i know its possible.. you can do an online monte carlo simulation to figure E[x], if > 1 continue. i used to use screen scrapers in the days of net-pay or whatever it was called. anyways i turned over development to other people who were more profit motivated, i just wanted to see it was possible..
another route, the combinatorics to precompute every possibile hand you'll see is tractable -- since you only need yours own 2 cards + up to 5 on the table. 52*51*50*49*48*47 is around 14 billion -- easily contained with compact data structures in a 8 gig of ram G5.
of course many optimisations are possible. you can run an offline / online machine learning algorithm to learn optimal parameters. the data set is even available on line!! Every hand is available, with exact card ordering, including hidden cards!
whatever a human can do, a machine can do better. perhaps it will take 20 years to beat the best poker pro, but to beat the average jack on a $1 table, its been done.
besides the fact that all online poker places pay people to play, basically to keep interest up at weird times of day. so they have the bots. and with bots, they save salary, still make the rake, plus take a chunk of winnings with them. heck, they can even manipulte the random cards.
the question is always "when will this become required", and to not subjugate yourself to the system is equivalent to being supposed guilty of some crime.
for example building a credit rating (try getting car insurance without it), getting into a bar (ask my friend who doesnt drive), random Border Patrol stops on the major highways coming down from canada (why is border patrol in mid-new york and mid-vermont blocking the whole highway. what would they ask me if i was arab), and as we look forwards, mandatory DNA gene tests to get health insurance, etc.. these are lop-sided choises because the costs are very heavy if you "make a choice"
Ah yes, an twist on the old profit algorithm
1. Embrace
2. Extend
3....
4. Profit!!
This is the same company that puts wierd ascii shit in my pine terminal when the email comes from an outlook client. They will fuck with this standard (as they did with OpenGL, Networking stacks, Internet Browsers....)
this 3d stuff is all lame without some video-integration and image registration to make is seemless
check out some of my thesis screencaps
http://roscohill.com/skool/index.html
How about we save taxpayers 100's of billions by data-mining corporate expenses for discrepencies? Then do data-mining for campaign contributions and sweet-heart deals? Then finally, chase the average joe for his $500 tax fraud. Then have data-mining thought police. Then remove our right for physical presence, wire us all to the matrix, and mine our personality profile to provide Google AdSense adds on virtual billboards and make trilliosn.
1. Put RFID tags in salvation army clothers.
2. Give clothes to homeless
3. War-drive to round up homeless people for protection during cold winter snap
4. ????
5. Heil RFID!
I don't think companies actually *have* to release anything in their quarterly reports, besides dollar amounts.
I listened in on a few transmeta webcasts, and it was ridiculous that wall street pretends this company is public.
they said $5 million in sales, refused to say what chip they were selling, refused to say who their customers were, refused to say whether they were having production problems... their stock is at $4 so maybe its just because they are a small fry they can get away from this, but I am very surprised that "disclosure" doesn't include questions like the ones above asked by concerned investors.
I've installed linux on many a powerbook, yellow dog linux is to linux what mac is to windows.. is as easy to install as OS X!!! Only 2-3 clicks during the entire install. I kept it dual booting, ofcourse..
>>(for example, if Indian IT companies do such bad work, why are over half of Carnegie Mellon's highest-rated programming companies Indian?)
Well, if CMU either rated *all* programming companies, or followed a fair random sampling of companies, this statistic would be interesting
However, lets consider that you have to *pay* to become certified. Only those companies with disposable cash who seek certifications would pay for such a service.
If 1/2 the MCSE are in india, does that mean a programmer from india is better than from anywhere else in the world? Or does it just mean they wasted their time on worthless certication?
I interned at morgan stanley and they have something like this already implemented. I forget what they called it, some database scheme where the *only* thing you can do is add rows to the database. Each row is tagged with a time stamp. So to pull out the price on a ticket, you pull out the entire history for the ticket and pop the latest one off the stack if you want the current one. So you have the ability to instantly snapshot to any point in the past. Also, you if someone tries to put a bug in the system, evidence is bound to be around since the database does not accept change or delete commands.
if you boot from a linux CD, you can use dd to ghost from one XP drive to another blank harddrive. or you can even use dd and netcat together to dd over the net -- there is a google page describing how to do this
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if only micro$oft would hire some hackers, perhaps they would get a clue on security
i know its possible.. you can do an online monte carlo simulation to figure E[x], if > 1 continue. i used to use screen scrapers in the days of net-pay or whatever it was called. anyways i turned over development to other people who were more profit motivated, i just wanted to see it was possible..
