Original Blog Entry: Busy coding day

hypersoniq — Thu, 07 Aug 2025 14:31:17 GMT

Starting off with running the next on the house pick 3 combos and then going to play them.

The harder part is for fine tuning the Cash 4 Life classifier, as a deeper dive into the data shows too many draws that should be classified as cold are being given the Neutral classification.

The standard deviation ends up being too wide when using 1.5 as a scalar, this is most likely because it was set for 1 to 60, but the observed range is much tighter. Good thing I created the script with a scalar variable already in place!

It will be simply stepping back from 1.5 to 1.45 and moving down until the cold numbers go back to being cold. The lists are too big for each column. Even though the use of the set eliminates duplicates across lists, a number picked twice in 534 draws is cold by any definition...

This is not a burning priority, but I have the time today AND I am aware of the issue... so may as well fix it now.

The other thing is dropping in $7 a la carte to play a gut feeling on the PA pick 4... for a box play on 1177. I know that the last appearance of any of the 6 permutations the most recent appearance in the day game was 7/24/2021 and the last appearance in the evening was 2/9/2017, but gotta go with the hunch because I rarely have them. There was to be a surplus of $13 after playing the pick 3 for a few more weeks on them, so it will come from that... still no out of pocket expenses this month. Only playing box as the combo has only ever been drawn 14 times since it first appeared on the evening game back in 1983. $400 for a $0.50 box is good enough IF it shows up.

On Saturday the last 6 draws of the first attempt at the Cash 4 Life will be purchased. Not impressed with those results so far, but the next time house money becomes available, that will be the test of it's all neutral QP generator.

I may also factor in a revised odds calculator for the Cash 4 Life based on the number of entries in the neutral combined set just out of curiosity. As an example, if just 5 numbers are eliminated, the odds for the neutral white ball numbers drop from 1 in 7,282,016 down to 1 in 4,638,348. If 10 balls are eliminated, it drops to 1 in 2,825,013. Still a ton of combos, but then the QP generator will choose just 1 of those resultant combos.

It is kind of like the difference between a slot machine and video poker... both still favor the house, and both require some degree of luck, but at least you feel there was SOME attempt on your part to influence the outcome on a video poker machine instead of just letting the slot machine take your money.... [ More ]