Tootfinder

WIRED, 2004: The long tail https://www.wired.com/2004/10/tail/ Will The vOICe vision BCI cover more of the long tail of blindness cases than brain implants, retinal implants and optogenetics combined? Think of developing countries, types of blindness, device lifetime, etc. Economy of abundance vs Pareto…

The Long Tail
Forget squeezing millions from a few megahits at the top of the charts. The future of entertainment is in the millions of niche markets at the shallow end of the bitstream.

Optimal Matching Strategies in Two-sided Markets: A Mean Field Approach
Erhan Bayraktar, Dantong Chu, Bohan Li, Ho Man Tai
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.26531 https://

Optimal Matching Strategies in Two-sided Markets: A Mean Field Approach
This paper develops a mean field game framework for dynamic two-sided matching markets, extending existing matching theory by integrating micro-macro dynamics in two-sided environments. Unlike traditional matching models focusing on static equilibrium or unilateral optimization, our framework simultaneously captures dynamic interactions and strategic behaviors of both market sides, as well as the equilibrium. We model two types of agents who meet each other via Poisson processes and make simult…

Symbiosis emergence and abandonment in nature: a coordination game approach
Simon A. Levin, Ted Loch-Temzelides
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08833 https://ar…

Symbiosis emergence and abandonment in nature: a coordination game approach
We employ an n-player coordination game to model mutualism emergence and abandonment. We illustrate our findings in the context of the host--host interactions among plants in plant-mycorrhizal fungi (MF) mutualisms. The coordination game payoff structure captures the insight that mutualistic strategies lead to robust advantages only after such "biological markets" reach a certain scale. The game gives rise to three types of Nash equilibria, which correspond to the states derived in studies of t…