Comments on: Ray Kurzweil has a hedge fund

By: gfbird

gfbird — Sat, 25 Nov 2006 00:45:01 +0000

. . . seems an area that may not yet have been exploited . . .

By: cg

cg — Fri, 24 Nov 2006 22:06:13 +0000

A couple of my pension funds are probably being traded by computer, but it’s unlikely thy’re using anything but well understood algorithms (’buy low, sell high’) and big trades undergo human scrutiny… I think. I should look into it.

Maybe those disclosures they are forever sending me should include a discussion of how they use technology…

By: www.gulker.com » Blog Archive » Small victory for the Paperless Project

Fri, 24 Nov 2006 17:06:36 +0000

[...] While Ray Kurzweil is making billions from his advanced grasp of technology, moi is revelling in a minory victory from my own, rather less sophisticated home-brew tech. A while ago I chronicled the Paperless Project, a personal attempt to take control of these little (and not so little) stacks of paper that keep growing around here. [...]

By: gfbird

gfbird — Fri, 24 Nov 2006 14:57:47 +0000

Kurzweil would seem to know something, but has he filed for patent, or is this all ‘gosh and by golly’ trade secrets?

The methods of AI need some big failures or hacks to really make the managers go back and parse the record, assuming there are lines of code that traces all branches for a particular incident. How much are they relied on (market penetration, inc’l. outside stocks)? What’s the record under stress? ‘Still can’t read a book as well as a 4-year old’?

And then there is public opinion, if informed enough . . .