Hello everybody. This is my first post as I'm new to the forum. I'm graduating from college next month and I'm looking to get in touch with some people who might be interested in working with me. I'm not exactly talking about a blackjack team... I mean something a little more general. This isn't necessarily an ad for people to contact me; I'm very open to any advice that anyone has for forming a team.
My story is basically that I have a number of ideas that I've been working on for the last couple of years. They range from optimizing new systems of card counting to the design of hidden wearable computers. A few of my more prized ideas are completely unlike anything I have ever seen or read about and I'm hoping that they'll be able to catch casinos off guard. I also have several schemes that have a similar spirit but are unrelated to casinos.
I have remote access to significant computing resources (a sizable Beowulf cluster) and am an experienced computer programmer. I'm very knowledgeable of probability and statistical analysis as well. I have been formally trained in both physics and computer science.
I'm not interested in working casinos on a whim or because I just saw 21; I've been planning on it for years and I'm now ready to make the commitment. I'm also not in this because I think that I'm going to get rich fast. I get some sort of strange satisfaction from finding and exploiting vulnerabilities in systems that attempt to be airtight. I'm hoping that anybody I work with will share this idiosyncrasy.
I need people who can complement my own skill set and increase our chances of success. I recognize that actual experience is crucial and I would like to work with at least one person who has an intimate familiarity with casinos. I would prefer for the team to live together, develop ideas, and train for a number of months before we actually attempt anything. That means that the members of the team would need to be unrooted and extremely dedicated. I'm guessing that other graduating seniors might be good candidates.
So what do you think? Is it unrealistic to form a team like this without having prior relationships to the other members? I'm really interested to hear any advice from people who have worked on teams before.
Thank you,
Adlai
My story is basically that I have a number of ideas that I've been working on for the last couple of years. They range from optimizing new systems of card counting to the design of hidden wearable computers. A few of my more prized ideas are completely unlike anything I have ever seen or read about and I'm hoping that they'll be able to catch casinos off guard. I also have several schemes that have a similar spirit but are unrelated to casinos.
I have remote access to significant computing resources (a sizable Beowulf cluster) and am an experienced computer programmer. I'm very knowledgeable of probability and statistical analysis as well. I have been formally trained in both physics and computer science.
I'm not interested in working casinos on a whim or because I just saw 21; I've been planning on it for years and I'm now ready to make the commitment. I'm also not in this because I think that I'm going to get rich fast. I get some sort of strange satisfaction from finding and exploiting vulnerabilities in systems that attempt to be airtight. I'm hoping that anybody I work with will share this idiosyncrasy.
I need people who can complement my own skill set and increase our chances of success. I recognize that actual experience is crucial and I would like to work with at least one person who has an intimate familiarity with casinos. I would prefer for the team to live together, develop ideas, and train for a number of months before we actually attempt anything. That means that the members of the team would need to be unrooted and extremely dedicated. I'm guessing that other graduating seniors might be good candidates.
So what do you think? Is it unrealistic to form a team like this without having prior relationships to the other members? I'm really interested to hear any advice from people who have worked on teams before.
Thank you,
Adlai