2024  247

September  16

DOJ vs. Google | DOJ’s complaints

September 16, 2024

autumn definition

September 15, 2024

online algorithm seminar | week 1 & 2

September 14, 2024

mechanism design seminar notes | week 1

September 13, 2024

losing weight w.r.t. A-share return

September 12, 2024

get you 🍿popcorn🍿 ready | the DOJ vs. Google

September 11, 2024

configure SSH keys in terminal

September 10, 2024

Combinatorial Auctions and Single-Minded Bidders

September 9, 2024

Reading Notes | Auto-biddings and Auctions in Online Advertising by Aggarwal et al. (2024)

September 8, 2024

slow productivity and peace of mind for theoretic research

September 7, 2024

Seven ways to practise slow productivity in the lab | from Nature

September 6, 2024

protect thinking time in a world of instant communication

September 6, 2024

key statistics | from the book Subprime Attention Crisis

September 4, 2024

How auctions conquered the internet | the Game Changer podcast with Michael Ostrovsky

September 3, 2024

online advertisement privacy glitch

September 2, 2024

book review | Subprime Attention Crisis (Hwang 2020)

September 1, 2024

August  30

book review by Siddharth Kannan | Subprime Attention Crisis

August 31, 2024

Music Review | Short N’ Sweet

August 30, 2024

counting papers

August 29, 2024

Summary | Paul Milgrom (2019) Auction Market Design Recent Innovations

August 28, 2024

PuLP with Gurobi on the side

August 27, 2024

One Year of Blogging

August 26, 2024

the table act of B for Busy (2021)

August 25, 2024

HTML | basic concept

August 24, 2024

Vintages and Vogue | the blend of ‘B for Busy’ and ‘sideways’

August 23, 2024

Sideways (2024) | no spoiler ver.

August 22, 2024

resize image with HTML code

August 21, 2024

Summary for Drakopoulos et al (20’MS) | Persuading Customers to Buy Early: The Value of Personalized Information Provisioning

August 20, 2024

Horowitz’s recitals

August 19, 2024

A Meeting of Titans – The Day Vladimir Horowitz and Sergei Rachmaninoff Arrived Together at Steinway Hall

August 18, 2024

Zen and Art of Piano | Horowitz

August 17, 2024

Andante Cantabile II

August 16, 2024

blood donation bonus points for scholarship credits

August 15, 2024

the fish and the sea | from the movie SOUL

August 14, 2024

Running Costs: How a Fitness App Accidentally Outsourced Military Base Security

August 13, 2024

Cookie Box | Content for the Cookie series

August 12, 2024

the Cookie series XII | Cookie syncing

August 11, 2024

the Cookie series XI | Google Gossip — the Cookies Confusion and the Antitrust Avalanche

August 9, 2024

the Cookie series X | China’s stance

August 8, 2024

the Cookies series IX | the key when buying ads — targeting

August 7, 2024

the Cookie series VIII | the regulation landscape

August 6, 2024

the Cookie series VII | data brokers

August 5, 2024

the Cookie series | links to supplementary pictures

August 4, 2024

the Cookie series VI | how data is used for ad targeting

August 3, 2024

the Cookie series V | who collect data via Cookies, and how?

August 2, 2024

the Cookie series IV | the rule for Cookies

August 1, 2024

July  26

the Cookie series III | market landscape of ad-tech industry

July 31, 2024

the Cookie series II | Demand Side Platform, specifically

July 30, 2024

the Cookie series I | AdTech Landscape

July 29, 2024

Who bake the cookies, and who eat them? | The roadmap for upcoming Cookies series

July 28, 2024

Paper Summary | Optimizing Product Launches w/ Strategic Consumers

July 27, 2024

Etang dans la brume | Henri Biva (1910)

July 26, 2024

.json file | what is it and how to load them

July 25, 2024

embracing craziness with discipline | my dive into Google Ads

July 24, 2024

The Limits of Price Discrimination

July 23, 2024

The Report on Cookies | Surprising News

July 22, 2024

The Report on Cookies | Industry Trends and Reactions, staring from July 2024

July 21, 2024

The Report on Cookies | The Value of Cookies

July 20, 2024

The Report on Cookies | What are Cookies

July 19, 2024

no tears left to cry

July 18, 2024

tmrw’s treat: there are cookies on the trailer!

