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    Posted: Apr. 24, 2011 - 7:04 AM ET #151

    Eels within striking distance
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    Posted: Apr. 24, 2011 - 7:05 AM ET #152

    I just killed a moth with a tennis racquet
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    Posted: Apr. 24, 2011 - 7:06 AM ET #153

    Quote Originally Posted by Rostos:

    Answer the question.

    Winning the lotto is luck or skill?

    Yes or No/



    niether

    you ever seen a lotto draw?

    do you know what variance is?

    do you know what randomness is?

    of course you dont. Understanding the world would mean you can't blame everybody and everything bar yourself for losing
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    Quote Originally Posted by Rostos:

    Answer the question.

    Winning the lotto is luck or skill?

    Yes or No/



    niether

    you ever seen a lotto draw?

    do you know what variance is?

    do you know what randomness is?

    of course you dont. Understanding the world would mean you can't blame everybody and everything bar yourself for losing
     
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    Posted: Apr. 24, 2011 - 7:07 AM ET #154

    Lotto is skill because i lose 100% of the time
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    Posted: Apr. 24, 2011 - 7:07 AM ET #155

    Quote Originally Posted by Ace77:

    I just killed a moth with a tennis racquet


    poor Robbie McCormack
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    I just killed a moth with a tennis racquet


    poor Robbie McCormack
     
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    Posted: Apr. 24, 2011 - 7:09 AM ET #156

    Quote Originally Posted by Hirschfelder:



    niether

    you ever seen a lotto draw?

    do you know what variance is?

    do you know what randomness is?

    of course you dont. Understanding the world would mean you can't blame everybody and everything bar yourself for losing

    Neither means to me u KNOW winning the lotto is PURE 100% LUCK.

     

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    niether

    you ever seen a lotto draw?

    do you know what variance is?

    do you know what randomness is?

    of course you dont. Understanding the world would mean you can't blame everybody and everything bar yourself for losing

    Neither means to me u KNOW winning the lotto is PURE 100% LUCK.

     

     
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    Posted: Apr. 24, 2011 - 7:15 AM ET #157

    Quote Originally Posted by Rostos:

    Neither means to me u KNOW winning the lotto is PURE 100% LUCK.

     





    just admit you don't understand variance and randomness. just admit you have no idea what you are talking about. You know more about numbers then a mathematician (you knowm the guys you love to quote when it suits you)

    Just keep being jealous of the winners and blame everything else but yourself on your loses
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    Quote Originally Posted by Rostos:

    Neither means to me u KNOW winning the lotto is PURE 100% LUCK.

     





    just admit you don't understand variance and randomness. just admit you have no idea what you are talking about. You know more about numbers then a mathematician (you knowm the guys you love to quote when it suits you)

    Just keep being jealous of the winners and blame everything else but yourself on your loses
     
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    Posted: Apr. 24, 2011 - 7:23 AM ET #158

    Quote Originally Posted by Hirschfelder:





    just admit you don't understand variance and randomness. just admit you have no idea what you are talking about. You know more about numbers then a mathematician (you knowm the guys you love to quote when it suits you)

    Just keep being jealous of the winners and blame everything else but yourself on your loses

    jelous of your big "o'fer" last week?


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    just admit you don't understand variance and randomness. just admit you have no idea what you are talking about. You know more about numbers then a mathematician (you knowm the guys you love to quote when it suits you)

    Just keep being jealous of the winners and blame everything else but yourself on your loses

    jelous of your big "o'fer" last week?


     
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    Posted: Apr. 24, 2011 - 7:25 AM ET #159

    The only stats i did was 1st year at uni.

    Yes i understand confidence intervals, Z scores, t scores, mean, standard deviations. All the basics of stats.

    None of it helped me win the lotto.

    Oh sorry, i watched the news the other night and someone won $50 mill in the states from the lotto, when interviewed, the person said,

    "Hirshfelder made me realise that winning the lotto isnt luck, there is skill involved in this, just let Hirshfelder give you a lesson in statistics and you will win like me"...

    U fool

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    The only stats i did was 1st year at uni.

    Yes i understand confidence intervals, Z scores, t scores, mean, standard deviations. All the basics of stats.

    None of it helped me win the lotto.

    Oh sorry, i watched the news the other night and someone won $50 mill in the states from the lotto, when interviewed, the person said,

    "Hirshfelder made me realise that winning the lotto isnt luck, there is skill involved in this, just let Hirshfelder give you a lesson in statistics and you will win like me"...

    U fool

     
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    Posted: Apr. 24, 2011 - 7:31 AM ET #160

    oh look, rostos making shit up again

    just like when you posted your under 40.5 today when the score was 12-4 2 minutes before half time. Don't think that a few of us didn't miss that one

    just like your long string of bullshit stories

    wow. I went 1-4 last week. That will really affect my bank, considering I will have between 17,000-20,000 bets this year. Those 4 losses will break the bank.

    Maybe I'll have to cut down on my baseball, tennis and soccer bets this week. My models will shit themselves because of 4 losses

    so, do you understand variance and randomness? of course not. Throwing out the word luck makes it all ok
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    oh look, rostos making shit up again

    just like when you posted your under 40.5 today when the score was 12-4 2 minutes before half time. Don't think that a few of us didn't miss that one

    just like your long string of bullshit stories

    wow. I went 1-4 last week. That will really affect my bank, considering I will have between 17,000-20,000 bets this year. Those 4 losses will break the bank.

    Maybe I'll have to cut down on my baseball, tennis and soccer bets this week. My models will shit themselves because of 4 losses

    so, do you understand variance and randomness? of course not. Throwing out the word luck makes it all ok
     
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    Posted: Apr. 24, 2011 - 7:36 AM ET #161

    Rostos studied stats at the derp institute
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    Posted: Apr. 24, 2011 - 7:36 AM ET #162

    Yes i understand confidence intervals, Z scores, t scores, mean, standard deviations. All the basics of stats.

