Category: Primers

  • General AI

    General AI

    There are many detractors of AI, a few are taking the field ahead by redefining cause and effect [1], a few have called AI dead, and believe it is nothing but an attempt to get computers to do cool stuff [2]. The web is full of garbage in garbage out [3] references when it comes…

  • What If?

    What If?

    Friends have started calling me, messaging me. Most of them, anxious about missing the ‘doubling the returns in under a year’ bus. This is different from the calls which I receive at market lows. I will be honest. I am not an advisor. I build intelligence machines, which manage money, can advise, and do a…

  • General AI is the future

    General AI is the future
  • Funny Money

    Funny Money

    Psychology is mathematical and Socionomics is a subjective and non-quantifiable study.

  • Tech Tokenization

    Tech Tokenization

    Tech Tokenization is an effective way to distribute reward, maintain accounts, and fractionalize.

  • Why General AI?

    Why General AI?

    The beauty of AI is that it can enhance itself.

  • Why were prediction markets destined to fail?

    Why were prediction markets destined to fail?

    AlphaBots is any SSR process that is open to validation on the AlphaBlock. The process can be alpha agents like prediction markets or data scientists, or simply machines open to competing on the AlphaBlock. Competition is important for the accountability of an SSR process. Without the validation accountability any alpha process is simply a subjective…

  • Why Indexing Fails

    Why Indexing Fails

    The recent paper “Why Indexing works” [1] gives a probabilistic explanation of the futility of the Active process and why Passive Indexing is hard to beat. For every 1000 people who read the Wall Street Journal, maybe 10 read the Bloomberg Markets (BM) magazine and for every 10 who read the last month’s issue of…

  • How The Noise Killed A Signal!

    How The Noise Killed A Signal!

    When you make a big claim, you have to be careful. This is the lesson hardest to learn. I am still learning it. My stock market education helped me a lot. The one thing it always taught me was to be ready for a surprise.

  • Firefighter from Idaho

    Firefighter from Idaho

    If you can explain your money management innovation (rule-based portfolios) to your mom, it is golden. My mom gets it. Succeeding in selling and marketing a new financial innovation just like any other innovation will be about design. If it is not intuitive, no overselling, branding and marketing money is going to stop the jumping…