How exactly were they cheating? I don’t know enough about gambling to instinctively understand how a camera and earpieces could give a player an advantage. Or how using those two things inside a casino might possibly be illegal.
* Computer assisted card counting giving running "actual odds" for betting at Blackjack and other games. One person spots and tracks, feeding info to player.
* Wheel physics in roulette .. there's enough infomation in the wheel speed and ball speed prior to close of betting to predict the final octant (eight of a wheel) to a high degree of confidence (eg: if practiced, will improve long term odds to better than expected loss).
> Could computer vision give you those metrics though?
Yes.
> How would you do it?
Similar to how I once estimated rock size and soil grades on high speed conveyor belts in real time, borrowing ideas from a few decades of satellite / airborne image processing, signal processing in geophysics, industrial computer vision applications, etc.
You'd start with recognising cards, or locking in on a roulette wheel ..
To be honest, computer vision isn't strictly needed here - old school casino crews would "fast enter" cards by hand using a chording hand piece or similar, the eudeamonic pie crew used custom single board computers in the shoes for both entering wheel and ball speed and for transmitting recieving the guesstimate to the table person placing bets.
Depending on how the camera is positioned, you could potentially be sneaking information off a “weak” dealer. That would give a massive advantage at blackjack.
If you’re not aware, a weak dealer would be someone not handling cards properly and perhaps showing the face down card during dealing. They may even only be showing the face down card from certain angles that a player may not be able to see, so having a second person behind the table or something would be required.
I’m a manager in a unique field where people come in with many educational levels. There is little correlation between educational credentials and job performance. A variety of previous jobs and having lived a few different places seems to correlate more with performance.
My comment is generalizing, as is the thread subject. It has been a downwards moving trend, and for young workers I will say that a college degree is now a negative factor. But that doesn't define the candidate.
Also: Any positive or negative effect of a college degree is either amplified or moderated by candidates self-selecting. A candidate who greatly values their college degree will seek out employers who do the same, and vice-versa.
Becoming a Professional Engineer requires four years experience under the guidance of an already licensed engineer and passing a rigorous exam. No fresh college graduate is qualified to design bridges, same as the high school dropout.
If we could incentivize small, lightweight electric vehicles over the current trend of large (heavy) luxury vehicles, there would be a lot of benefits. I’d like a trend towards “easy and safe motorcycle” instead of our current “living room that moves itself.”
Yes, self made. Based on fairly standard practices. The intensity of the plan workouts are based on how you are performing during the training block and adapt to fit the most “optimal” for you
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