Re: what is the best/state-of-art lottery prediction algorithm in statistics?

From: Phil Carmody (thefatphil_demunged_at_yahoo.co.uk)
Date: 01/03/05 

Date: 03 Jan 2005 22:54:58 +0200

">parr\(*>" <laurykingno@SPAMbtinternet.moc> writes:

> "Phil Carmody" <thefatphil_demunged@yahoo.co.uk> wrote in message
> news:87sm5kt6nb.fsf@nonospaz.fatphil.org...
> | jurgenr@web.de (Jürgen R.) writes:
> |
> | > "Kent Paul Dolan" <xanthian@well.com> wrote:
> | >
> | > >"kiki" <lunaliu3@yahoo.com> wrote:
> | > >
> | > >[about plans to "predict the lottery"]
> | > >
> | > >You do understand that is a fool's errand, right?
> | >
> | > Not always.
> | > Whitey Bulger won the Massachusetts lottery.
> |
> | And quite what "prediction" did Whitey perform?
>
> Surprisingly simple prediction, actually. He wrote down a set of
> numbers which he predicted would win the lottery. Those numbers won and
> his prediction came true.

Did he? Are _you_ sure? The authorities seem to disagree with you on
that point - what do you know that the authorities don't?

> Perhaps you are not familiar with how lotteries work, and how people win
> it.

Perhaps you are not familiar with the business that Whitey was in.

Phil 

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