The Robinhood gambling factory Robinhood has a nice mobile experience, they have good products/deals, and they also have a credit card. There has been a lot of talk about Robinhood engaging with human “gambling instincts”. Just search “how has Robinhood gamified investing” and you can watch confetti rain down as someone yolos their life savings into GME 0 DTE calls Again, I’m not saying the product is all bad, but there is one piece which is astonishingly ridiculous to me.

Winning Every Time I’m going to summarize arbitrage sports betting. I think I’m going to add this to “projects” although the artifacts/results of my time spent in this space aren’t really relevant to this post. Also anytime I reference myself, me, or I in this post I’m actually talking about Jonathan Is that click bait? I’d argue its not because its true, and I don’t make any money or care who reads this so… no I don’t think so.

Olive Oil: During my daily morning ritual of waking up at 4:30 AM and immediately ingesting a ½ cup of [Trader Joes Extra Virgin Spanish Olive Oil] (Sponsored link), I decided I’d like to try and solve the NY Time’s Connections. So, with greasy fingers, lets begin. This is part one, where I: Review the rules of Connections Gather historical Connections games into a structured dataset Come up with some strategy for a program that’s somewhat capable of playing the game well In part two, I’ll try and generate a solver for the game.