>Why did the author write a rails app to run statistical experiments on what are easy to calculate probabilities?
Perhaps it's along the same lines as the physical prototype he made prior to that.
"It really helped to make a prototype, as I could actually play the game rather than everything being hypothetical."
Building the app seems like perfectly logical extension of that.
>It seems that if you want to make a probability based game you ought to have at least a working knowledge of the basics.
Yet here he is with a fully finished product in spite of that notion. He wanted to make a game, he made a game using the tools he was aware of and comfortable with.
Perhaps it's along the same lines as the physical prototype he made prior to that.
"It really helped to make a prototype, as I could actually play the game rather than everything being hypothetical."
Building the app seems like perfectly logical extension of that.
>It seems that if you want to make a probability based game you ought to have at least a working knowledge of the basics.
Yet here he is with a fully finished product in spite of that notion. He wanted to make a game, he made a game using the tools he was aware of and comfortable with.