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Though 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 l
by adolph 3y ago
Though 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.”
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- 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.