Maggie Owens
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I am a software developer. Primary background and qualifications entered below.
What's your primary background? The basic options are poker, statistics, and computer science. Feel free to add.
I play poker with some friends once a month or two (and generally lose about $40 before giving up for the evening -- I am not into high-stakes gambling and very risk-averse). Note: I only know how to play Texas Hold 'em, though it should be easy enough to learn other variants for the purpose of developing software. But I am a software developer with 23 years of soup-to-nuts professional programming experience. My primary area of experience (since 1995) is in Windows, however I now have the tools available to write code for iOS and OS X; Android and Linux will come along in the not-too-distant future. I have extensive statistical coding skills, having worked in the financial industry for 15 years, during which time I primarily wrote code to analyze corporate convertible bonds to help the traders determine if there was money to be made on particular issues and evaluate different hedging and trading strategies.
Do you think it's possible to create a completely objective method for measuring skill in poker? If not, why not? Totally cool if you haven't thought about it.
I think so. Actually, I think research should be done to determine if anyone has already done this, unless you are more interested in the mechanics of evaluating a player as opposed to being evaluated yourself. However considering that Poker is a game of chance (granted less chance than blackjack and FAR less than roulette), some special parameters would have to be established to test the user and compare his performance to others. I have some ideas about this, which I had to cut because I ran over the space allowed. It sounds like an interesting way to spend some of my time, at least while I am still unemployed. (The bond trading place went out of business, not due to abject failure, and no you wouldn't have heard of it.) Once I get a new job and am spending 8+ hours a day coding, I might not want to spend as much of my spare time doing it but would be happy to continue to contribute.
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Hi Maggie, Welcome to Ladies Who Code! I'm going to choose to read "networking" as a pun, because I think it's delightfully amusing, if that's alright. You also may win an award for niche languages. I've heard about Delphi in passing, but I'd love to hear more about it in practice. I definitely support learning C# as well, or any C-based language really. I started with Java, and am now using Ruby. Objective-C is on my list next. Hope to see you soon!
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