Category: Research

  • Deep and Shallow Thinking 

    Deep and Shallow Thinking 

    Garry Kasparov’s book ‘Deep Thinking’ [1] is brilliant and full of insights for the machine Intelligence seeking world.

  • The Intelligent Web

    The Intelligent Web

    This is the vision paper I wrote and published in SSRN on Nov 16, 2017. Early next year we release the code of AlphaBlock Smart Contract on Github. Have a great Christmas. Abstract As intelligence moves from arbitrary and erratic patterns of human discretionary knowledge-building toward a more systematic and organic AI, there is a…

  • Observer Effect

    Observer Effect

    Electrons when observed passing through two slits behave like particles and when left unobserved show wave interference like a ripple action in a pond. Why electrons calm down and get into a meditative state somehow obliging the observer is a quantum mystery, which has its roots back in 1901 when Max Planck [1] first used…

  • Time Fractals

    Time Fractals

    I wrote this feature on 8 April 2010. A lot has changed since then but challenging Mandelbrot remains a Herculean task. Abstract Ralph N. Elliott wrote the wave principle in 1938. In 1975 Benoit B Mandelbrot coined the term fractal and in 1982 published his ideas in ‘The Fractal Geometry of Nature’. The book brought…

  • ML’s 65T Bridge

    ML’s 65T Bridge

    There are 35T’s driven passively while 65T’s are driven actively. The former is the Asset owner – the pensions, the endowments, the sovereigns, the families, and the individual investor sitting on the trade screen looking at his 401K account go up and down daily.

  • The [3N] Model of Life

    The [3N] Model of Life

    Schrödinger’s, “What is Life?” asked questions around the functioning of life and how Nature extracted order from disorder relentlessly. This paper illustrates a [3N] model of life which attempts to reconcile the conflict between Quantum and Newtonian states and explains how Nature overcomes the challenges of the second law of thermodynamics using a perpetual motion…

  • Cash and Crash Cycles

    Cash and Crash Cycles

    “We learn from history that we do not learn from history,” these famous words of George Bernard Shaw are a befitting reality for mankind.

  • My thoughts on “The Hedgie in Winter”

    My thoughts on “The Hedgie in Winter”

    Modern finance is built on linear regression. Hence Asness’s textbook use of linear regression is brilliant because simplicity is powerful. He uses Aristotelian logic to elegantly bring out the information content buried in hedge fund performance.

  • Some Thoughts on Blockchain-based ML Marketplaces…

    Some Thoughts on Blockchain-based ML Marketplaces…

    Fred Ehrsam, I would frame the problem differently. The need is not just for creating most powerful artificial intelligences, it is about redesigning the marketplace that can nurture such an ecosystem. The marketplace cannot be taken for granted. A poorly designed marketplace means poor AI, even if we assume that the state of AI today…

  • AlphaBlock

    AlphaBlock

    As intelligence moves from arbitrary and erratic patterns of human discretionary knowledge-building toward a more systematic and organic AI, there is a need for a new market mechanism to validate, distribute, and reward intelligent processes.