice)

From playlist Probability and Statistics

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We Are Not Defined By Our Failures But By How We Overcome Them

In this video I talk about how we are not defined by our failures, but by how we overcome them. I feel that some people let failure bring them down, don't, stop, don't do it! Please leave any questions or comments in the comment section below. If you enjoyed this video please consider l

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5f Machine Learning: Non-cooperative Game Theory

A lecture on non-cooperative game theory including a basic introduction up to pure and mixed strategy Nash equilibrium and applications. I was motivated by the recent use of Shapley value from cooperative game theory for machine learning model explainability.

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Decision theory | Kullback–Leibler divergence | Regret (decision theory) | Probability distribution