109: Edward Thorp – The Man Who Beat the Dealer, and Later, Beat the Market
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How to Build a Computer to Beat Real Apps
"I told him about attempting to build a computer, a wearable computer to beat real app. And so he got very excited because as it turns out he was one of the most famous gadget he was of all time," says Hawking. "We spent the next nine months, we bought a full-size roulette, we all set it up in its basement and used some equipment from the MIT labs to make really accurate measurements" A small computer is now at the MIT Museum incidentally that you could hide on your body.
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