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S'està carregant… The Perfect Bet: How Science and Math Are Taking the Luck Out of Gamblingde Adam Kucharski
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Apunta't a LibraryThing per saber si aquest llibre et pot agradar. No hi ha cap discussió a Converses sobre aquesta obra. Great book, very interesting. Covers the development of the science of gambling, and prediction. Doesn't get into the hard-core maths in any detail, but enough to understand what's going on. A real arms race between betters and bet-takers. Interesting analysis of poker-bots, and that poker is in some ways a harder game to play well than chess as not everything is known and the betting changes the course of the game. ( ) With The Perfect Bet, we find a well-researched exploration of how Gambling has contributed to the advancement of human knowledge. As long as Gambling has existed, there have been people trying to beat the system, to find a loophole or gambit that would give them the upper hand against the House. In some cases this has proved to be a fruitful endeavor, earning the person money and pushing forth the realms of probability and computation. In others, it might not have won money, but it did advance knowledge. The book does meander a little bit, I thought it would start out with the development of Probability back in the 1500s with Cardano and then later on in the 1600s with Pascal and Fermat. While it does cover those things, it starts out with Roulette. Sprinkled throughout the book are the names of luminaries like Richard Feynman and John von Neumann. The Monte Carlo method arose from gambling, as did Markov Chains and other theoretical models. It even talks about Pseudorandom number generators and the like. The book seems to go by game and by subject. For instance, it doesn’t treat computer-assisted gambling as one chapter but rather spreads instances throughout the book. It talks about famous gambling rings, Hong Kong horse races, crime syndicates, and other such topics. It even talks about the Watson appearance on Jeopardy as part of the development of Artificial Intelligence. Gambling and Probability played a large part in the development of “the Super,” the Hydrogen Bomb. The same idea can be stated for computers though. Using the Monte Carlo Method, they were able to take large amounts of numbers and process them with the new electronic computers that were being developed. So all in all this book was really fascinating and easy to read. Book was OK, w a bias towards European research and sports industries by the British author. Not overly mathematical, and ample mention of the origins of betting theory in America. It was an easier read than I thought it would be, an it isn't really going to help you be a more successful gambler. A lot of talk about betting bots on the Internet. Comincio la recensione parlando della traduttrice di questo libro, Valeria Lucia Gili. Ogni tanto, mentre leggevo, trovavo qualcosa che non mi tornava: c'era però una nota, nella quale lei spiegava la sua scelta; ed effettivamente aveva il suo senso. È stato davvero bello vedere tutta questa passione. E il libro, com'è? Molto, molto bello. Kucharski spiega bene qual è la differenza tra la teoria e la pratica; se volete vedere la cosa in un altro modo, i bei risultati matematici sul calcolo delle probabilità sono solo approssimazioni se li si applica a quello che succede nel mondo reale. Certo, chi gestisce le scommesse fa in modo che la matematica sia a suo favore. Ma questa è appunto solo la teoria. In un mondo come il nostro che è meno che perfetto, però, ci sono sempre delle scappatoie che ci fanno fuggire dalla teoria. Una roulette può non essere perfettamente bilanciata, le carte possono essere mischiate male; ma soprattutto è possibile che gli altri scommettitori scelgano strategie non ottimali e chi sa davvero usare la matematica può sfruttarla per guadagnare a spese loro. Nel libro viene addirittura mostrato come sia possibile per un computer superare gli esseri umani in un gioco come il poker, dove si può ingenuamente pensare che l'arte di bluffare abbia un ruolo dominante nella strategia. Il tutto ben documentato con tantissime fonti. In definitiva questo è uno dei pochi libri che conosco che mostra come la matematica abbia davvero un'importanza nel mondo reale oltre a dividere alla romana il conto della pizzeria. Dite nulla! Sense ressenyes | afegeix-hi una ressenya
From roulette tables to racetracks, provides a look at how scientists and mathematicians throughout the years have tried to figure out how to beat the house while gambling. No s'han trobat descripcions de biblioteca. |
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