Hard f*cking grinding day 
The good side is that now i can play using a gamepad so it's way more relaxing and comfortable to me.
This week it's grinding by day & coding by night.
Have a nice grinding week !
Best of Skills & Luck @ Tables,
OldSchoolPapa.
Slightly better grinding day. Let's see about the next day at the office... 
Coding side went ok , many bugs to correct yet but getting one step closer to finish my main project.
A bit getting bored playing weekly but if in the end it finance totally or even partially my project it's all good.
Once back to legit poker rooms i think about starting to play PLO recreationally, won't need to play much anymore.
Countries legislations can change about Online Gambling, Rake can increase, Rewards will also decrease to discourage regulars, withdrawing fees or requirements and i don't really think legit rooms are much more secure than non legit ones. No weekly / monthly full reports ... Well if the argument is the privacy of players they can randomise players names...
Doesn't mean i think the game is rigged or not. Simply without full reports provided and checked by an independant 3rd part i think about the Schrödinger's cat paradox https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schr%C3%B6dinger%27s_cat
So to me it is and it is not...
Some will argue it is not or it is , then prouve it etc...
Pointless debate. Since people's money is on the line, Poker Rooms should prouve they are clean by every mean.
Due to those factors and many more like the time/money investment/Bankroll Risk, if under 10% of ROI for midstakes / highstakes wich is something i can get with less efforts and risk in few other legal ways, i don't have any interest in electronic poker over the long run.
Also without lowering the pro poker players commitments, efforts or carreers it makes me laugh when i read some pro poker players spending 16h daily (Even if i don't think it's a pretty accurate number) working on GTO, to me it's a matter of lifestyle and anyone has it's own definition of what is a good lifestyle or happiness.
PLO sounds interesting, not coz of the actual popularity on the forum i'm not interested by that kind of things.
PLO is getting slowly more popular amongst recreative players too, wich means more potential profits and you also less likely to be up vs collusion teams.
Even if in few years NLH gets solved, atleast partially but more likely a decade from my perspective when i see the way they actually try to do it, on PLO it will take even longer to simply reach the actual level wich isn't that great but again it's only my own opinion.It can also be more motivational to play PLO like a new challenge to reach in order to kill the boredom if you get bored easily by things.
Best of Skills & Luck @ Tables,
OldSchoolPapa.
Wow, seems to work well for you, also health which is the most important! ♠_thumbsup:
@deralte71 The Dark Side of PLO's Force !!! That's all Prim's fault 
@Prim I can't complain, due to my own researches i found different ways to solve my health troubles wich is a nice relieve coz for the reasons i told you surgeries were really the last option i would pick. Obviously there's nothing sure in my case, my body defenses might or might not adjust to my new self-medication so for now i fully dedicate my time multitasking for my main project, poker & the freelance side jobs i did put a bit on stand-by because of my health.
Also i keep mixing a week on two between green diet & normal food, keep doing yoga stretching postures for back and neck pain relieves and morning workouts to stay sharp. Pretty happy to be able to multitask again even if it's at a slower speed and with a lower number of tasks than what i was used to ...
Still way much better than before for sure 
Happy Grinding Day !!!
Best of Skills & Luck @ Tables,
OldSchoolPapa.
Oh Papa, that´s very nice to hear! Same here: 150 mg Lamotrigine kicked in, try to eat healthy and of course exericise a lot. Well grinding has to wait a bit unfortunately but high work load is not forever. 
I'm glad you also feeling well and enjoyed you vacations Prim. Indeed health, work & family comes first to me as well.
Can't wait to follow your progresses on PLO. I'm confident you gonna kick-in in no time.
Still over the long run it will be toughter to find good spots due to the increasing amounts of formats & variants.
Typical recreationals never care about the rake or reward systems so they will split amongst all the format and since on some rooms tracking them is considered as a predatorian behavior wich might end up by a warning or ban it will get way more complicated over the years. Still it can be ok to complete the end of months or for the fun, intellectual curiosity, new challenges, training for futur live games, etc ...
I'm pretty curious to see the futur evolution of the Online Gambling Market over the next years and customers tendencies as well (Softwares, Formats, Legislations, T&Cs, Marketing, Poker Books litterature, ...) .
Best of Skills & Luck @ Tables,
OldSchoolPapa.
Best of Skills & Luck @ Tables,
OldSchoolPapa.
Thanks, I try to make the game easier to myself by avoiding complicated situations or wrong ratio of bots / players and by selecting, selecting, selecting ...
Still the week was pretty swingy and wasn't that great compared to what i use to on that kind of rooms ... 
Also in effective time it's not much but on the overall time spent selecting and playing , it is because i only play in sets and do a break after each one so it's pretty much time consuming.
But well as long i get positive results i'm good.
Break Time Between Coding Sessions !!! Trolling around a little to relax before meds and vodka/redbull
Besides coding , i'm installing different OS on Raspberry in order to do some benchmarking.
Trying also different kind of DB coz i'll need to manage big data so it must be as efficient as possible.
Once done i'll clone SDCards for all the network of Raspberries with a script to automatise the network setup else it's gonna be a pain in the ass and i'm lazy.
