2023’s apricity glow.

The talk was on fireeeee. I actually like this work despite being a little bit biased towards the general fair division literature.

buckle up for deep revelation

Diving deeper.

The paper by Alexander Frankel and Emir Kamenica, featured in the American Economic Review in 2019, is exceptionally remarkable. Their work, titled Quantifying Information and Uncertainty, delves into the intricate dynamics of information and belief systems. Reference: Quantifying Information and Uncertainty (2019) by Alexander Frankel and Emir Kamenica. Published in the American Economic Review, Volume 109, Issue 10, pages 3650–3680. DOI: 10.1257/aer.20181897. Suppose we observe some pieces of news. How might we quantify the amount of information contained in it? Another related question, how might we quantify the uncertainty of a belief? One desideratum might be that the measure of information/uncertainty should correspond to the instrumental value/loss associated with some decision problem. ...

teaser of the result

pushing back a little on this point of view on game theory and market design

the 1/3 + 1/3 + 1/3 principle

Don’t read the last page

WINE day 3. Interesting talks continued. This conference is amazing that nice people with amazing works are literally everywhere. And I’m glad to be among them as one of the motivated passionate newbies. At lunch, I found a gentleman and me stuck before the coffee machine, trying to find a paper cup so as to sneak some extra coffee from the canteen. Me, as a shameless young people free to act indecent, just stretched and grabbed some paper cups from the back of the coffee counter and shared it with the gentleman - we happily got coffee and was ready to leave. It was not until leaving that I casually asked his name and found out that he’s JASON HARTLINE. ...