Back to the drawing board after mixed (mostly losing) results with the previous system in the pick 4.

Difference since 2016... Took some math courses at an online university (algebra with trigonometry, calculus, statistics, discrete math, and currently going through statistical inference). Going for a bucket list bachelor's degree in computer science. Will take 6 more years... hanging on to a 3.3GPA and lerning a great deal. This is my last math class that the school even offers, so it's all cores and "fluff" from here on out... 9 more classes after this one to an Associate's Degree.

Also dabbling more seriously in programming. 1 class in Python and 2 in Java so far. Also learning Android programming with being awarded a Google scholarship to attend Udacity for the Android Basics nanodegree, which I have recently completed. Currently in a free class for Machine Learning with Python and Pytorch.

plus full time work, plus 5 grandkids (and one on the way)... no rest. AND just hit 50 (was not looking forward to that one).

Next up is a look at the numbers that follow other numbers, basically going to take each number and count the number of times that each of 0-9 followed it. Then, convert these sums into a probability distribution and see what I can do with that. After studying such fun stuff as linear/logistic regression, batch gradient descent, bayesian inference and deep/shallow learning, I think that help might be available but we must figure out what question to have the neural network answer... Rather than have it directly predict a umber, it might be best to have it predict the results of some statistic of the number, like the one described above.

My database for pickN in PA for the 2-3-4&5 are about 18 months behind, so that will be the first phase... And after knowing all this new stuff, there still seems no better tool to visualize what is going on with the lottery than a spreadsheet. (Although I have been quite intrigued by what the language R is capable of, will check out some population stats when I get the database caught up... too bad lazy PA does not have a decent API to get the latest draws from.