Dive into math, machine learning, and other crucial disciplines and take your programming skills to the next level! The latest bundle from Manning Publications will help you harness math to write better code, utilize deep learning across various languages and applications, and get up to speed on foundational concepts like functional programming, cryptography, and data structures. Pay what you want and help support Trees, Water & People with your purchase!

You can always check out the most recent Humble Bundle offers here and here.

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Keep your mind engaged, entertained, and well-trained with this bundle of brainteaser and puzzle books from Taylor & Francis! Add Train Your Brain: A Year’s Worth of Puzzles to your daily regimen. Test yourself with Puzzles 101: A PuzzleMasters Challenge. Push your calculating capacity to the limit with Mathematical Mind-Benders. Plus, your purchase helps support Little Free Library!

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We’ve teamed up with Mercury Learning for a new bundle tailor-made for engineers, game developers, businesspeople, physicists, and problem-solvers everywhere. Get ebooks like Numerical Methods in Engineering and Science, Mathematics for Business (7e), Programming Fundamentals Using MATLAB, Mathematics for Computer Graphics and Game Programming, and lots more resources to help you put math into practice. Plus, your purchase helps support No Kid Hungry and Whale & Dolphin Conservation!

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Want to master math, learn logic, and gain control of game theory? Morgan Claypool has joined us in putting together a mammoth collection of books like Introduction to Logic, Third Edition, Introduction to Statistics Using R, Essentials of Game Theory: A Concise Multidisciplinary Introduction, and Probability and Statistics for STEM: A Course in One Semester for one sole purpose; to make you a master of mathematics, statistics, and game theory. Ready to get started? Not to mention, your purchase will also help support a charity of your choice!

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More awesome ebooks for you. We’ve teamed up with Morgan & Claypool for our newest bundle! Get ebooks like Statistics is Easy, 2nd Edition, Essentials of Game Theory, and An Introduction to Partial Differential Equations. Plus, your purchase will support The Humane Society of the United States and Doctors Without Borders!

Pay $1 or more. Normally, the total cost for the ebooks in this bundle is as much as $791. Here at Humble Bundle, you choose the price and increase your contribution to upgrade your bundle! This bundle has a minimum $1 purchase.

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Return to Player (RTP)

RTP is a simple value that shows how much a game will pay out in prizes as a percentage of all the money wagered. If a game has a 95% RTP then it will, on average, pay out £95 for every £100 wagered. Of course, this value will change from session to session, with some players experiencing a higher than 95% RTP, and others a lower than 95% RTP. The money held back by the game is referred to as the house edge. Most video slots have a house edge of around 4% (96% RTP), whilst some table games, like Blackjack for example, have a much smaller house edge of 1% or 2%.

Clued-up slots players will check the RTP of a game before they start playing and search out those with higher RTPs. Games with the highest RTP include 1429 Unchartered Seas by Thunderkick (98.5% RTP) and Bloodsuckers by NetEnt (98%).

Variance or Volatility

The second key feature of a slot that determines the frequency and size of payouts is Variance. This refers to the variation from the average RTP a player will experience during a session. Slots are categorised as low variance, medium variance or high variance. Low variance games pay out regularly and normally in quite small prize values. This is because over time the payout pattern does not vary much from the average RTP. High variance games are at the other end of the scale. The variation from the average RTP here will be huge, and typically players may experience long periods with little or no payout (low RTP) before the situation is tuned on its head and in just a few spins the slot will pay out huge winnings at a high RTP.

The volatile nature of high variance games makes them a risky proposition for a gambler – the enticement of a big payout is always tempting, yet the player knows that the game may hold back and burn through the balance without returning a single penny.

In recent years high variance games have become increasingly popular as a new breed of slots developers have arrived on the scene. Studios like Australia’s Big Time Gaming, Nolimit City and Relax Gaming are specialists in building high variance slots with clever themes and in-built features that make for blistering win sequences when, after a long spell of dry spins, the game eventually does produce one of its big win moments.

Perhaps the most famous example of this is Big Time Gaming’s Bonanza Megaways slot, a video game that showcased the developer’s new expanding reels format back in 2016. Here, after every spin the number of symbols on each reel randomly changes, up to a maximum of 7. This creates an element of surprise as more symbols mean more possible paylines. Combine this with special multiplier symbols which also randomly add value to any given payout, and free spins which are randomly dished out to lucky punters, and you have a highly sophisticated, engaging and entertaining slot. Many consider it to be one of the best executions of a high variance slot maths model ever created, though of course there are many other examples.

The Megaways game format proved so popular that now in 2020 there are hundreds more games that have adopted the game engine with great success and it is to be carried over into offline slots on the floors of Vegas casinos.

The success or otherwise of a gambling slot is dependent on many factors, but RTP and variance are two of the most important. Next time you play one be sure to check these out before you start as they are a great indicator of the kind of experience you will have, and the level of payouts you can expect. You can read more about video slots, RTP and variance, as well as reviews of the latest games at fan site and gambling guide, TheSlotBuzz.com.

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Do the math. We’ve teamed up with Mercury Learning for our newest bundle! Get ebooks like Mathematics for Computer Graphics and Game Programming, Flight Science, The Special Theory of Relativity, Foundations of Physics, and more. Plus, your purchase will support the American Red Cross and the Whale and Dolphin Conservation!

Pay $1 or more. Normally, the total cost for the ebooks in this bundle is as much as $1,104. Here at Humble Bundle, you choose the price and increase your contribution to upgrade your bundle! This bundle has a minimum $1 purchase.

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Problem-solve with data science. We’ve teamed up with No Starch Press for our newest bundle! Get ebooks like Statistics Done Wrong: The Woefully Complete Guide, Practical SQL: A Beginner’s Guide to Storytelling with Data, Data Visualization with Javascript, and more. Plus, your purchase will support the No Starch Press Foundation and National Coalition Against Censorship!

Pay $1 or more. Normally, the total cost for the ebooks in this bundle is as much as $374. Here at Humble Bundle, you choose the price and increase your contribution to upgrade your bundle! This bundle has a minimum $1 purchase.

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More awesome ebooks for you. We’ve teamed up with CRC Press for our newest bundle! Get ebooks like Graphics Shaders, 3D Math Primer for Graphics and Game Development, The Uncanny Valley in Games and Animation, and Digital Character Development: Theory and Practice. Plus, your purchase will support the Jane Goodall Institute!

Pay $1 or more. Normally, the total cost for the ebooks in this bundle is as much as $700. Here at Humble Bundle, you choose the price and increase your contribution to upgrade your bundle! This bundle has a minimum $1 purchase.

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Among my favorite popular mathematicians is Dr. Hannah Fry, whose latest book, Hello World: Being Human in the Age of Algorithms, I’m presently reading on the Kindle app on my iPad Pro. It’s an excellent look at how algorithms influence our daily lives for both good and bad, and was rightly shortlisted for the 2018 Royal Society Investment Science Book Prize.

While I recommend also checking out Fry’s past hosting and media appearances, she can be found on The Guardian‘s recent Science Weekly podcast, where she talks about her love of mathematical sciences and a bit about the aforementioned book. It’s definitely worth a listen. Math on!

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