week 7

So we had a midterm last week and it was a touch one luckily, I got enough points so that I could gain points for my grade, our class is on a point system something that I have never had before in any other class. is 406 is a pretty interesting class all together we learn about different forms of games. We hae gone over a lot of differnet things within the past 7 weeks of class. I enjoy class a lot the lectures are very interesting sometimes long, but Prof. Hansen puts the material in ways that you can understand what is going on, especially for a communications major. The most interesting thing I think we hsve covered is last weeks lecture on risk dominance, and coopartive vs non cooperative games. If you think about games work this way, monoploy a great example of a game with opportunity cost, you have to weigh out pros and the cons of each and every turn that you get, when to buy homes, "if i buy this i cannot get this but will this end up being more profitable" a lot of things come into play that was one topic we uncovered. Or how Oxytocin is released with in the body when you trust another person. Professor Hansen put this into perspective as if you were playing a cooperative game and if you can trust one another so you will all survive in a game.
Lots of different things in this class are interesting, the Markov Chain, when we went over Shoots and Ladders. Markov Chain is a theory of probability, for instance maybe the number of times you flip a come, what the total outcome will be.