A blog site for Kimota94 (that's me) to use for topics that interest me. Those topics originally included: comic books, Major League Baseball, the music and genius of Peter Gabriel and Magnolia Electric Company, the odd work-related topic like Agile Project Delivery, and any other little thing that comes to mind on any given day. Lately, it's mostly been that last one!
Tuesday, February 08, 2011
When Smart People Decode The Stupidity Tax
Courtesy of Freakonomics, I found this fascinating Wired article about a Toronto man who's cracked some of the lotteries being run in North America. He's deduced that the "random distribution" of numbers on the face of those Tic-Tac-Toe scratch cards is not only not random but it also reveals, sometimes with as high as a 90% accuracy, whether the card is a winner or not! Anyone who plays the lottery should definitely read this one!
Interesting that he figured out it wasn't worth his while to make a living at it!
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