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Neat. Reminds me of the hidden shoe computers developed by Claude Shannon and Ed Thorp in 1960 for cheating at roulette. https://nautil.us/claude-shannon-the-l
by weare138 4y ago
Neat. Reminds me of the hidden shoe computers developed by Claude Shannon and Ed Thorp in 1960 for cheating at roulette.
https://nautil.us/claude-shannon-the-las-vegas-cheat-6397 https://nautil.us/claude-shannon-the-las-vegas-cheat-6397
J. Doyne Farmer and Norman Packard from UC Santa Cruz also developed one in the late 70s as part of a group called The Eudaemons.
http://physics.ucsc.edu/people/eudaemons/layout.html http://physics.ucsc.edu/people/eudaemons/layout.html
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- Bluecobra 4y agoHistory Channel had a great series called Breaking Vegas and one episode featured Doyne Farmer and Norman Packard's roulette shoe computer: https://archive.org/details/breaking-vegas-s-1-e-08-beat-the-wheel https://archive.org/details/breaking-vegas-s-1-e-08-beat-the...
- Wingman4l7 4y agoI've also read anecdotes of shoe computers for poker, IIRC. Worth mentioning the book, entitled "The Eudaemonic Pie: The Bizarre True Story of How a Band of Physicists and Computer Wizards Took On Las Vegas".