Writers And Thinkers
IE Concepts
OKC Basketball
200
Leviathan by this English author is considered to be the founding work of social contract theory, and a lot of modern political theory.
Who is Thomas Hobbes?
200
Helpfully described by just a mean and a standard deviation, this bell-shaped probability distribution forms the backbone of much of classical statistics.
What is the normal distribution ?
200
This 2 time MVP initially played for the LA Clippers before being traded in 2019 in the massive Paul George trade.
Who is SGA?
400
One of the most misappropriated thinkers of the modern era, this German philosopher is often credited with the concept of the Übermensch, or Overman.
Who is Nietzsche?
400
In this mathematical structure, your next state only depends on your current one. Monopoly can also be represented as one of these.
What is a Markov chain?
400
This center was acquired by the Oklahoma City Thunder midseason in 2011, and he now works as an ESPN talking head.
Kendrick Perkins
600
This Italian polymath lent his name to a principle: that roughly 80% of effects come from 20% of causes. He later influential theory of elite circulation in his work "The Mind and Society."
Who is Vilfredo Pareto?
600
Developed by Danish engineer Agner Erlang to help Copenhagen's telephone exchange handle call traffic, this branch of mathematics lets engineers predict wait times and optimize throughput wherever bottlenecks form.
What is queueing theory?
600
This OKC rookie actually got his start with the OU Sooners before playing under Mark Pope at Kentucky.
Who is Otega Oweh?
800
This French thinker and philosopher of science tried to create his own Religion of Humanity - essentially the Catholic Church, but dedicated to the worship of Humanity itself.
Who is Auguste Comte?
800
As opposed to an algorithm, these methods focus on finding solutions that are good, but not mathematically the best - useful for saving time and computing power!
What are heuristics?
800
This former Colorado Buffalo spent 7 years in OKC as a constient defensive presence, but he never shot more than 31% from behind the arc.
Andre Roberson
1000
This Savoyard philosopher and diplomat was one of the most forceful critics of the French Revolution, arguing in works like "Considerations on France" that legitimate authority must be rooted in tradition and divine order rather than abstract reason.
Who is Joeseph de Maistre?
1000
Sitting between the broad strokes of city-wide flow models and the granular detail of individual car behavior, this type of traffic simulation treats vehicles as platoons or groups, making it the workhorse of regional transportation planning when you need speed without sacrificing too much realism.
What is mesoscopic car simulation?
1000
This former NBA point guard worked an internship at Nike before OKC traded to get him in the 2019 draft.
Darius Bazley