Seven and a half is a card game that’s something like 2/3rds blackjack and 1/3 poker. It’s known as setto e mezzo in Italy or Siete y Media in Spain (that literally just means 7.5 in Italian/Spanish, but the point being it is popular in these other countries) and is played with a deck of 40 cards (standard deck of cards, minus the 8s, 9s, and 10s). This is an attempt to solve the game via a Monte Carlo simulation in Python.
I’ve been thinking a lot about a twitter thread from Patrick McKenzie back in late January about the potential for SaaS companies turning to securitization as a source of financing. On the one hand, I think he’s definitely right, especially as we see a larger system of VC-alternative investment models pop up; others have also …
If you’re a consumer facing company, you care a lot about what your consumers think of you. One of the pretty definitive pieces of advice for small companies is Paul Graham’s axiom to do things that don’t scale. Small companies actually have the *luxury* of being able to talk to all of their customers, to …