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Moreover, Thorpe was a polymath genius. So I’m not sure these four horsemen were thst influential. He later went on to make a killing running one of the first true long/short hedge fund and pioneering a lot of modern portfolio management theory. Trust me, markets are a lot harder than blackjack and Ed Thorpe was definately up to the task.


He and Shannon also beat roulette using a 1950s analog computer they put in a shoe. Which is freaking amazing.




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