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Vince Knight (He/Him) @vinceknight.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026

I've put up 32 worked solutions for the Game Theory course I teach at Cardiff: Nash equilibrium, subgame perfection, repeated games, replicator dynamics, the Moran process, routing and matching games, auctions, social choice and the Shapley value. Questions […] [Original post on fosstodon.org]

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Vince Knight (He/Him) @vinceknight.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 07/07/2026

My wife and I do not agree about whether or not a Toblerone is a chocolate bar. Harry Foster agrees with her. We spent 90 minutes of a research meeting yesterday on this. We then asked Claude to write a paper about it for us […] [Original post on fosstodon.org]

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Vince Knight (He/Him) @vinceknight.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 30/06/2026

New preprint: “Discrete Event Population Updates: finding game theoretic emergent behaviour in queueing systems with simulation” This brings together #queueingtheory and #gametheory. Summary: vknight.org/posts/2026-06-30-depu Arxiv: arxiv.org/abs/2606.28100

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Vince Knight (He/Him) @vinceknight.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 17/06/2026

Harry (my PhD student) has spent a week doing some really cool, clever and hard work. He’s showing me his results and I make a [minor] suggestion for improvement of choice of notation. Supervising is hard work. #gametheory #phd #mathematics

A conversation between me and Harry where I suggest some change of notation. He responds positively and I say that I’m doing all the heavy work (with a gif of a rodent on a turtle). He responds “I don’t even know what my role is here man”.

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Vince Knight (He/Him) @vinceknight.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 26/05/2026

**New preprint**: "An Exact Cooperation Formula for Introspection Dynamics in the Heterogeneous Public Goods Game" In this preprint we obtain a nice formula for the steady state probabilities in Introspection Dynamics for a specific subset of games. arxiv.org/abs/2605.23513 #gametheory

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Vince Knight (He/Him) @vinceknight.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 15/05/2026

Scholia: Category based marking in Python. Prof. Karl Schmidt gave a great talk about his approach to marking and feedback last week. I've implemented his approach in a Python library: vknight.org/scholia #marking #python

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Vince Knight (He/Him) @vinceknight.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 12/05/2026

*The Faithful should all vote left.* "The Vote-Left Equilibrium: A Deterministic Coordination Strategy for the Faithful in The Traitors" My latest preprint is at the arXiv: arxiv.org/abs/2605.10233 If the Faithful declare that they are going to vote […] [Original post on fosstodon.org]

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Vince Knight (He/Him) @vinceknight.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 05/05/2026

I was part of the many people working on Cardiff University's Kazakhstan campus to be awarded the "2026 Vice-Chancellor's Award for Outstanding Contribution to the University". There is a lot that can be said of what the University is trying to do in […] [Original post on fosstodon.org]

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Vince Knight (He/Him) @vinceknight.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 24/04/2026

I'm travelling home to Cardiff after spending 3 days at the Cardiff Agent conference. I thoroughly enjoyed meeting and chatting with the various councillors whose job it is to help Indian students choose their University. I've written up a short summary of my […] [Original post on fosstodon.org]

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Vince Knight (He/Him) @vinceknight.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 10/04/2026

My PhD student Harry has been working on `ludics` a python library for studying population dynamics (models of evolutionary game theory for emergent behaviour). Here is a short blog post describing the library: vknight.org/posts/2026-04-09-ludics […] [Original post on fosstodon.org]

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