Not that I can come up with all of the variables but anyone working on predicting the lottery?
Just curious about this thing's capabilities. I would think if you could come up with the necessary variables that could effect the numbered balls position and chance of order, and then use the capabilities of the Dwave it could come up with the answer.
I don't know if you can use the computer's access to the web and a.i. to maybe give it access to watching the balls and access all of the previous winning numbers, and what else you would have to think of to factor in to give the computer as much info and live access to help it sort out all of the possibilities?
Well, I don't really know much about programming but I just thought it would be interesting. Thanks for any answers.
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A friend of mine doesn't like his clerical job. I suggested that he look for an IT job since he knows how to build high-performance gaming PCs. He sighed and said, "I just want to win the lottery." I said, "You won't." He said indignantly, "I *could*!" Ha ha ha. Yes, and I could be struck by a meteorite. I'm just not going to waste time thinking about it.
An honest lottery has to generate random, unpredictable numbers somehow, such as by plucking numbered ping-pong balls out of a tumbler, or by measuring the intervals between radioactive decays detected by a Geiger counter ( see https://www.fourmilab.ch/hotbits/ ). I can't imagine how a D-Wave or any other computer could crack a lottery based on truly random numbers.
If a lottery is based on a poor-quality pseudorandom number generator (PRNG), or if it's rigged somehow, it might be possible to detect that by examining past winning numbers. Then maybe a D-Wave could be used to crack it, though I have no idea how one would go about it.
(If anyone is working on the n-body problem with the D-Wave, please comment and let us know.)
There are a couple approaches to predicting the outcomes of what would be considered random events. One approach is to observe the system in real time and make extremely quick calculations based on known physical laws. This first approach is the scenario you would use if you were at a roulette wheel. A video camera can record the system in real time and, as the system evolves, making increasingly accurate predictions about the final state. This approach is probably possible, in theory, for a lottery system where balls are bouncing around and being pulled out one by one. Granted, there are many variables, you would need extremely high fidelity data collection, and an extremely low-latency compute system. Cloud computing, quantum or classical, would not be suitable because of network latencies. Incidentally, this problem domain and approach to a solution is very similar to scenarios with autonomous weapons systems.
A second approach to prediction is to use entangled particles. If you could entangle aspects of the observed system with another system you control, you may be able to influence the outcome of the observed system.
The first approach is an engineering challenge, but definitely tractable. The second approach (using entanglement) may be possible in theory, but the probabilities would be so extreme that I think the universe would end before we see the experiment finally work.
I try to - no random proces, I think there's no random lottery.
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