Interview: Could a machine ever predict winning lottery numbers?

It's everyone's not-so-secret fantasy: win the lottery, quit your job, and move to Aruba. Or, maybe that's just me.Tonight's US Powerball lottery drawing is for a record $1.5 billion jackpot, though according to Donald Ylvisaker, Professor Emeritus of statistics at UCLA and contract statistician for the California lottery, your chances of winning are slim, to put it nicely."The way I would think about it is if you take the US and drop off Texas, you're choosing one person out of the rest of the