Yes! jimboo-boo, I had a wonderful vacation. Thanks for asking. Nothing like having a staff of 20-odd year old nurses visiting at all hours of the day and night to get blood, take blood pressure, and stick you with needles and pour pills down you. Not to mention how they wheeled me around on gurneys and in wheel chairs, assisted with surgeries and procedures, put me to sleep and woke me up, and brought me coffee, ice cream and donuts.
Truth is, I had more fun watching the 23 year old, 5"2", 102 pound, brunette stuff a catheter up my urethra than reading your post. Put that on your bucket list. Maybe Broom Hilda would volunteer in your case.
I do agree you. You do have the right to formulate and write whatever simulations you choose in any manner you choose, no matter how unreal they might be. As you say, it serves your purpose.
Using math as I do to chart positional high/low, even/odd, pairs, trips, etc, is data mining in the statistical sense. Its a realization that what has happened is going to continue to happen.
Data mining is an attempt to answer: What is happening?
The backtesting I've done is generally an effort to answer questions or to prove/disprove statistically what we think is happening is happening. I have no objection to backtesting. I certainly have a lot of respect for those who continue to backtest their ideas and theories. It's a lot of work.
In my view playing QPs for Pick3 is a waste of time. It would make more sense to make 5 sets of numbers and play those for multiple draws than to buy QPs.
Thinking about it there may be 25000 people playing QPs each night. Likely they are not always the same 25000, but it fits your view so you get credit in that respect.
I'll leave the programming alone until we get a poll on how many players here would continue with your strategy after losing 100 draws, and how many would increase their bet, and perhaps the answer to how much would be the ultimate amount they would be willing to bet if they continued to lose.
Such a poll would give us some indication of a realistic attrition rate, don't you think?
In the meantime I'll update some 2Step files and programs and maybe play with some Pick 3 stuff.
Two years is a long time to harbor some ill will that I rewrote one of your programs in an attempt to clarify and correct some oversights. I hope you'll find some way of getting over it one day. From where I sit, I was over it the day after the last post in that thread.
Its much more fun to think of 23 year old nurses sticking rubber hoses the size of a drinking straw up my urethra than attempting to argue common ground where there appears to be none.
Peace,
G