$100 Says I Can Only Solve This Problem!

Quote: USpapergames

I guess I will just voluntarily remove myself from this site if people are allowed to give their opinions about me but I will be punished for giving my opinion about them. I'm going to leave this forum with saying 1 final message regarding who I am as an individual. I just need some time to write it.

Quote: USpapergames

Your basically saying I can telling someone here that they are bitching but I can't call them a bit**?

So I could have said that unJon has noobish combinatoric skills or that his combinatoric skills are noobish?

Quote: rdw4potus

So it's a race! Hurry Mental, hurry!

Quote: OnceDear

In my opinion, that's actually pretty much on the ball, IMHO.
I could say that your posts seemed like whinges, But I could not call you a whinger.
Just as we get progress, you stomp off in a huff. Oh hum. You are not a prisoner here, nor are you excluded.
Good luck for the future, especially with the game that you are so passionate about.

Quote: unJon

USPaper,

I happen to think you are sincere so I will give you my rule of thumb for staying within the rules of this forum. Attack the post, not the poster.

Also, I do want to remind you that you offered to do a reasonable penance that I set, which I did up thread.

Quote: DRich

What a shame. Lol

Quote: Mental

I am already at the point where I have satisfied my own curiosity about the problem. I don't think is possible to satisfy OP, but that doesn't concern me. OP points out that part of the problem was to sort the classes of hands by probability: "Your job is to put these hand rankings in order from least to greatest probability of occurring". Ordering is a trivial matter once you have the ability to calculate the combos and overlaps.

OP could make me a millionaire ("we can both become millionaires from this"), but this is an even simpler task. All I have to do is donate away my extra millions to make myself a millionaire.

I usually find reasons to do a lot of programming when I am active in the casinos. I have been inactive since March, so it was good for me to get a little practice in. Thanks to all who provided comments about the technical aspects of the problem at hand.

Quote: USpapergames

Every Christmas I pass out food to the homeless and lead a group of carols to sing Christmas songs to 3 old folks communities. What do you do this time of year? Talk crap about people you don't know? Make fun of people who you think are beneath you???

Quote: DRich

You sound like a good man. Please leave now.

Quote: Mental

      Hand     Number     Frequency    Cumm. Prob       Cycle
--------------------------------------------------------------
Color_Quad         25    0.0006376%    0.0006376%      156849
Quad_Flush        100    0.0025502%    0.0025502%       39212
Suited_D2T        300    0.0076507%    0.0076507%       13071
CS_Doublet        300    0.0076507%    0.0076507%       13071
  2T_Flush        400    0.0102009%    0.0102009%        9803
   DJ_Quad        600    0.0153013%    0.0153013%        6535
Co_Doublet       1500    0.0382534%    0.0382534%        2614
   D2_Tone       1500    0.0382534%    0.0382534%        2614
 Su_Double       2700    0.0688560%    0.0688560%        1452
Dblt_Flush       3600    0.0918080%    0.0918080%        1089
 Suited_2T       4800    0.1224107%    0.1224107%         817
Co_Triplet       9600    0.2448214%    0.2448214%         408
Su_Triplet      19000    0.4845425%    0.4845425%         206
    2_Tone      27600    0.7038617%    0.7038617%         142

Quote: USpapergames

Every Christmas I pass out food to the homeless and lead a group of carols to sing Christmas songs to 3 old folks communities. What do you do this time of year? Talk crap about people you don't know? Make fun of people who you think are beneath you???

Quote: OnceDear

Nice work USPG. I commend you for being a better person than I am.
There is so clearly so much passion in your project. It's remarkable and one day, maybe you will get traction and it will make you fantastically successful and rich. To that end, I wish you well.

I don't think anyone here is trying to 'do you down' or mock you or your work. I'm not.

But like ignorant peasants, we cannot appreciate your greatness. You descend here like some 25th century guru trying to impress a bunch of yokels with your incomprehensible genius. Maybe you chose the wrong audience to impress. Just maybe you are not being judged by your peers, but by ignorant fools.

To that extent, I humbly suggest that you are performing to a crowd that does not appreciate you, like a brilliant comic who's sharp repartee goes over the heads of a bar-room crowd.

I can understand how that would upset you and I doubt that was the intent of anyone here, especially me.Like any genius, you seem to struggle to relate. We peasants cannot fix that for you. Sorry.

A bit like that job interview, you need to decide your goal and your best way of reaching that goal. Just a hint of attitude adjustment might have been all it took to succeed, there and here. You did get some engagement here, but I fear you dismissed it..

I still sincerely wish you all the best, but I suggest that your worst enemy is not me, or any other member here, but closer to home. You need to relate to your audience, Work the crowd, maybe meet them on their pathetic level.

Quote: USpapergames

So here is why my life is terrible & that I'm nothing like MDawg!!! Warning you might not see me the same after this, it's nothing bad it's just a lot of sad stuff that you're going to have a hard time not letting it affect how you interact with me.

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Going to need some time to write up the rest but this video will tell you a lot of it.

https://youtu.be/yaWCaBoPe2Y

Quote: USpapergames

I think the best way to get people to lay off the harrassment is to just let everyone understand my life. Nobody on the forum will want want to make fun of me once they know my life story.

