eihli

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by eihli 3mo ago
Now show me a writeup that explains how the brain works so I can understand why the brain does those things. > We know how these machines work, it's not mysterious, there's nothing "extra" happening. It sounds like yo
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by eihli 1y ago
I've been learning it, mostly as a fun hobby. I journal a little bit about my experience here: https://owoga.com/posts/2025-03-18-learning-morse-code/ I've been a licensed HAM for a while, but what actua
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by eihli 2y ago
Hey! Thanks for all of the work you do. I love reading your stuff. Lately, I've been playing a lot with the code from Neural Guided Constraint Logic Programming for Program Synthesis [1]. I want to apply it to searching for neural netw
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by eihli 2y ago
You now have 2̶ 1 remaining My4th Lights.
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by eihli 5y ago
Nothing stopping someone from buying all the remaining tickets. But if you do the math, I think you'll find it's still not worth it. How fast can you scratch/verify tickets? If you take the lump sum, you get something like 60
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by eihli 5y ago
Actually that other explanation is for fractional tickets in other locations of the database, like prizes remaining. Specifically in `num_tx_initial` it might be because they don't report the number of tickets printed. But if they prin
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by eihli 5y ago
Some states only publish claim numbers for prizes over a certain amount. For prizes below that amount, I estimate using the % claimed of all published prizes. If 25% of the prizes greater than $30 have been claimed, then I assume 25% of the
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by eihli 5y ago
If you do something cool with it, let me know at support@scratchoff-odds.com.
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by eihli 5y ago
Employees could really game the system. On average there's 1 "big" prize (outside the GLEP prizes) every 4 packs. Any time you see a pack go from start to ~5 remaining without a big prize, buy every remaining ticket. There&#x
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by eihli 5y ago
Here's the data through ~October of last year. ~500MB. https://docs.zohopublic.com/file/pze38c35faf87eb654907b51890... I'm using it to power https://scratchoff-odds.com right now.
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by eihli 5y ago
Not directly related but while I have the eyes of some technical people reading about the lottery, I want to throw this out there. I have 4+ years worth of daily scratch off lottery ticket results from a dozen or so different states. Every
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by eihli 5y ago
Nice. I worked on something similar but far less robust: https://github.com/eihli/image-table-ocr . It fails to find the tables on the example images at extract-table.com, but the code is heavily commented at https:&#x
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by eihli 5y ago
Had an idea when I saw one of these on a cruise ship. Every time we spent time within eyesight of the machine, I timed it and counted how many plays went in. After a couple of days, I had something resembling an average number of plays per
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by eihli 5y ago
https://www.creativitypost.com/article/spinning_plates_and_t... "Serious play means you value play as a tool for fostering creative thinking." This could be the seed, test-bed, and proof-of-concept for a set
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by eihli 5y ago
Can you please share how you got the 2^40 number? I've been trying to think of how to figure out the odds of these. Odds of 4 hex 8's in a row given a 4 digit string is (1/16)^4. Odds of 4 hex 8's in a row given a 5 digi
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by eihli 6y ago
The logic for detecting a table is to get rid of everything but vertical lines over a certain length, save that in one image, then get rid of everything but horizontal lines of a certain length, save that image. Then overlay the two and tak
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by eihli 6y ago
"Everyone researcher I know who tried to make HTM work came away with the same conclusion" Is there anything you can share with this? I'd like to read more about how and why researchers came to that conclusion. Thanks.
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by eihli 6y ago
Location: San Francisco Remote: Optional Willing to relocate: Yes Technologies: Clojure, Lisps, Python, Django, React, TypeScript, JavaScript, Linux, Shell, Ansible, Docker Résumé/CV: https://resume.owoga.com Email: eihli@o
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by eihli 6y ago
"Identical shares (3%) of conservative Republicans and moderate and liberal Republicans have heard or read a lot about the conspiracy theories." https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2020/03/30/
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by eihli 6y ago
This is great. I started hacking on something very similar ( https://ezmonic.com ) but you took it all the way with NLTK and finding noun phrases. Another great addition would be to find rhyming phrases if it's possible given
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by eihli 6y ago
I came across a blogpost describing this workflow recently and I'm curious to hear HN opinions about it. Any pitfalls? https://matthewdowney.github.io/encrypting-keys-in-clojure-a... 1. Generate a new set of API keys.
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by eihli 6y ago
You're right :) I do have a calculation for "lag" of tickets over a certain amount. Most states require tickets over $600 to be claimed at a lottery headquarters, not a gas station, so there is a noticeable lag in the percent
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by eihli 6y ago
A web version was my first iteration. It's pretty barebones, but it's available. http://ezmonic.net (Note that it's only served on `http`, so don't put any credit cards in there.) It's a good idea though
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by eihli 6y ago
I've had a feeling that certain state scratch off lottery games can be beaten thanks to certain actions the states take in the name of transparency. For example, they publish daily reports of the number of prizes remaining. A simple ex
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by eihli 7y ago
Have you tried Supreme Commander? It's the spiritual successor to TA and is amazing. There's a community lobby, Forged Alliance Forever, that has a solid number of active players.