Then during the weekend i'll start to look for the different kind of watercooling systems available on the market for gamers, i know there are few ones pre made for raspberries but it's costy and cannot be found locally, also with one gamer watercooling system by tweaking it myself i can probably watercool 5 to 10 raspberries depending on the caracteristics. At start i was thinking about sinking the Raspberries into a tank with mineral oil and a water pump, works well for computers or any electronic system by the way but the down sides are that the more Raspberries i'll use the more mineral oil i'll need and the heavier the tank will be. Without mentionning if i want to do some hardware upgrades it's gonna be a nightmare and it might requieres to atleast once or twice a year to empty the tanks , change the mineral oil or filter it coz if temp gets higher than 50°C the oil will start to burn ( Not Litterally burn but it will create impureties in the mineral oil if i can explain it that way ).So back to the watercooling more simple and less heavy for that situation.
Also have to ask some friends if they can get me some industrial air filters for particules and dust i will add them before to fans to control the air quality inside the plexiglas cluster containing the Raspberries i'm gonna make, etc ....
Well hope everyone is having a great weekend !!!
Best of Skills & Luck @ Tables,
OldSchoolPapa.
No Poker Grinding for me this week.
I've an important and rewarding freelance job to do so it come first.(Money ! Money ! Money ! ... )
Well i'll still have the time for my main project coding shift & Trolling during breaks but else Tables will have to wait next week.
Have a nice grinding week everyone !!!
Best of Skills & Luck @ Tables,
OldSchoolPapa.
Originally posted by OldSchoolPapa
No Poker Grinding for me this week.
I've an important and rewarding freelance job to do so it come first.(Money ! Money ! Money ! ... )
Well i'll still have the time for my main project coding shift & Trolling during breaks but else Tables will have to wait next week.
Have a nice grinding week everyone !!!Best of Skills & Luck @ Tables,
OldSchoolPapa.
Exactly the same here! Couldn´t grind this week until Thursday evening. Had high work load too.
Good Morning Grinders & Trolls ! 
Last week was pretty busy between Freelance jobs & Coding. More Free time this week so Back To The Game
Could play during the weekend but i was impatient to finish the coding side of my main project and to party. From now on it will be bug tracking & trials.
I'll receive also a kind of DIY watercooling kit for computers this week so next weekend i'll be busy tweaking it (CPU Block) for Raspberries hope that way i can cool between 5 to 10 Pi with one kit and if it works well i'll order the others and buy an other pack of Raspberries.
@Prim When it come to work, i use timeboxing depending on the rewards. When highly sick i couldn't take the most valuable projects / tasks so had to take all the little ones i didn't like to do but well money is money ... I'm glad to be back on the right tracks and to manage my health way better for now.
Time to do some meditation , yoga stretching then a little physical exercises.
Have a nice week everyone !!!!
Best of Skills & Luck @ Tables,
OldSchoolPapa.
Best of Skills & Luck @ Tables,
OldSchoolPapa.
Congrats of the results
Once done i'll clone SDCards for all the network of Raspberries with a script to automatise the network setup else it's gonna be a pain in the ass and i'm lazy.
I know that feeling
Just about to start learning networking and robotics. Very privative stuff but looking forward to reading how you get on with that big data issue 
@deralte71 Thank you !
@Prim Indeed Health comes first but while i'm good i take the most of it. Can't say if the meds will allow me to stay in my current shape so i don't want to waste it in case it changes, plus it feels so good to be able to multitask the way i was used to or atleast close to it.
@metalmonkey Thanks buddy !!! Big Data regroups many areas of work and different skills, it's very interesting to work on it.
Yesterday i finished to tweak the Watercooling DIY to adjust it to Rasberries, works pretty well. Instead of standard CPU Blocks i 3D Printed my owns to adjust to the devices then i used a heat copper base instead of aluminium. the hard part was to make it waterproof due to the lack of equipment in the country but with one watercooling kit i can cool down atleast 10 raspberries now (could do up to 15 but would be less efficient imo). Ordering other kits since i know it works now.
Next weekend i'll do some CAD design to explain what i want to do with Plexiglass in order to make the cluster cases.
On my project i'll have to deal with GBs of data daily to TBs of data monthly atleast for my range of application.
For now i'm still bug tracking and optimizing my code and writting some modules in different programming languages.
Last time we were talking i didn't want to distract you much talking about TSP since you were playing.
On very low data size peoples tend to use the Bellman-Held-Karp algorithm wich is not really great but better than factorial O(n!).
To solve the Traveling Salesman Problem actually many solutions are available such as Ant Colony "ACO", Genetic Algorithms "GA", Simulated Annealing RS and others but the real problem is the limit on their computational runtime so indeed CTSP ( Clustering Traveling Salesman Problem) makes sens if you add GA.
It's not really my area of work but i think you can use a combination of heuristics and a modded metaheuristic Multi Restart Iterated Local Search "MRSILS" with clusters. Mostly it will depend on the size of data you need to work on and your way of modeling them.
Some say the optimal solution is using Heuristic shortest path algorithm with imprecise arc length.
You can also think about Dynamic Programming "DP" and a bottom-up model to split a large and complicated problem into smallest possible subproblems moving to the way up. Else if you seek an innovative solution then you should try to look into biomimetic it might inspire you.
Sorry i tried to make it short but it was probably quiet boring ...
Best of Skills & Luck @ Tables,
OldSchoolPapa.
