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It's hard to tell whether these are "lottery winner sells strategy to pick lottery numbers" kind of nonsense
by kristopolous 3y ago
It's hard to tell whether these are "lottery winner sells strategy to pick lottery numbers" kind of nonsense
- burkaman 3y agoNot even lottery winners, they say they make 11% returns on average. That is index fund territory.
- adolph 3y agoThough he’d spent tens of thousands of hours watching his old customers hope for the break that might alter their fortunes, he knew better than to believe the lottery was ruled by chance. “People have been conditioned to think it is luck,” he would later reflect. “They don’t look at the structure of games.” https://highline.huffingtonpost.com/articles/en/lotto-winners https://highline.huffingtonpost.com/articles/en/lotto-winner... Now a direct-to-streaming motion picture: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_%26_Marge_Go_Large https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_%26_Marge_Go_Large
- kristopolous 3y agois this one of those "random" systems that's actually just a complicated pattern? It's wild how common those are. It's probably best to assume "random" based contests are actually just complex deterministic sequences and getting random right is the exception and not the rule.