emerkel

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   Ask HN: Critique the published validation work for my blackjack simulator

   1 points by emerkel 7mo ago|0 comments
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   by emerkel 7mo ago

   I don’t remember much fear that spreadsheets were going to replace programmers. What I remember more was a kind of simmering contempt for them, though time may be sanding the edges off that memory. From the IT side, spreadsheets and later s
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   by emerkel 7mo ago

   I’m building a blackjack simulator/research tool called Blackjack Wonk. It started as a hobby project and turned into a deeper engineering rabbit hole than I expected. The goal is to make the simulations reproducible and trustworthy en
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   by emerkel 7mo ago

   I never even thought about that post being anything but legit, why? Because I agree with it, and no matter WHAT my wife and kids might occasionally say, I am no AI :) I haven’t thought about it, but I just feel that the topic of ai might hi
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   by emerkel 7mo ago

   I’m 66 and retired in 2023, and I agree. In most respects I consider myself a Luddite, or maybe a neo-Luddite. I think a lot of that comes from the constant business push for “new” and “faster” for no reason other than that they’re new and
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   by emerkel 7mo ago

   That is crazy impressive! Thank you!
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   by emerkel 7mo ago

   I hear you here. I really do. I don't know where you are in your career, me I am on the backend. But all the time I was working the constant churn of new tools/languages/frameworks and so on, the race to keep up with the vend