July 17, 2024

told you so | Sabrina Carpenter’s Rise to Stardom

July 16, 2024

kidney exchange pitch talk

July 15, 2024

Variation 18 of Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini

July 9, 2024

Sergei Rachmaninov | the beautiful and tortured soul

July 8, 2024

all by…Rachmaninov

July 7, 2024

non-promotable tasks (NPTs)

July 6, 2024

Amphetamine issues

July 5, 2024

Penn Faces and Duck Syndromes

July 4, 2024

the love potion (explicit) | 40-question version

July 3, 2024

the love potion (clean) | 36-question version

July 2, 2024

HISTORY | of the love potion

July 1, 2024

June  30

G. Stigler (1971) The Theory of Ecnomic Regulation

June 30, 2024

Marianela Nunez in Les Rendezvous | a dance of sweet grace and precision

June 29, 2024

Les Rendezvous, the Dream and Rhapsody | Phenomenal Ballet Program

June 28, 2024

game theory, with a little help from machine learning II

June 27, 2024

game theory, with a little help from machine learning I

June 26, 2024

Nina Balcan presents | Online learning in Stackelberg Security Games

June 25, 2024

about presentations | several starting points

June 24, 2024

My May | Frank Sinatra

June 24, 2024

Mozart K.550, Symphony No.40

June 23, 2024

understanding a bit of the Big Five via transfer data

June 21, 2024

antitrusting a country’s biggest E-commerce platform

June 20, 2024

that’s what happens when you start doing well at work…

June 19, 2024

6 hours a day is enough for work

June 18, 2024

bookworm’s buffet II

June 17, 2024

on conversations

June 16, 2024

the ring of Saturn

June 15, 2024

some of my favourite lyrics from ‘ordinary things’ by Ariana Grande

June 14, 2024

mozart stories

June 13, 2024

please please please | Sabrina Carpenter’s new album Short n’ Sweet on the way

June 12, 2024

the beta distribution

June 11, 2024

discounts!

June 10, 2024

the iconoic fermata in ’the boy is mine'

June 9, 2024

the boy is mine | the 3rd single of eternal sunshine

June 8, 2024

Whittle index | an example

June 7, 2024

Whittle index policy in RMAB problem | technicals

June 6, 2024

RMAB and Whittle index | a modern approach to decision-making

June 5, 2024

write-up | algorithmic classification and strategic effort

June 4, 2024

Mostly OM diary | Practicing OR/OM in China

June 3, 2024

Mostly OM diary | Randomization in Product, Fulfillment, and Pricing as a Profit Lever

June 2, 2024

Mostly OM diary | Optimal Conditional Drug Approval

June 1, 2024

May  32

Mostly OM diary | Allocating Divisible Resources on Arms with Unknown and Random Rewards

May 31, 2024

Mostly OM diary | The Limits of Personalization in Assortment Optimization

May 30, 2024

Mostly OM 2024 Workshop at Tsinghua University, Beijing

May 29, 2024

Andante Cantabile

May 28, 2024

the intensified price war between COTTI and luckin

May 27, 2024

Art Songs Interpreted in Chinese, Italian, and German: Changyong Liao says, ‘Foreign Audiences Prefer Hearing Me Sing Chinese Songs’

May 26, 2024

Saturday Night Lieder | at the opera

May 25, 2024

Sunday Night Lieder | back to Schubert

May 24, 2024

TA conduct

May 23, 2024

understanding reinforcement learning through dynamic programming | a model-free approach

May 22, 2024

Itô’s Integral and Itô’s Lemma

May 21, 2024

you are what you eat | reading write-up of ‘How Food Affects the Mind and Body’

May 20, 2024

another Tchaikovsky essential | The Nutcracker Miniature Overture

May 19, 2024

a thousand and one antitrust stories

May 18, 2024

(updates of) about me | Ariana (Haoyue) Tang

May 17, 2024

overtures

May 16, 2024

Shostakovich–the Return of Maxim, Op.45, No. 3, Valse

May 15, 2024

Tchaikovsky Op.66 No.6, Grande valse villageoise (a.k.a. The Garland Waltz)

May 14, 2024

a thousand and one nights of oligopoly, collusion and antitrust | the Cournot model

May 14, 2024

once upon a dream, in Met Gala

May 13, 2024

just in time! | why we’d do everything at the last minute

May 12, 2024

the paradox of modern connectivity

May 11, 2024

antitrust and the monopoly man’s internet | rethinking competition in the digital age

May 10, 2024

navigating the antitrust maze with Adam Smith’s invisible map

May 9, 2024

showing a function is convex

May 8, 2024

nocturnal narratives | the original Chinese version

May 7, 2024

nocturnal narratives

May 6, 2024

tango between shadows and light | Histoire du Tango: II. Café 1930

May 5, 2024

there’s a ZOMBIE on your lawn!

