Recently, the NPR show Planet Money had an episode about Edward Thorp, the man who invented blackjack card counting. Thorp is a mathematician, and he saw blackjack as an interesting problem to analyze as opposed to a way to get rich quick. At the time he discovered card counting, the established idea was that there… Continue reading Denied!
Category: Fatherhood
Loss and Life
I lost my wife, Jenny, four months ago, on August 31st, 2016. Her heart failed. It was the worst thing to ever happen to me in my life, and these last four months have been the hardest I've ever had to endure. Jenny was a "dializor" - a term she preferred to "dialysis patient." She… Continue reading Loss and Life