{"id":1186,"date":"2011-08-22T20:52:15","date_gmt":"2011-08-23T04:52:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/?p=1186"},"modified":"2011-08-22T20:52:15","modified_gmt":"2011-08-23T04:52:15","slug":"review-game-theory-101-the-basics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/?p=1186","title":{"rendered":"Review: Game Theory 101: The Basics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>William Spaniel wrote this pamphlet , <em>Game Theory 101: The Basics<\/em>, showing elementary game theory concepts applied directly to simple games.\u00a0 There&#8217;s not much actual theory in here, and certainly no deep proofs, but there are many illustrative examples that combine to give a familiarity with the ideas.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve been curious enough about game theory to want to see that, and this was a useful introduction.<\/p>\n<p>He writes clearly and well, and walks through every step of the calculations.\u00a0 Still, this reads more like a good textbook than like an essay for the layman.\u00a0 I found the combination of basic explanations and detailed examples very illuminating.\u00a0 I walked away knowing a bunch more than I did when I started.<\/p>\n<p>Recommended if you want to see the basic nuts and bolts of tame theory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>William Spaniel wrote this pamphlet , Game Theory 101: The Basics, showing elementary game theory concepts applied directly to simple games.\u00a0 There&#8217;s not much actual theory in here, and certainly no deep proofs, but there are many illustrative examples that combine to give a familiarity with the ideas.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve been curious enough about game theory [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1186"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1186\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1187,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1186\/revisions\/1187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}