May 4, 2024

who do we blame-for leaking AG’s communicate

May 3, 2024

the deceptive simplicity of Mozart’s sonata facile, K.545

May 2, 2024

Lam Chua’s Weibo Sharp Comments

May 1, 2024

April  22

regulation for algorithmic collusion

April 30, 2024

curse of popularity

April 29, 2024

Economist music story III | mastering her own disaster

April 28, 2024

Economist music story II | the eternal jingle of Mariah’s Christmas

April 27, 2024

Economist music story I | Taylor’s swift descent from artistic peaks

April 26, 2024

beyond selfies and hashtags–Little Red Book on the rise

April 25, 2024

Bandits - background

April 24, 2024

Everything you need to know about Impressionism: how a group of rebel artists ‘freed painting’

April 23, 2024

the critics arrive

April 22, 2024

YaXiang Yuan in town

April 21, 2024

information design in OM

April 20, 2024

mind games - how two psychologists rewrote the rules on human thought

April 19, 2024

blowing in the wind

April 18, 2024

apple futures - ap2405

April 17, 2024

solvers - SAT vs. MIP

April 16, 2024

unbiased vs. consistent estimation

April 15, 2024

the best classical rendition: Kitri enters

April 13, 2024

online learning and multi-armed bandits

April 13, 2024

electrically economic I

April 12, 2024

take five

April 2, 2024

summer

April 1, 2024

South of the Border

April 1, 2024

March  31

penalties and rewards for fair learning in paired kidney exchange programs

March 31, 2024

optimizing kidney exchanges - and beyond

March 30, 2024

cloying your employees – or their parents?

March 29, 2024

small loans for big dreams: how TaiLong Bank winning both the hearts and the markets

March 28, 2024

a scholarship visit to TaiLong bank - discovering their business model in an out

March 27, 2024

eclipsed revelation - crafting eternal sunshine in keystrokes

March 26, 2024

how to have great conversations

March 25, 2024

Giselle

March 24, 2024

Giselle, preface

March 23, 2024

news, BIG news

March 22, 2024

kidney exchange 101

March 21, 2024

prologue | kidney exchange 101

March 20, 2024

the looming crisis in maternity care - a tale of two nations

March 19, 2024

case mix index (CMI) explained

March 18, 2024

Saturn return

March 17, 2024

intro (end of the world)

March 16, 2024

the national performance evaluation on public hospitals

March 15, 2024

the pitfall of CMI index

March 14, 2024

course checker

March 13, 2024

an (intentional?) refund loophole in TaoBao

March 12, 2024

eternal sunshine

March 11, 2024

eternal sunshine

March 10, 2024

Ariana Grande in review: a 10-Day musical odyssey

March 9, 2024

just like magic

March 8, 2024

34+35

March 7, 2024

needy

March 6, 2024

imagine

March 5, 2024

get well soon

March 4, 2024

goodnight n go

March 3, 2024

sweetener

March 2, 2024

Focus!

March 1, 2024

February  29

Tattooed Heart

February 29, 2024

all ‘The Way’ back

February 28, 2024

will or should?

February 27, 2024

12306 (the official railway ticket house) selling plane tickets…?

