Show HN: Law of Large Numbers or Why It's a Bad Idea to Go to a Casinoeasylang.online 3 pointschrka8 months ago1 commentSaveHideCopy link On HNComments−k3108moHow 4000 Physicists Gave a Vegas Casino Its Worst Week -- Dead link to Physics Central "PhysicsCentral has been retired" Discussion:https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16516837Some say that APS convention goers were too immersed in physics to gamble.Others say that physicists were just too smart to play a losing game. (well, gambling, anyway)A bit fluffier:https://qz.com/work/1249513/was-a-convention-of-physicists-r...The casino’s take that weekend was so low that the group was allegedly asked never to return to the MGM Grand, or to the city of Las Vegas—or so says the legend the APS has repeated for the last 32 years.
Comments
How 4000 Physicists Gave a Vegas Casino Its Worst Week -- Dead link to Physics Central "PhysicsCentral has been retired" Discussion:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16516837
Some say that APS convention goers were too immersed in physics to gamble.
Others say that physicists were just too smart to play a losing game. (well, gambling, anyway)
A bit fluffier:
https://qz.com/work/1249513/was-a-convention-of-physicists-r...