Saturday, June 29, 2013

How good or bad your IT equipment - PC / Laptop / Ultrabook / Tablet / Phone is?

These days computing technology evolves so fast and many times we get caught in a avalanche of upgrades or equipment change just to keep us up to date...

Of course all these new stuff cost money and is not quite easy to buy just to be on top. You have to have an increase need to upgrade.

On the other hand, many business have quite upgrading to reduce cost, and after a while they have found themselves in a deep predicament  and far behind their own industry standards...

How good or bad your IT equipment - where are you in all this IT saga - at home or at work?

An easy and free way to share these info with us would be to run GeekBench benchmark software on your equipment and fill out the following form.

GeekBench is free and cross-platform - Available for Windows, Mac, Linux, Android, BlackBerry, and iPhone




Saturday, June 15, 2013

How to win the Lottery - Tatts Lotto - Saturday Lotto - Any Lotto

There are always lots of lotteries offering big prizes around us.
But how can we win these big prices?

I always had an eye on them and tried to understand more about numbers and their statistics. Nobody has the absolute answer and nobody can guess the lottery numbers, but is absolutely verified that by checking the previously drawn numbers and calculating statistics you can improve your chances of winning the lottery.

I won't give you any crystal ball, but I will try to post here relevant statistics that could help you win. I will start with Saturday Lotto / Tatts Lotto and based on feedback that I get from readers this post could evolve and become an independent page or even a whole nine yards website.... who knows?

Where can you find the raw data? 
Few Aussie official lottery sites don't publish anymore the whole past draws, but you still can find them on Lottery West and Tatts websites:
http://www.lotterywest.wa.gov.au/results/saturday-lotto
https://tatts.com/tattersalls/results/download-results

What can we do with all these numbers?
What I normally calculate is the frequency, pairs, triplets, quartets, draws sum and then group the numbers in four different categories 'hot', 'cold', 'due' and 'previous'.
'hot' - numbers drawn in the last 10 draws, but not the last draw
'cold' - numbers having a lower overall frequency and  not drawn in the last 10 draws
'due' -  numbers having a higher overall frequency and  not drawn in the last 10 draws
'previous' - numbers drawn in the last draw 

All this stuff can help filter out the numbers that are unlikely to be drawn in the next draw.

How exactly?
For all past draws I have calculated  frequency, pairs, triplets, quartets, draws sum and then group the numbers in four different categories 'hot', 'cold', 'due' and 'previous'..... so I could see a pattern:
About 66% of drawn numbers are 'hot' number
About 15% of drawn numbers are 'cold' numbers
About 6% of drawn numbers are 'due' numbers
About 13% of drawn numbers are 'previous' numbers

This pattern is almost the same, over time.....draw after draw, since '86.

So, what can you do?
If you play 6 numbers, play 4 x 'hot', 1 x 'cold', 1 x 'previous'....you get fewer numbers to choose from and more chances to win based on stats of historical data.

If you want to increase the chances to win a price (not necessarily the big one), play 6 or 7 or 8 'hot' numbers...


Just created this Lotto Statistics database, which will be updated weekly for Tattslotto Statistics:
https://tattslotto-statistics.au/

The Lotto Statistics database is fully searchable and the powerful advanced search function finds quickly the pair, triplet or analysis that you are after.


If you need statistics for other lotteries please comment and I will create more online databases for lottery statistics...

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