February 25, 2024

an artist’s attitude | from Ariana Grande’s Billboard cover story

February 25, 2024

Moonlight

February 24, 2024

Freakonomics | Is Google Getting Worse? (Update)

February 23, 2024

in the moment

February 22, 2024

breathin

February 21, 2024

Secret Mathematical Patterns Revealed in Bach’s Music

February 20, 2024

a study of the lowercase aesthetic

February 19, 2024

tags

February 18, 2024

the first amendment | ariana’s blog

February 17, 2024

catch me if you can, starring generative AI

February 16, 2024

bots, bucks and blockbusters

February 15, 2024

bonus for valentine’s day

February 14, 2024

selling information - model and bound

February 13, 2024

the market power of higher education

February 12, 2024

navigating the future of data trading

February 11, 2024

from the Economist | Data is giving rise to a new economy

February 10, 2024

the magnificent, magical, marvelous mrs Maisel

February 9, 2024

the IDGAS energy in Sabrina Carpenter’s ‘Nonsense’

February 8, 2024

art for art’s sake

February 7, 2024

the recent Messi mania in HK

February 6, 2024

competition consequences II

February 5, 2024

competition consequences I

February 4, 2024

data trading - designing the mechanism or the market

February 3, 2024

photos, photographers

February 2, 2024

understanding (a bit of) ML through HD-statistics

February 1, 2024

January  31

stochastic tax and auction

January 31, 2024

a spoonful of sugar

January 30, 2024

toolkit for data analysis🌙

January 29, 2024

a sonatine to share

January 28, 2024

banana bargain🍌

January 27, 2024

stars and struggles

January 26, 2024

elegance in every note🎵: Apple Music Classical out now

January 25, 2024

Dali, Yunan (2024)

January 24, 2024

altitude sickness

January 23, 2024

the rating paradox

January 22, 2024

Apple is almost like a gatekeeper to the pandora box

January 21, 2024

shake ads: innovatively malfunctioning market

January 20, 2024

eternal sunshine🫧

January 19, 2024

shake it off💨💨💨

January 18, 2024

keep opinions muted for the hell of it

January 17, 2024

some random thoughts about foo∫ball

January 16, 2024

way ahead of the supply

January 15, 2024

SHERLOCK - the detector for AI-written code

January 14, 2024

SHERLOCK

January 13, 2024

in case you haven’t noticed

January 12, 2024

obsession resolved

January 11, 2024

‘finally’ over

January 10, 2024

complexity issues bring a fresh TCS talk to begin 2024

January 9, 2024

mines is mine

January 8, 2024

yes, and?

January 7, 2024

obsessively overkilling

January 6, 2024

dynamic persuasion and strategic search

January 5, 2024

a study in suspense and surprise - part II

January 4, 2024

a study in suspense and surprise - part I

January 3, 2024

demo of suspense

January 2, 2024

suspense n surprise

January 1, 2024

2023  128

December  31

ciao 2023. welcome, 2024

December 31, 2023

Accessing Azure

December 30, 2023

attentions

December 29, 2023

Intentions

December 28, 2023

capital boiled dumplings

December 27, 2023

a glimpse into prof. Ge’s lab, and beyond

December 26, 2023

’tis the season

December 25, 2023

how to read a paper

December 24, 2023

the biggest health and medicine stories of 2023

December 23, 2023

playlist unplugged 2023

December 22, 2023

invite and outwit

December 21, 2023

brainiac maniac

December 20, 2023

ArguGPT: identifying human touch in AI authorship

December 19, 2023

Sisyphus reimagined

December 18, 2023

market design coffee

December 17, 2023

my work ethic | pinned post

December 16, 2023

in the moment

December 15, 2023

fair division - on picking sequence for chores

December 14, 2023

measuring information and uncertainty

December 13, 2023

measuring information and uncertainty

December 12, 2023

measuring information and uncertainty

December 11, 2023

how a wine-inspired moment uncorked a market-changing Idea

December 10, 2023

hmmm

December 9, 2023

decoding MS talks - sippig wisdom with prof. He

December 8, 2023

WINE recap and paper reading list

December 7, 2023

looking forward to the Keynote tmrw!

December 6, 2023

interesting pov - on the taxi

December 5, 2023

at the Yacht reception

December 4, 2023

OM in sharing economics

December 3, 2023

ISCOM day1

December 2, 2023

ISCOM

December 1, 2023

November  30

GRWM for a week of discovery

November 30, 2023

unwrapping rationality: the bias and lovings of gifts

November 29, 2023

unwrapping joy - thoughful gift giving beyong monetary measures

November 28, 2023

the other side of hyperbolic discounting

November 27, 2023

unseen melodies

November 26, 2023

C’mon City!

