Wednesday, December 23, 2009

Re: [vpFREE] Re: Dream Card variance PSA

On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 8:16 AM, WP SF <paladingamingllc@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Very few people here have the math skills of you or Dunbar. That being said, you can probably figure out exactly the covar for each of the games, right?

that's more a matter of coding skills than math skills. computing the
variance contribution of the dealt royal (and dealt RF4 and dealt
quads) by hand is simple enough, but computing the overall variance by
hand is... masochism. :)

really, i just scribbled out enough numbers to convince myself i don't
want to go anywhere near this game, and after that i'm done with it.

i've never programmed a general VP analysis framework, and while it
wouldn't be impossible for me to do so, it would be a lot of work
that's never gotten to the top of my to-do list. tweaking it for
something like Dream Card is easy, it's the fundamental work like
handling symmetries and caching and so forth that's difficult.

if anyone on this list has code they could be convinced or bribed into
sharing, they should let me know. :)

cheers,

five


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