On Trump in Office and What’s Next
November 13, 2024
gerrymandering | from a law-ish perspective
November 12, 2024
Lucas Debargue | the Encore No.2 at Shanghai Oriental Art Center
November 12, 2024
Rachmaninov featured in Enio Morricone’s movie score, The Legend of 1900
November 11, 2024
Git Ignore | Exclude a ‘Results’ Folder from Git Sync and Manage It Manually
November 10, 2024
Grammys 2025 nominations
November 8, 2024
Prologue of a survey and critique on the course ‘Computer Applications for Financial Management’
November 7, 2024
Donald Trump returns to office
November 6, 2024
The encore piece on Nov. 5 2024 | Martha Argerich at Shanghai Oriental Concert Hall
November 5, 2024
Bernstein’s recording of Carnival of the Animals
November 4, 2024
The Story of Classical produced by Apple Music Classical
November 3, 2024
Organizing Simulation Experiment Results with Logging and Structured Storage
November 2, 2024
paper reading note | Chen and He (2011) Paid Placement — Advertising and Search on the Internet
November 1, 2024
paper reading note | digital advertising and market structure — implications for privacy regulation
October 31, 2024
two economists walk into a bar | a little reflection on Susan Athey’s ‘Why Do Companies Need Economists?’
October 30, 2024
Presto with Emmanuel Pahud
October 29, 2024
online algorithm seminar | week 8
October 28, 2024
when to clap during classical concerts | tiny piece of etiquette
October 27, 2024
Sonatina for Flute and Piano | I. Moderato
October 26, 2024
the famous Abbado-Agerich recording, featuring work of Prokofiev and Ravel
October 25, 2024
Prokofiev Plays his Prelude Op.12 No.7 ‘Harp’
October 24, 2024
a snippet of Don Quixote Act II pas de deux of Mariinsky Ballet at Shanghai
October 23, 2024
La Bayadère
October 22, 2024
two interesting Mendelssohn paraphrases
October 21, 2024
consumer self-selection bias in online reviews
October 20, 2024
the procrastinator, the poltergeist and the saboteur
October 19, 2024
Google search is essentially Yellowbook Pro Max
October 18, 2024
how to customize font on my website?
October 17, 2024
mechanism design seminar notes | week 5
October 16, 2024
mechanism design seminar notes | week 4
October 15, 2024
the Buy Box Bubble — some thinkings
October 14, 2024
the Buy Box Bubble — what does the complaint reveal about the Buy Box
October 13, 2024
the Buy Box Bubble — Lawsuits!
October 12, 2024
pending subjects…📋
October 11, 2024
mechanism design seminar notes | week 3
October 10, 2024
Nobel Prize in Chemistry, or Computer Science?🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️
October 9, 2024
Nobel Prize in Physics, or Computer Science?
October 8, 2024
comment | full eternal sunshine live videos performance
October 7, 2024
Don Quixote Act III - the Fan Variation
October 6, 2024
the underrated role of Musicality in ballet
October 5, 2024
an Arabesque | from the Giselle Act I variation
October 4, 2024
how to use loggings in python to debug
October 3, 2024
DOJ vs. Google | the paper box
October 2, 2024
FDU’s retaliation | follow-up on the Pigeon Market of China’s post-graduate admission
October 1, 2024
When September Ends
September 30, 2024
the Pigeon Market | about the somewhat chaotic postgraduate admission process in China
September 29, 2024
DOJ v Google | Paul Milgrom pushes adtech nerds’ carnivals to a next level
September 28, 2024
Spaghetti Football
September 27, 2024
DOJ sued VISA for monopolizing the debit card business
September 26, 2024
Chinese doctors’ bucket of red pennants
September 25, 2024
black as an attitude | why do so many people wear all black?
September 24, 2024
DOJ v. Google | Google’s defense
September 23, 2024
DOJ vs. Google | Waterfall Auction -> Header Bidding -> Open Bidding, All Explained
September 22, 2024
Mozart K.314 Movt. 3 | 2001 Europakonzert Istanbul
September 21, 2024
Erdős number
September 20, 2024
mechanism design seminar notes | week 2
September 19, 2024
DOJ vs. Google | DOJ complaint break down | Part II
September 18, 2024
DOJ vs. Google | DOJ’s complaints, breaking down | Part I
September 16, 2024
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
South of the Border
April 1, 2024
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, 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
get well soon
March 4, 2024
goodnight n go
March 3, 2024
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
when my world shakes
November 3, 2023
best birthday present so far!
November 2, 2023
conversation
November 1, 2023
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
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
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
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
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