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strategyon Game Theory: An open-access textbook with solved exercises

I love the use of color in this textbook to make payoffs for each player identifiable. I am looking forward to reading this in detail.

strategyon Cheap Talk, Round Numbers, and Signaling Behavior

Interesting that round numbers mean lower selling prices but that the sales happen quicker.

Steve Tadelis is one of the co-authors and he's done some interesting research from his time at eBay. Last year he published a paper that paid search ads were not really effective and that made the rounds, even getting mentioned in The Economist. Google wrote back to refute the claim, saying eBay is a special website and search ads do work. Here's that study: http://newsroom.haas.berkeley.edu/research-news/study-finds-...

strategyon Defining zero factorial

For fun you can try out non-integral factorial values. For example, type in (1/2)! into WolframAlpha or Google, and you'll find the answer is the square root of pi over 2.

This is due to the gamma function extension: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QhDDpSju3uY

strategyon Every time you make popcorn, you are listening to the normal distribution

Thanks. I can assure you the graph is not fake--I would have make a much closer fit if I had concocted the data. The bell curve fitting was done by hand to be suggestive, sorry I did not do an algorithmic fitting (perhaps I should have done more research on this).

strategyon Ask HN: Making money with ebooks and video courses vs. writing apps?

I have written ebooks and was considering courses, so let me offer an opinion too. I opted to develop YouTube videos to promote my brand MindYourDecisions. The reason is YouTube has many more users and you have a chance to establish your authority and market books. If you get over 10,000 subscribers on YouTube, you can also make paid subscriptions which you can use to sell courses.