What is a Monte Carlo Simulation?

Monte Carlo simulations are a powerful method for generating forecasts—predicted scenarios with associated probabilities. These simulations are widely used across various fields, from estimating constants like π and e to predicting weather patterns and modeling fission energy production. In fact, the Monte Carlo method was originally developed by John von Neumann and his colleagues at Los Alamos during the Manhattan Project to simulate atomic collisions in fission reactions.

Decklist on Moxfield

Introduction

This deck is a response to a Discord deck-building challenge I joined. It attempts to achieve a cEDH-viable Rule of Law style stax and tax deck that can hang at any table based on solid fundamentals rather than a blown-out mana base and artifacts.

The rules were simple: $75 budget, Commander-legal format, and the cost of the Commander is excluded from the budget.

This deck is optimized towards these rules to leverage the value of the Heliod // Ballista combo with multiple redundant combo pieces, efficient and effective stax, decent tutors, and a game plan built around staying protected while slowing everyone else down.

These are a few of the publicly available security audits I completed in my time working as Golang and Rust blockchain application security researcher and auditor at Least Authority.

• Ethereum 2.0 Specifications Audit
• Ethereum Node Disocvery Protocol Audit
• Filecoin Lotus Implementation Audit
• Protocol Labs GossipSub v1.1 Security Audit

A few things I’ve been working on lately:

• heliod 75, a low budget ($75), competitively-focused Heliod stax and tax list
• vedh.xyz, A virtual boardstate tracker for web and mobile Commander games
• choam, a zero-knowledge JWT authentication server

Hi, I’m @dylanlott.

Currently: Rust, Ethereum, & Magic: The Gathering @ init4.

Previously:

• Security Auditor & Audit Lead @ Least Authority
• Senior Protocol Engineer @ Pocket Network
• Senior Software Engineer @ Meroxa
• Senior Software Engineer @ Storj Network

Checkout my github, some of my projects, or some of my audits to see more.

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Guildmaster: MTG Pod ranking and game tracker

Code can be found here at

Elo scores

Elo scores are a measure of relative skill in zero sum games. Elo scores are maybe most popularly known from chess, where they are the de facto standard for measuring player ratings.