another route, the combinatorics to precompute every possibile hand you'll see is tractable -- since you only need yours own 2 cards + up to 5 on the table. 52*51*50*49*48*47 is around 14 billion -- easily contained with compact data structures in a 8 gig of ram G5.
of course many optimisations are possible. you can run an offline / online machine learning algorithm to learn optimal parameters. the data set is even available on line!! Every hand is available, with exact card ordering, including hidden cards!
whatever a human can do, a machine can do better. perhaps it will take 20 years to beat the best poker pro, but to beat the average jack on a $1 table, its been done.
besides the fact that all online poker places pay people to play, basically to keep interest up at weird times of day. so they have the bots. and with bots, they save salary, still make the rake, plus take a chunk of winnings with them. heck, they can even manipulte the random cards.
nice word, but i think you meant gaggle http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=gaggle
the question is always "when will this become required", and to not subjugate yourself to the system is equivalent to being supposed guilty of some crime.
for example building a credit rating (try getting car insurance without it), getting into a bar (ask my friend who doesnt drive), random Border Patrol stops on the major highways coming down from canada (why is border patrol in mid-new york and mid-vermont blocking the whole highway. what would they ask me if i was arab), and as we look forwards, mandatory DNA gene tests to get health insurance, etc.. these are lop-sided choises because the costs are very heavy if you "make a choice"
Ah yes, an twist on the old profit algorithm ... ....)
1. Embrace
2. Extend
3.
4. Profit!!
This is the same company that puts wierd ascii shit in my pine terminal when the email comes from an outlook client. They will fuck with this standard (as they did with OpenGL, Networking stacks, Internet Browsers
this 3d stuff is all lame without some video-integration and image registration to make is seemless check out some of my thesis screencaps http://roscohill.com/skool/index.html
How about we save taxpayers 100's of billions by data-mining corporate expenses for discrepencies? Then do data-mining for campaign contributions and sweet-heart deals? Then finally, chase the average joe for his $500 tax fraud. Then have data-mining thought police. Then remove our right for physical presence, wire us all to the matrix, and mine our personality profile to provide Google AdSense adds on virtual billboards and make trilliosn.
ed!!
1. Put RFID tags in salvation army clothers.
2. Give clothes to homeless
3. War-drive to round up homeless people for protection during cold winter snap
4. ????
5. Heil RFID!
I listened in on a few transmeta webcasts, and it was ridiculous that wall street pretends this company is public.
they said $5 million in sales, refused to say what chip they were selling, refused to say who their customers were, refused to say whether they were having production problems... their stock is at $4 so maybe its just because they are a small fry they can get away from this, but I am very surprised that "disclosure" doesn't include questions like the ones above asked by concerned investors.
I've installed linux on many a powerbook, yellow dog linux is to linux what mac is to windows.. is as easy to install as OS X!!! Only 2-3 clicks during the entire install. I kept it dual booting, ofcourse..
>>(for example, if Indian IT companies do such bad work, why are over half of Carnegie Mellon's highest-rated programming companies Indian?)
Well, if CMU either rated *all* programming companies, or followed a fair random sampling of companies, this statistic would be interesting
However, lets consider that you have to *pay* to become certified. Only those companies with disposable cash who seek certifications would pay for such a service.
If 1/2 the MCSE are in india, does that mean a programmer from india is better than from anywhere else in the world? Or does it just mean they wasted their time on worthless certication?
Is there flicker with LED bulbs? If there is none, switching is very tempting.
I interned at morgan stanley and they have something like this already implemented. I forget what they called it, some database scheme where the *only* thing you can do is add rows to the database. Each row is tagged with a time stamp. So to pull out the price on a ticket, you pull out the entire history for the ticket and pop the latest one off the stack if you want the current one. So you have the ability to instantly snapshot to any point in the past. Also, you if someone tries to put a bug in the system, evidence is bound to be around since the database does not accept change or delete commands.
You can look at the most cited papers, or the most accessed papers on cite-seer for a good list of classics: http://citeseer.nj.nec.com/access.html
if you boot from a linux CD, you can use dd to ghost from one XP drive to another blank harddrive. or you can even use dd and netcat together to dd over the net -- there is a google page describing how to do this