Shannon And Thorp Build First Wearable Computer In Shoes To Beat Roulette
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@BrianRoemmele An excellent book with the first hand account of this and many other great aspects of Thorp’s life.
@BrianRoemmele “The Eudaemonic Pie”, the book about this, is a good read
@BrianRoemmele What a great story!
The first battery portable computer in 1961 is not what anyone could have guessed. It was in a shoe. You are using the math he invented right now, but most do not know his name. So he went west to calculate the orbits of steel balls... This is his story.