#104: Game Theory in Python

Talk Python To Me

Michael Kennedy

Technology

4.8 • 635 Ratings

🗓️ 23 March 2017

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Game theory is the study competing interests, be it individual actors within an economy or healthy vs. cancer cells within a body. Our guests this week, Vince Knight, Marc Harper, and Owen Campbell, are here to discuss their python project built to study and simulate one of the central problems in Game Theory: The prisoners' dilemma.

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0:00.0	Game theory is the study of competing interests, be it individual actors within an economy,
0:05.6	or healthy versus cancer cells within a body.
0:08.7	Our guest this week, Vince Knight, Mark Harper, and Owen Campbell are here to discuss their
0:13.6	Python project built to study and simulate one of the central problems in game theory,
0:18.3	The Prisoner's Dilemma.
0:20.4	This is Talk Python to Me, episode 104, recorded March 8th, 2017.
0:26.9	I'm a developer, in many senses of the word, because I make these applications,
0:34.1	but I also use these verbs to make this music.
0:37.0	I constructed line by line, just like when I'm coding another software design.
0:41.6	In both cases, it's about design patterns.
0:44.7	Anyone can get the job done.
0:46.0	It's the execution that matters.
0:47.8	I have many interests.
0:49.3	Sometimes you can flip.
0:49.9	Welcome to Talk Python to Me, a weekly podcast on Python, the language, the libraries, the
0:54.9	ecosystem, and the personalities.
0:57.2	This is your host, Michael Kennedy.
0:58.8	Follow me on Twitter where I'm at M. Kennedy.
1:00.9	Keep up with the show and listen to past episodes at talk python.fm and follow the show
1:05.4	on Twitter via at Talk Python.
1:08.7	This episode is brought to you, interruption free, by Talk Python Training. That's right,
1:13.1	I'm talking about my courses. Whether you want to get started learning Python with the jumpstart
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