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AI hedge fund's roadmap to monopolize intelligence (medium.com/numerai)
4 points by simondlr on Oct 16, 2017 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment



I was initially skeptical about it needing a cryptocurrency but the idea of needing to stake predictions to prevent anonymous data scientists from submitting thousands of predictions to game the tournament is really interesting.

I also really like the idea of the fund crowdsourcing many predictions with the obvious but unsaid endgame being the meta-model much like how the random forest algorithm ensambles many weak predictors into a strong predictor that's far more accurate than any single weak predictor.

Interested to see where this is in a couple of years...




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