Counting Cards & Quantitative Thinking

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🗓️ 2 December 2022

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

What does it take to count cards? Neil deGrasse Tyson and co-hosts Chuck Nice and Gary O’Reilly explore blackjack, quantitative thinking, and the journey from MIT blackjack player to angel investor with Semyon Dukach, Managing Partner at One Way Ventures.

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0:00.0	Yes, very good. You're the good guys.
0:07.0	Exactly. There you go.
0:15.0	Welcome to Star Talk.
0:18.0	Your place in the universe where science and pop culture collide.
0:23.0	Star Talk begins right now.
0:27.0	This is Star Talk Sports Edition.
0:31.0	Today we're going to talk about counting cards,
0:36.0	stuff that the casinos hate about you if you have the talent to pull that off.
0:42.0	I got with me as always my co-host Chuck Knife, Jacka Baby.
0:45.0	Hey, what's happening?
0:47.0	All right, professional standard comedian and actor and game show host.
0:51.0	And brain games on national geographic. Very cool.
0:54.0	Yes. And and and car counter.
0:57.0	And the one person who has actual professional athletic street cred among us.
1:02.0	Gary or Iley, Gary, always good to have you here, man.
1:05.0	Pleasure's mind. Thank you, Neil.
1:07.0	Thanks for making us legit. So Gary, what I mean, card counting.
1:11.0	We've all heard about it. We've seen movies about it.
1:14.0	We wish we had that ability.
1:17.0	And again, we don't know if you can be trained for it.
1:19.0	And so you decided to create a whole show on it.
1:22.0	So what do you have in store for us today?
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