The element of luck permeates every aspect of the game of poker. Random stochastic outcomes introduce a large amount of noise that can make it very difficult to distinguish a good...
Since the publication of Robert K. Merton’s theory of cumulative advantage in science (Matthew Effect), several empirical studies have tried to measure its presence at the level...
For several decades organizational researchers have explored the practice of using electronic technology to communicate when team members work physically apart from each other. Ye...
We present a family of adaptive pairwise tournaments that are provably robust against large error fractions when used to determine the largest element in a set. The tournaments use...
Alina Beygelzimer, John Langford, Pradeep Ravikuma...
A Shinro puzzle is a type of deductive reasoning puzzle that originated in Japanese periodicals. To solve the puzzle, one must locate twelve hidden stones on an 8x8 grid using only...