    10th grade math
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    Yes i understand confidence intervals, Z scores, t scores, mean, standard deviations. All the basics of stats.

    10th grade math
     
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    Posted: Apr. 24, 2011 - 7:40 AM ET #163

    got to go rostos, the bitch is bitching. hopefully if i'm lucky i'll wake up in the morning
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    got to go rostos, the bitch is bitching. hopefully if i'm lucky i'll wake up in the morning
     
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    Posted: Apr. 24, 2011 - 7:41 AM ET #165

      

    Win 1.9 $1,615.00

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    Posted: Apr. 24, 2011 - 7:43 AM ET #166

    Oops, didnt come out properly.

    7347 NRL R7 Parr-GCst TSOvUn Under 40.5 Points Includes Extra Time Sell Bet Win 1.9 $850 $1615

     

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    Oops, didnt come out properly.

    7347 NRL R7 Parr-GCst TSOvUn Under 40.5 Points Includes Extra Time Sell Bet Win 1.9 $850 $1615

     

     
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    Quote Originally Posted by Rostos:

    Oops, didnt come out properly.

    7347 NRL R7 Parr-GCst TSOvUn Under 40.5 Points Includes Extra Time Sell Bet Win 1.9 $850 $1615

     

    I find that they normally put a comma in between the thousand and the next hundred  

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    Oops, didnt come out properly.

    7347 NRL R7 Parr-GCst TSOvUn Under 40.5 Points Includes Extra Time Sell Bet Win 1.9 $850 $1615

     

    I find that they normally put a comma in between the thousand and the next hundred  

     
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    Posted: Apr. 24, 2011 - 8:01 AM ET #171

    Do u want me to give you my account number to have a look?

    I only cut and pasted the main description, i cant add the colums where the figures are. I tried to and look what happened in the previous post..........

    So i entered them myself.....FFS

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    Do u want me to give you my account number to have a look?

    I only cut and pasted the main description, i cant add the colums where the figures are. I tried to and look what happened in the previous post..........

    So i entered them myself.....FFS

     
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    Posted: Apr. 24, 2011 - 8:03 AM ET #172

    Quote Originally Posted by Rostos:

    Do u want me to give you my account number to have a look?

    I only cut and pasted the main description, i cant add the colums where the figures are. I tried to and look what happened in the previous post..........

    So i entered them myself.....FFS

    Rostos, calm down. I couldn't give a fuck what you bet

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    Do u want me to give you my account number to have a look?

    I only cut and pasted the main description, i cant add the colums where the figures are. I tried to and look what happened in the previous post..........

    So i entered them myself.....FFS

    Rostos, calm down. I couldn't give a fuck what you bet

     
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    Will Shillington be suspended for tripping?
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    Posted: Apr. 24, 2011 - 8:10 AM ET #174

    Guys, if u want a bet, unload everything u have on the Mumbai Indians to win the IPL.

    Seriously, that team is indestructible.

    That team is the strongest cricket team ever assembled. It probably is the strongest sporting team ever damn assembled.

    They have played about 6 - 7 games, lost one and all the other games, they havent even been tested.

    There batsman just dont fail, there bowlers als o just dont fail

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    Guys, if u want a bet, unload everything u have on the Mumbai Indians to win the IPL.

    Seriously, that team is indestructible.

    That team is the strongest cricket team ever assembled. It probably is the strongest sporting team ever damn assembled.

    They have played about 6 - 7 games, lost one and all the other games, they havent even been tested.

    There batsman just dont fail, there bowlers als o just dont fail

     
     
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    Posted: Apr. 26, 2011 - 4:01 AM ET #175

    "In our society, we use 'psychology' as an explanation for anything we don't understand. This is precisely the way people identified witchcraft for hundreds of years. The widow Mueller walked by about 3:00 as I was milking my cow, the milk turned out to be sour, there's no reason why that milk would be sour ... it must be witchcraft.

    "My point is, in order to show that something is a psychological effect, you need to show that it is a psychological effect-not merely that it isn't something else. Which people still don't get. They look at things as logically as they can, and, not seeing any other difference between A and B conclude that the difference between them is psychology.

    "We don't understand why the Red Sox played better without Nomar than with him, so we credit it to clubhouse psychology. We don't understand why Joe Torre is successful, so we claim that he is a master psychologist. This is illogical, and it isn't really any different than attributing it to witchcraft. People used 'witchcraft' to explain why babies died in their cribs and why cats act weird. Using 'psychology' in the same way isn't any better, and it isn't a service to real psychology. It is actually defending real psychology to resist the bastardization of the term."


    Bill James

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    "In our society, we use 'psychology' as an explanation for anything we don't understand. This is precisely the way people identified witchcraft for hundreds of years. The widow Mueller walked by about 3:00 as I was milking my cow, the milk turned out to be sour, there's no reason why that milk would be sour ... it must be witchcraft.

    "My point is, in order to show that something is a psychological effect, you need to show that it is a psychological effect-not merely that it isn't something else. Which people still don't get. They look at things as logically as they can, and, not seeing any other difference between A and B conclude that the difference between them is psychology.

    "We don't understand why the Red Sox played better without Nomar than with him, so we credit it to clubhouse psychology. We don't understand why Joe Torre is successful, so we claim that he is a master psychologist. This is illogical, and it isn't really any different than attributing it to witchcraft. People used 'witchcraft' to explain why babies died in their cribs and why cats act weird. Using 'psychology' in the same way isn't any better, and it isn't a service to real psychology. It is actually defending real psychology to resist the bastardization of the term."


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