November 25, 2023

the sweet and sour of apples and cranberries

November 24, 2023

my favourite quote (so far)

November 23, 2023

Echoes in Pandora’s Box

November 22, 2023

slide into success - Mastering Visual Aids in Academic Presentations

November 21, 2023

fake review

November 20, 2023

bling-bling blockchains outsmarting counterfeits

November 19, 2023

the bead bracelet boom

November 18, 2023

bookworm’s buffet

November 17, 2023

free cups and economic puzzles: a comedian’s guide to market incentives

November 16, 2023

procrastination 101

November 15, 2023

when the equilibrium price plays hard to get

November 14, 2023

research is like relationships…

November 13, 2023

romancing the elevator

November 12, 2023

meetings: vanity fairs or valuable exchanges

November 11, 2023

ChatGPT unleashed: a quirky adventure with niche GPT wizards

November 10, 2023

Happy birthday, Ariana

November 9, 2023

value maximizer’s auto bidder

November 8, 2023

an interesting question in mechanism design course’s assignment and its solution

November 7, 2023

Prompting Picasso

November 6, 2023

the code that can send email in linux server

November 5, 2023

MONOPOLY

November 4, 2023

when my world shakes

November 3, 2023

best birthday present so far!

November 2, 2023

conversation

November 1, 2023

October  31

recent advance in ADIP

October 31, 2023

PDLP and ADMM on LP"

October 30, 2023

Halloween

October 29, 2023

(try to) succeed at failing

October 28, 2023

yes, prime minister

October 27, 2023

an interesting quote

October 26, 2023

buy now or put in cart? can it be related to consumer search theory

October 25, 2023

the spectrum of failure

October 24, 2023

a lovely night

October 23, 2023

Didi ride hailing platform

October 22, 2023

EconCS lab opening

October 21, 2023

event, talks and free coffee!

October 20, 2023

from copycats to kings - when shits take over

October 19, 2023

MONOPOLY

October 18, 2023

procrastinator

October 17, 2023

decoding Shanghai’s Guangdong restaurants - episode 2

October 16, 2023

Shanghai’s fake-out: tea houses in disguise

October 15, 2023

Mariah Carey’s song Hero

October 14, 2023

poker insights

October 13, 2023

female players in orchestra audition

October 12, 2023

piecing together the Ariana Grande puzzle

October 11, 2023

train timetabling problem

October 10, 2023

the 2023 Econ Nobel, Barbie, and Lisa

October 9, 2023

so what?

October 8, 2023

the black swan

October 7, 2023

with all due respect to those economists - episode 2

October 6, 2023

a bad topic for your family gathering

October 5, 2023

a little more about the werewolf game

October 4, 2023

werewolf game

October 3, 2023

goodnight n go

October 2, 2023

about me | Ariana (Haoyue) Tang

October 1, 2023

September  30

looking forward to the Ballon d’Or 2023

September 30, 2023

conversation

September 29, 2023

BCD model - Analysis

September 28, 2023

BCD model

September 27, 2023

duck syndrome

September 26, 2023

priming effect

September 25, 2023

stuck on a greedy algorithm

September 24, 2023

a little less conversations and a little more: …?

September 23, 2023

assortative mating? hmm

September 22, 2023

break up with your girlfriend, i’m bored

September 21, 2023

on kidney transplant - personal pov

September 20, 2023

does environment/facility matters?

September 19, 2023

a little comment on a podcast about football jersey

September 18, 2023

graduate school admission

September 17, 2023

two talks about information design

September 16, 2023

retail therapy

September 15, 2023

with all due respect to those economists

September 14, 2023

optimizing personalities over a scale

September 13, 2023

network in the medical community

September 12, 2023

just like magic

September 11, 2023

possibilities

September 10, 2023

hacking the system…

September 9, 2023

The Pep Effect

September 8, 2023

embracing the TA journey of a market mechanism design course with dedication

September 7, 2023

(one of) the most impatient crowd in the world

September 6, 2023

dating w.r.t. opportunity cost

September 5, 2023

what do i study?

September 4, 2023

from Guangzhou to Shanghai… once again

September 3, 2023

on data visualization

September 2, 2023

they LOVE the friction

September 1, 2023

August  6

The Confession of a Procrastinator

August 31, 2023

New Music of Ariana Grande: Tattooed Heart (Live from London)

August 30, 2023

Google Ad Gossip

August 29, 2023

the pilot-class program market

August 28, 2023

anecdotal facts about the high school admission in Guangzhou

August 27, 2023

definition - ariana’s blog

August 26, 2023