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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…

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 …

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 Synthes…

You now have 2̶ 1 remaining My4th Lights.

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…

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…

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 …

If you do something cool with it, let me know at support@scratchoff-odds.com.

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 bi…

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.

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 lotter…

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 …

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…

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…

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. O…

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 c…

"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 resear…

Location: San Francisco Remote: Optional Willing to relocate: Yes Technologies: Clojure, Lisps, Python, Django, React, TypeScript, JavaScript, Linux, Shell, Ansible, Docker Résumé/…

"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-ta…

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 t…

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.…

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…

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.) …

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…

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.