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TFA is, to put it politely, incomplete. They played both the Michigan and a later Mass state lottery. It looks like the Michigan lottery may not have detected t
by muststopmyths 6y ago
TFA is, to put it politely, incomplete. They played both the Michigan and a later Mass state lottery. It looks like the Michigan lottery may not have detected them.
https://highline.huffingtonpost.com/articles/en/lotto-winners/?utm_source=inccommurphy https://highline.huffingtonpost.com/articles/en/lotto-winner...
- Udo_Schmitz 6y agoI remember that one. The medium article looks like a summary.
- muststopmyths 6y agoIt's worse though. Because it completely ignores the Massachusetts lottery, which was where the MIT team actually came in.
- kevinwang 6y agothis is the best article on the topic. Probably my favorite article ever, actually. I also like how it frames Selbee as an average joe-turned-convenience store owner with a side interest in math, instead of how TFA frames him as a mathematician. Previous discussion on the good article: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16494280 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16494280 Honestly, the currently linked article seems to me like low-effort blogspam.