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Hedge Fund Is Building an Algorithmic Model From Its Employees’ Brains

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Re: Hedge Fund Is Building an Algorithmic Model From Its Employees’ Brains

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

not necessarily. some (maybe most?) black box quants own their algorithm even if they leave the Hedge Fund. And of course they make profits while the algos are used. So the architects of the system are incentivized for it to work well.

> some (maybe most?) black box quants own their algorithm even if they leave the Hedge Fund. I've never observed this be the case at all.

this was the case at 2 funds I've worked at. So I assumed it was the norm

Re: Hedge Fund Is Building an Algorithmic Model From Its Employees’ Brains

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You can't possibly get enough training data for this.

I don't think it is fair to say it is not possible. There is an AI system out there that has correctly predicted the superfecta for the Kentucky Derby based soley on user predictions.

http://www.newsweek.com/artificial-intelligence-turns-20-110...

Re: Hedge Fund Is Building an Algorithmic Model From Its Employees’ Brains

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I think this.... > Mr. Dalio returned to run Bridgewater earlier this year after stepping back to a mentor role six years ago. Is what's driving almost all of his new found desire for a unified AI to run everything. Here you have a man who by any measure has been wildly successful, he tried stepping back and letting other take over but ended up finding that the team he left in charge didn't make the exact decisions h…

> see: https://www.principles.com/

This is a very, very good read. Thanks for sharing.

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