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To maximize expected value (EV). You can go all in with AA pre-flop and get a bad beat from someone with 27o. While the result is bad (you lost this time), you made a +EV decision because you were ~80% favorite to win so over the long run this move will actually be profitable.

Comment · 7 years ago

Indeed, it is.

Comment · 7 years ago

Glad that somebody pointed that out. IMO, if somebody wants to get a quick overview of genetics, their time would be much better spent watching lectures 4-7 from Sapolsky's Human Behavioural Biology lectures [1]. In those 4 lectures Sapolsky's explores contradicting theories about (among other things) the unit of selection and gradualism. Highly recommend the whole series.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_dRXA1_e30o&list=PL150326949...

Comment · 10 years ago

Sounds like a great approach. Can you (or anyone else) recommend contributors to follow?

Comment · 10 years ago

From the "Questions" section:

Will there be a print version?

That's my goal, yes. I want to be sure all the edits are made and, technically-speaking, the book is completed. If I do end up with a paper edition, I'll send out a note to the mailing list in late September, early October.

edit: Formatting.

Comment · 10 years ago

I found Princeton's Buddhism and Modern Psychology particularly interesting [1]. You can read the course's overview to decide if it would be of any interest to you.

[1] https://www.coursera.org/learn/science-of-meditation

Comment · 10 years ago

You can find a lot of other courses if you poke around the net. For example, 6.005 - Elements of Software Construction is "As taught in 2011" on OCW [1], but you can find the latest notes here [2]. The content hasn't changed a lot since 2011 though, and the changes are mostly in the order of which the content is presented. As a side note, this is is easily the best course out there for novice/intermediate programmers. No videos though.

Another great course (started it yesterday) is 6.172 Performance Engineering of Software Systems [3] and it also has videos available.

All in all, there are a lot of great courses for any level of experience/knowledge. It's best that you check them out and see what you like yourself. This [4] is the list of all the EE/CS subjects that are offered on OCW. Some of them have videos, others don't. Note however, that almost all of them have comprehensive lecture notes and if you get stuck, you can always look for more information elsewhere. Finally, if you want to check what they offer every semester, see here [5] (note: their EE/CS courses start with 6).

[1] http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-comput... [2] http://web.mit.edu/6.005/www/fa15 [3] http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-comput... [4] http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/#electrical-engineering-and-compu... [5] https://stellar.mit.edu/courseguide/#course_6_sp16

Comment · 10 years ago

I was thinking of taking "Principles of Reactive Programming" by Martin Ordesky after taking his other class "Functional Programming Principles in Scala" on Coursera. After looking at CS 61A, I am thinking of taking it instead. How long did it take you to complete the course? Also, as far as I understood you can use the grader with "--local" flag to check the correctness of your program, is that the case?

Comment · 11 years ago

I'm in UK as well and everything was working just fine up until ~15 minutes ago.