A Traditional Chinese newsletter that uses poker, probability and prediction markets such as Polymarket to frame decisions under uncertainty, with the author's personal opinions on AI and current events. Recent issues cover AI-human collaboration, the a16z-backed Horowitz Andreessen Academy, and how to reason about Fed rate decisions.
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Short technical posts on probability, statistics and algorithms, with derivations and worked code. Topics include a quantile-based reparameterization of the Weibull distribution, von Neumann's exponential sampling method, and Mergesort implemented in Elixir.
An advantage player and former casino founder explains the mathematics of gambling, including slot RNG, progressive jackpot break-even points and expected value. It also covers critical takes on the industry, such as how operators use AI to target likely losers.
A Chinese-language newsletter on slot machine design and gambling probability maths, covering AI in game development, player psychology research such as near misses and losses disguised as wins, and game reviews. Readers get analysis of how these mechanics work and how they affect player behaviour.
A personal blog mixing short anecdotes with clear, carefully built explanations of mathematics and machine learning, such as the AM-GM proof of the rectangle-maximum-area result, bias-variance tradeoff and model selection, and the frequentist meaning of probability. It suits readers who want rigorous but readable walkthroughs of foundational math and statistics concepts.
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