# game: inject irrationality into a game scenario; when a player will be their own worst enemy

<< in game theory, a game is defined as any type of scenario where there's an interaction between different decision-makers, or players, each of whom has well-defined preferences. >>

<< previous analyses assume the decision-makers always do what is best for them-they are fully rational-which is not always realistic. >>

<< So SFI Professor David Wolpert and economist Justin Grana, a former SFI postdoctoral scholar, wanted to inject some humanity into the players. They analyzed games with players who were subject to error, or "boundedly rational." >>

<< Our analysis shows that in many of these situations, a player will be their own worst enemy; >> David Wolpert.

Jenna Marshall. How much would you pay to change a game before playing it? Santa Fe Institute. Aug13, 2019.    https://m.phys.org/news/2019-08-game.html  

David Wolpert, Justin Grana. How Much Would You Pay to Change a Game before Playing It? Entropy 2019, 21, 686. doi: 10.3390/ e21070686. July 13, 2019.   https://www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/21/7/686  

# gst: early seismic waves could allow to glimpse the power of the main temblor

AA << explore databases of earthquake source time functions and find that they are composed of distinct peaks that (..) call subevents (..) the main event magnitude can be estimated after observing only the first few subevents. >>

Philippe Danre, Jiuxun Yin, et al. Earthquakes Within Earthquakes: Patterns in Rupture Complexity. Geophysical Research Letters. Volume 46, Issue 13. doi: 10.1029/ 2019GL083093. Jun 25, 2019.   https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1029/2019GL083093

Anna Fiorentino. Early seismic waves hold the clue to the power of the main temblor. Harvard University. Aug 8, 2019.  https://m.phys.org/news/2019-08-early-seismic-clue-power-main.html  

# gst: an approach to delay solitary states within complex networks

AA << present a technique to engineer solitary states by means of delayed links in a network of neural oscillators and in coupled chaotic maps. Solitary states are intriguing partial synchronization patterns, where a synchronized cluster coexists with solitary nodes displaced from this cluster and distributed randomly over the network. >>

<< It is shown that the extent of displacement and the position of solitary elements can be completely controlled by the choice (values) and positions (locations) of the incorporated delays, reshaping the delay engineered solitary states in the network. >>

Leonhard Schulen, Saptarshi Ghosh, et al. Delay engineered solitary states in complex networks. arXiv:1908.01295v1 [nlin.AO] Aug 4, 2019.

https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.01295

# behav: the sophisticated dance of the sulphur-crested cockatoo (Cacatua galerita eleonora)

<< Spontaneous movement to music occurs in every human culture and is a foundation of dance. This response to music is absent in most species (including monkeys), yet it occurs in parrots, perhaps because they (like humans, and unlike monkeys) are vocal learners whose brains contain strong auditory–motor connections, conferring sophisticated audiomotor processing abilities. >>

AA << report that a sulphur-crested cockatoo (Cacatua galerita eleonora) responds to music with remarkably diverse spontaneous movements employing a variety of body parts, and suggest why parrots share this response with humans.  >>

R. Joanne Jao Keehn, John R. Iversen, et al. Spontaneity and diversity of movement to music are not uniquely human. Current Biology. Volume 29, Issue 13, PR621-R622. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2019.05.035. Jul 08, 2019.   https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(19)30604-9  

Ed Yong. Not a Human, but a Dancer. What Snowball the parrot’s spontaneous moves teach us about ourselves. Jul 8, 2019   https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2019/07/what-snowball-dancing-parrot-tells-us-about-dance/593428/   

Also

"Dance", in "Notes"

https://inkpi.blogspot.com/search?q=dance

"Dance", in "FonT"

https://flashontrack.blogspot.com/search?q=dance

# life: a case of extreme swing (2): "and we will or (vice versa) we won’t"

<< "This is formal impeachment proceedings," Nadler (Jerry Nadler) said in a CNN interview. "We are investigating all the evidence, gathering the evidence. And we will [at the] conclusion of this - hopefully by the end of the year - vote to vote articles of impeachment to the House floor. Or we won’t. That’s a decision that we’ll have to make. But that’s exactly the process we’re in right now." >>

Andrew Desiderio. Nadler: "This is formal impeachment proceedings". Politico. Aug 8, 2019    https://www.politico.com/story/2019/08/08/nadler-this-is-formal-impeachment-proceedings-1454360   

Also

a case of extreme swing: clearly "He is not not" or vice versa "He is yes yes" . FonT. May 30, 2019.    https://flashontrack.blogspot.com/2019/05/life-case-of-extreme-swing-clearly-is.html

# behav: acceptance into non-natal groups of Barbary macaques, showing concern and consolation

Such observations << challenges concerns that only infants and young juveniles may be accepted into non-natal groups, suggesting that even older confiscated juveniles could be candidates for release. This also adds to the literature on behavioural responses to distressed and injured individuals, demonstrating the capacity of wild monkeys to exhibit affiliative behaviours even towards unfamiliar distressed conspecifics, providing a rare example of potential consolation of an unknown individual.  >>

Liz A. D. Campbell. Fostering of a wild, injured, juvenile by a neighbouring group: implications for rehabilitation and release of Barbary macaques confiscated from illegal trade. Primates.  Volume 60, Issue 4, pp 339–345. Jul 2019.    https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs10329-019-00729-w   

Unprecedented display of concern and 'consolation' toward an unknown monkey offers hope for endangered macaques. University of Oxford. Jul 10, 2019.   https://m.phys.org/news/2019-07-unprecedented-consolation-unknown-monkey-endangered.html  

# game: 'pulsing' Parrondo to jump (and win) between two losing games

<< Parrondo’s paradox, in which losing strategies can be combined to produce winning outcomes, has received much attention in mathematics and the physical sciences; >>

<< In this review paper, the authors examine a large range of recent developments of Parrondo’s paradox in biology, across ecology and evolution, genetics, social and behavioral systems, cellular processes, and disease. >>

Kang Hao Cheong, Jin Ming Koh, Michael C. Jones. Paradoxical Survival: Examining the Parrondo Effect across Biology. BioEssays. Volume 41, Issue 6. doi: 10.1002/bies.201900027. May 27,  2019.   https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/bies.201900027  

Paradoxical Survival: Examining the Parrondo effect across biology. Singapore University of Technology and Design. Aug 5, 2019.   https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/08/190805134043.htm 

Also

"Parrondo" in: "Notes" & "FonT"

https://inkpi.blogspot.com/search?q=parrondo

https://flashontrack.blogspot.com/search?q=parrondo