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Claude Shannon, the Las Vegas Shark (2017)
- nmca 7y agoI highly recommend "Fortune's Formula" which touches on this and the Kelly Criterion.
- dang 7y agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21058555 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21058555
- karmakaze 7y ago“Thorp had inadvertently set one of the century’s great minds on yet another tangent.” The idea of this grave misdirection of talent somehow gave me an insuppressible giggle.