Well, it’s time for MacWorld San Francisco.  I’ve used the Democracy plugin to create a poll in my sidebar on the right. Any ideas on what Apple will announce?  Everyone’s expecting some kind of dual core laptop, but what else do people think might be announced?  Feel free to add any ideas that you want.
Daily Archives: 1/7/2006
The Kelly Criteron in Blackjack, Sports Betting and the Stock Market
I’ve been reviewing some papers and math regarding the use of the Kelly Criterion in gambling, and found this link to Ed Thorp’s paper on the subject. It’s in PDF format, but looks very interesting.
Technorati Tags: Gambling, Mathematics, Information Theory
Optical mouse based scanner
Courtesy of hack-a-day, a student did something which I thought was rather clever, he disassembled an optical mouse, and hooked the tiny image sensor (18×18 pixels) directly to the parallel port of his computer, and wrote a program to read out the results. I can’t immediately think of what use this would be, but I think it’s a neat thing anyway.