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I will continue with this series for people who like this kind of content, drop "+1" in the chat and I will tag you the next time I post content.

I assume you guys know some basics of Texas Hold'em Poker. Flop refers to "the dealing of the first three face-up cards to the board"

Now, let's look at the table and their positions:
1. Blinds: First to act every street after pre-flop.
2. Early positions: Under the Gun(UTG)
3. Middle positions
4. Late positions: Button and Cut Off

The order for a 10 person game would be: Small Blind(SB) → Big Blind(BB) → Under the Gun(UTG) → UTG+1 → UTG+2 → MP1 → MP2 → MP3 → Cutting off the Button (CO) → Button (BTN) and then order repeats ...

Some insights:
1. Blinds see the flop at a discount because they are compelled to play but are at a disadvantage because they are first to act.
2. This means that more money is made in late positions because they have more information to act on.
3. However in short stack situations, where effective stack size is small then early positions are better because you have the opportunity to go all in before someone else can as you can maintain Fold equity(Equity from Aggression).

So, Expected Value or E(V) is how do you determine whether you should call or fold basis the size of the pot and your contribution to it basis the number of outs(potential winning hands) you have.

E(V) = Win % * Win Amt - Lose % * Lose Amt

For example:
Villain(V) [UTG+1] = $500
Hero(H) (MP1) = $500

SB/BB + Ante = 20/40 + 10
Here, Ante is the bet everyone has to make every hand. This is to make the pot worth playing for everyone.

Pre-Flop: $140
H = A 10 (suited Hearts)
V = ? (Unknown)

1 Fold
V raises $120
H calls $120, 5 Folds

Flop: $380
The flop is 8 Heart, 3 Heart, K Club
V = $370 (All In)
H = ? (Do you call or fold?)

Solution:
A call is positive E(V)  if:
 Win % > Call Amt/ Pot after Call 

You have a strong hand if you can get a flush here. 
which means you need one of the next two cards
Heart Heart Club | Heart* | Heart*

Which means:
Win % = 1 - (Odds of 2 cards not being Hearts)
= 1 - (40/49 * 39/48)
= ~ 36%

So,
370/1120 = ~33% is  Call Amt/Pot after Call

Since, 36% > 33% Hero should call.

E(V) = 36% * (380+x) - x * 66%
E(V) cut off at 0,

x = $404

You stand to make $ if you decide to call that bet. You can raise any amount till $404 for a positive E(V) after which you should mathematically fold.

An easier way to calculate this is to use 2% if you can only see one card after flop and 4% if you can see both cards.

That way, Win % here would be = 4% *  9 = 36%
9 outs because, 9 cards that are Hearts are left in the deck.

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Org: We need someone who thinks outside the box.
Candidate: Can I work remotely then?
Org: No, you must be inside our box, thinking outside the box.

Candidate: So, can I set my own hours?
Org: Absolutely, as long as they start at 9 AM sharp and end at 9 PM, with mandatory overlap from 9:01 to 8:59, covering daily catchup and occasional, seasonal and rational hackathon/catch-up work on weekends

Candidate: Can I use innovative tools? Propose new ideas?
Org: We’d love that! Just submit them through our 12-step approval process, get unanimous support from the board, and then we’ll file them in the suggestions folder, which we ceremoniously burn every quarter

Candidate: Can I dress casually?
Org: Dress however you like! Just remember, we have a strict no visible tattoos, no jeans, no open-toed shoes, no hats, no bright colors, no turtlenecks, no jerseys, no sweatshirts, no pullovers, no shorts, no tank tops, no sandals, no flip-flops, no sneakers, no hoodies, no graphic tees, no leggings, no cargo pants, no yoga pants, no overalls, no bandanas, no headbands, no skirts, no dresses, no capes, no costumes, no pajamas, no athletic wear, no leather jackets, no denim jackets, no vests, no ripped clothing, no sheer fabrics, no bold prints, no statement jewelry, no excessive accessories, no heavy makeup, no neon colors, no mismatched socks, no visible undergarments, no body piercings other than earrings, no strong perfumes, no funny socks, no slogan shirts, no cultural attire, and no anything that could be considered remotely fun or expressive...

Candidate: oh so.. pants and a plain shirt?
Org: Precisely! But make sure the shirt is not too tight, not too loose, not too short, not too long, no patterns, no logos, no buttons that make noise, no pockets that bulge....

Candidate: So basically, you want someone to think outside the box, inside a box, with the lid taped shut, buried underground, while we're chained to the walls?

Org: Exactly! Welcome aboard.

Outside the box..

Human Resource

Evolve is conducting a workshop called *"Thriving with Pride"* in Bangalore for LGBTQ+ working professionals. It will offer coaching & tools for career advancement by overcoming barriers and supercharging your strengths.

What the Workshop fees covers:
1. Learn from senior professionals from Companies like Google, Mondelez.
2. ⁠Build your network 
3. ⁠Premium subscription of Evolve worth INR1999
4. ⁠Free pass to attend Rainbow Tales (Cultural event post the Workshop)

DM me directly if you are interested or drop an email at rohan@evolveinc.io

Workshop Alert !!

Engineering Manager

Seeing @micheal_scott welcoming 3 peeps into the 10K club while I’m actually not that far 🥲🥲

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I’ll go first.

To me, it’s all about access. 
Access to authentic ideas.

