A Million Patterns in Stock Options

AI finds a million weak patterns in hundreds of millions of data points and examples. From these weak patterns AI can make shockingly good predictions.

A few years ago I wrote an AI application to trade stock options. Over time it has grown into a modest project called PowerMax. People occasionally ask me, “How does AI trade stock options?” Perhaps this article provides some insights into that question.

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Has Evolution already captured AI?

How can evolution “capture” anything?
If evolution has captured AI, then what are the implications for humans?

This post connects two of my favorite topics — AI and evolution. The title question has some provocative onion-like characteristics. To frame this conversation, first we need to define evolution and AI.

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Hope for Humanity: Review of the book A Thousand Brains, by Jeff Hawkins

This is a book of hope for humanity. But more than just hope, Jeff Hawkins has a plan–a plan for all humanity, and beyond. Each of its three sections is largely independent, and yet in the final two, short chapters Jeff Hawkins unites the book into a breathtaking estate plan for humanity.

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