What kind of business should I start?

Anyone interested in a wide area distributed genetic oh, let’s call it a Fantasy Name Generator

With a fun fun fun! Fitness function!

Copyright (C) June 25, 2011 by Thowi
All rights reserved.
// No Noobs! I will hurt your brain!

I’m not going to sketch any source code just yet, but I have an idea for a fantasy (or whatever) name generator. It uses a kind of genetic algorithm. It uses certain complicated algorithms[knuth] to create a large search space of possible names. Now this needs some work so you don’t end up with names like ‘Qj34lii’ or ‘Legooooloops’ or ‘Thowi’, so it’s going to take a bit of work to define fatal mutations.

But one thing that would be really nice, is to play a game over twitter, and allow people to ‘rate’ names (for various ‘traits’) and data mine the heck out of that to train an artificial neural network to become the fitness function to run that thing somewhere all by its self[runonsentencesarerequiredforstuffycomputerresearch].

Anyone interested in that? I know of at least one big MMO company that is running out of fantasy name space.

Love you! The Evil Computer Scientist, Thowi!

Hacking in Poker: Bluff the protocol

Everyone is so fascinated by this whole ‘bluffing’ aspect of the game of poker. It’s not that big a deal. It’s important, because you can’t really win money if you don’t bluff sometimes. At least statistically.

It’s really simple. If you always have good cards, no one will call you, and then you can’t take their money. And that is very, very sad.

Bluffing is easy if you can grok this one thing (not to mention you grok grok.) The poker turn and betting sequence is laid out like a protocol. Each action is a statement.

// Warning, Poker VooDoo

For example, let’s say you have big slick and you’re under the gun. It’s wise to make a bet 2-3 times the big blind to say you’ve got something. And if you bet in that position, you’d almost better have something.

Now if you are lying with your bet about what cards you hold, they call it bluffing. I call it hacking, and I use NLP. And, well… here is one more tiny interesting fact: The whole poker betting protocol is much much simpler than TCP/IP.

<music type=”GypParadoyThemeSong”>Do do do dum, do dum do, Wait for it…. </music>

Grok it yet?

And later I’ll tell you how to hack the entire poker system. 😉

Neuro Lingustic Programming and Internet Marketing Culture

How someone is making way too much money… with the Internet!

I’ve been, oh let’s just call it researching, how people that sell some of the craziest stuff on the Internet get it done. I have a lot of people I want to just gossip about on here, but we’ll start with this one, weird thing:

This one trademarketer is quite good at getting his target audience to buy his product. I find it just fascinating, because I bet a lot of his customers are geeks. At least, most of his customer’s do seem to be really smart and successful.

But that got me to thinking… I wonder how much this marketer is worth? After studying for a while, I learned something very interesting. While he’s a genius at marketing, he’s really just a neuro-psychology hacker! Bet some of you guys out there trying to learn marketing have heard of NLP.

Wonder if he teaches the marketing part anywhere?

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Of course, we all know Wikipedia is unreliable because it’s open source…

My definition of gambling

Copyright (C) June 20, 2011
by Thowi

While working on my thesis, I learned some top-secret scary government voodoo math called lambda calculus.

I’m going to do a blog post on that subject later, but I want to talk about poker for right now.

You see, poker is really a very, very simple game.  (I know TCP/IP baby.)

It only requires some very simple statistics done with just whole numbers…  And I can do scary voodoo math in my head.

So my definition of gambling:

How I take money from people who can’t do math.  With Poker!

Of course there is this other fun game I’m interested in that uses fractions!

If I can get some research money, in about 6 months I’m going to write a book:

How to Hack Hold ‘Em with VooDoo: An NLP Language in Lisp

Game Theory and Financial Risk Analysis:
An Introduction With Poker

A Text book for a university level computer science course I would like to teach… with Lisp.
But it’s a language for thought… I’m not sure how to describe it just yet.

Thinking about starting a company…