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Originally Posted by picoman
are you saying those people are beyond help?
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I was using the term
pathological in the following sense:
1. [scientific computation] Used of a data set that is grossly atypical of normal expected input, especially one that exposes a weakness or bug in whatever algorithm one is using. An algorithm that can be broken by pathological inputs may still be useful if such inputs are very unlikely to occur in practice.
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The point is that while one could engineer a "pathological" scenario where Martingale is the optimal strategy for an advantage bettor, this will not be true in the
vast majority of typical cases.