Quote: USpapergames

You guys still think I think I'm the shit??? You guys make me sick to my stomach, literally!

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Here is the psychological evaluation that I got for San Joaquin court, it was good enough for them but not good enough to convince my brother or stepdad

Quote: ThatDonGuy

No, I was not thinking about the internal partitions; I was talking about where, early in the first video, you say that there are 6 ways to partition 5 cards among 4 suits - you say that there is a formula of some sort, but you don't explain what it is. (This is right after you say that you count the number of ways to partition 5 cards among 13 ranks "normally" since 13 >= 5, but you need a special method for the suits since 4 <= 5.) It's at about the 18:00 point in the video.

Quote: teliot

in other words it's not being nominated because you haven't published it and when I suggested an appropriate Journal you told me that it was mostly in your head and not written down. Until you write it down formally and publish it, all you have are words in your head. I've got lots of words in my head too, fortunately I've managed to write a few down over the years.

Here's the deal, publish anything in a major mathematical Journal, anything at all, and then I'll have a look at your problem. Prove that you have at least a modicum of skill by publishing something in a major journal. If you want me to be interested in your work, give me some respect by first proving yourself worthy of my attention.

Publishing in a major journal is very difficult, I have published in some of the best out there, often it's taken up to two years from submission to print. But that's what it takes, and you've got to be willing to do that. This is the last good advice I'm going to give you. Publish or perish.

Quote: USpapergames

Hi, it's me again. I could really use your help. You seem to be the most knowledgeable person on the forum about publishing mathematics. No offense to thatDonguy but I just don't think he has the skills to publish my work. Can you please help me? I'll give you full publishing credit & can send you 6 hours of video footage of me explaining my research.

Quote: SOOPOO

I have time.... ananlysis of your post....

The first thing that stands out to me is that when trying to compliment teliot, you did so while insulting another forum member. If I was teliot I'd be turned off immediately.

Try this...

"teliot, I've really appreciated your comments on my slot machine so far. I think you have skills that I just don't have in the publishing arena. Is there any way you could help me get my work published? At present I really don't have much money, but maybe we could work something out?"

I have been asked for help more times than I can count on this forum. Always politely. No one has ever said... "SOOPOO, you are so much smarter than USpapergames on the subject of surgery, can you help me..."

Anyway.... good luck on getting your work published; for all I know help has been arranged via a PM! And good luck on getting a McArthur grant. My son has had his research funded by one grant or another for the past decade.

Quote: SOOPOO

I have time.... ananlysis of your post....

The first thing that stands out to me is that when trying to compliment teliot, you did so while insulting another forum member. If I was teliot I'd be turned off immediately.

Quote: ThatDonGuy

No offense was taken by me. My degree is in computer science and not mathematics (nor statistics) for a reason. Okay, I almost got a second bachelor's degree in applied mathematics, but that's another story.

Quote: unJon

You failed to read step 4 again. 😂

Quote: USpapergames

But when I say it's not brute force possible, I am mainly talking about hardware capability. You need to start using a portion of Google's supercomputer to get just the 5 card probabilities from that method. You wouldn't say Go is brute force possible even though it technically is if you had a Jupiter Brain.

Quote: Mental

Go was attacked by MCTS AI very successfully. It was not brute force. I have written MCTS for some games base on the work by Markus Enzenberger, the German computer scientist.

I still fail to understand what is hard about 5-card probabilities. As far as I can tell. nobody else here agrees with you that classifying hands and determining dominance is a difficult problem. I wish you or someone else would try to explain what exactly is the hard problem. You simply asserting grandiose claims is not very compelling.

Quote: SOOPOO

USpaper... Apology if you already posted this stuff.... but what are your 'official qualifications'....? What school did you graduate from with what degree? What jobs have you had in the field we are discussing? What successes have you had already? Do you have a 'regular' job now? (MANY of the game designers on this forum have 'real' jobs first, and the game design is a secondary interest...)

Not that the lack of any degree/job/success means you cannot succeed in the future!

Quote: USpapergames

The problem with my explanation is that it won't solve your understanding since my perspective is going to be from a mathematical one since I'm not a computer programmer :/

I'll I can say is to believe me when I tell you that I've worked with some of the best programmers on this very task and even with my advanced algorithm for evaluating the hand rankings, Jim's super computer still could not do the 6 card outcome combinations.

Unfortunately, I can't think of a better way to discover the problems difficultly without actually attempting to solve it :/ Here is my recommendation, try solving the 5 card probabilities (remember that you don't have the hand ranking order & the 4 card ranking order is not the same as the 5 card ranking order). But here is the catch, instead of going from least likely to most likely, try going the other way around since you will definitely run into issues going from the bottom up ;)

Quote: Mental

Maybe your programmers are not as good as you think?

I can solve your bottom-up challenge without doing any programming. The most common 6-card hand is Quark. I define a Quark as a hand of any six cards. Since every 6-card hand is Quark, no other hand is more common unless the exact definition of that other hand is redundant with the definition of Quark. This means the Quark is the highest ranked hand. The Quark dominates every other possible hand. The probability of Quark is 100%. The probability of any other 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, or 6-card hand is zero. All other hands with a definition more specific than the Quark have equal rank.

QED.