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"The game called for picking six numbers from 1 and 54. For a pro gambler, some sets of numbers—such as 1,2,3,4,5,6—aren’t worth picking because so many other players choose them, which would split the pot. Marantelli’s operation bought 99.3% of the possibilities."

Wouldn't this be 54x53x52x51x50x49 = 18,595,558,800 therefore 99.3% is 18,465,389,888.4 or basically over 18 billion dollars in tickets (at $1 per ticket)?

There is a massive difference between "capable of generating music, sounds, and speech using text and audio inputs it’s never been trained on" and "sounds never heard before." This is simultaneously nonsense and obvious truth. Create a new color you've never seen before.
Re:Math and Puzzle Fans Find Magic in Martin Gardner's Legacy on Monday November 04, 2024 @10:56AM (#42042700)
I really, really wish I could copy comments on mobile. I'm in my doctors office waiting and I want to throw this into rot13 so i can read it
Re:Rust needs a web framework for lazy developers on Sunday October 06, 2024 @11:00PM (#41762396)
why are you fealung with cache at all in a wrb context? that's what CDNs are for.
This describes T-Mobile incredibly well...
Re:William James and a Theory of Thinking (2004) [pdf] on Monday July 29, 2024 @10:55AM (#41100957)
I would highly recommend Thinking Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman. It comes on normal book format so you can read it.
Adversarial game playing as a way of training AI is basically the plot of War Games.
Re:The Median Down Payment for a House, by U.S. State on Thursday March 14, 2024 @12:11AM (#39700536)
I don't want to be this guy, but can we get this whole thing removed? the lack of integrity here seems anathema to HN
Re:Caesars abruptly cancels contract with DEF CON on Monday February 05, 2024 @03:30AM (#39258647)
if we're going with hot takes, I've watched a lot of DefCon vids and many presenters come off as outlandish arrogant. not simply smug, more "I am levitating above the normies."
Nobody should be surprised by this. Speed and Quality are orthogonal after all. Why do it right when you can do it twice?
Re:Ask HN: Article on software only increasing complexity? on Saturday November 25, 2023 @06:47PM (#38417902)
expense as a percentage of gdp is a nonsense number. expense as a percentage of the actual budget makes far more sense. why are we accepting silly statistics here?
There are so many issues with your post that I feel like I'm on reddit?

It's not a radical idea, or really even unpopular, to incentivize child birth through tax policy.

Insane initial implication that having children is a duty we all innately have to society aside: you can't tax an age bracket differently let alone at point of sale.

Re:Making Figma better for developers with Dev Mode on Wednesday June 21, 2023 @02:12PM (#36422138)
I'm going to have to look into this because while that sounds like an incredible future, I don't see it. we have thousands of custom classes and dozens of material themes, can Figma work with that and then generate a component using our core custom styles?...
Does this mean there will be a run?
Re:Spotify to trim 6% of workforce, content head to depart on Tuesday January 24, 2023 @12:17AM (#34499660)
I also love spotify as a general product. But the UX grievances are fair and representative of tge standard product thrash where far too many people are involved in making design decisions that ultimately end up punishing users
Re:Why Domain Driven Design? on Friday November 25, 2022 @05:06AM (#33740951)
this is a good summary of why I pay zero attention to power point decks and blog posts. there is never a right answer and it's just people masturbating in circles. it's not rocket science, half of the time it's not even computer science. design patterns, at a certain point, become full of themselves.
Everything about this screams "Somebody please call Child Protective Services and get this guy committed"

If you start gaining followers....you're starting a cult

Re:Elon Musk sells $6.9B worth of Tesla stock on Tuesday August 09, 2022 @11:59PM (#32407718)
Good, now buy my Twitter shares at 54.20 so I can move on with my life.
Re:Total climate meltdown cannot be stopped, says expert on Monday August 01, 2022 @05:17PM (#32312147)
Immediately made me think of this https://youtu.be/XM0uZ9mfOUI
The question is never "have you been arrested." It is, always, "have you ever been convicted"
You must live in an all-white people world. ESL creates a lot of quiet people. Not everyone that is quiet is an egotistical toxic maniac.
Re:What Is Agile? on Friday April 01, 2022 @01:01PM (#30880494)
Agile is a cancer that needs to be purged from the industry.

At its core, it is an obvious general philosophy based on the even more obvious concept of a small team working together closely.

Everything that gets layered on top of that exists so that people who can't program can also get big tech $$$.

Re:I'm a scam prevention expert and I got scammed on Thursday March 31, 2022 @02:04PM (#30870360)
I'm so skeptical of these "experts" especially if they write a blog post where they hate their bank.

I've been with Wells for over a decade. They have never called me. Never.

I have had "fraud" alerts hundreds of times. They always happen at certain POS, and it's always a text alert.

Some of the stories I read make me viscerally react with "what in the world are you doing with something as simple as a bank account?"

Also a fundamental default is "no action". If you are even slightly suspicious, do nothing. It isn't somehow so important that you stop thinking and just act or react. Just stop.

Re:Web3 is centralized and inefficient on Wednesday March 23, 2022 @02:05PM (#30781409)
No. This is more like saying Heartbleed is proof the web will never be secure. Which it won't.
Re:2022 Sea Level Rise Technical Report on Thursday February 17, 2022 @04:07PM (#30378690)
all of them
Re:Rents are up 40 percent in some cities on Monday January 31, 2022 @12:35AM (#30144913)
And that man's name? - 400 FICo
Re:12-year-old has made nearly $6M with NFTs on Wednesday December 29, 2021 @12:33PM (#29727171)
there is nothing interesting or new about "blockchain". it's a specific implementation of 3 things that are older than you are
Re:Microsoft Teams: 1 feature, 4 vulnerabilities on Wednesday December 22, 2021 @05:35AM (#29647585)
I'm in favor of this.
Re:OKRs masquerade as strategy on Tuesday November 16, 2021 @03:54PM (#29246237)
this is my world
Re:The AWARE Development Plan on Sunday October 31, 2021 @05:25AM (#29055690)
Oh good, more acronyms. This will surely help. Thanks.

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