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Vincent Knight

Personal blog · vknight.org/unpeudemathmathprogramming

Vincent Knight's personal blog at vknight.org covers math and programming. Since 2015, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.

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2015–2025first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 3 in 2015

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Why HN links it

HN readers link Vincent Knight's blog for its game theory content, including the Prisoner's Dilemma and Snowdrift game. The only comment points to the Axelrod Python library for studying these games.

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What Hacker News says?

  1. The Axelrod library is a Python implementation of the Prisoner's dilemma (tournaments, evolutionary dynamics etc) with over 200 strategies. It can also be used to study other games ( http://axelrod.readthedocs.io/en/stable/tutorials/advanced/g... ) so it would be straightforward to study the snowdrift game using it :) Re some of the other comments about Robert Axelrod's tournament and evolution: - As part of the pro…

    Comment linking /unpeudemath/math/2017/07/28/sophisticated-ipd-strategies-beat-simple-ones.html

    on “'Snowdrift' game tops 'Prisoner's Dilemma' in explaining cooperation (2007)”
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