Wednesday, August 23, 2017

Data Science, AI, and Stock Markets

Here's an old by interesting article on Do-It-Yourself personal algorithmic trading:

https://www.ft.com/content/0a706330-5f28-11e6-ae3f-77baadeb1c93


What was interesting is how it's spurring Mathematicians, Data Scientists, and AI programmers to come up with algorithms and strategies to beat the stock market. There's a direct financial reward and profit motivation here.

Rajeev was talking about how India is behind on AI - well, maybe financially incentivized pursuits like this could be a way to get the naturally competitive Indians into developing their AI talents. It could be a way to tap our natural human resource talent pool for beneficial progress.

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