The best search result you get on Google is high SEO but low authenticity. On LinkedIn, there are so many people but everyone is shilling a course or 1:1 resume reviews. 

Mostly it has become a place which started as vanity signalling 

Like
( I have started a new role…, I have been accepted at …, I have received offers from F, A, N and G and I’m joining G.)  

And now people pushing mindless content with “Agree?” or “Comment Interested”.

Somehow, everyone is truly inauthentic to please a wider audience and say the exact same generic gyaan to maximise engagement.

For now, Grapevine is where people are genuinely themselves and I get to hear interesting things that you get to hear near the coffee machine.

Kinda feels like we’re all a big community where we all contribute and learn new things about the professional landscape around us.

Godspeed Grapevine. 🚀

Hola Grapeviners! I would love to know why are you on the platform?

Same time last year, an early version of Grapevine was ready. We still didn’t know if it will ever work, if anyone will use it and even if they do, will they return to use it a second time? 

If there’s anything we did well this year, it was in creating a space where smart, talented, high-potential people like to spend time and communicate with each other on topics ranging from work, salaries, personal finances, life, philosophy, technology and so much more

Rest everything: Product, Marketing, Engineering, Design, we want to get better on, and we will

Thank you for your patience as we slowly build this product and mess up, many many times. 

In 2024 we promise to work 2X harder to deliver you the most helpful platform for professionals 

But more important than what the Grapevine team achieved in 2023, is what y’all did: 

- You created 24K posts 
- You created ~200K comments 
- Shared 10s of thousands of salaries to help each other 
- Shared 1000s of open job opportunities 
- Referred 100s of people 
- Helped 100s of Grapeviners find new jobs 
- Helped 1000s of Grapeviners negotiatiate an offer
- Helped 100s of people not move to Bangalore by complaining enough xD 
- Endless awesome conversations
- Infinite good vibes 

This is truly wholesome and thank you for all your countless high-quality contributions - not to forget the epic memes and laughs along the way! 

Onwards and Upwards!
Happy 2024

A year end Thank you note

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People are sheep after all

This is absolutely meme material!! They declared that 75% of employees will work from home by 2025, and before even 2025, they reverted that and now claiming everyone to come to office all 5 days!! I mean not even Hybrid, but all 5 days!! News mentioning recent report of asking employees to come all 5 days- 

https://m.economictimes.com/tech/information-tech/tcs-asks-employees-to-return-to-office-five-days-a-week-may-end-work-from-home-from-october/articleshow/104049381.cms

TCS- From 75% to 0%, that was pretty fast!

Can't fault Milind Lakkad.  He has a new boss. 
  
 New boss, new tune.

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Imagine you have a very complex situation with varying degrees of randomness. How do you evaluate the probability of certain outcomes? 

One way is a deterministic way which is to sit down and try to compute probabilities of events.
Another way is to simulate these interactions with various seed values and see how these outcomes vary. This is called a Monte Carlo simulation, where we use random sampling to model and analyze complex systems that involve uncertainty.

Let's set up a game and apply a Monte Carlo simulation to it.

You(Hero) and Me(Villain) engage in a strategic coin flipping competition over a series of rounds. Before each round, both of us independently decide whether to flip a coin or pass the turn to the opponent. 

The outcomes are as follows:

1. If both players decide to flip, a fair coin is tossed, and the player who called it correctly gains a point.
2. If one player decides to flip and the other passes, the flipping player gains a point without the need for a coin toss.
3. If both players pass, no points are gained or lost.

We can simulate it by making each decision random:
1. Hero and Villain both independently choose between 0 and 1 for deciding whether to toss or pass. We use 0 as Pass and 1 as Toss.
2. If both pass then we let the scores as is.
3. If one passes and not the other, then we add +1 to whoever decided to toss.
4. If both decide to toss then, we do a random coin flip where 0 = Heads and 1 = Tails. Hero can randomly choose between Heads or Tails. The Villain takes the opposite position.

First is the Monte Carlo Simulation and the difference between potential outcomes for 1000 rounds and 20 simulations, which is the graph shared.

Daily Series #2: Geeking out → Monte Carlo Simulations

I’m finally in Bengaluru and this city seems glitzy yet underdeveloped. What a weird dichotomy. 🫨

Grapevine folks: What are your weekend scenes?

An introvert staying alone here with no friends in the city.. would spend the weekend with myself either scrolling social media or sleeping!!

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If I can do it anyone can. being a women and reaching this seems an accomplishment started with 5000 rs salary no one had faith I could do this.

Reached a milestone today! started with 5000rs salary

Wow 🎉🎉 
 Just curious what was the period and what do you do ?

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Hi guys,
As you have already read, I am planning to start a roadmap in 2024, YES !

I am not one of those Didi Bhaiya’s doing it for Fame/money. The twist is I am planning to do it anonymously on grapevine and will try to solve as many doubts as i can on DM’s ( Again Anonymously)

I have the roadmap that is completely free, videos, lectures, notes and everything is collected from amazing creators and is already free and i will never recommend any paid course, I PROMISE.

If i get 30+ comments, then i am happy to start the Day 1 to Day 24 ( 6 hours each) detailed roadmap.

Also, since all of us here are working Mon-friday. 
The roadmap is for 12 weekend (24 days) and IMO that is enough to into Faang game preparation. If you need more you can practice for another 2-3 months on yourself.

Thanks !

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