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AI & Video Games, Tricky Chatbots and More… (by Silly Rabbit)

By Ben Hunt | June 22, 2017 | 0 Comments

AI and video games, tricky chatbots, the quantum age has officially arrived, and your high dimensional brain.

Does It Fly, Really?

By Ben Hunt | June 16, 2017 | Comments Off on Does It Fly, Really?

On episode 22 of the Epsilon Theory podcast, we’re in Las Vegas at the 2017 EQDerivatives conference. Both Dr. Ben Hunt and our guest, Devin Anderson, managing director in equity derivative sales at Deutsche Bank, were speakers at the event this year. In a nod to David McCullough’s 2015 book, The Wright Brothers, this episode explores whether the ubiquitous ideas floating around finance today actually have wings and can fly.

Long Short-Term Memory, Algorithms for Social Justice, and External Cognition (by Silly Rabbit)

By Ben Hunt | June 14, 2017 | 0 Comments

DARPA funds a graph analytics processor, exploring long short-term memory networks, auditing black box predictive models, fast iteration and language from police body cameras.

The Summer Reading List (by Jeremy Radcliffe)

By Ben Hunt | June 12, 2017 | 0 Comments

In which Jeremy Radcliffe recommends Bob Lefsetz, Scott Galloway, Scott Belsky,Tim Urban and the gang at Hoisington.

Tell My Horse

By Ben Hunt | June 12, 2017 | 0 Comments

So yeah, I’m overweight and I need to get more sleep. I’m not happy about the market, and I’m anxious about living up to my obligations to my partners and clients. But I wake up every morning thinking independent thoughts about idiosyncratic risks. I’ve got a Tribe. I’m nobody’s horse. And that’s about as good as it gets here in the Hollow Market.

Jesse After His Chili P Phase

Chili P is My Signature: Things that Don’t Matter #5

By Rusty Guinn | June 9, 2017 | 0 Comments

The second moral license from a wise emphasis on passive investing is spending inordinate amounts of time on tilts, trades and tactical ideas that will never influence our portfolio results.

Quantum Supremacy, Correlating Unemployment, and Buddhists with Attitude (by Silly Rabbit)

By Ben Hunt | June 7, 2017 | 0 Comments

What web searches correlate to unemployment, verbal and nonverbal behaviors, and methodologies with a fragility problem.

Complex Systems, Multiscale Information and Strange Loops (by Silly Rabbit)

By Ben Hunt | May 31, 2017 | 0 Comments

Complex systems, machine learning software creating machine learning software, one-shot imitation and the power of the platform.

She Screams, He Kidnaps (by Silly Rabbit)

By Ben Hunt | May 24, 2017 | 0 Comments

Proximity of verbs to gender, wiki-memory, fool me once (and twice), and a veritable zoo of machine learning techniques.

Oliver Bird

And They Did Live by Watchfires: Things that Don’t Matter #4

By Rusty Guinn | May 19, 2017 | 0 Comments

For the bored (read: profitable) investor, the bias to action is a constant threat. As we become more passive in our strategies, the moral license to ‘do something’ is exaggerated, and must be curtailed.