https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/1112.1645/Collected HN comments and submissions linking this paper.enMon, 02 Nov 2026 11:16:22 GMThttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3342131urn:hackerpapers:submission:1112.1645:3342131Mon, 12 Dec 2011 03:35:32 GMT<p>How to gamble if you are in a hurry [pdf]</p><p></p><p>2 points; 0 discussion replies on HN. <a href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/1112.1645/">Paper and source history</a>. A submission is not an endorsement.</p>math.PRhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3336790urn:hackerpapers:submission:1112.1645:3336790Sat, 10 Dec 2011 03:10:25 GMT<p>Mathematics of Gambling Revisited: under realistic assumptions</p><p>In a forthcoming paper entitled &quot;Gamble if you are in a HURRRY!&quot; by Evangelos Georgiadis, Doron Zeilberger and compubot Ekhad Shalosh, the mathematics of gambling has been re-examinded under a discrete and realistic view..... giving the reader a hands-on approach to the analysis. The beautiful theory of statistical gambling, started by Dubins and Savage (for subfair games) and continued by Kelly and Breiman (for superfair games) has mostly been studied under the unrealistic assumption that we live in a continuous world, that money is indefinitely divisible, and that our life is indefinitely…</p><p>4 points; 0 discussion replies on HN. <a href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/1112.1645/">Paper and source history</a>. A submission is not an endorsement.</p>math.PR