The answer lies in a simple but powerful mathematical idea called “the house edge”: a small, systematic statistical advantage ...

This article contains 10 of what we believe to be the biggest stories we covered throughout the year on SD Times.

Eeny, meeny, miny, mo, catch a tiger by the toe – so the rhyme goes. But even children know that counting-out rhymes like this are no help at making a truly random choice. Perhaps you remember when ...

There are any number of random, oddball bets offered on the prediction market Polymarket, though few are quite as curious as ...

The Powerball jackpot has jumped to an eye-popping $1.7 billion after yet another drawing passed without a big winner.

Literally a mom of 2 kids who is out here trying to do the best job I can. Trying to give my kids a good life and provide them with a future and healthy food on the table. And for some boy child to ...

Christmas came early for someone who purchased a Powerball ticket worth more than $1.8 billion at a gas station outside ...

At the height of the success of CBS comedy The Big Bang Theory, Kunal Nayyar was earning an estimated $1 million per episode – and he has now revealed where that money has been spent. In an incredibly ...

ChatGPT, a development of San Francisco-based OpenAI, is a tool trained through Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback, ...

Trump doesn’t use numbers the way most of us do, as “things that can be added, subtracted, multiplied, and divided,” as Columbia University statistician Andrew Gelman put it. Rather, he uses them as ...

The undefeated Indiana Hoosiers and Ohio State Buckeyes will face off in the Big Ten championship game. This is the first time two undefeated, No. 1 and No. 2 ranked teams have met in the Big Ten ...

Editor's note: Last updated following the Dec. 10, 2025 drawing. Let's face it. You face some pretty steep odds to win the Powerball jackpot, like a 1 in 292.2 million chance. So is there any way to ...