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Re:Claude Shannon built a machine to game roulette (2017) by celestialcheese on Sunday January 28, 2018 @05:01PM (#16253845)
Thorp recently wrote a book about his life and work - there's a chapter in there about Shannon and his adventures in the casino. Definitely worth a read. "A Man for All Markets: From Las Vegas to Wall Street, How I Beat the Dealer and the Market"
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Re:Claude Shannon built a machine to game roulette (2017) by caf on Sunday January 28, 2018 @06:26PM (#16254241)
Ed Thorp also wrote the seminal work on card counting, "Beat the Dealer" (1962).
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