#uklotto

I’ve finally found a training method for char-rnn, that seems to be generating useful or interesting results.  2800 rigorous training routines with improving train_loss numbers, after trying several approaches that included an unprimed generation of 5 million + characters (that did not render an appropriate date, even).  The number 11 seems quite persistent (as were 3,4, and 5)  Once I got 9 as a starter, with so many of the other numbers in the same area as other prior guesses beginning with 4 and 1, I figured we were golden.  Eleven is going to return, it has to.

I don’t know why I am more comfortable with 27 and 42 repeating, especially when 42 would be making it’s 3rd appearance.  I think I am not counting on all 6 being right, but that there will be a repeat (as that seems to be happening a lot lately) and maybe it will be one of these numbers.  and if not we’ll at least get 3 or 4 numbers right, maybe.  I’m not going to advertise this set as a big winner, just that we might get several numbers correct. 

The char-rnn selected set is: 9, 11, 23, 27, 42, 48

The image above is the chart mapping the age of each number recently selected in the uk lotto for this past Saturday December 1st.  

This image is the set of numbers that char-rnn neural network chose (with some assistance from me) for tomorrow’s draw Wednesday, December 5th.

The neural network script guessed two numbers right in the Saturday draw, which means we get a “lucky dip!”.  Last time that happened the “lucky dip!” won £25.  The “lucky dip!” is a random number generated by the lotto.  Seems they have a bit of an edge if you ask me.

There’s lots going on today.  Here in the U.S. the Mega-Millions jackpot is the second largest in history at 900 million dollars.  Apparently, CNN has calculated that to be equal to two Taylor Swift’s. In context, do I even need to make a comment about the objectification of women?  $900 million could help the cause quite a bit.  Needless to say, I did some experimenting with the methodologies I have been using in the UK to develop a suite of numbers for the Mega Millions draw tonight.  If they win... I may never post to this blog again, but I’m keeping those numbers secret.  Even though I believe you can play Mega Millions over there in the UK.  I don’t want Mr. MegaMillions to catch on.

Big changes are afoot (no pun intended).  The top image is what the uk Lotto drew for Wednesday this week. It looks like my high heel shoe crashed into a wall, backward. I have lost all hope that the lotto has been trying to meet me halfway with the numbers I was using for the last three draws.

I was recently exposed to a fairly easy to implement Recurrent Neural Network implementation by a graduate student I am working with.  It’s called char-rnn. It functions kind of like a Markov Chain, but using torch and by looking at individual characters instead of words and sentences,  It seems to do a good job developing language that way, so I figured it might be a nice change of pace to look to it to predict lotto numbers from past patterns. One major problem, that I intend to ignore, for the time being, is visible, or at least verifiable,  in the second image above.  Many of the numbers in the generated text are from past dates, that may or may not correspond to the days of the week they are connected to, and that may or may not be accurate “guesses” of those numbers.  I am so eager to share the results, however, that I have chosen not to investigate these potential aberrations.

Why am I so enthusiastic with such minimal quality control?  Well, it’s because of the third image.  The neural network generated a new shoe!  Totally different set of numbers!  So these will definitely be the numbers!  RIght?!?!?!?!

Without further conversation... these are the numbers for the uk lotto draw on Saturday, October 13th, 2018: